(n.) Alt. of Ano

(n.) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36 1/2, at Hamburg 38 1/4.

() A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6).

(adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.

(n.) Alt. of Annat

() The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

(n.) The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.

(n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.

(n.) The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill.

(n.) The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

(n.) Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.

(n.) Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.

(n.) Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.

(n.) Skillful plan; device.

(n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.

(n.) The black art; magic.

(n.) Alt. of Agha

(n.) An ancient name of a gum.

(n.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana).

(n.) The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.

(n.) sing. of Ashes.

(v. t.) To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

(a. & pron.) One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.

(a. & pron.) Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?

(adv.) To any extent; in any degree; at all.

(n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

(n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?

(n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.

(n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.

(n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.

(n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.

(n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.

(n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.

(n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.

(n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.

(n.) A long time.

(v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.

(v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

(v. t.) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

(v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?

(v. t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.

(v. t.) To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.

(v. t.) To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.

(v. i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.

(v. i.) To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.

(n.) A water newt.

(n.) Same as Aspen.

(n.) A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje.

(n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

(n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

(n.) A dupe.

(v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

(n.) One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

(a. & adv.) Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

() A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

(interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

(n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha.

(n.) The Asiatic gazelle.

(pl. ) of Ai

(v. t.) To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

(v. t.) Help; succor; assistance; relief.

(v. t.) The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.

(v. t.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

(v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.

(v. t.) An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.

(v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him.

(v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.

(n.) Indisposition or morbid affection.

(v. i.) To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

(v. i.) To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well.

(v. i.) To guess or conjecture.

(v. t.) To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

(v. i.) The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.

(v. i.) The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.

(v. i.) Intention; purpose; design; scheme.

(v. i.) Conjecture; guess.

(n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

(a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

(n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.

(n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.

(n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.

(n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.

(n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air.

(n.) That which surrounds and influences.

(n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.

(n.) Intelligence; information.

(n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

(n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.

(n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.

(n.) Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style.

(n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.

(n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.

(n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.

(n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.

(n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.

(n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.

(n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.

(n.) An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.

(n.) Oat.

(n. & v.) See Ache.

(A prefix.) All; wholly; completely; as, almighty, almost.

(A prefix.) To; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to a-. See Ad-.

(A prefix.) The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry.

(n.) A winglike organ, or part.

(n.) A pit.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

(n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

(imp. & p. p.) of Put

(v. t.) To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).

(v. t.) To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.

(v. t.) To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

(v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

(v. t.) To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.

(v. t.) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

(v. t.) To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.

(v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

(v. i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

(v. i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

(v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

(n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

(n.) A certain game at cards.

(n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

(n.) See Poy.

(n.) See 2d Pie (b).

(n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

(n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

(n.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.

(n.) A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.

(n.) A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.

(n.) Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap.

(n.) The pulp of fruit.

(v. t.) To feed with pap.

(v. i.) To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.

(v. i.) To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i.

(n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

(n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

(n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

(n.) Same as Merlon.

(n.) A policeman.

(n.) Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

(n.) An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz.

(n.) A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.

(n.) A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

(n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.

(imp.) of See

(v. t.) To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.

(v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.

(v. t.) To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.

(v. t.) To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.

(v. t.) To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.

(v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.

(v. i.) To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.

(v. i.) Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.

(v. i.) To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.

() of Seethe

(n.) Sedge.

(n.) The gladen, and other species of Iris.

(n.) A castrated bull.

(adv.) Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

(v. t.) To know; to understand; to acknowledge.

(v. t.) To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.

(v. t.) To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

(n.) A European lizard of the genus Seps.

(n.) A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).

(adv.) Again; afterwards; soon; quickly.

(n.) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

(n.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

(n.) Anything resembling an egg in form.

(v. t.) To urge on; to instigate; to incite/

(n.) The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

(v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.

(adv.) In addition; also; likewise.

(n.) An addition.

(a.) Old.

(n.) Age; esp., old age.

(n.) Old times; former days; antiquity.

(v. i.) To age; to grow old.

(v. t.) To make old or ancient.

(adv.) From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To.

(prep.) From.

(v. i.) To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

(v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.

(v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.

(v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.

(v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.

(v. i.) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.

(v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.

(v. t.) To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.

(v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.

(v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.

(v. i.) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.

(v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.

(v. i.) A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.

(v. i.) A parasite.

(v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.

(v. i.) The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.

(v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.

(v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

(v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.

(v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).

(v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.

(v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

(v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.

(v. i.) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.

(v. i.) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.

(v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.

(v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.

(v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.

(v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.

(a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.

(pron.) Them

(interj.) An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.

(n.) An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.

(v. i.) To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.

(n.) The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.

(n.) Border; edge; margin.

(n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.

(v. t.) To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.

(v. t.) To border; to edge

(n.) A little pocket for a watch.

(v.t.) To beat; to maul.

(v.t.) To cheat; to trick; to impose on.

(n.) One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.

(n.) An enemy in war; a hostile army.

(pron.) Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine.

(n.) One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.

(v. t.) To treat as an enemy.

(n.) A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

(n.) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.

(v. t.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

(v. i.) To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

(n.) Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.

(n.) A state of mental confusion.

(v. t.) To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

(v. i.) To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

(interj.) An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle.

(a.) A fool; an idiot.

(inerj.) Anan.

(n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.

(v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.

(v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.

(v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.

(v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

(n.) A footpath; a road.

(n.) An easy-paced horse; a padnag.

(n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.

(n.) The act of robbing on the highway.

(v. t.) To travel upon foot; to tread.

(v. i.) To travel heavily or slowly.

(v. i.) To rob on foot.

(v. i.) To wear a path by walking.

(n.) A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

(n.) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.

(n.) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

(n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

(n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

(n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

(n.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

(n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

(interj.) An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.

(n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

(n.) A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.

(v. t.) To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.

(v. t.) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.

(n.) An omnibus.

(adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.

(adv. & conj.) Except; besides; save.

(adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.

(adv. & conj.) Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.

(adv. & conj.) Only; solely; merely.

(adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.

(prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.

(n.) A limit; a boundary.

(n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.

(v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v.

(v. t.) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

(v. t.) The thicker end of anything. See But.

(v. t.) A mark to be shot at; a target.

(v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.

(v. t.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.

(v. t.) A thrust in fencing.

(v. t.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.

(v. t.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.

(v. t.) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.

(v. t.) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.

(v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

(v. t.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.

(v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

(n.) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.

(n.) An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.

(n.) The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.

(n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.

(n.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.

(n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.

(v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.

() A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.

(v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.

(v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.

(v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

(v. & n.) See Buzz.

(n.) The top or head of anything.

(n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.

(n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.

(n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.

(n.) A young herring.

(n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.

(n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.

(n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).

(n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.

(n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.

(n.) Clay mixed with straw.

(n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

(n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.

(v. t.) To strike

(v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.

(v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

(n.) A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

(n.) A small bag or pouch.

(n.) The scrotum.

(n.) A pillow or cushion.

(n.) An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

(v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

(v. t.) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.

(v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.

(n.) A trick or deception; a falsehood.

(n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

(n.) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

(n.) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.

(n.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

(v. t.) To furnish with a cog or cogs.

(n.) A small fishing boat.

(v. i.) To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.

(v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.

(n.) A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.

(n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

(n.) A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse.

(n.) A paramour; -- in contempt.

(n.) A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper.

(v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.

(a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.

(n.) See 1st Pea.

(n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).

(v.) To possess; to have, as the rightful owner; to own.

(v.) To have or possess, as something derived or bestowed; to be obliged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victory to his lieutenants.

(v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate.

(v.) To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services.

(n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.

(v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.

(v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.

(v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.

(a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.

(n.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

(v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.

(v. i.) To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.

(n.) A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.

(n.) A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.

(v. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.

(v. i.) To cry as a cat.

(n.) The common cry of a cat.

(n.) The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.

(n.) A slattern.

(n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.

(v. t.) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.

(v. t.) Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

(v. t.) Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.

(v. t.) Light or delicate; slight; thin.

(adv.) Slyly.

(n.) Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.

(n.) To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.

(n.) A kind of vessel. See Dhow.

(v. t.) To furnish with a dower; to endow.

(n.) To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.

(v. i.) To sound with a din; a ding.

(v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

(v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.

(v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

(v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

(v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.

(v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

(v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

(v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.

(v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.

(v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.

(v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.

(v. i.) To dip snuff.

(n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

(n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

(n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.

(n.) A dipped candle.

(n.) The sun.

(n.) Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.

(n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.

(n.) The tone itself.

(n.) A sou.

(n.) A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.

(n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.

(n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.

(n.) Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other male dependent.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England.

(n.) The produce of anything.

(n.) Jesus Christ, the Savior; -- called the Son of God, and the Son of man.

(v. t.) Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

(v. t.) Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.

(v. t.) A thing of little or no value.

(v. t.) To steep or dip in any liquid.

(v. t.) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.

(v. t.) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.

(v. t.) To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

(v. i.) To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.

(v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.

(v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.

(n.) The act of rubbing; friction.

(n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.

(n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.

(n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.

(n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.

(n.) A chance.

(n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.

(n.) A friend.

() imp. & p. p. of Read, Rede.

(v. t.) To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

(n.) A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.

(n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.

(n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

(n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

(n.) A ragged edge.

(n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas.

(v. i.) To become tattered.

(v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

(v. t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

(n.) Reign; rule.

(conj.) A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

(conj.) In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.

(conj.) It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.

(conj.) If; though. See An, conj.

(n.) A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

(v. t.) To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.

() An old form of Be and Been.

(v.) The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

(v.) Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.

(v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.

() imp. & p. p. of Bite.

(v.) A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.

(v.) Somewhat; something, but not very great.

(v.) A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.

(v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.

(v.) The cutting iron of a plane.

(v.) In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.

() 3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.

(imp.) of Bite

() of Bite

(n.) A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.

(n.) A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

(n.) Same as Aam.

(n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

(n.) Shale or bituminous shale.

(n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

(n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.

(v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.

(v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.

(n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.

(a.) Any.

(fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

(n.) The head.

(n.) A person in a superior position in life; a nobleman.

(n.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

(n.) A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.

(n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

(n.) Same as Pyxis.

(v. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.

(conj.) In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.

(a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.

(a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.

(a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.

(a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.

(v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.

(a.) The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us).

(a.) Any.

(a.) Only; alone; nothing but.

(adv.) Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement.

(adv.) Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.)

(n.) The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake.

(conj.) Although; albeit.

(n.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.

(n.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.

(n.) A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.

