() of Seethe

(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.

(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.

(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.) Redness; blush.

(n.) Ruddle; red ocher.

(n.) The rudd.

(v. t.) To make red.

(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.

() of Bid

(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.) 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 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.

() . 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.) Open country.

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) See Have.

(v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

(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.) Alt. of Gedd

(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.

(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.

() A contraction from I would or I had.

() imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.

(imp.) of Hide

() of Hide

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Have

(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.) The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.

(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 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.

(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.) 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.) 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 edge or point; also, a beginning.

(n.) See Woad.

(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.) 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

() p. p. of Lead, to guide.

(n.) A boy; a youth; a stripling.

(n.) A companion; a comrade; a mate.

() p. p. of Kythe.

(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.