Word List - Vocabulator

(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.

(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 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.

(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.

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

() 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).

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

() 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.

(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.) 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.) Alt. of Bunn

(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.

(a.) One.

() 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.

(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.

(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.) Alt. of Erne

(v. i.) To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]

(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.

(v. t.) To con (a ship).

(v. t.) To know. See Con.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth, as young; to yean.

(v. i.) To begin [Obs.] See Gin.

(n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.

(v. t.) To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass.

(n.) Alt. of Jinn

(n.) One of intermediate order between angels and men.

(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.

(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.

(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.) 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.) Alt. of Aeon

(n.) Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

() of Gin

(n.) One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.

(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.

(pl. ) of Ye

(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.

(n.) A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.

(a.) At a distance, but within view; yonder.

(adv.) Yonder.

(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.

() of Gin

() imp. & p. p. of Go.

(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.

(inf. & plural pres.) To have; have.

(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

(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.

(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.

(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.) 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.

(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.) pl. of Man.

(pron.) A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.

(pl. ) of Man

(n.) A waterfall. See Lin.

(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.) The old plural of Eye.

(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.

(pl. ) of Keelman

(v. t.) To know. See Can, and Con.

() imp. & p. p. of Win.

(v. i.) To dwell or abide.

(n.) Dwelling; wone.

(n.) The mouth.

(v. t.) To know; to ken.

(n.) See Khan.

() 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.