() The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

(n.) The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.

(n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.

(n.) The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill.

(n.) The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

(n.) Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.

(n.) Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.

(n.) Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.

(n.) Skillful plan; device.

(n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.

(n.) The black art; magic.

(n.) An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.

(n.) Oat.

(n.) A pit.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

(n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

(imp. & p. p.) of Put

(v. t.) To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).

(v. t.) To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.

(v. t.) To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

(v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

(v. t.) To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.

(v. t.) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

(v. t.) To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.

(v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

(v. i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

(v. i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

(v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

(n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

(n.) A certain game at cards.

(n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) A European lizard of the genus Seps.

(n.) A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).

(adv.) Again; afterwards; soon; quickly.

(n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

(n.) Shale or bituminous shale.

(n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

(n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.

(v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.

(v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.

(n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.

(a. & n.) The higher part of the scale. See Alto.

(v. t.) See Aret.

(v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

(n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

(n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

(v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.

(v. t.) To cover in copulation.

(n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.

(v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.

(n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bet

(v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

() imp. & p. p. of Beat.

(a. & adv.) An early form of Better.

(n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.

(n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.

(n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.

(v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.

(v. i.) To catch or kill rats.

(n.) A word; a decree.

(n.) A ditty; a song.

(v. t.) To close up.

(n.) A small horse.

(n.) A woman; -- used in contempt.

(n.) A morsel; a bit.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridae and Leiotrichidae; a titmouse.

(n.) The European meadow pipit; a titlark.

(n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

(adv.) Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.

(a.) Frequent; often; repeated.

(n. & adv.) East.

(n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

(n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

(n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

(n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.

(v. t.) To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

(v. t.) To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.

(n.) Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

(n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.

(n.) A foolish fellow.

() imp. & p. p. of Hote.

(superl.) Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.

(superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.

(superl.) Lustful; lewd; lecherous.

(superl.) Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.

() of Hote

() of Hote

() Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.

(n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

(n.) A hassock.

(n.) The egg of a louse or other small insect.

() imp. of Get.

(n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

(n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.

(a.) Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.

(v. t.) To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

(v. i.) To tipple to stupidity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cut

(v. t.) To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.

(v. t.) To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.

(v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.

(v. t.) To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.

(v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.

(v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.

(v. t.) To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.

(v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.

(v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.

(v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

(v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

(v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.

(v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.

(v. i.) To interfere, as a horse.

(v. i.) To move or make off quickly.

(v. i.) To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

(n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

(n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.

(n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.

(n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.

(n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.

(n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.

(n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

(n.) The act of dividing a pack cards.

(n.) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?

(n.) Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.

(n.) A common work horse; a gelding.

(n.) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.

(n.) A skein of yarn.

(a.) Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.

(a.) Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.

(a.) Overcome by liquor; tipsy.

(n.) Jet, the mineral.

(n.) Fashion; manner; custom.

(n.) Artifice; contrivance.

(imp.) of Get

() of Get

(p. p.) of Get

(v. t.) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

(v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.

(v. t.) To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

(v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

(v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.

(v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

(v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

(v. i.) To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

(n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

() of Eat

() of Eat

(v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

(v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

(v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

(v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

(v. i.) To make one's way slowly.

(imp.) of Weet

(superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.

(superl.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.

(superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

(superl.) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

(a.) Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.

(a.) Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

(a.) A dram; a drink.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wet

(v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.

(n.) See Geat.

(n.) An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n.

(v. t.) To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down.

(n.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.

(adv.) In addition; further; besides; over and above; still.

(adv.) At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.

(adv.) Up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now; -- and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon as now; as, Is it time to go? Not yet. See As yet, under As, conj.

(conj.) Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time.

(conj.) Even; -- used emphatically.

(conj.) Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.

(v. t.) To unite closely.

() of Hete

() of Hight

(pron.) It.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hit

(v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

(v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

(v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.

(v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

(v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.

(v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.

(n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

(n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.

(n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

(n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

(n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

(pres. sing.) of Wit

() imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get.

(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.

(n.) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.

(v. t.) To cause to be out; to eject; to expel.

(v. t.) To come out with; to make known.

(v. t.) To give out; to dispose of; to sell.

(v. i.) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.

(interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.

(a.) In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.

(a.) Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out.

(a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out.

(a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.

(a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest.

(a.) Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation.

(a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.

(n.) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; -- generally in the plural.

(n.) A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.

(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.

(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.

(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots

(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.

(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.

(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.

(v. t.) To pocket.

(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.

(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

(n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

(a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.

(n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.

(n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.

(n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.

(n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.

(v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.

(v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

(v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

(n.) A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so.

(n.) A prize in a lottery.

(v. t.) To allot; to sort; to portion.

(n.) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

(n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.

(n.) The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

(n.) A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.

(n.) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.

() of Light

(adv.) Not.

() Not at; nor at.

(v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

(n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.

(n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

(imp. & p. p.) of Let

(v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.

(v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem.

(v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.

(v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.

(v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.

(v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.

(v. i.) To forbear.

(v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.

() a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

() of Light

(n.) An Arabian shrub Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.

(n.) Carrion; any filth.

() 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.

(n.) A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

(n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.

(n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.

(a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.

(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.

(v. i.) To be a pet.

(v. i.) To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

(v. i.) To butt.

(n.) That which projects or juts; a projection.

(n.) A shove; a push.

(v. t.) To cut.

(n.) A kitten.

(n.) A small violin.

(m.) A large bottle.

(m.) A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.

(m.) straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.

(m.) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.

(m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.

() Wot not; know not; knows not.

(a.) Shorn; shaven.

(adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.