(v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.

(v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.

(v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

(v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

(v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.

(v. i.) To barter or truck.

(v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.

(v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.

(v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.

(v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

(n.) A change; a vicissitude.

(v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.

(n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.

(n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

(n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.

(n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.

(n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

(n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

(n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

(n.) A permit or clearance.

(imp.) of Come

(p. p.) of Come

(n.) To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.

(n.) To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.

(n.) To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance.

(n.) To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another.

(n.) To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.

(n.) To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied.

(v. t.) To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here.

(n.) Coming.

(adv.) Once.

(n.) The herb dill, or dillseed.

(adv.) Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.

(v. t.) To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust.

(v. t.) To betroth or espouse; to affiance.

(v. t.) To bind in faith.

(v. i.) To trust or confide.

(n.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.

(n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.

(n.) A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.

(adv.) Straightway; at once.

(adv.) Soon; in a little while.

(adv.) At another time; then; again.

(n.) A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.

() See Anti-, prefix.

(n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

(n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

(v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante).

() A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

(n.) The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

(n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.

(n.) A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example.

(n. pl.) See Ascus.

(n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

(a.) Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.

(imp. & p. p.) of Age

(a.) Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

(a.) Belonging to old age.

(a.) Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

(adv. & prep.) See Again.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ape

(n.) The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

(n.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

(n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.

(n.) A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

(pl. ) of Agnus

(a. & adv.) In eager desire; eager; astir.

(n.) A contest for a prize at the public games.

(v. t.) To decorate with fringe or embroidery.

(n.) An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.

(n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.

(v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.

(v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.

(n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.

(n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.

(n.) Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.

(n.) A tern.

(adv.) Alt. of Agree

(n.) Alt. of Apodal

(n.) Alt. of Apode

(v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur.

(n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.

(n.) An acute fever.

(n.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

(n.) The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.

(n.) A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

(v. t.) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

(interj.) An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.

(interj.) A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."

(a.) Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

(a.) Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight.

(a.) Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.

(a.) Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.

(a.) Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music.

(a.) Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary.

(a.) Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial.

(a.) Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.

(a.) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

(adv.) Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

(adv.) In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.

(adv.) On the jog.

(a.) Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

(a.) Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

(pl. ) of Ala

(n.) A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

(n.) A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.

(n.) A wolfhound.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having, wings.

(a.) Axillary; in the fork or axil.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

(conj.) Alt. of Albee

(n.) An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.

(n.) The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain.

(n. & v.) See Pine.

(n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.

(n.) A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

() Combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically (Chem.), used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc.

(n.) Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid.

(adv.) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.

(n.) Halloo.

(n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope.

() A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much.

() Originally, denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed in the respective compounds exercised its highest valence; now, only that the element has a higher valence than in other similar compounds; thus, barium peroxide is the highest oxide of barium; while nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not the highest oxides of those elements.

(n.) A child's word for father.

(n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church.

(n.) See Poon.

(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.

(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.

(n.) See 2d Pawn.

(n.) A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)

(n.) The chief hare.

(n.) A simpleton.

(n.) An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.

(n.) A local name of the burbot.

(v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

(v. t.) To throw.

(n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

(n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

(v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

(v. t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

(v. i.) To prepare food for the table.

(superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

(superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.

(superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

(superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

(superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.

(superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

(n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

(v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

(v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.

(v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.

(v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.

(n.) Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.

(n.) A raccoon. See Raccoon.

(n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.

(n.) An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

(n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

(v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

(v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

(n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.

(n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.

(n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.

(n.) A covering for the head.

(n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

(n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.

(n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

(n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.

(v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

(v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

(v. i.) To exchange or barter.

(v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

(v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.

(v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.

(v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.

(v. t.) To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

(n.) An abundance or plenty of anything.

(n.) An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.

(n.) An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.

(n.) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.

(n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.

(n.) A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.

(n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.

(n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off.

(n.) To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.

(v. i.) To make a copy or copies; to imitate.

(v. i.) To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.

() A prefix signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.

(n.) The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

(n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.

(n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

(n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

(n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.

(n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.

(n.) See Chord.

(v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

(v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

(v. t.) To champ; to bite.

(n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.

(v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college.

(n.) Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.

(imp. & p. p.) of Core

(n.) A basket.

(n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.

(n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

(n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

(n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

(n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

(v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

(v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

(n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

(n.) Same as Cormus, 2.

(n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

(n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

(n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

(n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.

(n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.

(v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

(v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.

(v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.

(v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.

(n.) See Sill., n. a foundation.

(n.) A kind of molding. See Cyma.

(n.) See Scion.

(n.) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.

() A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.

(n.) A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) See Cyst.

(v. t.) To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

(v. t.) To urge; to enjoin.

(v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.

(v. t.) To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.

(v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.

(v. t.) To notify of a proceeding in court.

(n.) A large town.

(n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.

(n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a city.

(n.) Same as Chive.

(p. p.) of See

(pl. ) of Seed

(n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.

(n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.

(n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.

(n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

(n.) The principle of production.

(n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

(n.) Race; generation; birth.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

(v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

(a.) Sick.

(v. t.) To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

(v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.

(v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.

(v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

(v. i.) To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.

(v. t.) To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head.

(v. t.) Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind.

(v. i.) To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.

(n.) Alt. of Seeling

(n.) Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel".

(n.) Time; season; as, hay seel.

(a.) To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.

(v. t.) To befit; to beseem.

() p. p. of See.

(a.) Versed; skilled; accomplished.

(v. i.) Alt. of Sipe

(v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.

(a.) Sore; painful.

(n.) One who sees.

(n.) A person who foresees events; a prophet.

(n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.

(n.) A thing (only in phrase below).

(n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.

(n.) A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.

(n.) A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.

(n.) See Cottise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cost

(v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

(v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

(v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

(v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

(v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.

(n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.

(n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

(pl. ) of Notum

(n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

(n.) A very small chevrotain (Tragulus Javanicus), native of Java. It is about the size of a hare, and is noted for its agility in leaping. Called also Java musk deer, pygmy musk deer, and deerlet.

(n.) An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.

(n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.

(n.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

(superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.

(superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.

(superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.

(superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.

(superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

(superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.

(superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.

(superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.

(superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.

(superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.

(superl.) Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.

(superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.

(superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.

(superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.

(superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.

(superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.

(adv.) Freely; willingly.

(adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.

(a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.

(a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.

(a.) To frank.

(interj.) An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

(a.) Equal; impartial.

(a.) Alt. of Egre

(a.) Sharp; bitter; acid; sour.

(n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.

(a.) A stranger.

(a. & n.) See Eager, and Eagre.

(interj.) An exclamation expressing delight.

(n.) Age.

(n.) Air.

(n.) See 1st Frith.

(v. t.) To devour.

(v. t.) To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.

(v. t.) To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

(v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.

(v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.

(v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.

(v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

(v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.

(v. i.) To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

(n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

(n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.

(n.) Herpes; tetter.

(n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

(n.) Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.

(imp. & p. p.) of Eke

(v. t.) To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.

(n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.

(n.) An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art.

(n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.

(n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

(n.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.

(v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

(b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

(a.) Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous.

(v. t.) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.

(v. t.) The material for glaze of pottery.

(v. t.) To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.

(v. t.) To fritter; -- with away.

(v. t.) To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.

(v. t.) To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

(v. t.) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.

(n.) That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.

(n.) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.

(n.) An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.

(n.) An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.

(n.) The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette.

(n.) A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.

(n.) An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

(n.) The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.

(v. t.) To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4.

(prep.) Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.

(prep., adv. & a.) Through.

() imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

(v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

(v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.

(v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.

(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.

(v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.

(v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.

(v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

(v. t.) To cover with varnish.

(n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.

(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.

(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.

(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

(n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.

(n.) An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage

(n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

(n.) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.

(n.) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.

(n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

(n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

(n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.

(n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

(n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.

(n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

(n.) The matter thus discharged.

(n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

(n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

(v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

(v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.

(v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

(imp.) of Fly

(n.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.

(v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

(v. t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.

(v. t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered

(v. t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

(v. t.) A gambling house.

(v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.

(v. t.) To overwhelm.

(v. t.) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

(v. i.) To mind; to consider.

(n.) Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.

(n.) Careful consideration; obedient regard.

(n.) A look or expression of heading.

(v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

(n.) The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.

(v.t.) To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.

(v.i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.

(n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.

(n.) To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.

(n.) To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.

(v.t.) To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.

(pl. ) of Focus

(n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.

(n.) The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.

