(n.) Sedge.

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

(n.) A castrated bull.

(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.) 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.

(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.

(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. 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.) 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.) 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.

(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.

(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 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.) 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.) 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.) 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 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.) 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.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.

(n.) A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river.

(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.

(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.) See Jig, 6.

(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.

(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.) 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.

(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 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.

(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.) 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.

(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.) Haste; ardent desire to go.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Yuga

(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 small cask or barrel.

(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. 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. 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.

(v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

(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.) 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."

(v. i.) To recline; to lie still.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.

(n.) The face or mouth.