(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.

(n. & v.) See Ache.

(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 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.

(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.

(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.

(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.) A half farthing.

(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.

(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

(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

(n.) See Rei.

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

(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 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 Rye.

(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.

(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.) 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.) A sharper; a rogue.

(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 large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.

(n.) Ease; pleasure.

() the preterit of Eat.

(n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

(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.

(n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds.

(n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints.

(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.) 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.

(v. t.) To guide; to govern.

(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.

(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.) See Johannes.

(n.) The urus.

(n.) Use; practice; exercise.

(v. t.) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.

(v. t. & i.) See Gee.

(pl. ) of Dice

(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.

(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.

(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.) An uncle.

(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.

(v. t.) To guide. See Gye .

(v. t.) To give.

(n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.

(a.) Very small; little.

(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 female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.

(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.

(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.

(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.) A wry face or mouth; a mow.

(v. i.) To make faces; to mow.

(a., adv., & n.) More. See Mo.

(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.

(n.) Same as Id.

(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.

(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.

(v. i.) To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

(n.) Haste; diligence.

(interj.) An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.

(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.

(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.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

(n.) A curse; a malediction.

(a.) Woeful; sorrowful.

(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.) 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.

(n.) The parson bird.

(imp.) Saw.

(n.) See Gree, a step.

(n.) See Gree, good will.

(n. & v.) See Hie.

(n. pl.) Kine; cows.

(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.

(imp.) of Eat

(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 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.

(a. & adv.) Nigh.

(n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.

(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.) An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

(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.

(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.

(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.) A wave.

(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 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.

(n.) The letter Y.

(n.) A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

(n. pl.) See Kie, Ky, and Kine.

(n.) Ear of corn.

(n.) An aisle.

(n.) An isle.