(n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

(n.) The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests

(n.) The after end of a ship's keel.

(n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.

(n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.

(n.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.

(n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.

(n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.

(n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.

(n.) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.

(v. t.) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.

(v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.

(v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.

(n.) The hip of the dog-rose.

(n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.

(n.) Hair.

(n.) Same as Haft, n.

(n.) The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion.

(n.) Weight; ponderousness.

(n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled.

() of Heft

(v. t.) To heave up; to raise aloft.

(v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising.

(n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.

(n.) A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old.

(v. t.) To tread under foot; to trample.

(v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

(v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.

(v. t.) To defile; to soil.

(n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

(n.) A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.

(n.) The track or trail of an animal.

(n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.

(n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.

(p. p. & a.) Dreaded.

(n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.

(n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.

(v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.

() imp. & p. p. of Hold.

(n.) Health; welfare.

(v. t.) To hide; to cover; to roof.

(n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

(n.) A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

(n.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.

(n.) The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.

(n.) A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.

(v. i.) To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.

(v. t.) To prick; to st?ng.

(n.) A pass in fencing; a lunge.

(v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

(v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.

(v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.

(v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

(v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.

(v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.

(v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.

(v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.

(n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.

(n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.

(n.) A boundary; a limit.

(v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.

(v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.

(v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

(v. t.) To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.

(v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.

(v. t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.

(v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

(v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

(v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

(v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.

(v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.

(v. t.) To remove the contents of

(v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

(v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.

(v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.

(v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

(v. t.) To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.

(v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.

(v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

(v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.

(v. t.) To withdraw.

(v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.

(v. i.) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

(v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

(v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

(v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.

(v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

(v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

(v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.

(v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.

(v. i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

(n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks

(v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.

(v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.

(v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

(n.) The act of drawing; draught.

(n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.

(n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.

(n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.

() imp. of Find. Found.

(superl.) Foolish; silly; simple; weak.

(superl.) Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.

(superl.) Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.

(superl.) Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).

(superl.) Doted on; regarded with affection.

(superl.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.

(v. t.) To caress; to fondle.

(v. i.) To be fond; to dote.

(n.) pl. of Foe.

(n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

(n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.

(n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

(n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

(n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

(v. t.) To supply with food.

(n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

(n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

(n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

(n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

(n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

(v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

(v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish.

(v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.

(pl. ) of Foot

(n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.

(n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.

(n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.

(n.) The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.

(n.) Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.

(n.) See Haulm, straw.

(n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.

(n.) The place or office of direction or administration.

(n.) One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.

(n.) A helve.

(v. t.) To steer; to guide; to direct.

(n.) A helmet.

(n.) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.

(v. t.) To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.

(imp.) of Help

(v. t.) To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."

(v. t.) To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.

(v. t.) To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.

(v. t.) To change for the better; to remedy.

(v. t.) To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?

(v. t.) To forbear; to avoid.

(v. t.) To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.

(v. i.) To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.

(v. t.) Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.

(v. t.) Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

(v. t.) A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

(v. t.) Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.

(v. t.) To butt; to push with the horns.

() Know not; knows not.

(n.) Nut.

(n.) Need; needful business.

(n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.

(n.) A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.

(n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.

(n.) A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

(n.) Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.

(n.) The back part of the neck.

(n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

(n.) The human skin.

(n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.

(n.) A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

(n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

(n.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

(v. t.) To attend (one) as a page.

(n.) One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

(n.) Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

(n.) The type set up for printing a page.

(v. t.) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

(n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.

(n.) See Pains, labor, effort.

(n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

(n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.

(n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

(v. i.) To come in sight; to appear.

(v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.

(n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

(n.) A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

(n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

(v. t.) To make equal in rank.

(v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal.

(n.) Alt. of Pacos

(v.) An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.

(n.) A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.

(n.) A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

(n.) A boy child.

(n.) A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

(imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

(imp., p. p., & a.) Satisfied; contented.

(n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.

(n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

(n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

(n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

(n.) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.

(n.) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

(n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

(n.) Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.

(n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

(n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.

(n.) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.

(n.) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).

(n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.

(n.) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

(v. i.) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

(v. i.) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

(v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.

(v. i.) To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.

(v. i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

(n.) Pace

(n.) The Easter festival.

(n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

(n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.

(n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.

(n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

(v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

(v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.

(v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.

(v. i.) To pass away; to die.

(v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

(v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.

(v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

(v. t.) To descry.

(v.) A flock of wild fowl.

(n.) A cry or shout.

(v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.

(v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.

(v. t.) To pass over quickly.

(n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

(n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.

(n.) A slight, sudden shower.

(n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.

(n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.

(v. i.) To hide.

(n.) A place of shelter; the declivity of a hill.

(v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

(v. t.) To strike; to beat.

(v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

(v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.

(n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

(n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.

(n.) A blow; a rap.

(n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.

(n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

(n.) A buyer; a chapman.

(n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

(v. i.) To bargain; to buy.

(n.) See Burg.

(v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.

(v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.

(v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.

(v. t.) To sweep or range over the surface of.

(v. i.) To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.

(v. t.) To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

(n.) A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

(n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.

(n.) A swing.

(n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.

(v. i.) To move hastily; to scour.

(n.) Alt. of Charr

(n.) A car; a chariot.

(n.) Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.

(v. t.) Alt. of Chare

(v. i.) Alt. of Chare

(n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

(n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.

(n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.

(n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.

(n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

(n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.

(n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.

(n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

(n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.

(v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

(n.) See Birt.

(n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's

(n.) A manor house; a castle.

(v. t.) To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.

(v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.

(v. t.) To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.

(n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

(n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

(n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

(n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

(n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

(v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

(v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

(v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

(n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

(n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

(v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

(n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.

(v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

(v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

(n.) The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.

(n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.

(v. t.) To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.

(n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.

(n.) A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

(n.) The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.

(a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.

(a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active.

(a.) Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.

(a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.

(a.) Careful; anxious.

(v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.

(n.) Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment.

(v. t.) Alt. of But

(v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

(v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]

(v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.

(n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

(n.) The common English flounder.

(n.) A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.

(n.) Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.

(n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.

(n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.

(n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.

(n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.

(n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.

(n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.

(v. t.) To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.

(v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.

(v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.

(v. t.) Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.

(v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.

(v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.

(v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.

(v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal.

(n.) Grease; tallow; lard.

(n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

(n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.

(n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.

(n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

(v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.

(v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.

(v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.

(v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.

(n.) A denomination of weight or measure.

(n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain.

(n.) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.

(n.) A seine. See Seine.

(a.) Alt. of Sere

(a.) [OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.

(a.) To wither; to dry up.

(a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.

(n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

(v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.

(v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.

(v. t.) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.

(v. t.) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.

(v. t.) To sound with a "buzz".

(n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.

(n.) A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.

(n.) The audible friction of voice consonants.

(v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.

(v. t.) To talk of.

(n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

(n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.

(n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

(n.) Small stones with ore.

(n.) See Coke, n.

(n.) A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers.

(n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.

(v. t.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces.

(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

(n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

(v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.

(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

(v. t.) To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

(v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.

(v. t.) As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.

(v. t.) The jaw.

(v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

(v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.

(n.) An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

(n.) A petticoat.

(n.) The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.

(n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.

(n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.

(n.) Same as Coat of arms. See below.

(n.) A coat card. See below.

(v. t.) To cover with a coat or outer garment.

(v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

(v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

(n.) A simpleton; a dupe.

(n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

(pl. ) of Constitutionality

(n.) A chief of head person.

(n.) The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

(n.) Same as Chief.

(n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

(n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.

(n.) A chief man; a leader or master.

(n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.

(n.) A faucet or valve.

(n.) The style of gnomon of a dial.

(n.) The indicator of a balance.

(n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

(v. t.) To set erect; to turn up.

(v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.

(v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.

(v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.

(v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.

(n.) The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.

(n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow.

(n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.

(v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.

(v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.

(n.) A small concial pile of hay.

(v. t.) To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.

(n.) A small boat.

(n.) A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.

() pret. of Chese.

() Alt. of Coco palm

(n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

(v. t.) To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

(v. t.) To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.

(v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.

(n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.

(n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

(n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.

(n.) Good form; style.

(n.) A cap.

(n.) A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape.

(n.) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.

(v. t.) To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.

(v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

(v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.

(v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.

(n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.

(n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

(n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.

(n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.

(n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

(n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.

(n.) That which serves for payment or recompense.

(v. t.) To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

(v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

(v. t.) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

(v. i.) To manufacture counterfeit money.