(n.) A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.

(n.) An arch.

(n.) The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.

(n.) A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.

(n.) Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.

(n.) A bullfinch.

(n.) A half farthing.

() The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

(n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.

(adv.) Also.

(adv.) As.

(a. & n.) The higher part of the scale. See Alto.

(n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.

(n.) A chest, or coffer.

(n.) The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

(n.) The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge.

(n.) A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

(n.) The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

(n.) Anything resembling an arm

(n.) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear.

(n.) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

(n.) A branch of a tree.

(n.) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.

(n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.

(n.) An inlet of water from the sea.

(n.) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.

(n.) Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.

(n.) A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.

(n.) A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl.

(v. t.) To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.

(v. t.) To furnish with arms or limbs.

(v. t.) To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.

(v. t.) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling.

(v. t.) Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.

(v. i.) To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.

(n.) A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.

(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.

(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.

(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.

(n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.

(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.

(v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.

(v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

(n.) A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

(n.) A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt.

(a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.

(n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.

(n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

(n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

(n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

(n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

(n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.

(n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.

(n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.

(n.) A tract covered with bay trees.

(v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.

(v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.

(v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.

(v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

(v. t.) To bathe.

(n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.

(v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.

(imp.) of Be

() A prefix, originally the same word as by;

() To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.

() To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for).

() To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

(n.) Same as Kava.

(n.) An ave Maria.

(n.) A reverential salutation.

(n.) Dread; great fear mingled with respect.

(n.) The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.

(v. t.) To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.

(a.) Odd; out of order; perverse.

(a.) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).

(a.) Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.

(adv.) Perversely; in the wrong way.

(n.) A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

(n.) See Aam.

(n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

(n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

() Alt. of Axeman

(n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.

(n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

(n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

(n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

(n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.

(n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

(n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

(n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

(n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.

(n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

(n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

(n.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.

(n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

(n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

(v. t.) To place in a bed.

(v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.

(v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.

(v. t.) To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.

(v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.

(v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

(v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

(v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.

(adv.) Alt. of Ay

(n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."

(a.) Alt. of Ay

(v. i.) To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.

(n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.

() p. p. of Be; -- used for been.

(n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

(n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.

(n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.

(n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).

(n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.

(n.) A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

(n.) A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.

(n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.

(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

(n.) Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.

(n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.

(n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

(n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

(n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

(n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

(n.) A working beam.

(n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

(n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

(n.) The refrain of a song.

(n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

(n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.

(n.) A shilling.

(n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.

(n.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

(n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.

(n.) To mock or delude; to cheat.

(n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.

(v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

(v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.

(n.) The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal.

(imp.) Bade.

(superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

(n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

(n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

(v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

(n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

(n.) A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

(n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

(n.) The quantity of game bagged.

(n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

(v. t.) To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

(v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

(v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

(v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

(v. i.) To swell with arrogance.

(v. i.) To become pregnant.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.

() Alt. of Ben nut

(adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.

(adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.

() An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

(n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

(n.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.

(a.) Good; valid as security for something.

(n.) See Rei.

(v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.

(n.) Redness; blush.

(n.) Ruddle; red ocher.

(n.) The rudd.

(v. t.) To make red.

(n.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine.

(n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.

(v. t.) To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over.

(v. t.) To cause to grieve; to afflict.

(v. t.) To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from.

(v. i.) To have compassion.

(v. i.) To feel sorrow and regret; to repent.

(v. t.) Sorrow; repetance.

(n.) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.

(n.) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.

(n.) A dwelling.

(n.) In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.

(n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.

(n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.

(n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

(n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.

(n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.

(a.) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.

(a.) A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, -- used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potiere, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from cold, etc.

(a.) A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.

(v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

(n.) See Keg.

(v. t.) See Aret.

(v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

(n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.

(a.) Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.

(n.) A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.

(imp.) of Run

() of Run

(p. p.) of Run

(a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.

(a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.

(a.) To flee, as from fear or danger.

(a.) To steal off; to depart secretly.

(a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.

(a.) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.

(a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.

(a.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.

(a.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.

(a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.

(a.) To creep, as serpents.

(a.) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.

(a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.

(a.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.

(a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.

(a.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.

(a.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

(a.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.

(a.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.

(a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.

(a.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.

(a.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

(a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

(a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.

(a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

(a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.

(a.) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.

(a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.

(a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.

(a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.

(a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.

(a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.

(a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.

(v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.

(v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

(v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.

(v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

(v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.

(v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.

(v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.

(v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.

(v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.

(v. i.) To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.

(n.) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten.

(v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

(v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.

(v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.

(v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.

(v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

(v. i.) To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.

(v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.

(n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.

(n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.

(n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.

(n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.

(n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.

(n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.

(n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.

(n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.

(n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.

(n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.

(n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.

(n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.

(n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.

(n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.

(n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.

(n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.

(n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.

(n.) A pair or set of millstones.

(a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.

(a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.

(n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

(n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

(v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.

(v. t.) To cover in copulation.

(n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.

(v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.

(n.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.

(n.) A disease in a hawk.

(n.) See Sacs.

(n.) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.

(n.) See 2d Sack.

(n.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.

(n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

(n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.

(n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.

(n.) A ridge or mound of earth.

(a.) Crooked.

() an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

(n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.

(n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.

(v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans

(v. t. & i.) To know; to understand.

(v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence.

(v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.

(supperl.) Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.

(supperl.) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

(supperl.) Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.

(supperl.) Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.

(supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.

(supperl.) Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.

(supperl.) Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.

(v. t.) To make sorrowful; to sadden.

(n.) The summit of an eminence.

(n.) The cock of a gunlock.

(n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.

(v. t.) To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.

() Alt. of Nadde

(n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

(v. t.) To cheat; to wheedle.

(n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

(n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

(n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

(n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.

(n.) A curse or anathema.

(n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

(v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon.

(v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.

(v. i.) To curse; to swear.

(n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

(n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bet

(v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

() imp. & p. p. of Beat.

(a. & adv.) An early form of Better.

(v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

(v. t.) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.

(v. t.) To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.

(v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.

(n.) A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

(v. t.) To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.

(v. i.) To bend; to curve.

(v. i.) To stop.

(v. i.) To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.

(v. i.) To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.

(n.) An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.

(v. t.) Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.

(v. t.) A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.

(v. t.) An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.

(v. t.) The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.

(v. t.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.

(v. t.) An arcograph.

(v. t.) Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.

(v. t.) A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.

(sing. or pl.) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.

(v. i.) To play (music) with a bow.

(v. i. ) To manage the bow.

(n.) The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.

(n.) One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.

(n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.

(n.) A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

(n.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.

(n.) A bibcock.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bibbe

(v. i.) To drink; to sip; to tipple.

(n.) A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

(n.) A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

(n.) The quantity that a box contain.

(n.) A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

(n.) A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

(n.) A small country house.

(n.) A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

(n.) An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

(n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

(n.) The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

(n.) A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

(n.) The square in which the pitcher stands.

(n.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

(v. t.) To inclose in a box.

(v. t.) To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

(v. t.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

(n.) A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

(v. i.) To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

(v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

(v. t.) To boxhaul.

(n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

(v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

(n.) See Bots.

() of Bid

() of Bid

() of Bid

(v. t.) To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

(v. t.) To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.

(v. t.) To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.

(v. t.) To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.

(v. t.) To invite; to call in; to request to come.

() imp. & p. p. of Bid.

(n.) An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.

(v. t.) To pray.

(v. t.) To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.

(superl.) Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

(superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.

(superl.) Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.

(n.) Alt. of Bigg

(v. t.) Alt. of Bigg

(n.) A row.

(n.) A king.

() imp. of Run.

(n.) Open robbery.

(n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

(n.) A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent.

(n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

(v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

(v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

(v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

(n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.

(v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

(v.) To hasten.

(v.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

(v.) To exchange; to truck.

(n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

(n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

(n.) That which resembles a rib in form or use.

(n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel.

(n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.

(n.) One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.

(n.) A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.

(n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.

(n.) The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.

(n.) Any longitudinal ridge in a plant.

(n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.

(n.) A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.

(n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

(n.) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.

(n.) A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.

(v. t.) To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

(v. t.) To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

() imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rid

(v. t.) To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.

(v. t.) To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.

(v. t.) To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.

(v. t.) To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.

() of Ride

() of Ride

(n.) See 2d Reis.

(n.) See Rye.

(n.) A ridge.

(v. t.) To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.

(v. t.) To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out.

(n.) The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.

(n.) A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.

(n.) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.

(n.) A blast of wind.

(v. i.) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.

(v. t.) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

(n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.

(n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.

(n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.

(v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.

(v. i.) To catch or kill rats.

(n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

(n.) The lower part of the abdomen.

(v. t.) To furnish with a rim; to border.

(superl.) Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.

(superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.

(superl.) Cautious; wary; suspicious.

(a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.

(v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.

(n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

(n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.

(n.) A blood relation.

(a.) Related by blood; akin.

(a.) Such.

(adv.) Thus.

(n.) A word; a decree.

(n.) A ditty; a song.

(v. t.) To close up.

(v. t.) Urine.

(adv.) Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

(a.) Alt. of Sike

() imp. of See.

(v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse.

(v. t.) A saying; a proverb; a maxim.

(v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.

(n.) An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.

(v. t.) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.

(v. t.) To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.

(v. t.) Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.

(v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.

(v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.

(v. i.) To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.

(n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

(v. i.) To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.

(n.) The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.

(n.) See Key, a ledge.

(pl. ) of Ovum

(n. pl.) See Ovum.

(n.) Strong malt liquor.

(n.) A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.

(v. t.) To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.

(n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

(n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.

(v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

(v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

(v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.

(v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

(n.) A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

(n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.

(n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.

(n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.

(n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Bunn

(n.) Alt. of Burr

(v. t. & i.) To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.

() Am not.

() imp. of Nim.

(adv., prep., & conj.) Old form of Since.

(n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

(n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.

(n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

(n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

(n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.

(n.) To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

(n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

(n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.

(n.) The buttock.

(v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.

(n.) A humming noise.

(a.) Open.

(v. t. & i.) To open.

(a.) Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.

(a.) Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.

(a.) Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.

(a.) Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.

(a.) Single in kind; the same; a common.

(a.) Single; inmarried.

(n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.

(n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.

(a.) One.

(v. t.) To bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite.

(n.) A single person or thing.

(indef. pron.) Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.

(v. t.) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.

(n.) A small horse.

(n.) A woman; -- used in contempt.

(n.) A morsel; a bit.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridae and Leiotrichidae; a titmouse.

