(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.

(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.) The head.

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

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

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

(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.) 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.) 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.

(n.) A blood relation.

(a.) Related by blood; akin.

(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.

(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. 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.

(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.

(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 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.

(v. t.) To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.

(n.) A thrust or stab.

(n.) Alt. of Fubs

(v. t.) To put off by trickery; to cheat.

(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.

(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.) 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.) A subordinate; a subaltern.

(n.) Same as Goaf.

(n.) A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.

(n.) The mouth.

(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.) 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.) 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.

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To castrate.

(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.) Alt. of Koba