(n.) A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.

(n.) Cordage or cables, made of this material.

(n.) A quoit.

(v. t.) To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.

(n.) Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required.

(v. t.) To convert into coke.

() A prefix signifying with, together. See Com-.

(n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

(n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

(n.) Not pungent or acrid.

(n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

(n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.

(n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

(n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

(n.) Not sensitive; not acute.

(n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

(n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.

(n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.

(n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

(n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

(v. i.) To become cold.

(n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

(v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

(v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

(v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.

(v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.

(n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

(n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

(n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

(n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

(n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.

(n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

(n.) The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

(n.) A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

(n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart.

(n.) A small tool used in cleaving laths.

(v. i.) To shoot out; to sprout.

(3d sing.) Chideth.

(n.) See Naiad.

(n.) A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle.

(v. t.) To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.

(v. t.) To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.

(v. t.) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer.

(v. i.) To smell; to sniff; to scent.

(v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.

(n.) The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

(n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts.

(n.) Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction.

(n.) Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

(n.) A person, an individual.

(n.) A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.

(n.) The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.

(n.) A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing.

(interj.) Hear; attend; -- a term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three times.

(n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.

(n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

(n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.

(n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.

(n.) A slow gait; a footpace.

(n.) Same as Jupon.

(n.) 1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.

(n.) The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.

() A prefix, also used adjectively

() A compound containing oxygen.

() A compound containing the hydroxyl group, more properly designated by hydroxy-. See Hydroxy-.

(v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

(n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

(n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

(v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.

(v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

(v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.

(n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

(n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

(n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.

(v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

(v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.

(v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

(v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.

(n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

(n.) First outlook or appearance.

(n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.

(n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).

(n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

(a.) Broadly elliptical.

(n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

(n.) Alt. of Owser

(pl. ) of Ox

(a.) Own.

(n.) The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.

(n.) Same as Checkmate.

(a.) See 2d Mat.

(v. t.) To confuse; to confound.

(v. t.) To checkmate.

(n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.

(n.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.

(n.) One of the northern constellations.

(n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.

(n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

(n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

(n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

(n.) Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.

(n.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.

(n.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.

(v. t.) To match; to marry.

(v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.

(v. i.) To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.

(n.) A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.

(v. i.) To cry, as a young child; to squall.

(n. sing. & pl.) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.

(p. p.) Made.

(a.) Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.

(n.) See Matte.

(n.) The orang-outang.

(n.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.

(n.) pl of Mouse.

(v. i.) Alt. of Miche

(n.) A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

(n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.

(n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.

(n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

(n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

(n.) An untidy woman; a slattern.

(n.) A servant girl; a drudge.

(n.) A female dog; a bitch.

(a.) Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.

(v. t.) To put out.

(n.) A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous.

(n.) A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

(v. i.) To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

(v. t.) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.

(v. t.) To dine upon; to have to eat.

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(v. t.) To dash; to throw violently.

(v. t.) To cause to sound or ring.

(v. i.) To strike; to thump; to pound.

(v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.

(v. i.) To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.

(n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

(a.) Trim; neat.

(v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.

(n.) Same as Dowle.

(n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

(n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.

(n.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.

(n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.

(n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down

(v. t.) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

(prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

(prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.

(prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.

(prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.

(adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.

(n.) A blow; a stroke.

(n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

(n.) Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.

(v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.

(adv.) From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.

(adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.

(adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.

(adv.) From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.

(adv.) In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.

(adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.

(v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.

(v. i.) To go down; to descend.

(a.) Downcast; as, a down look.

(a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.

(a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

(n.) The pintail duck.

(n.) The widgeon.

(n.) The poachard.

(n.) The smew.

(n.) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.

(n.) The hooded merganser.

(n.) A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.

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() imp. & p. p. of Smite.

() 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite.

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(v. i.) To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.

(v. t.) To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.

(v. t.) To make dull; to stupefy.

(n.) A light sleep; a drowse.

(a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.

(n.) A low, sluttish woman.

(n.) A lewd wench; a strumpet.

(n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

(v. i.) To associate with strumpets; to wench.

(n.) A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

(n.) A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

(a.) Of a color between gray and brown.

(n.) A drab color.

(n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.

(v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.

(v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.

(v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

(v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.

(v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

(v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

(v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.

(v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

(v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

(v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

(v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

(v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

(v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

(v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

(v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

(v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

(v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

(v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

(v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.

(n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

(n.) A minute quantity; a mite.

(n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.

(n.) A Persian daric.

(v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams.

(imp.) of Draw

(n.) A squirrel's nest.

(n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.

(n.) A kind of sledge or sled.

(superl.) Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

(superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

(a.) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

(v. t.) To make smug, or spruce.

(v. t.) Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

(v. t.) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

(v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.

(v. t.) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

(v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

(v. t.) To taint with mildew, as grain.

(v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

(v. t.) To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

(v. i.) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

(v. i.) To give off smut; to crock.

(v. t.) To endure; to suffer.

(v. i.) To be able to do or endure.

(a.) Wearisome; tedious.

(n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society.

(imp.) of Draw.

(n.) A squirrel's nest. See Dray.

(v. t.) To do by little and little

(v. t.) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.

(v. t.) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.

(v. t.) To lead along step by step; to entice.

(n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

(n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.

(n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

(n.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.

(v. t.) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

(v. t.) To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.

(n.) Snow.

(v. t.) To reprimand; to sneap.

(v. t.) To lop; to snathe.

(n.) Alt. of Sneed

(n.) The fat of a deer.

(v. t.) The clear of mucus; to blow.

(v. i.) To snow; to abound.

(v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.

(n.) A reprimand; a snub.

(n.) A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.

(v. t.) To stab with a dirk.

(a.) Dark.

(v. t.) To darken.

(v. i. & t.) To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.

(n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.

(n.) Meanness; sordidness.

(n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

(v. t.) To make foul of filthy; to dirty.

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() A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever.

() A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-.

(v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

(n.) A drop.

(v. t.) To endure.

(v. t.) To chop off; to cut.

(v. i.) To sneak.

(n.) Alt. of Snigg

(v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

(n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.

(n.) A small shred; a bit cut off.

(n.) A share; a snack.

(n.) A tailor.

(n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

(n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.

(n.) A townsman.

(n.) A journeyman shoemaker.

(n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.

(n.) A fillet; a headband; a snood.

(a.) Trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure.

(n.) Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.

(n.) A mean, insignificant fellow.

(v. t.) To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.

(n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

(n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

(n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.

(v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

(v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

(v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.

(v. t.) To let fall in drops.

(n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.

(n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.

(imp.) of Draw.

(v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.

(n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.

(n.) Land; country.

(n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.

(v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

(n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.

(n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.

(n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

(v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.

(n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

(n.) An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine Soja) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.

(n.) See Soc.

(n.) One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.

(n.) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.

(a.) See Solus.

(n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.

() imp. & p. p. of Sell.

(n.) Solary; military pay.

(n.) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.

(n.) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.

(n.) The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.

(n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.

(n.) The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

(n.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.

(n.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.

(n.) The bottom of an embrasure.

(n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.

(n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

(v. t.) To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.

(a.) Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.

(a.) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

(n.) pl. of Solo.

(n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

(n.) The polestar; the north star.

(n.) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.

(n.) That which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor.

(n.) Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.

(n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.

(n.) A person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.

(v. t.) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems.

(v. i.) To be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.

(pl. ) of Solo

(a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

(fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

(n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

(a.) Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.

(a.) A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man.

(a.) Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.

(a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence.

(a.) Considerable in number or quality.

(a.) Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.

(a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.

(v. t.) Alt. of Sonde

(n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

(n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.

(n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.

(n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.

(n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.

(n.) A trifle.

(adv.) In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise.

(adv.) Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.

(adv.) Promptly; quickly; easily.

(adv.) Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will.

(a.) Speedy; quick.

(n.) See Soap.

(n.) A contraction of Soph ister.

(n.) A contraction of Sophomore.

(n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.

(n.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.

(n.) The fruit of these trees.

(n.) See Sward.

(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.

(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.

(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.

(n.) See Agate, n., 2.

(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.

(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.

(v. t.) To make red; to redden.

(n.) A roc.

(v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.

(v. t.) To advise or counsel.

(v. t.) To interpret; to explain.

(n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion.

(n.) A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.

(n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.

(n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

(v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

(v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

(v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

(v. t.) To run a race with.

(n.) Alt. of Rache

(n.) Same as Arrack.

(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

(n.) A wreck; destruction.