(n.) The European meadow pipit; a titlark.

(n.) To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.

(n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.

(n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.

(n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.

(n.) Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.

(n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.

(n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.

(n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.

(v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.

(v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).

(n.) The knave of trumps at gleek.

() pl. of Toe.

(n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.

(n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.

(n.) A measure of weight or quantity.

(n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.

(n.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.

(n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.

(adv.) Over; more than enough; -- noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much.

(adv.) Likewise; also; in addition.

(imp.) Saw.

(n.) Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack.

(n.) Tried quality; temper; proof.

(n.) Essay; trial; attempt.

(v. t.) To try; to assay.

(v. t.) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

(v. t.) To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.

(v. t.) To append, as a statement; to say further.

(v. i.) To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.

(v. i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

(n.) Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

(n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

(n.) The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

(n.) Something mean and paltry; the rabble.

(n.) A sheep of the first year.

(n.) A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

(v. t.) To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

(v. t.) To join; to fasten; to attach.

(v. t.) To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.

(v. i.) To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.

(v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

(n.) A kind of silk or satin.

(n.) A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth.

(v. t.) To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things.

(v. t.) To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson.

(v. t.) To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to.

(v. t.) To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.

(v. i.) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

(v. t.) A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb.

(n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.

(n.) The god Pluto.

(n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.

(n.) See Picul.

(n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.

(n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.

(n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.

(a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.

(n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.

(n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.

(v. i.) To get or become tanned.

(v. t.) To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

(v. t.) To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.

(n.) A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

(n.) A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

(n.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.

(v. i.) To strike a gentle blow.

(n.) A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

(n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

(n.) Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.

(n.) A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.

(n.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.

(v. t.) To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.

(adv.) So.

(v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.

(v. t.) To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.

(v. t.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.

(n.) A sailor; a seaman.

(n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.

(v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.

(n.) A sharper; a rogue.

(n.) A heap.

(v. t.) To tassel.

(n.) The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

(v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

(n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

(n.) See Gum tree, below.

(n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.

(n.) A rubber overshoe.

(v. t.) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.

(v. i.) To exude or from gum; to become gummy.

(n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.

(n.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.

(n.) Violent blasts of wind.

(v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

(n.) Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.

(n.) A pony.

(n.) The common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (/).

(n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

(n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).

(n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.

(n.) The earth.

(adv.) Before; sooner than.

(adv.) Rather than.

(v. t.) To plow. [Obs.] See Ear, v. t.

(superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.

(superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.

(superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.

(superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.

(superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.

(superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.

(superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.

(superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.

(n.) A garden plot, usually about half an acre.

(superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.

(a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.

(v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.

(v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.

(v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

(n.) Alt. of Erne

(v. i.) To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]

(v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.

(v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

(v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.

(v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

(v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;

(v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

(v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

(v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.

(v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

(v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

(n.) A blow.

(n.) A pool or puddle.

(v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.

(v. i.) To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.

(v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.

(v. i.) To offend, as by erring.

(n.) The bitter vetch (Ervum Ervilia).

(a.) Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

(a.) Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.

(a.) Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.

(a.) Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

(a.) Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

(adv.) Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.

(n.) That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.

(n.) Right; just title or claim.

(v. t.) To endue.

(n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dig.

(n.) A small house; a cottage or hut.

(n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

(n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.

(n.) A small, rudely-formed boat.

(n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

(n.) A chimney cap; a cowl

(n.) The mature female of bovine animals.

(n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.

(v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.

(n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.

(n.) A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.

(a.) Quiet; still.

(a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.

(a.) Soft; gentle; hesitating.

(v. t.) To allure; to entice; to decoy.

(v. t.) To caress with the hand; to stroke.

(v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.

(v. i.) To make difficulty; to be unwilling.

(n.) A contraction of cousin.

(n.) A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

(adv., prep., & conj.) Since.

(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Abye

(n.) An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.

(v. t.) To soak.

(v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.

(n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.

(n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound.

(n.) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

(n.) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

(n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.

(n.) The rock dove.

() imp. of Seethe.

(n.) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.

(v. t.) To cover with sod; to turf.

(n.) A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.

(n.) A covering for the head

(n.) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys

(n.) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants

(n.) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.

(n.) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

(n.) A respectful uncovering of the head.

(n.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

(n.) Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use

(n.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.

(n.) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.

(n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.

(n.) A percussion cap. See under Percussion.

(n.) The removable cover of a journal box.

(n.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.

(n.) A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.

(v. t.) To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.

(v. t.) To deprive of cap.

(v. t.) To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.

(v. t.) To salute by removing the cap.

(v. t.) To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.

(v. i.) To uncover the head respectfully.

(v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.

(v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.

(v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.

(v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.

(n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.

(n.) A wicker fish basket.

(v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.

(v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

(v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.

(v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

(n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

(n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

(n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

(superl.) Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.

(superl.) Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.

(superl.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.

(superl.) Not distilled; as, raw water

(superl.) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton

(superl.) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits

(superl.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow

(superl.) Not tanned; as, raw hides

(superl.) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.

(superl.) Not covered; bare.

(superl.) Bald.

(superl.) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.

(superl.) Sore, as if by being galled.

(superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.

(n.) A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.

(v. t.) To array.

(v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.

(n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress.

(n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.

(n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.

(n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

(n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

(n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth.

(n.) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.

(n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

(n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.

(n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.

(n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.

(v. i.) To shine, as with rays.

(n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

(n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

(n.) The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.

(v. t.) To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.

(v. t.) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.

(v. t.) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.

(v. i.) To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.

(n.) A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology.

(n.) A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).

(n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.

(n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.

(n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.

(n.) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.

(n.) An instrument for measuring.

(n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.

(n.) A roebuck. See Roebuck.

(n.) The female of any species of deer.

(n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.

(n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

(v. t. & i.) See Renne.

(n.) A run.

(n.) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

(a.) Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.

(v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.

(v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.

(v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.

(v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

(n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.

(n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.

(n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.

(a. & adv.) Rough; stern; angry.

(n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.

(n.) A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.

(v. t.) To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

(v. t.) To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

(v. i.) To use the oar; as, to row well.

(v. i.) To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.

(n.) The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

(pl. ) of Res

(n.) A thing; the particular thing; a matter; a point.

(n.) A king.

(a.) Royal.

(v. t.) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.

(v. t.) To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.

(v. t.) To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.

() . imp. & p. p. of Read.

(v. t.) To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house.

(superl.) Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.

(n.) The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.

(n.) A red pigment.

(n.) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a.

(a.) The menses.

(n.) Name.

(n.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.

(interj.) An exclamation of surprise, etc.

(n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.

(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

(n.) A noggin.

(n.) A kind of strong ale.

(n.) A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.

(n.) One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.

(n.) A treenail to fasten the shores.

(v. t.) To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.

(v. t.) To fasten, as shores, with treenails.

(n.) Open country.

(n.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).

(n.) An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy, and durable.

(n.) Salt.

(n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.

(n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.

(n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.

(n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.

(n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.

(n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.

(n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.

(a.) Together.

(n.) Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.

(n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

(n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

(n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

(v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

(v. t.) To pierce with saps.

(v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

(v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

(n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

() imp. of Sit.

(n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.

(n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

(n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.

(n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.

(n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.

(n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below.

(v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.

(a.) No; not. See No, a.

(n.) A mound or small hill.

(v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

(v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.

(n.) One who duns; a dunner.

(n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.

(a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

(n.) Ease; pleasure.

(n.) A composition for two performers; a duet.

(v. t.) To open; as, to dup the door.

(a.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.

(v. i.) To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.

(n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.

(v. i.) To dawn.

(v. t.) To rouse.

(v. t.) To daunt; to terrify.

(n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.

(n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.

(n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.

(n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

(n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.

() A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.

(n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

() the preterit of Eat.

(n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

() A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification.

(n.) A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

(n.) Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.

(n.) A stall for cattle.

(n.) A cupboard.

(v. t.) To shut up or confine.

(n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

(n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.

(n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Set

(v. t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.

(v. t.) Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.

(v. t.) To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.

(v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.

(v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.

(v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.

(v. t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.

(v. t.) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.

(v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.

(v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.

(v. t.) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.

(v. t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.

(v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.

(v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.

(v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.

(n.) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

(n.) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.

(n.) A hint or intimation.

(n.) The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.

(n.) Humor; temper of mind.

(n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

(v. t.) To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

(n.) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.

(v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.

(v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.

(v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.

(v. t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.

(v. t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.

(v. t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.

(v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.

(v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.

(v. t.) To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.

(v. t.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.

(v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.

(v. i.) To fit music to words.

(v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.

(v. i.) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).

(v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.

(v. i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.

(v. i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.

(v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.

(v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.

(v. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.

(v. i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.

(a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.

(a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.

(a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.

(a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.

(a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.

(n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.

(n.) That which is set, placed, or fixed.

(n.) A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.

(n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.

(n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.

(n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.

(n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.

(n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.

(n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.

(n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.

(n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.

(n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.

(n.) The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.

(n.) A young oyster when first attached.

(n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.

(n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.

(n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.

(n.) The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

(n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.

(n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

(n.) One of the groups founded on this distinction.

(v. t.) To con (a ship).

(v. t.) To know. See Con.

(n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.

(n.) The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.

(n.) Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.

(n.) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.

(n.) Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.

(n.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.

(v. t.) To supply with cups of wine.

(v. t.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.

(v. t.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

(n.) A mongrel or inferior dog.

(n.) A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.

(n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds.

(n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints.

(superl.) Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.

(superl.) Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.

(superl.) Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.

(superl.) Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.

(superl.) Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.

(superl.) Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.

(superl.) Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.

(superl.) More than enough; abundant.

(superl.) Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.

(superl.) Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.

(superl.) Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity.

(adv.) Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.

(a.) Frequent; often; repeated.

(n.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.

(v. t.) To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.

(n.) Color produced by dyeing.

(n.) Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.

(n.) Same as Die, a lot.

(n. & adv.) East.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth, as young; to yean.

(n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear.

(n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.

(n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.

(n.) Same as Acroterium.

(n.) Same as Crossette.

(n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.

(v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.

(n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.

(v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.

(v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.

(interj.) A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.

(n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

(n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

(n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

(n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.

(v. t.) To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

(v. t.) To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.

() imp. & p. p. of Feed.

(n.) property; possession; tenure.

(n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.

(n.) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.

(n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.

(n.) Tow.

(v. t.) To push; to tug; to tow.

(v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.

(v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.

(n.) A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.

(n.) A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.

(n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.

(v. t.) To steady or guide with a guy.