(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.

(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.

(n.) A fast amble.

(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.

(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.

(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.

(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.

(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.

(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

(a.) A distaff.

(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.

(v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

() A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

(n.) A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.

(superl.) Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.

(superl.) Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.

(v. t.) To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.

(n.) A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.

(n.) The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.

(n.) A low fellow; a churl.

() imp. & p. p. of Reave.

(n.) A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.

(n.) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.

(n.) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.

(v. t.) To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.

(n.) Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

(n.) Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.

(n.) A violent or raging wind.

(n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

(n.) To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

(n.) To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.

(n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

(n.) To toy or act wantonly; to sport.

(v. t.) To enrage.

(n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

(n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

(n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.

(interj.) An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh?

(n.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

(v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

(n.) An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

(v. i.) To flow forth; to roll out; to course.

(n.) A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.

(n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.

(n.) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.

(n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.

(n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.

(v. t.) To inclose with rails or a railing.

(v. t.) To range in a line.

(v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.

(v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.

(v. t.) To rail at.

(v. t.) To move or influence by railing.

(n. & v.) Reign.

(n.) Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.

(n.) To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.

(n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.

(v. t.) To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.

(v. t.) To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.

(n.) Same as 2d Reis.

(n.) Same as Rajah.

(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.

(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

(v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

(v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.

(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.

(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.

(n. & v.) See Big, n. & v.

(n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.

(n.) The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

(v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

(v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

(v. t.) To pass by the banks of.

(n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

(n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

(n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.

(n.) A sort of table used by printers.

(n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

(n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.

(n.) A boil.

(n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

(n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

(n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.

(n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

(n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

(n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

(v. t.) To deposit in a bank.

(v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

(v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.

(n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

(n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.

(n.) Nonsense; vain words.

(n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.

(n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

(v. i.) To strike; to peck.

(v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

(n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern

(n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

(n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.

(n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.

(n.) A pickax, or mattock.

(n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

(v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

(n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

(n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.

(n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

(n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.

(n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

(n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.

(v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

(v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

(n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.

(n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.

(n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.

(n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.

(n.) A bit for a horse.

(n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.

(n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

(n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

(v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of.

(v. t.) To clip; to mow.

(v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.

(n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.

(n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

(n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.

(v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

(v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.

(v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

(v. t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.

(v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.

(v. t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

(v. t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.

(v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.

(v. t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

(v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.

(v. i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature.

(v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.

(v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

(v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

(n.) That which binds or ties.

(n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

(n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.

(n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

(n.) An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

(n.) An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.

(n.) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.

(n.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

(n.) Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.

(v. t.) To reduce to atoms.

(n.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

(n.) A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.

(n.) A bench.

(n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

(n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

(n.) Alt. of Barde

(v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

(a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

(a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.

(a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

(a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.

(a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.

(a.) Threadbare; much worn.

(a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.

(n.) Surface; body; substance.

(n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

(a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

() Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

(adv.) On or at the top.

(p. pr.) The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

(n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

(n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.

(v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.

(v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

(v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

(v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

(v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

(n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

(n.) Alt. of Barque

(n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.

(n.) The lap or bosom.

() At the.

(n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.

(n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden.

(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.

(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.

(n.) A birch tree.

(n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

(n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

(v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

(n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

(v. t. & i.) To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.

(v. t. & i.) To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.

(v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

(n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.

(n.) A rush or impetus; force.

(n.) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

(pref.) A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.

(n.) A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.

(n.) See Bice.

(n.) Same as Bikh.

(n.) Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.

(n.) See Bisque.

(v. t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.

(v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

(v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

(v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.

(a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

(a.) Low in place or position.

(a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.

(a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

(a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.

(a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.

(a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.

(a.) Not classical or correct.

(a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.

(a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.

(n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.

(n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

(n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.

(n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.

(n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.

(n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

(n.) An alb.

(v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

(v. i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?

(v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

(v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

(v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

(v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

(v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.

(v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

(v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

(v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.

(v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

(v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

(v.) A sharper; one who cheats.

(v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

(n.) See Bitts.

(v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.

(n.) The chief ingredient in a compound.

(n.) A substance used as a mordant.

(n.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

(n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.

(n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.

(n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.

(n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.

(n.) The smallest kind of cannon.

(n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.

(n.) The basal plane of a crystal.

(n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.

(n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

(n.) The housing of a horse.

(n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

(n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

(n.) An apron.

(n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.

(n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

(n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.

(n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.

(n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.

(a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.

(a.) To reduce the value of; to debase.

(v. t. & i.) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

(v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

(v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.

(n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.

(a.) Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh.

(n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.

(n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

(v. t.) To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.

(v. t.) To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

(pl. ) of Bass

(n.) An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

(n.) The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

(n.) Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.

(n.) The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish.

(n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.

(n.) A hassock or thick mat.

(n.) An old woman; and old gossip.

(n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.

(n.) Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.

(n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics.

(a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone.

(a.) The lowest part in a musical composition.

(a.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.

(a.) Deep or grave in tone.

(v. t.) To sound in a deep tone.

(n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

(n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

(v. t.) To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.

(v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.

(v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

(n.) Act of abetting; aid.

(n.) The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.

(a.) Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.

(n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.

(n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

(n.) Strife; contention.

(v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.

(v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

(v. t.) To leave out; to except.

(v. t.) To remove.

(v. t.) To deprive of.

(v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.

(v. i.) To waste away.

(v. t.) To attack; to bait.

() imp. of Bite.

(v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait.

(n.) See 2d Bath.

(n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.

(v. t.) To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

(n.) A short informal letter; a billet.

(n.) A diplomatic missive or written communication.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta.

(a.) Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.

(a.) Naive; as, a naif remark.

(n.) A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.

(n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

(n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

(n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.

(n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.

(a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.

(n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.

(n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.

(n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.

(n.) To spike, as a cannon.

(n.) A burden; an obligation.

(n.) Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground.

(n.) Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

(n.) Soft flow; spring.

(n.) The liquor of a tan vat.

(n.) To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.

(pl. ) of No

(n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.

(n.) Alt. of Alfa grass

(n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.

(n.) An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.

(v. i.) See Quob, v. i.

() of Alight

(a.) Alt. of Quade

(n.) A quadrat.

(n.) A quadrangle; hence, a prison.

(n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.

(n.) The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.

(n.) A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.

(n.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

(n.) Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.

(n.) A quagmire.

(n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.

(n.) Same as Arrack.

(n.) A quarry.

(v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.

(v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

(v.) A relative; a kinsman.

(v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.

(v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.

(v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.

(n.) See Alley, a marble or taw.

(n.) Alt. of Almah

(n.) Alt. of Almeh

(n. sing. & pl.) Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.

(n.) The wood of the agalloch.

(n.) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

(n.) A pustule.

(n.) An annoying, worthless person.

(v. t.) To satiate; to satisfy.

(n.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative.

(adv.) Below; in a lower part.

(n.) A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.

(v. t.) To furnish with quays.

(n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

(n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.

(n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

(n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.

(adv. & conj.) In like manner; likewise.

(adv. & conj.) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.

(adv. & conj.) Even as; as; so.

(n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

(n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.

(n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.

(n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay.

(n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

(n.) The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

(v. t.) To reckon; to ascribe; to impute.

(adv.) In a row.

(adv.) In bed, or on the bed.

(adv.) To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child).

(n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

(n.) An alto singer.

(n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

(v. t.) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

(n.) The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

(n.) A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

(n.) A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.

(n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune.

(a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.

(n.) Emir.

(n.) One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.

(v. t.) Enamel.

(v. t.) To enamel.

(interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily.

(v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully.

(n.) Alt. of Arillus

(n.) The common guillemot.

(n.) A heifer.

(n.) A quip; a gibe.

(n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

(a.) Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid.

(n.) Same as Ameer.

(v. t.) To lose.

(n.) An abbes or spiritual mother.

(n.) A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

(v. t.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.

(n.) A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.

(n.) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.

(v. t.) To taunt; to treat with quips.

(v. i.) To scoff; to use taunts.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

(v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quit

(a.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

(a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.

(a.) To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.

(a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.

(a.) To carry through; to go through to the end.

(a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.

(v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

(n.) A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.

(n.) One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.

(n.) An odd or absurd fellow.

(n.) An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.

(v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

(v. t.) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

(v. t.) To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.

(v. i.) To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.

(n.) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison.

(v.) Quoth; said. See Quoth.

(n.) Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

(n.) The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.

(n.) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.

(n.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.

(n.) The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.

(n.) A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

(n.) A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army.