(n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.

(n.) A person of queer looks or dress.

(v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.

(v. t.) To guide; to govern.

(v. i.) To begin [Obs.] See Gin.

(n.) A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.

(n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.

(v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Feed

(n.) The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, / Camellia, Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries.

(n.) A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.

(n.) Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea.

(n.) The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper.

(imp. & p. p.) See Have.

(v. i.) To take or drink tea.

(imp.) Hove.

(n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.

(n.) An ugly old woman.

(n.) A fury; a she-monster.

(n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

(n.) The hagdon or shearwater.

(n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.

(v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.

(n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

(n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

(n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.

(interj.) Same as Ha.

(v. t.) To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass.

(v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

(n.) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.

(n.) The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.

(n.) A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.

(n.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.

(a. & adv.) Far.

(v. i.) To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

(v. i.) To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod at one.

(v. i.) To be drowsy or dull; to be careless.

(v. t.) To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head.

(v. t.) To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.

(v. t.) To cause to bend.

(n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.

(n.) A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command.

(n.) A tower; a turret.

(n.) High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle.

(interj.) See Ho.

(interj.) Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.

(v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

(v. i.) To walk lame; to limp; to halt.

(v. i.) To dance.

(n.) A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

(n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.

(n.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

(n.) The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

(n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.

(v. t.) To impregnate with hops.

(v. i.) To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

(n.) Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

(n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.

(n.) A foolish fellow.

(n.) The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.

(v. t.) To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.

(v. t.) A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.

(v. t.) The act of towing, or the state of being towed; --chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.

(v. t.) That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.

(v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.

(v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.

(v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.

(v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.

(v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.

(v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.

(v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.

(v. t.) To treat foolishly.

() imp. & p. p. of Hote.

(superl.) Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.

(superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.

(superl.) Lustful; lewd; lecherous.

(superl.) Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.

() of Hote

() of Hote

(n.) A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river.

(v. i.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.

(v. i.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.

(v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.

(n.) A light, brisk musical movement.

(n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

(n.) A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.

(n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.

(n.) A small machine or handy tool

(n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.

(n.) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.

(v. t.) To sing to the tune of a jig.

(v. t.) To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

(v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.

(n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

(v. i.) To dance a jig; to skip about.

(n.) Alt. of Jinn

(n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

(n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

(n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

(n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

(n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.

(v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

(v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

(v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

(v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

(v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.

(v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

(v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

(v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

(n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.

(n.) See Johannes.

(v. t.) To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn.

(v. t.) To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of; as, to jog the memory.

(v. t.) To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.

(v. i.) To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over.

(n.) A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt.

(n.) A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane.

(n.) A gull.

(n.) A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt.

(n.) Appetite; inclination.

(n.) An old game at cards.

(v.) An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.

(n.) A maiden.

(n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

(n.) The early part or springtime of life.

(n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.

(n.) The merrymaking of May Day.

(n.) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.

(n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

(n.) An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.

(n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.

(n.) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.

(n.) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).

(n.) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.

(n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.

(n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.

(n.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

(n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.

(v. t.) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.

(v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.

(n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.

(n.) To wrap or wind around something.

(n.) To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

(n.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.

(n.) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.

(v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.

(v. i.) To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.

(v. i.) To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.

(v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

(n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.

(n.) The sound of lapping.

(v. t. & i.) To beat; to whap.

(n.) A blow or beating; a whap.

(a.) Ware; aware.

(n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.

(n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

(n.) Instruments of war.

(n.) Forces; army.

(n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.

(n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.

(v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.

(v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.

(v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.

(v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

(n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.

(n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.

(n.) A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.

(n.) A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

(n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.

(n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.

(n.) A vessel for holding holy water.

(v. t.) To put or transfer into a vat.

(v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.

(n.) A lace. See Lace.

(a. & adv.) Less.

(v. t.) To let; to allow.

(v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

(n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

(n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.

(n.) Cerumen, or earwax.

(n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

(n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

(n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.

(n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.

(n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

(n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.

(v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

(adv.) Away.

(n.) That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.

(n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.

(n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.

(n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.

(n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.

(n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.

(n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.

(n.) Sphere or scope of observation.

(n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.

(n.) Progress; as, a ship has way.

(n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.

(n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.

(n.) Right of way. See below.

(v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.

(v. i.) To move; to progress; to go.

(n.) In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.

(n.) In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.

(n.) The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament.

(n.) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.

(n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.

(n.) In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.

(n.) In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.

(n.) In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.

(n.) Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.

(n.) Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice.

(n.) Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.

(n.) An oath, as in the presence of a court.

(n.) A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.

() Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.

(n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

(n.) A hassock.

(n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.

(v. t.) To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.

(n.) A thrust or stab.

(n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.

(n.) A part broken off; a fragment.

(n.) A cleft or division.

(v. t.) To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.

(n.) A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.

(v. t.) To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.

(n.) Jehovah.

(n.) see Ils Jack.

(n.) A kind of frock for children.

(n.) See Jamb.

(v. t.) To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.

(v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door.

(v. t.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

(n.) A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.

(n.) An injury caused by jamming.

(n.) A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.

(n.) One of intermediate order between angels and men.

(n.) One and one; twice one.

(n.) The sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing two units, as 2, II., or ii.

(n.) The urus.

(n.) A turn. [Only in phrase.]

(n.) A deep, broad-mouthed vessel of earthenware or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes; as, a jar of honey; a rose jar.

(n.) The measure of what is contained in a jar; as, a jar of oil; a jar of preserves.

(v. i.) To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears.

(v. i.) To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.

(v. t.) To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith.

(v. t.) To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off.

(n.) A rattling, tremulous vibration or shock; a shake; a harsh sound; a discord; as, the jar of a train; the jar of harsh sounds.

(n.) Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement.

(n.) A regular vibration, as of a pendulum.

(n.) In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed.

(n.) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

(n.) Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering.

(n.) In the plural, the mouth.

(n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.

(n.) A notch or opening.

(n.) A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard.

(n.) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.

(n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.

(n.) Impudent or abusive talk.

(v. i.) To scold; to clamor.

(v. t.) To assail or abuse by scolding.

(n.) Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest.

(n.) Use; practice; exercise.

(v. t.) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.

(n.) A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.

(n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.

(n.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.

(n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

(n.) A tea urn. See under Tea.

(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.

(v. t.) The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.

(v. t.) Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.

(v. t.) Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.

(v. t.) Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.

(v. t.) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.

(v. t.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.

(v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.

(v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.

(v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.

(v. t.) To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.

(v. t.) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.

(v. t.) To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.

(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.

(v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."

(v. i.) To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.

(n.) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, as a grape.

(v. t. & i.) See Gee.

(n.) See Jig, 6.

(v.) Began; commenced.

(n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.

(v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.

(v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.

(v.) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.

(v.) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.

(n.) To cause; to make.

(n.) An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state.

(n.) A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.

(n.) Laughing gas.

(n.) Any irrespirable aeriform fluid.

(n.) An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

(n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

(n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.

(n.) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

(n.) Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.

(n.) A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.

(n.) That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.

(n.) A quintain; -- from its form.

(n.) To move as with a fan.

(n.) To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.

(n.) To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.

(n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.

(n.) To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.

(v. t.) To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.

(v. t.) To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

(v. t.) To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

(v. i.) To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

(n.) The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

(n.) A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

(v. i.) See Seep.

(n.) A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.

(n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.

(n.) An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.

(n.) Alt. of Deva

(n.) A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer.

(n.) A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality.

(n.) A colloquial abbreviation of Sister.

(n.) Six. See Sise.

() obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

(imp.) of Sit

(p. p.) of Sit

(v. t.) To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.

(v. t.) To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.

(v. t.) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.

(v. t.) To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.

(v. t.) To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.

(v. t.) To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally.

(v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.

(v. t.) To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.

(v. t.) To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.

(v. t.) To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.

(v. t.) To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.

(v. t.) To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.

(v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) To suit (well / ill); to become.

(v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

(v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.

(v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.

(v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.

(v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

(v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.

(v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

(v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.

(a.) One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI.

(n.) Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.

(n.) Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.

(n.) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.

(v. t.) To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.

(a. & n.) Same as Due, or Duty.

(v. i.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.

(v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.

(v. i.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.

(v. i.) Importunate supplication.

(v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.

(v. i.) Common report; fame.

(v. i.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.

(v. i.) A pack of hounds.

(v. i.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.

(v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

(n.) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.

(n.) The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.

() A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice

() denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-, 2.

() A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.

(n.) An abbreviation of Ditto.

(n.) A cloud.

(n.) Hence, a shadow.

(n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.

(n.) The wheather; the climate.

(v. t.) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.

(v. t.) To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.

(imp.) of Do

(v. i.) To dip.

(n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

(n.) A child's game, played with dib bones.

(v. t.) To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.

(n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

(n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.

(n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

(n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.

(n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.

(n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).

(n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

(n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

(n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.

(n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.

(v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.

(pl. ) of Dice

(v. t.) To slay.

() imp. of Do.

(v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

(v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.

(v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

(v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

(v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

(v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.

(v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

(v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

(n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

(n.) Any small cubical or square body.

(n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

(n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

(n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.

(n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

(n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

(n.) A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

(n.) In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dig

(v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.

(v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

(v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

(v. t.) To thrust; to poke.

(v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

(v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

(v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.

(v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.

(n.) Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.

(n.) A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities.

(v. t.) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.

(n.) Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

(n.) A dove.

(n.) Alt. of Doop

(v. i.) To dip.

(n.) A dip; a low courtesy.

(n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.

(n.) A trick, joke, or deception.

(v. t.) To make a fool of; to deceive.

(n.) A marriage portion; dowry.

(n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.

(n.) Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.

(v. t.) To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.

(v. t.) To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.

(v. i.) To make dots or specks.

(superl.) Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.

(superl.) Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.

(v. t.) To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.

(v. t.) To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.

(v. i.) To grow dim.

() Is not.

(n.) The egg of a louse or other small insect.

(n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.

(n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.

(n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

(n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.

(n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

(n.) A short turn in a rope.

() imp. of Get.

(n.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.

(a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.

(a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.

(a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.

(a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.

(a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.

(adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.

(adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.

(adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.

(adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.

(n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

(n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.

(a.) Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.

(v. t.) To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

(v. i.) To tipple to stupidity.

(n.) An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (/ of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.

(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.

(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

(n.) A sow bug.

(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.

(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.

(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

(n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

(n.) The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja.

(n.) A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.

(n.) Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

(n.) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence.

(n.) Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

(v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to sue.

(v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.

(v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.

(v. t.) To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.

(v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.

(v. t.) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.

() Alt. of Seyh

(imp. & p. p.) of Cut

(v. t.) To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.

(v. t.) To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.

(v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.

(v. t.) To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.

(v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.

(v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.

(v. t.) To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.

(v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.

(v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.

(v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

(v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

(v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.

(v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.

(v. i.) To interfere, as a horse.

(v. i.) To move or make off quickly.

(v. i.) To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

(n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

(n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.

(n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.

(n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.

(n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.

(n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.

(n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

(n.) The act of dividing a pack cards.

(n.) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?

(n.) Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.

(n.) A common work horse; a gelding.

(n.) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.

(n.) A skein of yarn.

(a.) Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.

(a.) Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.

(a.) Overcome by liquor; tipsy.

(n.) Share; portion; part.

(n.) A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.

(n.) A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

(v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.

(v. i.) To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.

(n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.

(n.) A small mass of anything soft or moist.

(obj.) This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.

(obj.) A woman; a female; -- used substantively.

(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

(n.) A dagger; a poniard.

(n.) A large pistol formerly used.

(n.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.

(n.) A misty shower; dew.

(n.) A loose end; a dangling shred.

(v. t.) To daggle or bemire.

(v. t.) To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.

(v. i.) To be misty; to drizzle.

(n.) Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.

(n.) Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.

(n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

(n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

(n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

(n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

(v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.

(v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

(n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.

(n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

(n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

(n.) A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.

(n.) Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.

(n.) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.

(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a den.

(n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

(v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

(v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

(v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

(v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.

(n.) Dirt; filth; muck.

(v. t.) To mix in an unitidy and offensive way; to make a mess of.

(n.) Alt. of Aeon

(n.) Aurora, the goddess of morn.

() See Epi-.

(n.) A young dog; a puppy.

(n.) a young seal.

(v. i.) To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.

(v. t.) Will not.

(n. & a.) Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.

(imp.) of Nim

(v. t.) To take; to steal; to filch.

(superl.) Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.

(superl.) Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.

(superl.) Loose; dissipated; lewd.

(n.) An ornament

() An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

(n.) Alt. of Gedd

(v. i.) To agree; to harmonize.

(v. i.) To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi.

(v. t.) To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.

(n.) A bud.

(n.) A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel.

(n.) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.

(v. t.) To put forth in the form of buds.

(v. t.) To adorn with gems or precious stones.

(v. t.) To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.

(n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

(n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

(superl.) Abounding with fat

(superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

(superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

(superl.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

(superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

(superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

(superl.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

(superl.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.

(n.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.

(n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

(n.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

(a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

(v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

(n.) A fairy; an elf.

(n.) Faith; as, by my fay.

(v. t.) To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

(v. i.) To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.

(n.) An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.

(n.) A very diminutive person; a dwarf.

(v. t.) To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.

(n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.

(n.) Alt. of Elke

(n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37.

(n.) See L.

(n.) A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva.

(pl. ) of Elves

(v. t.) To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

(v. i.) To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.

(v. i.) To simmer; to boil.

(v. i.) To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.

(v. i.) To be agitated; to be greatly moved.

(n.) A dish of anything fried.

(n.) A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry.

() A prefix. See En-.

(n.) The young of any fish.

(n.) A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.

(n.) Alt. of Fubs

(v. t.) To put off by trickery; to cheat.

(n.) The tail of a hare, coney, etc.

(n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

(v. i.) To play upon a fiddle.

(n.) Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

(n.) An uncle.

(n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

(n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.

(n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

(n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).

(n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur

(n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.

(n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.

(n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

(n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.

(a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.

(v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.

(v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.

(v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.

(n.) Alt. of Ache

(n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

(v. i.) The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.

(v. i.) To deceive; to lie.

(v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.

(n.) The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.

(n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.

(n.) A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.

(n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

(n.) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.

(n.) A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.

(n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.

(v. t.) To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to.

(v. t.) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

(v. t.) To cause to heave with nausea.

(v. i.) To heave with nausea; to retch.

(v. i.) To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3.

(n.) Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

(n.) A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat.

(n.) A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion.

(n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

(n.) The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.

(n.) The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

(n.) The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.

(n.) The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.

(n.) Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.

(n.) That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance

(n.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock.

(n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.

(n.) The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.

(n.) The center of a target; the bull's-eye.

(n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.

(n.) The hole through the head of a needle.

(n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.

(n.) The hole through the upper millstone.

(n.) That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

(n.) Tinge; shade of color.

(v. t.) To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.

(v. i.) To appear; to look.

(n.) Air.

(n.) A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly.

() A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.

() A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.

(n.) A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.

(n.) A hobby ; freak; whim.

(n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.

(v. i.) To become weary; to tire.

(v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.

(v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.

(v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

(v. t.) Anything that fatigues.

(n.) Jet, the mineral.

(n.) Fashion; manner; custom.

(n.) Artifice; contrivance.

(imp.) of Get

() of Get

(p. p.) of Get

(v. t.) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

(v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.

(v. t.) To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

(v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

(v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.

(v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

(v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

(v. i.) To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

(n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

(n.) A male cat; a tomcat.

(v. i.) To act like a cat.

(n.) A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.

(v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.

(v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i.

(v. t.) To guide. See Gye .

(v. t.) To give.

(conj.) If.

(n.) A fiddle.

(v. t.) To engender.

(n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.

(v. t.) To fish with a gig.

(n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.

(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.

(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.

(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.

(a.) Neat; spruce.

(n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.

(conj.) If.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gin

() of Gin

(v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.

(n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

(n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

(n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

(n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

(n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

(v. t.) To catch in a trap.

(v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

(v. t.) To take out the entrails of (herrings).

(n.) A servant. See Gyp.

(n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam.

(n.) The panda.

(n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.

(n.) An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.

(v. t.) To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.

(n.) A kind of raised seedcake.

(n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.

(n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore.

(v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

(n.) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.

(n.) A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.

(n.) A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.

(n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.

(n.) A wing with which the air is beaten.

(v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.

(v. t.) Same as Lawe, v. t.

(interj.) An exclamation of mild surprise.

(v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.

(v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.

(v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

(n.) A looseness; diarrhea.

(imp.) of Lie, to recline.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.

(a.) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

(a.) Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.

(n.) The laity; the common people.

(n.) A meadow. See Lea.

(n.) Faith; creed; religious profession.

(n.) A law.

(n.) An obligation; a vow.

(a.) A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.

(a.) A melody; any musical utterance.

(v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.

(v. t.) To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.

(v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.

(v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.

(v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.

(v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying.

(v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.

(v. t.) To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.

(v. t.) To apply; to put.

(v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.

(v. t.) To impute; to charge; to allege.

(v. t.) To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.

(v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.

(v. t.) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.

(v. t.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.

(v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.

(v. t.) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.

(v. t.) To place (new type) properly in the cases.

(v. i.) To produce and deposit eggs.

(v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.

(v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.

(n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.

(v. t.) A wager.

(v. t.) A job, price, or profit.

(v. t.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.

(v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).

(v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.

(v. t.) A plan; a scheme.

(n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.

(n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

(n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lead

(n.) A weaver.

(n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.

(n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.

(n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.

(n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.

(n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.

(n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

(n.) The blade of a sword.

(n.) The blade of a saw.

(n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter.

(n.) The bit of a key.

(n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.

(n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.

(n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.

(n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.

(n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.

(n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.

(n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.

(n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.

(v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.

(n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.

(a.) Very small; little.

() of Eat

() of Eat

(v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

(v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

(v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

(v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

(v. i.) To make one's way slowly.

(n.) The European bunting.

(n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb.

(n.) The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.

(v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.

(v. i.) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.

(v. t.) To cause to flow back.

(a.) Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.

(n.) Evening.

(n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.

(n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth."

(n.) The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.

() A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.

(n.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

(n.) The European dragonet.

(n.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

(n.) A sly, cunning fellow.

(n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.

(n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.

(n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.

(n.) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

(n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.

(n.) To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

(v. t.) Alt. of Eeke

(n.) An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.

(v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

(n.) Faith; allegiance; fealty.

(n.) A feast given by one about to leave a place.

(adv. & prep.) Fro.

(n.) Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo.

(n.) Same as 2d Get.

(n.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.

(imp.) of Weet

(v. t.) To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

(v. t.) To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.

(v. t.) To twist; to weave.

(v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.

(n.) A road way.

(prep.) By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lead.

(v. i.) To lie; to speak falsely.

(n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.

(n.) A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.

(n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.

(n.) The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.

(n.) Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.

(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.

(n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.

(n.) A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.

(n.) That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.

(n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

(n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.

(n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

(n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.

(n.) An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water leg.

(superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.

(superl.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.

(superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

(superl.) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

(a.) Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.

(a.) Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

(a.) A dram; a drink.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wet

(v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.

(v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

(v. i.) To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.

(v. t.) To stake; to wager.

(v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.

(n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.

(n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

(n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

(v. t.) To use as a leg, with it as object

(v. t.) To bow.

(v. t.) To run.

(n.) Way; road; path.

(v. t. & i.) To weigh.

(n.) A certain measure of weight.

(n.) See Geat.

(n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

(n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.

(n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.

(n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

(n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

(n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.

(n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).

(v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

(v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do.

(v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.

(v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

(v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.

(v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.

(v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.

(v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.

(v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character.

(v. i.) A pen or inclosure for swine.

(v. i.) A place of bestial debauchery.

(v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a sty.

(v. i.) To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.

(v. i.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.

(n.) A subordinate; a subaltern.

(v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

(v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.

(v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.

(v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.

(v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.

(v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

(v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.

(v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.

(v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.

(n.) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.

(n.) A kind of worm or larva.

(n.) A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.

(n.) Same as Goaf.

(n.) A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.

(n.) The mouth.

(a. & n.) Good.

(n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.

(n.) The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.

(n.) A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.

(n.) Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power.

(v. t.) To treat as a god; to idolize.

(n.) Haste; ardent desire to go.

(n.) The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.

(n.) A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.

(n.) The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.

(n.) Height; completion; utmost degree.

(n.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.

(v. t.) To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.

(v. t.) To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.

(v. t.) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.

(n.) A wry face or mouth; a mow.

(v. i.) To make faces; to mow.

(a., adv., & n.) More. See Mo.

() p. p. of Made.

(superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

(superl.) Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.

(superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.

(superl.) Extravagant; immoderate.

(superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

(superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.

(superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.

(v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden.

(v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.

(n.) An earthworm.