(n.) A great number; a vast multitude; a host.

(n.) Alt. of Arnee

(v. i.) See Quob.

(v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.

(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.

(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.

(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.

(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.

(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

(n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

(v. t.) To raze.

(n.) A root.

(n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.

(n.) Company; herd; breed.

(n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.

(n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.

(n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.

(n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.

(n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.

(n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.

(n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

(n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.

(n.) A nostril.

(v. i.) To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.

(v. t.) To utter inconsiderately.

(a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.

(n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

(n.) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.

(n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.

() imp. & p. p. of Bleed.

(n.) Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bleed

(n.) A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.

() imp. of Blow.

(n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk

(n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.

(v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.

(v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

(v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.

(v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.

(n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

(v. t. & i.) To stop; to cease; to desist.

(n.) Cessation; end.

(n.) The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

(n.) Alt. of Bayze

(p. p.) of Be

(n.) A prayer.

(n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

(n.) Any small globular body

(n.) A bubble in spirits.

(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.

(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

(n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.

(n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.

(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

(n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.

(n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.

(n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.

(n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

(n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

(n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.

(n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

(n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

(n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

(n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

(n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).

(n.) A magistrate or policeman.

(v. i.) To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.

(n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

(n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.

(n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.

(n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.

(n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.

(n.) The pole of a carriage.

(n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

(n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.

(n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

(n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

(n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.

(n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.

(n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.

(v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.

(v. i.) To emit beams of light.

(n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

(n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.

(imp.) of Bear

() of Bear

(p. p.) of Bear

(v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.

(v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.

(v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.

() 3d sing. pres. of Abide.

(v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.

(v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

(v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

(v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor

(v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.

(v. t.) To gain or win.

(v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.

(v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.

(v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.

(v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.

(v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.

(v. t.) To behave; to conduct.

(v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.

(v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.

(v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.

(v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.

(v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.

(v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.

(v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.

(v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?

(v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.

(v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.

(n.) A bier.

(n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.

(n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.

(n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

(n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.

(n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

(n.) A portable punching machine.

(n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.

(v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.

(n.) Alt. of Bere

(n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).

(n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.

(a.) Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

(adv.) Emulously.

(n.) Advice; opinion; deliberation.

(v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

(v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.

(n.) Avowal.

(n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow.

(n.) A vow or determination.

(v. t.) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

(v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

(v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.

(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

(v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

(v. i.) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

(n.) A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.

(n.) An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.

(n.) A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

(n.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.

(n.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

(n.) A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

(imp.) of Beat

(p. p.) of Beat

(v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

(v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.

(v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

(imp.) of Blow

(imp.) of Blow

(v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

(superl.) Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

(superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

(superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

(superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.

(superl.) Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

(superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

(n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

(n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

(pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.

(v. t.) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

(adv.) From a place; hence.

(adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

(adv.) Aside; off; in another direction.

(adv.) From a state or condition of being; out of existence.

(adv.) By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.

(adv.) On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.

(imp. & p. p.) of Awe

(v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

(v. t.) To tread, as a path.

(v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.

(v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.

(v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

(v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

(v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

(v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

(v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.

(v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.

(v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

(v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

(v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

(v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.

(n.) A stroke; a blow.

(n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

(n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

(n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

(n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.

(v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.

(v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

(a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

(n.) A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

(n.) A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover.

(a.) Having awns; bearded.

(adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.

(adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.

(a.) [See Axial.]

(n.) See Beak.

(n.) A small brook.

(n.) A vat. See Back.

(v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.

(v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

(n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

(n.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

(n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

(pl. ) of Axis

(n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

(n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.

(n.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.

(n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.

(n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

(n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.

(n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.

(n.) The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

(n.) A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

(n.) An axis; as, the sun's axle.

(n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid.

(adv. & prep.) Alt. of Ayeins

(n.) The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me !" [Obs.] See Ay, interj.

() A combining form of azote

() Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.

() Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.

(pl. ) of Baa

(n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.

(n.) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.

(n.) A kind of plum cake.

(n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

(n.) A doll for children.

(n.) A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire.

(n.) An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

(v. t.) To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.

(n.) A kind of pickax.

(v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.

(v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

(v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

(n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

(n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

(n.) A moral stain or blot.

(n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

(n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.

(n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.

() The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.

(n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

(n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

(pl. ) of Boa

(n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

(n.) A small image of an infant; a doll.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.

(v. i.) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.

(n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

(n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

(v. t.) To mend; to repair.

(v. t.) To renew or enkindle (a fire).

(n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

(n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

(n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

(v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

(v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

(v. i.) To go or row in a boat.

(n.) See Bigha.

(n.) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.

(n.) The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.

(n.) The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.

(n.) A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.

(v. t.) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To foreshow something; to augur.

(n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.

(n.) A bid; an offer.

(v. t.) A messenger; a herald.

(n.) A stop; a halting; delay.

(imp. & p. p.) Abode.

(p. p.) Bid or bidden.

(v. t.) To vomit.

(n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

(n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

(n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.

(n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

(n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

(v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

(v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

(v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

(v. t.) To utter by bellowing.

(v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

(n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

(n.) The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.

(n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

(n.) A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.

(n.) A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.

(n.) A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

(n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.

(n.) Amount; quantity; extent.

(n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

(n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

(n.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

(n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

() A form of the pat tense of Bid.

(n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

(n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

(n.) A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.

(superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.

(superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

(superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.

(superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

(a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.

(a.) To vouch for.

(n.) A blow; a stroke.

(n.) Same as Bafta.

(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.

(n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

(v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

(v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

(v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

(v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

(v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

(v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

(v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.

(v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.

(n.) Act or state of boiling.

(n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

(n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

(v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.

(v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.

(v./t.) To deliver; to release.

(v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.

(v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.

(n.) Custody; keeping.

(n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.

(n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.

(n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.

(n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.

(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.

(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

(n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.

(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.

(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

(n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.

(n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.

(n.) Erroneously: A pulpit.

(v. t. & i.) To poke; to thrust.

(n.) Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

(n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.

(n.) In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.

(n.) Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.

(n.) Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.

(n.) Steep; abrupt; prominent.

(v. t.) To make bold or daring.

(v. i.) To be or become bold.

(n.) The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.

(n.) An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.

(n.) A measure. See Boll, n., 2.

(n.) Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.

(n.) A bolus; a dose.

(n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

(n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

(n.) A certain limit within a forest.

(n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.

(n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

(n.) A bath; a bagnio.

(v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

(v. i.) Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

(v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

() of Bend

(v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

(v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.

(v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

(v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.

(v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

(v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

(v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.

(v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.

(v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

(n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.

(n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

(n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.

(n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

(n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.

(n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

(n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.

(v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

(v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.

(v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

(v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.

(v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

(v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.

(v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

(v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

(v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

(v. t.) To harden by cold.

(v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.

(v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

(n.) The process, or result, of baking.

(n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

(n.) A band.

(n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.

(n.) See Benne.

(n.) A prayer; boon.

(n.) Alt. of Ben

(n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.

(n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.

(n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.

(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

(n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

(n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

(n.) A bundle, as of oziers.

(v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

(v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

(v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.

(v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

(v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

(v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.

(v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.

(v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

(v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

(v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

(adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

(v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.

(v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

(v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

(v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

(v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.

(v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

(n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

(a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

(n.) A great noise; a hollow sound.

(n.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

(n.) A bomb ketch.

(v. t.) To bombard.

(v. i.) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

(a.) Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.

(a.) Undisguised.

(a.) Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.

(a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

(a.) Destitute of the natural covering.

(a.) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.

(n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.

(v. t.) To make up in a bale.

(v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade.

(n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.

(n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury.

() imp. & p. p. of Bend.

(a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

(a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

(v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.

(v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

(v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.

(v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

(v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.

(v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

(n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.

(n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.

(n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

(v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

(v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."

(v. i.) One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

(v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

(v. i.) A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

(v. i.) A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball.

(v. t.) To leave or make balks in.

(v. t.) To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

(v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.

(v. t.) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.

(v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation.

(v. i.) To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.

(v. i.) To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

(v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

(n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

(n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

(n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.

(n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

(n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

(n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

(n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.

(n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.

(n.) The globe or earth.

(v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.

(v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

(v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.

(n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.

(v. t.) To pierce.

(n.) See Bear, barley.

(n.) A large mass or hill, as of ice.

(n.) Alt. of Berme

(n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.

(n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.

(n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.

(n.) Moral or political duty or obligation.

(n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.

(n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

(n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

(n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

(n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.

(n.) The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs.

(n.) Any fragrant ointment.

(n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.

(v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate.

(a.) Red.

(v. & n.) Same as Rede.

(n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

(n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).

(n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.

(n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.

(n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

(n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.

(n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.

(n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.

(n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

(n.) Same as Reeding.

(n.) A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.

(n.) A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.

(v. t.) That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.

(v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

(n.) A rick.

(n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.

(v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

(n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.

(n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.

(n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.

(v. t.) To roll.

(v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.

(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

(n.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.

(v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve

(v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.

(v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

(n.) A heap; a rick.

(n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.

(n.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

(superl.) Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

(superl.) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.

(superl.) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.

(superl.) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.

(superl.) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.

(superl.) Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rue

(n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.

(n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.

(v. i. & t.) To trump.

(n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.

(n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.

(n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.

(n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.

(n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.

(n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.

(n.) A cow house.

(n.) See Byssus, n., 1.

(v. i.) To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.

(a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.

(v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

(n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish.

(n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.

(v. t.) To arrest.

(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.

(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.

(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.

(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.

(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.

(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.

(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.

(n.) A set or game at tennis.

(n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.

(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.

(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.

(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.

(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.

(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.

(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.

(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

(v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.

(v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.

(n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.

(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

(n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.

(v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.

(n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.

(n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.

(v. t.) To ruffle; to disorder.

(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

(v. t.) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.

(n.) Alt. of Ruffe

(n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

(n.) See Cadie.

(n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.

(n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.

(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.

(n.) A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors

(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.

(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.

(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.

(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.

(n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.

(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.

(n.) The roc.

(n.) A large bird, supposed by some to be the same as the extinct Epiornis of Madagascar.

(a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.

(a.) Uniform or established course of things.

(a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.

(a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.

(a.) Conduct in general; behavior.

(a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.

(a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.

(a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.

(a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.

(a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.

(a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.

(a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

(a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.

(n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.

(n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.

(n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.

(n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.

(n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.

(v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.

(v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.

(v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.

(a.) Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.

(n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

(n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

(n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.

(n.) The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.

(n.) The catcher's wire mask.

(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.

(n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

(n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

(n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

(n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.

(v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.

(v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.

(v. i.) To cackle as a goose.

(n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.

(n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.

() imp. & p. p. of Ring.

(n.) A floor timber in a ship.

(n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.

(n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

(n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

(a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.

(a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.

(a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.

(a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.

(pl. ) of Rurality

(n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.

(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

(n.) A perfect recitation.

(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

(n.) The act of running with the ball.

(n.) A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.

(n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.

(n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

(n. sing. & pl.) A Russian, or the Russians.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Russians.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Russians.

(n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.

(n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.

(n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.

(n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.

(n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.

(n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.

(v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.

(v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.

(v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

(v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

(v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.

(n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

(n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

(n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

(n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.

(n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.

(n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.

(v.) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

(v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.

(a.) Royal.

(n.) See Rial, an old English coin.

(v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

(v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

(v. t.) To reave.

(n.) An officer, steward, or governor.

(n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

(n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

(n. pl.) Same as Bushmen.

(v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.

(n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

(n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.

(v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

(v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

(v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

(v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.

(v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.

(v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.

(v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.

(v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.

(v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.

(v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.

(v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to.

(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

(v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.

(v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request.

(v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.

(n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.

(n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.

(n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

(n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.

(n.) A divine vocation or summons.

(n.) Vocation; employment.

(n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.

(n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

(n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

(n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

(n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.

(n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.

(n.) See Assessment, 4.

(n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.

(n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.

(n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.

(super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

(super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.

(n.) Quicklime.

(n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.

(n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

(n.) A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

(v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

(n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

(n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

(n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

(n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.

(n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

(n.) See 2d Sac, 2.

(n.) Bed.

(v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

(v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

(n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.

() imp. of Come.

(n.) A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

(n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

(n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.

(n.) A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

(n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

(n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.

(n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

(v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.

(v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.

(n.) To play the game called camp.

(v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin.

(n.) Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.

(n.) Fluor spar. See Kand.

(n.) A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.

(n.) A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Z. lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b).

(superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes.

(superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.

(v.t) To clothe.

() imp. & p. p. of Clothe.

(v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

(v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.

(v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.

(n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

(n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

(n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

(n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

(n.) A lance or dart made of cane.

(n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.

(v. t.) To beat with a cane.

(v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

(n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.

(n.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.

(n.) The power of smelling; hence, scent.

(n.) The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe.

(n.) A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.

(a.) No. See the Note under No.

(n.) The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.

(n.) Hence, the highest point; culmination.

(a.) Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.

(v. i.) To take rest and refreshment at noon.

(n.) Reddish brown; sorrel.

(n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

(n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

(superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

(superl.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

(superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

(superl.) Criminal; wrong; evil.

(a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.

(a.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

(a.) In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

(a.) Greatly; violently; deeply.

(v. i.) To be fixed or set; to stay.

(n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship.

(v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.

(v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

(v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.

(v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

(v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

(v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.

(v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.

(v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.

(v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.

(v. i.) To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.

(v. i.) To continue in a state.

(v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.

(v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.

(v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.

(v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.

(v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.

(n.) That which serves as a prop; a support.

(n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.

(n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.

(n.) pl. of Sorus.

(v. i.) To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board.

(n.) Chance; lot; destiny.

(n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.

(n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.

(n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.

(v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.

(v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

(n.) A vassal or serf; a slave.

(a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

(n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.

(n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

(n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

(n.) Dice.

(n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

(n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.

(n.) Alt. of Bank

(n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

(v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.

(v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

(v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

(v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

(v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

(v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.

(v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.

(v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

(v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.

(v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

(v. t.) A belt or strap.

(v. t.) A bond

(v. t.) Pledge; security.

(v. t.) To bind or tie with a band.

(v. t.) To mark with a band.

(v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.

(v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.

(v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.

() imp. of Bind.

(v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.

(v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.

(v. t.) To fertilize with bone.

(v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.

(v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.

(n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.

(n.) Destruction; death.

(n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.

(a.) Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities.

(a.) Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.

(a.) Most; largest; as, the best part of a week.

(n.) Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability.

(superl.) In the highest degree; beyond all others.

(superl.) To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety.

(superl.) Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

(v. t.) To get the better of.

(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

(a.) Having large or prominent bones.

(n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

(n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.

(n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."

(n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

(n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.

(v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

(v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

(v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

(n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

(n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.

(n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.

(n.) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

(n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.

(v. t.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.

(v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.

(v. i.) To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

(v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

(v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

(n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.

(n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.

(v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.

(n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.

(n.) A prayer or petition.

(n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.

(n.) Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.

(n.) Kind; bountiful; benign.

(n.) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

(n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

(n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

(n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

(n.) A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

(n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

(n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

(n.) Profit; gain; advantage; use.

(v. t.) To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

(v. t.) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

(n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

(n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

(n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

(n.) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

(n.) An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

(n.) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

(v. t.) To put boots on, esp. for riding.

(v. t.) To punish by kicking with a booted foot.

(v. i.) To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

(n.) Booty; spoil.

(n.) A board; a table.

(n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

(n.) See Bourd.

(v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

(v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.

(v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

(v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

(v. t.) To befool; to trick.

(v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

(v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

(v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

(v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.

(n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.

(n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

(n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

(n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

(n.) Caliber; importance.

(n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

(n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

(n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.

() imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

(v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.

(v. t.) Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.

(n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

(v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.

(v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

(v. t.) To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

(v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

(n.) A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.

(n.) The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

(v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).

(n.) The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.

(n.) Alt. of Bangue

(n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.

(n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

(n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

(n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

(n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

(n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

(v. t.) To better; to mend. See Beete.

(n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.

(n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

(n.) A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

(n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

(n.) Figure; outline; show.

(n.) Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.

(n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

(n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

(n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

(n.) A thicket; a small wood.

(n.) A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.

(n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.

(n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

(n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

(n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

(n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

(n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

(n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

(n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.

(v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

(v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

(v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

(v. i.) To play with bowls.

(v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

(v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

(n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.

(n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.

(n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

(n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

(a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

(a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

(adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

(v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

(n.) A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.

(n.) Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

(n.) A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

(n.) A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.

(n.) A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

(n.) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

(n.) A swage or die used for shaping metals.

(n.) A head or reservoir of water.

(v. t.) To ornament with bosses; to stud.

(n.) A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.

(n.) Alt. of Bise

(n.) A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.

(n.) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

(n.) Payment of any kind.