(pl. ) of I

(n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

(n.) Concreted sugar.

(n.) Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

(n.) Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.

(v. t.) To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

(v. t.) To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

(v. t.) To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

(pron.) I.

(superl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.

(superl.) Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

() A contraction from I would or I had.

(n.) Same as Id.

() A form of the prefix in-, not, and in-, among. See In-.

(a.) Same; each; every.

() A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; as, imbank, imbitter.

(pl. ) of Io

(n.) One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.

() A form of the prefix in-. See In-.

(n.) Anger; wrath.

(v. t.) To weary; to give pain; to annoy; -- used only impersonally at present.

(n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.

(n.) An offspring; progeny; child; scion.

(n.) A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.

(n.) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.

(n.) To graft; to insert as a scion.

(n.) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip.

(imp. & p. p.) of Win

(a.) To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country.

(a.) To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship.

(a.) To gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury.

(a.) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.

(a.) To extract, as ore or coal.

(v. i.) To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.

(n.) An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n.

(v. t.) To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down.

(n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

(n.) That which causes joy or happiness.

(n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.

(n.) To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.

(v. t.) To give joy to; to congratulate.

(v. t.) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

(v. t.) To enjoy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Meet

(n.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.

(pl. ) of Ye

(adv.) Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.

(adv.) More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.

(n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.

(n.) The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.

(prep.) Ere; before.

(adv.) Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.

(n.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.

(adv.) In addition; further; besides; over and above; still.

(adv.) At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.

(adv.) Up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now; -- and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon as now; as, Is it time to go? Not yet. See As yet, under As, conj.

(conj.) Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time.

(conj.) Even; -- used emphatically.

(conj.) Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.

(v. i.) See Yaw.

(n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.

(n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.

(n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.

(a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

(v. i.) To hiccough.

(v. i.) A hiccough.

(n.) A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.

(adv.) Yes.

(a.) At a distance, but within view; yonder.

(adv.) Yonder.

(v. t.) To unite closely.

(dat. & obj.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.

(n.) One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

(n.) The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

(n.) See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.

(v. t.) To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.

(v. t.) To discover by close search or examination.

(v. t.) To explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a country; -- usually with out.

(v. i.) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.

(n.) One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.

(n.) A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.

(pron. & a.) The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.

(pron. pl.) Alt. of Here

(a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus.

() of Gin

() imp. & p. p. of Go.

(prep.) A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.

() An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.

(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.

(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

(n.) Charge; censure.

(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.

(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.

(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.

(a.) One more than nine; twice five.

(n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.

(n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.

(v. i.) See Thee.

(definite article.) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.

(adv.) By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.

(def. art.) The.

(pron. pl.) Those.

(adv.) Then.

(conj.) Though.

() of Hete

(n.) A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

(v. t.) A knot; a fastening.

(v. t.) A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.

(v. t.) A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

(v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

(v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.

(v. t.) A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

(v. t.) Low shoes fastened with lacings.

(v. t.) To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.

(v. t.) To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.

(v. t.) To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

(v. t.) To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

(v. t.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

(v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

(v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.

(prep. & conj.) See Till.

(n.) The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

(n.) An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

(n.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

(n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.

(n.) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

(v. t.) To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver.

(v. t.) To strike slightly; to tap.

(v. t.) To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant.

(v. t.) To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.

(v. i.) To fall on, or incline to, one side.

(n.) A light touch or blow; a tap.

(n.) A gift; a douceur; a fee.

(n.) A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like.

(prep.) An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.

(v. t.) To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.

(v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.

(v. t.) To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.

(n.) Destruction by cutting down.

(n.) Hue; color.

(n.) Shape; form.

(a.) High.

(interj.) An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.

(interj.) A cry to set dogs on.

(n.) A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.

() imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.

(imp.) of Hide

() of Hide

(a.) Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in tidbit.

(v. i.) To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

(n.) Haste; diligence.

(n.) A game among children. See Tag.

(n.) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

() of Hight

(n.) A piece.

(v. t.) To fetch.

(p. p.) Fetched.

(n.) Home.

(n.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

(n.) The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.

(p. p.) of Fette

(inf. & plural pres.) To have; have.

(n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.

(superl.) Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.

(a.) Fated; doomed.

(n.) Faith.

(v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out.

(n.) A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.

(n.) A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.

(v. i.) To speak falsely.

(v. t.) To tell a fib to.

(n.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.

(n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.

(n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.

(n.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.

(interj.) An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.

(n.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

(n.) The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.

(n.) A small piece of tobacco.

(n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.

(n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.

(n.) To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.

(n.) Figure; dress; array.

() imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.

(v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.

(n.) End; conclusion; object.

(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin

(n.) The hand.

(n.) A blade of whalebone.

(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.

(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.

(n.) A feather; a spline.

(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

(v. t.) To clothe; to wrap.

(n.) A cloak or plaid.

(n.) That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.

(v. i.) To happen; to befall; to chance.

(n.) A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.

(v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

(v.) Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex.

(v. i.) To work hard; to strive; to fuse.

(v. t.) To tow along, as a vessel.

(n.) A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.

(a.) Hot.

() sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf.

(n.) A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament.

(v. i.) See Thee.

(definite article.) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.

(adv.) By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.

() imp. & p. p. of Fight.

(n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus.

(superl.) Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.

(superl.) Prepared; ready.

(superl.) Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.

(v. t.) To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.

(v. t.) To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.

(v. t.) To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required.

(v. t.) To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on.

(v. i.) To be proper or becoming.

(v. i.) To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.

(n.) The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.

(n.) The coincidence of parts that come in contact.

(n.) The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.

(n.) A stroke or blow.

(n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.

(n.) A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.

(n.) A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action.

(n.) A darting point; a sudden emission.

(a.) Fixed; solidified.

(v. t.) To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

(v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

(v. t.) To transfix; to pierce.

(v. t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.

(v. t.) To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.

(v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

(v. i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

(v. i.) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

(n.) fettling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Have

() of Have

(n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

(n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.

(n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

(n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.

(v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

(v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.

(v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

(n.) A hedge.

(n.) A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.

(v. i.) To lay snares for rabbits.

(n.) Grass cut and cured for fodder.

(v. i.) To cut and cure grass for hay.

(n.) See Parr.

(prep.) By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.

(n.) Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.

(n.) Equality of condition or circumstances.

(pron.) Them. See Hem.

(pron.) The objective case of he. See He.

(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

(n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

(n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

(n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

(v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

(v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

(v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

(n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).

(interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

(n.) Alt. of Hipps

(pron.) See Here, pron.

(pron.) Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.

(pron.) The possessive of he; as, the book is his.

(pron.) It.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hit

(v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

(v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

(v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.

(v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

(v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.

(v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.

(n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

(n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.

(n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

(n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

(n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

(n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub.

(n.) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.

(n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc.

(n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf.

(n.) A countryman; a rustic; a clown.

(n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.

(n.) Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.

(n.) Money.

(v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

(n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

(n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.

(n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

(n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.

(v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.

(v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

(n.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

(n.) A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.

(n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn.

(n.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

(n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.

(v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.

(v. t.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

(v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

(pron.) You.

(v. i.) See Yex.

(n.) Alt. of Yuga

(n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.

(n.) A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See Maize.

(n.) The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.

(n.) The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May.

(adv.) Certainly; really; indeed.

(v. t.) To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.

(pl. ) of Monsieur

(inf.) of Wit

(pres. sing.) of Wit

(t) ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wit

(n.) To know; to learn.

(v.) Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

(v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.

(v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

(v.) A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.

(adv., & n.) See Mo.

(v. i.) To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- child's word.

(n.) The lowing of a cow.

(n.) A made-up face; a grimace.

(v. i.) To make a wry mouth.

(n.) An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

(pl. ) of Zoon

(n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

(n.) A curse; a malediction.

(a.) Woeful; sorrowful.

(n.) A fair where servants are hired.

(n.) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.

(v. t.) To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.

(v. t.) To pound.

(n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

(v. i.) To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.

(v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.

(v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.

(n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

(n.) A pug mill.

(n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.

(n.) A name for a monkey.

(n.) A name for a fox.

(n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.

(n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.

(n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

(n.) A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

(n.) A small cask or barrel.

(n.) A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.

(n. t.) To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.

(n. t.) To recognize; to descry; to discern.

(v. i.) To look around.

(n.) Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.

(n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.

(n.) See Camp, n., 5.

(n.) A magpie.

(n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.

(n.) The service book.

(n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.

(v. t.) See Pi.

(n.) A piggin.

(n.) The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.

(n.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.

(n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.

(n.) One who is hoggish; a greedy person.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

(v. t. & i.) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

(v. t.) To peen.

(v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

(n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.

(n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

(n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.

(n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use

(n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

(n.) A linchpin.

(n.) A rolling-pin.

(n.) A clothespin.

(n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.

(n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.

(n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

(n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.

(n.) Mood; humor.

(n.) Caligo. See Caligo.

(n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.

(n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.

(n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

(adv.) In what manner or way; by what means or process.

(adv.) To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality.

(adv.) For what reason; from what cause.

(adv.) In what state, condition, or plight.

(adv.) By what name, designation, or title.

(adv.) At what price; how dear.

(v. t.) To hock; to hamstring. See Hock.

(n.) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.

(interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop!

(n.) The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.

(n.) The hilt of a weapon.

(n.) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.

(n.) A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.

(n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

(n.) A screw hob. See Hob, 3.

(n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

(n.) A huck or hull, as of a nut.

(n.) Color or shade of color; tint; dye.

(n.) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.

(n.) A shouting or vociferation.

(v. i.) To cower; to crouch; to curl up.

(v. i.) To crowd together; to cuddle.

(v. t.) To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.

(v. t.) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

(v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.

(n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.

(v. i.) To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.

(v. i.) To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone.

(v. i.) To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.

(v. i.) To express satisfaction by a humming noise.

(v. i.) To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition.

(v. t.) To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune.

(v. t.) To express satisfaction with by humming.

(v. t.) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.

(n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz.

(n.) Any inarticulate and buzzing sound

(n.) The confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry.

(n.) A buzz or murmur, as of approbation.

(n.) An imposition or hoax.

(interj.) An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc.

(interj.) A kind of strong drink formerly used.

(interj.) Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.

(n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

(n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.

(n.) A pigment. See India ink, under India.

(v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

(n.) See Sunn.

(n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.

(n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.

(n.) The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.

(n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.

(v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.

(n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.

(n.) The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.

(n.) Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.

(n.) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

(n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

(n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.

(v. t.) To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

(i.) To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

(v. t.) To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.