(n.) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

(a. or pron.) The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

(conj.) As well; not only; equally.

(n.) An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.

(imp.) of Bid

(v. t.) To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.

(v. t.) To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.

(n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

(n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

(v. i.) To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.

(v. t.) To boast of.

(n.) A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.

(n.) The thing which is boasted of.

(n.) A game at cards similar to bluff.

(v. i.) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

(v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.

(v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.

(n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

(n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

(n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.

(n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

(n.) The body.

(n.) Bulk; volume.

(a.) Ready; prepared; destined; tending.

(v. t.) To make or get ready.

(adv.) Proudly; boastfully.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.

(n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

(n.) The European carrion crow.

(n.) A chamber or a cottage.

(n.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.

(v. t.) To build.

(n.) A two-horse chariot.

(imp. & p. p.) Bereft.

(n.) A chink; a rift. See Rift.

(n.) A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.

(n.) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.

(n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.

(n.) The young of an animal.

(n.) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

(v. t.) To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

(v. i.) To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.

(v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.

(v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

(n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

(n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.

(v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.

(v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.

(v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up.

(n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.

(n.) A highwayman; a robber.

(n.) A romping woman; a prostitute.

(n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.

(n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.

(n.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.

(pl. ) of Ramus

(n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

(n.) A border; edge; margin.

(n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.

(n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.

(v. i.) To rant; to storm.

() imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.

(n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.

(superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

(superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.

(superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.

(superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

(superl.) Strong to the taste.

(superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.

(adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.

(n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.

(n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).

(n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

(n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.

(n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.

(n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.

(v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.

(v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.

(v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.

(v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.

(v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

(n.) A genus of shrubs and small treets. See Sumac.

(v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

(n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.

(pl. ) of Rei

(n.) Robbery; spoil.

(n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.

() of Rap

(n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

(n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

(n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.

(n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.

(n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.

(n.) That which is snatched away.

(n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.

(v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.

(v. i.) To rob; to pillage.

(n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

(n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.

(n.) A Spanish coin. See Real.

(a.) Royal.

(n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.

(n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.

(superl.) Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.

(superl.) Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.

(superl.) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.

(superl.) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.

(superl.) Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.

(superl.) Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.

(superl.) Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.

(superl.) Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.

(superl.) Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.

(v. t.) To enrich.

(n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.

(v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.

(imp.) of Ride

(v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

(v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.

(v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

(v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.

(v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.

(v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

(v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

(v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

(v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

(v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.

(n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

(n.) A saddle horse.

(n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

(a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.

(a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.

(a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.

(a.) An ecstasy; a trance.

(a.) Rapidity.

(v. t.) To transport or ravish.

(v. t.) To carry away by force.

(n.) The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

(n.) Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint.

(v. t.) To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.

(v. t.) To restrain; to control; to check.

(v. i.) To be guided by reins.

(a.) Early.

(superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.

(superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.

(superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.

(superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.

(superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.

(n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

(n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.

(n.) Sedge; seaweed.

(a.) Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.

(a.) Having power; active; nimble.

() p. p. of Rive.

(n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

(v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.

(v. i.) To burst open; to split.

(v. i.) To belch.

(v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.

(v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.

(v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.

(v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

(n.) A scratching out, or erasure.

(n.) A slight wound; a scratch.

(n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

(v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.

(v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

(superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

(superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

(v. t.) To prepare with haste.

(v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.

(v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.

(v.) The raspberry.

(n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.

(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

(n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.

(n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.

(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

(n.) Order; arrangement.

(n.) Ratification; approval.

(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.

(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.

(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.

(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.

(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.

(v. t.) To ratify.

(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.

(v. i.) To make an estimate.

(n.) A hill or mound.

(n.) A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

(a.) Alt. of Rathe

(adv.) Alt. of Rathe

(v. t.) To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

(v. t.) To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.

(n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.

(n.) See Rille.

(v. i.) To run a small stream.

(n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.

(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.

(a.) Abounding with rime; frosty.

(n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.

(n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.

(n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

(v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

(v. t.) To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).

(v. t.) To nickname; to style.

(imp. & p. p.) f Shoe.

(n.) A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.

(n.) Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.

(n.) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.

(n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.

(n.) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.

(n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.

(n.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.

(n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.

(n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.

(n.) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.

(n.) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.

(n.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shoe

(n.) To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.

(n.) To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.

(n.) A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.

(v. t.) To shake; to shock.

(v. i.) To jog; to move on.

(interj.) Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shoot

() imp. of Shape. Shaped.

(n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

(n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.

(v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

() imp. & p. p. of Shoot.

(a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.

(v. t.) A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.

(pl. ) of Shot

(n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.

(n.) A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.

(n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.

(n.) The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.

(n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.

(v. t.) To load with shot, as a gun.

(v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).

(v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.

(v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.

(v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.

(v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.

(v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.

(v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

(n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.

(n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.

(n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.

(n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance.

(n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.

(n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.

(n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.

(v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure.

(n.) Harm.

(a.) Strong; powerful; fierce.

(v. i.) To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.

(v. i.) Hence, to crawl; to sneak.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shut

(v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.

(v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.

(v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

(v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.

(v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.

(a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.

(a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.

(a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.

(a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.

(n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

(n.) A door or cover; a shutter.

(n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.

(a.) Dark.

(n.) A gatepost or doorpost.

(a.) Hidden; concealed; secret.

(a.) Solitary; sad.

(n.) The number six at dice.

(a.) Such.

(superl.) Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

(superl.) Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

(superl.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.

(superl.) Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

(n.) Sickness.

(v. i.) To fall sick; to sicken.

(n.) A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

(n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.

(n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.

(n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.

(n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.

(n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.

(n.) The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.

(n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.

(n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.

(a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.

(n.) Long; large; extensive.

(v. i.) To lean on one side.

(v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.

(v. t.) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.

(v. t.) To suit; to pair; to match.

(v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.

(v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.

(v. t.) To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.

(v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

(v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.

(v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

(v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

(v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.

(v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.

(v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

(v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

(v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

(v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

(v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

(n.) A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

(n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."

(v. t.) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

(n.) See Dit, n., 2.

(n.) A pustule; a pimple.

(v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.

(n.) That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

(n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.

(n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.

(n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.

(n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.

(n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.

(n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.

(n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.

(n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.

(n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.

(n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.

(n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division Ö, and the like.

(n.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.

(n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.

(n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.

(n.) To represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.

(n.) To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.

(n.) To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.

(n.) To assign or convey formally; -- used with away.

(n.) To mark; to make distinguishable.

(v. i.) To be a sign or omen.

(v. i.) To make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.

(v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.

(v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

(v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.

(v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.

(v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

(v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

(v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.

(v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.

(n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

(n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.

(n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.

(n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.

() A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.

(n.) Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

(n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

(v. i.) To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).

(n.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.

(n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.

(n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.

(n.) The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.

(v. i.) To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.

(v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.

(n.) Dais.

(v. i.) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.

(v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.

(v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

(v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.

(v. i.) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.

(v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.

(v. t.) To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.

(v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.

(v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.

(v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.

(v. t.) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.

(v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.

(v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.

(v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.

(v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).

(n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.

(n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.

(n.) The spouting of a whale.

(n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.

(n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.

(a.) Such. See Such.

(n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.

(n.) A sick person.

(v. i.) To sigh.

(n.) A sigh.

(v. t.) To strain, as fresh milk.

(v. i.) To drop; to flow; to fall.

(n.) A sieve with fine meshes.

(n.) Filth; sediment.

(n.) A young or small herring.

(n.) A curved handle.

(n.) A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.

(n.) An assart, or clearing.

(n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.

(n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.

(n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.

(n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.

(n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.

(n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.

(n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.

(n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

(n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.

(n.) A young herring.

(n.) A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

(n.) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

(v. t.) To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.

(v. i.) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

(n.) A cyma.

(n.) Alt. of Saute

(n.) The herb sage, or salvia.

(a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.

(a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.

(a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.

(a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.

(a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.

(a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.

(v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.

(a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.

(conj.) Except; unless.

() of Saw

(imp. & p. p.) of Say

(n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

(n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.

(n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.

(n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).

(n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

(n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

(n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.

(v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

(n.) A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species.

(n.) The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler.

(n.) The friar skate.

(n.) The cigar fish, or round robin.

(n.) A bridge.

(n.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.

(n.) A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

(n.) Alt. of Cauker

(n.) A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.

(n.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.

(n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.

(n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.

(n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.

(n.) The rim of a hat.

(v. i.) To be full to the brim.