(n.) A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.

(v. i.) To eat the evening meal; to take supper.

(v. t.) To treat with supper.

(n.) The parson bird.

(v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.

(v. t.) To pull; to pluck.

(v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.

(v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.

(n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.

(n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.

(n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.

(n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.

(n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.

(n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

(n.) A fermenting vat.

(n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

(n.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.

(n.) An indefinite large quantity.

(n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.

(n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.

(v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks.

() imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get.

(v. t. & i.) To butt, as a ram does.

(v. t. & i.) To cover; -- said of a ram.

(n.) A ram.

(n.) The urus.

(imp.) Saw.

() As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

(adv.) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.

(n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.

(n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

(n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

(n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

(n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

(n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.

(n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.

(n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

(n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.

(n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.

(n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

(n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

(n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

(n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

(n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

(n.) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.

(n.) A drilling or tamping rod.

(n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

(n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

(n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.

(n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

(n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.

(n.) To except; to exclude by exception.

(n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

(n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

(n.) A tag. See Tag, 2.

(n.) A loop for pulling or lifting something.

(n.) A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

(n.) A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

() In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.

() In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.

(n.) See Gree, a step.

(n.) See Gree, good will.

(n.) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.

(n.) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.

(n.) A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.

(n.) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn.

(n.) One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns.

(v. i.) To take lodging; to lodge.

(v. t.) To house; to lodge.

(v. t.) To get in; to in. See In, v. t.

(n.) One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

(n.) Alt. of Adze

(v. t.) To cut with an adz.

(n.) A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.

(n. & v.) See Hie.

(n.) An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural.

(v. t.) To make melancholy.

(n.) A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.

(n.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.

(n.) The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.

(n.) One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.

(v. t.) To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.

(n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

(n.) A seed, as of an apple or orange.

(n.) One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.

(v. i.) To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.

(n.) A weed; a kecksy.

(n.) A dry husk or covering.

(n.) An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.

(n.) An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.

(n.) That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter.

(n.) A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.

(n.) That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.

(n.) A piece of wood used as a wedge.

(n.) The last board of a floor when laid down.

(n.) A keystone.

(n.) That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

(n.) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.

(n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.

(n.) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.

(n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.

(n.) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.

(n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

(v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

(prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.

(prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.

(prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.

(prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.

(prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.

(prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.

(prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.

(prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.

(prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.

(prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.

(conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.

(conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.

(n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.

(superl.) As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man.

(superl.) Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous.

(superl.) Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.

(superl.) Fresh from anything; newly come.

(adv.) Newly; recently.

(v. t. & i.) To make new; to renew.

(superl.) Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion.

(superl.) Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes.

(superl.) Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.

(n.) A genus of small rodents, including the common mouse and rat.

(n.) Same as Pood.

(n.) The hand; the first.

(v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

(n.) A lever; also, leverage.

(v. t.) To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.

(v. i.) To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.

(n.) Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.

(v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

(n.) A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.

(n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

(n.) A ropedancer's balancing pole.

(n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.

(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.

(n.) A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

(n.) An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.

(n.) The European redwing.

(v. i.) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides.

(v. i.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off, etc.

(v. i.) To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.

(v. t.) To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door.

(v. t.) To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.

(adv.) Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.

(n.) A bag; a pouch.

(n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.

(n.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.

(v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

(n.) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.

(v. t.) To cause to be out; to eject; to expel.

(v. t.) To come out with; to make known.

(v. t.) To give out; to dispose of; to sell.

(v. i.) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.

(interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.

(a.) In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.

(a.) Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out.

(a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out.

(a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.

(a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest.

(a.) Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation.

(a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.

(n.) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; -- generally in the plural.

(n.) A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.

(adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.

(adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.

(interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.

(prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.

(a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.

(a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.

(n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.

() A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.

(a. & adv.) Wrong; amiss.

(adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:

(adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.

(adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.

(adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.

(n.) A dull, heavy person.

(n.) Something thick and heavy.

(v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily.

(v. t.) See Cob, v. t.

(n.) The European pollock.

(a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.

(n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.

(v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.

(n.) A pledge; a pawn.

() of Wed

(n.) To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.

(n.) To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.

(n.) Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.

(n.) To take to one's self and support; to espouse.

(v. i.) To contact matrimony; to marry.

(n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.

(prep.) Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.

(imp.) Won.

() See Iso-.

() A prefix or combining form, indicating identity, or equality; the same numerical value; as in isopod, isomorphous, isochromatic.

() Applied to certain compounds having the same composition but different properties; as in isocyanic.

() Applied to compounds of certain isomeric series in whose structure one carbon atom, at least, is connected with three other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with neo- and normal; as in isoparaffine; isopentane.

() Possessive form of the pronoun it. See It.

(v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.

(v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.

(v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.

(v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.

(n.) Satisfaction; content.

(n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.

(n.) A small lake. See Mere.

(v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.

(v.) To spoil; to ruin.

(n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.

(n.) pl. of Man.

(pron.) A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.

() Was not.

() Has not.

(v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

(v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.

(v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).

(n.) A young goat.

(n.) A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.

(n.) A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.

(n.) Gloves made of kid.

(n. pl.) Kine; cows.

(n.) A vessel; a duct.

(pl. ) of Man

(n.) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

(n.) The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.

(n.) The chief person; the most prominent one.

(n.) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.

(n.) The head, or upper part, of a plant.

(n.) A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.

(n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

(n.) Eve; verge; point.

(n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

(n.) Top-boots.

(v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.

(v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions.

(v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.

(v. t.) To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

(v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.

(v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.

(v. t.) To take off the or upper part of; to crop.

(v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before.

(v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.

(n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.

(v. i.) To bring forth a young goat.

(n.) A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

(p. p.) of Kythe.

(v. t.) See Kiddy, v. t.

(n.) India.

(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.

(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.

(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots

(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.

(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.

(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.

(v. t.) To pocket.

(n.) A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.

(n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.

(n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.

(v. t. & i.) To weigh; to yield in tods.

(v. t.) To take away. See Toll.

(n.) A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.

(n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.

(n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.

(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.

(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

(n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

(a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.

(n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.

(n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.

(n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.

(n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.

(v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.

(v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

(v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

(n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.

(n.) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.

(n.) A falsehood.

(n.) Alt. of Lymhound

(n.) A waterfall. See Lin.

(n.) A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.

(v. t.) To put out of joint; to luxate.

(p. p.) of Mete

(n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

(n.) A woody valley; also, a deep pool.

(n.) A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.

(n.) Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map.

(v. t.) To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.

(n.) The ear, or its lobe.

(n.) That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.

(n.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.

(n.) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

(n.) The lugworm.

(v. i.) To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.

(v. i.) To move slowly and heavily.

(n.) The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.

(n.) Anything which moves slowly.

(n.) A rod or pole.

(n.) A measure of length, being 16/ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.

(n.) A chimney.

(n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands.

(n.) The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.

(n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.

(n.) Fire; a flame; a light.

(v. i.) To burn; to blaze.

(superl.) Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.

(superl.) Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.

(superl.) Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.

(superl.) Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.

(superl.) Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.

(superl.) Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.

(superl.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.

(superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, / (/m), / (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 10, 11.

(superl.) Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.

(superl.) Numerically small; as, a low number.

(superl.) Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.

() strong imp. of Laugh.

() imp. & p. p. of Meet.

() imp. & p. p. of Mete, to measure.

() p. p. of Mete, to dream.

(superl.) Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.

(superl.) Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.

(superl.) Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison.

(superl.) Submissive; humble.

(superl.) Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.

(superl.) Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.

(superl.) Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.

(superl.) Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.

(n.) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.

(adv.) In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.

(adv.) Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.

(adv.) In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.

(adv.) In time approaching our own.

(adv.) With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.

(adv.) With a low musical pitch or tone.

(adv.) In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.

(adv.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.

(v. t.) To depress; to lower.

(v. i.) To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.

(n.) A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so.

(n.) A prize in a lottery.

(v. t.) To allot; to sort; to portion.

(n.) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

(n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.

(n.) The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

(n.) A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.

(n.) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.

(n.) Praise. See Loos.

(v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

(v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

(a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

(n.) A flea.

(v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.

(v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.

(n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.

(n.) A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

(n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

(n.) The human race; mankind.

(n.) The male portion of the human race.

(n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.

(n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

(n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!

(n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.

(n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.

(n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

(v. t.) To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.

(v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.

(v. t.) To tame, as a hawk.

(v. t.) To furnish with a servants.

(v. t.) To wait on as a manservant.

(n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.

(n.) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.

(v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

(v. i.) To yield; to stop; to cease.

(v. t.) To cease from.

(n.) A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.

(n.) A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.

(n.) A steep ravine.

(n.) Mamma.

(n.) A limb.

(n.) Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.

(n.) A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

(n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.

(n.) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

(v. i.) To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

(v. i.) To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.

(v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

(v. t.) To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.

(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.

(n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

(n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.

(n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.

(n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

(v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.

(v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

(v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.

(n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.

(n.) A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.

() of Light

(n.) A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate.

(n.) A wing.

(n.) An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.

(n.) Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.

(n.) The internal shell of a squid.

(n.) A female swan.

(v. t.) To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.

(n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

(n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

(n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

(n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

(n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."

(n.) A feather.

(imp.) of Eat

(n.) The old plural of Eye.

() An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them.

(n.) The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.

(n.) Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.

(n.) Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.

(n.) The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.

(n.) That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.

(n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

(v. t.) To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.

(v. t.) To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.

(v. t.) To destroy; to put to death.

(v. i.) To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

(n.) An arrow.

(v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.

(v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.

(v. t.) To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.

(v. t.) To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.

(v. t.) To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.

(v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.

(v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.

(v. t.) To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.

(v. t.) To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.

(v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

(v. i.) To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.

(v. i.) To do; to fare; as, how do you try!

(n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain.

(n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

(v. t.) Refined; select; excellent; choice.

(n.) A measure equal to one tenth of a line.

(n.) Anything very small, or of little value.

(n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.

(n.) A blank window or panel.

(n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.

(n.) One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.

(n.) A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.

(n.) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.

(n.) The eye, as luminous and spherical.

(n.) A revolving circular body; a wheel.

(n.) A sphere of action.

(n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.

(n.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.

(v. t.) To form into an orb or circle.

(v. t.) To encircle; to surround; to inclose.

(v. i.) To become round like an orb.

(adv.) At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.

(adv.) Very lately; not long ago.

(adv.) At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.

(adv.) In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.

(a.) Existing at the present time; present.

(n.) The present time or moment; the present.

(v. t.) To annoy; to vex.

(n.) That which annoys.

(v. t.) To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.

(n.) A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.

(a.) No; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort.

(n.) The grampus.

(adv.) Not.

() Not at; nor at.

(n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.

(n.) A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

(n.) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.

(n.) The smew.

(n.) The European blue titmouse.

(n.) Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.

(n.) The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).

(n.) A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey.

(n.) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.

(n.) Metal; as, the liquid ore.

(n.) Alt. of Orfe

(adv.) No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.

(adv.) Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.

(n.) Denial; refusal.

(n.) a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.

(v. t. & i.) To refuse.

(n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

(n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.

(n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.

(n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

(v. i.) To gather nuts.

(n.) The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.

(a. & adv.) Nigh.

(n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.

(pl. ) of O

(pl. ) of O

(n.) See Woad.

(n.) Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.

(n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

(n.) The strong wood or timber of the oak.

(n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.

(n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.

(n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.

(v. t. & i.) To row.

(n.) A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

(n.) A musical pipe made of oat straw.

() A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.

(n.) A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.

(n.) A charm or fetich.

(n.) A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural.

(p. p., fem.) Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Stael, nee Necker.

(n.) The nave of a church.

(n.) Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.

(n.) The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [/] in almanacs.

(n.) A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.

(n.) Force; power.

(n.) Physical force.

(n.) Moral power.

(obs. strong imp.) of Leap. Leaped.

(object.) Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives, are also used especially of persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever.

(pron.) One; any; one.

(adv.) For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1.

(adv.) For which; on account of which; -- used relatively.

(adv.) The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on what account; as, I know not why he left town so suddenly; -- used as a compound relative.

(n.) A young heifer.

(n.) A leash.

(v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

(n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.

(n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

(imp. & p. p.) of Let

(v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.

(v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem.

(v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.

(v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.

(v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.

(v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.

(v. i.) To forbear.

(v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.

(adv.) To wit; that is; namely.

(n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

(n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

(a.) Lukewarm; tepid.

(n.) Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.

(n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

(n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

(n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

(n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

(v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

(v. t.) To utter; to speak.

(v. t.) To clip; to trim.

(n.) An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

(v. t. & i.) To lay; to wager.

(n.) Law.

(n.) See Lye.

(n.) Grass or meadow land; a lea.

(a.) Fallow; unseeded.

(v. t.) To castrate.

() a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.

(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.

(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.

(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.

(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.

(n.) See Lye.

(n.) A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.

(n.) A fiction; a fable; an untruth.

(n.) Anything which misleads or disappoints.

(n.) A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty.

(n.) Specifically, a promise of fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow.

(n.) To give, consecrate, or dedicate to God, or to some deity, by a solemn promise; to devote; to promise solemnly.

(n.) To assert solemnly; to asseverate.

(v. i.) To make a vow, or solemn promise.

(n.) A voice.

(v. i.) To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.

(imp.) of Lie

(adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.

(adj.) To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.

(adj.) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.

(adj.) To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.

(adj.) To lodge; to sleep.

(adj.) To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.

(adj.) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.

(n.) The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.

(n.) The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.

(n.) Woad.

(n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.

(n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.

(n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.

(v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.

(v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.

(n.) Alt. of Wadd

(n.) A wave.

(v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.

(v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.

(v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.

(v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft.

(v.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.

(v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.

(v. i.) To recline; to lie still.

() of Light

(pl. ) of Os

(v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.

(n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.

(n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.

(a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.

(adv.) In a pat manner.

(n.) To prophesy; to presage.

(n.) See Oast.

(n.) See Obi.

(n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.

(n.) See Pah.

(n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.

(n.) The hand.

(v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.

(v. t.) To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.

(v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.

(n.) The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.

(n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc.

(n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard.

(n.) See Peak, n., 3.

(n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.

(n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.

(possessive pron.) Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I.

(superl.) Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

(superl.) Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.

(superl.) Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra.

(superl.) Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.

(superl.) Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange.

(n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.

(n.) A mobcap.

(v. t.) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

(n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

(n.) A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.

(v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

(n.) An Arabian shrub Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.

(v. i. & n.) See Caw.

(pl. ) of Keelman

(n.) Carrion; any filth.

() An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-); as in undone (from undo), meaning unfastened, ruined; and undone (from 2d un- and done) meaning not done, not finished. Un- is sometimes used with an intensive force merely; as in unloose.

(adv.) An inseparable prefix, or particle, signifying not; in-; non-. In- is prefixed mostly to words of Latin origin, or else to words formed by Latin suffixes; un- is of much wider application, and is attached at will to almost any adjective, or participle used adjectively, or adverb, from which it may be desired to form a corresponding negative adjective or adverb, and is also, but less freely, prefixed to nouns. Un- sometimes has merely an intensive force; as in unmerciless, unremorseless.

(adv.) Un- is prefixed to adjectives, or to words used adjectively.

(adv.) To adjectives, to denote the absence of the quality designated by the adjective

(adv.) To past particles, or to adjectives formed after the analogy of past particles, to indicate the absence of the condition or state expressed by them

(adv.) To present particles which come from intransitive verbs, or are themselves employed as adjectives, to mark the absence of the activity, disposition, or condition implied by the participle; as, - ---- and the like.

(adv.) Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like.

(adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like.

(adv.) Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like.

(adv.) Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

(n.) A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and C. Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.

(n.) A knot; a tie.

(n.) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.

(n.) A trough for washing ores.

(v. t.) See Tie, the proper orthography.

(v. t.) To beat soundly; to thrash.

(a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

(a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.

(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

(n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.

(n.) See Graylag.

(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.

(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

(n.) One transported for a crime.

(v. t.) To transport for crime.

() p. p. of Lead, to guide.

(n.) A boy; a youth; a stripling.

(n.) A companion; a comrade; a mate.

(n.) A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.

(n.) Alt. of Lakh

(v. t.) To know. See Can, and Con.

(n.) A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.

() p. p. of Kythe.

(v. i.) To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.

(n.) A telltale; a prater; a blabber.

(n.) Alt. of Koba

() imp. & p. p. of Win.

(v. i.) To dwell or abide.

(n.) Dwelling; wone.

(v. t.) To solicit in love; to court.

(v. t.) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.

(v. i.) To court; to make love.

(Sing. pres. ind.) of Mot

(pl.) of Mot

(v.) May; must; might.

(n.) A word; hence, a motto; a device.

(n.) A pithy or witty saying; a witticism.

(n.) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

() 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.

(n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

(n.) A pitcher; a ewer.

(n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.

(v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.

(v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.

(v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

(v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.

(v. t.) To cover.

(superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.

(superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.

(superl.) Wrested; perverted.

(v. i.) To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

(v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.

(a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

(n.) The letter Y.

(n.) A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

(n.) A wry face.

(v. i.) To make mouths.

(n.) Same as Mew, a gull.

(pres. sing.) of Mow

(v.) May; can.

(v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.

(v. t.) To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.

(v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.

(v. i.) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.

(n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

(n.) The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

(v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.

() The customary abbreviation of Mister in writing and printing. See Master, 4.

(n.) A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.

(n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.

(v. i.) To bark; to yelp.

(n.) A bark; a yelp.

(n.) A Russian village community.

(n.) Same as Emir.

(n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

(v. t.) To bury in mud.

(v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.

(v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

(v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.

(n.) A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.

(n.) The face or mouth.

(n.) Catnip.

(a.) Silent; not speaking.

(interj.) Be silent! Hush!

(n.) Silence.

(n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.

(n.) The mouth.

(n.) A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.

(n.) Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding.

(n.) Anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net.

(n.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law.

(v. t.) To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

(v. t.) To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.

(v. t.) To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.

(v. i.) To form network or netting; to knit.

(a.) Without spot; pure; shining.

(a.) Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc.

(a.) Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc.

(v. t.) To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.

(v. t.) To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.

(v. t.) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

(v. t.) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.

(v. i.) To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.

(v. i.) To associate; to mingle.

(n.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

(n.) A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

(n.) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.

(n.) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.

(n.) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.

(n.) Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.

(n.) A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.

(n.) A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body

(v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

(n.) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.

(n.) See Pit of the stomach (below).

(n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

(n.) Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.

(n.) An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

(n.) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.

(n.) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.

(v. t.) To place or put into a pit or hole.

(v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.

(v. t.) To bend.

(v. t.) To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.

(n.) The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

(n.) A pace; a step, as in a dance.

(n.) Right of going foremost; precedence.

(v. t.) To employ diligently; to use steadily.

(v. t.) To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.

(v. i.) To bend; to yield.

(v. i.) To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports.

(v. i.) To work to windward; to beat.

(v.) A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.

(v.) Bent; turn; direction; bias.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see).

(n.) A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

(n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.

(n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.

(a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.

(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.

(v. i.) To be a pet.

(n.) Same as Poi.

(interj.) An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

(n.) A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

(n.) One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.

(n.) Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold.

(v. t.) To furnish with pews.

(v. i.) To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

(v. i.) To butt.

(n.) That which projects or juts; a projection.

(n.) A shove; a push.

(n.) Crooked; awry.

(v. t.) To know; to ken.

(n.) See Khan.

(n. pl.) See Kie, Ky, and Kine.

(adv.) A little more; as, piu allegro, a little more briskly.

(n. & v.) See Pyx.

(n.) The knave of clubs.

(v. t.) To cut.

(n.) A kitten.

(n.) A small violin.

(m.) A large bottle.

(m.) A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.

(m.) straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.

(m.) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.

(m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.

(n.) The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.

(n.) A part; a portion.

(n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

(n.) A leaf of gold or silver.

(v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.

(n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.

(n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.

(a.) A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.

(adv.) For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.

() A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

(n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.

(n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

(n.) Relatives; persons of the same family or race.

(a.) Of the same nature or kind; kinder.

(conj.) A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.

(n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.

(n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.

(n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

(n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

(n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

(n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.

(n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

(v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.

(v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

(v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

() Wot not; know not; knows not.

(a.) Shorn; shaven.

(adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.

(a.) Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.

(a.) Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.

(a.) Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.

(n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.

(n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.

(adv.) In a ill manner; badly; weakly.

() A contraction of I am.

(superl.) Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.

(superl.) Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.

(superl.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.

(n.) Middle.

(prep.) See Amid.

() of Win

(pl. ) of Y

(a.) Whole.

(n.) Ear of corn.

(n.) An aisle.

(n.) An isle.

(a.) Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.

(v. i.) To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased.

(v. t.) To signify or express by purring.

(n.) The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.