(v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

(a.) Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.

(n.) One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

(n.) Alt. of Britt

(n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

(n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

(n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.

(v. i.) To dwell in a cave.

(v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.

(n.) A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.

(n.) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

(v. t.) To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

(v. t.) To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.

(v. t.) To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place.

(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

(n.) Same as Cella.

(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

(n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

(v. t.) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

(n.) A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.

(v. t.) To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.

(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell.

(n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.

(n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.

(n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

(n.) One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.

(imp. & p. p.) of Owe

(n. & v.) See Ooze.

(a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.

(a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

(n.) A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners.

(interj.) Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

(n.) Alt. of Scatt

(n.) A shower of rain.

(n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

(n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

(n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.

(n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

(n.) The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.

(n.) The forehead; as, a feverish brow.

(n.) The general air of the countenance.

(n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.

(v. t.) To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

(n.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

(v. t.) To wax; to cover or close with wax.

(n.) A name for a horse.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.

(n.) A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.

(n.) To browse.

(n.) See Birt.

(n.) A rate or tax.

(n.) Bound; measure.

(v. t.) To rate; to tax; to assess.

(v. i.) To cease; to neglect.

(n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

(n.) A lantern; also, the moon.

(n.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

(n.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.

(v. t.) To transport in a scow.

(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

(n.) A male Indian or negro.

(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.

(v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.

(v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

(n.) The beech tree.

(n.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.

(n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

(n.) A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.

(n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.

(n.) A military coat, made of buff leather.

(n.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.

(a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.

(a.) The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.

(a.) Made of buff leather.

(a.) Of the color of buff.

(v. t.) To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.

(v. t.) To strike.

(n.) A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."

(a.) Firm; sturdy.

(n.) A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.

(n.) Alt. of Buhlwork

(n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

(n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.

(n.) An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.

(v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

(n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

(n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.

(n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

(n.) The body.

(v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.

(v.) A projecting part of a building.

(v. i.) To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

(n.) See Shad.

(v. t.) To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

(v. i.) To come in violent contact with something; to thump.

(n.) A thump; a heavy blow.

(n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.

(n.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."

(n.) The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

(v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.

(n.) The noise made by the bittern.

(n.) A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

(n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.

(n.) An embankment against inundation.

(n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

(n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

(n.) A sharper or pickpocket.

(v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

(v. t.) To chew.

(n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.

(n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

(n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.

(n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

(v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

(n.) See Bun.

(n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

(n.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

(v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

(v. t. & i.) To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.

(n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.

(v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.

(v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

(v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.

(v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

(n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.

(n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.

(n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.

(n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.

(n.) The sweetbread.

(n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.

(n.) A small circular saw.

(n.) A triangular chisel.

(n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.

(n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.

(n.) A fortified town.

(n.) A borough.

(v.t.) To make naked.

(n.) Ale; also, an alehouse.

(n.) Alt. of Norna

(n.) A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

(n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

(n.) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.

(n.) The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below.

(prep.) Without.

(imp.) of Sing

() of Sing

(p. p.) of Sing

(v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.

(v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

(v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.

(v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.

(v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.

(v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.

(v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.

(v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

(v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

(imp.) of Sink

() of Sink

(p. p.) of Sink

(v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.

(v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.

(v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.

(v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.

(v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

(v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.

(v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.

(v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.

(v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.

(v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

(v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.

(n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

(n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.

(n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.

(n.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

(n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.

(n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

(n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.

(n.) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.

(v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

(v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.

(v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.

(v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.

(v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.

(v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

(v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.

(v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.

(v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.

(v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.

(n.) A bullfinch.

(a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

(a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.

(n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

(v. t.) To cause to ooze.

(a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.

(a.) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.

(a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter.

(a.) Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.

(a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.

(a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the an far is open as compared with the a in say.

(a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.

(a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.

(a.) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.

(n.) Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water.

(v. t.) To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter.

(v. t.) To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.

(v. t.) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

(v. t.) To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc.

(v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.

(v. t.) To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.

(v. i.) To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted.

(v. i.) To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.

(v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.

(v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game.

(n.) Hindrance; let; check.

(n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

(n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.

(a.) Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river.

(n.) A large oceanic fish (Lampris quttatus), inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. It is remarkable for its brilliant colors, which are red, green, and blue, with tints of purple and gold, covered with round silvery spots. Called also king of the herrings.

(n.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.

(a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.

(a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.

(a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.

(a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.

(adv.) By limitation to the number one; for one time; not twice nor any number of times more than one.

(adv.) At some one period of time; -- used indefinitely.

(adv.) At any one time; -- often nearly equivalent to ever, if ever, or whenever; as, once kindled, it may not be quenched.

(a.) One alone; single; as, the only man present; his only occupation.

(a.) Alone in its class; by itself; not associated with others of the same class or kind; as, an only child.

(a.) Hence, figuratively: Alone, by reason of superiority; preeminent; chief.

(a.) In one manner or degree; for one purpose alone; simply; merely; barely.

(a.) So and no otherwise; no other than; exclusively; solely; wholly.

(a.) Singly; without more; as, only-begotten.

(a.) Above all others; particularly.

(conj.) Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration.

(a.) No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.

(a.) No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.

(n.) Same as Nones, 2.

(n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

(n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

(v. t.) To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

(superl.) Very small; little; puny.

(n.) A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

(n.) Attire; apparel.

(n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.

(n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.

(n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment.

(n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

(v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress.

(v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

(v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

(v. i.) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

(v. t.) To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.

(n.) Same as Tyro.

(n.) Same as Teetee.

(adv.) With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound.

(n.) See Ulexite.

(n.) High flavor; strong scent.

(v. i.) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.

(n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hold

(v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain.

(v. t.) To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend.

(v. t.) To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office.

(v. t.) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.

(v. t.) To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.

(v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service.

(v. t.) To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for.

(v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.

(v. t.) To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge.

(v. t.) To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high.

(n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence:

(n. i.) Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.

(n. i.) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.

(n. i.) Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.

(n. i.) Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.

(n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain.

(n. i.) To derive right or title; -- generally with of.

(n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.

(n.) The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.

(n.) Binding power and influence.

(n.) Something that may be grasped; means of support.

(n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

(n.) A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.

(n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.

(n.) The handle of a joiner's plane.

(a.) Whole.

(n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.

(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.

(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.

(n.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

(n.) An islet in a river.

(n.) Low, flat land.

() Alt. of Holpen

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.

(n.) A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.

(n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.

(superl.) Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.

(superl.) Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.

(n.) See Homelyn.

(n.) One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.

(n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.

(n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

(n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.

(n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.

(n.) The home base; he started for home.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

(a.) Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

(adv.) To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

(adv.) Close; closely.

(adv.) To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.

(n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Toe

(a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.

(a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.

(n.) A knoll or hill.

(n.) A grove of trees; also, a plain.

(n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

(n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta.

(n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

(v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.

(v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.

(v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.

(v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

(n.) A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

() imp. & p. p. of Tell.

(v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

(v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

(v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

(v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

(v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

(v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

(n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

(n.) A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

(n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

(n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

(v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.

(v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.

(v. t.) To collect, as a toll.

(n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.

(n.) A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam.

(n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

(n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.

(n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.

(v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

(n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.

(n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

(n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

(n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

(n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

(n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.

(n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.

(n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.

(n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

(n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

(n.) State of mind; temper; mood.

(n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

(n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

(n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

(v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.

(v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

(v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

(n.) Alt. of Tonge

(n.) A simpleton.

() imp. of Take.

(n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

(n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.

(n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.

(n.) A weapon.

(n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.

(v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.

(v. t.) To drive, as a coach.

(a.) Empty.

(v. t.) To empty.

() pl. of Toe.

(n.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

(v. i.) To stand out, or be prominent.

(v. i.) To peep; to look narrowly.

(v. t.) To see; to spy.

(v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.

(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.

(n.) Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably.

(n.) Rank; degree; position.

(n.) The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize.

(v. i.) To agree.

(n.) A step.

(v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.

(v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.

(v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.

(v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.

(n.) The sense of touch; feeling.

(n.) The stroke in beating time.

(n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.

(n.) Grass.

(a.) Alt. of Grete

() imp. of Grow.

(a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).

(n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

(n.) A cricket or grasshopper.

(n.) Any small eel.

(n.) The broad-nosed eel. See Glut.

(n.) Heath.

(Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

(n.) A snare; a gin.

(v. i.) To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.

(v. i.) To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.

(v. t.) To express by grinning.

(n.) The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.

(n.) A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.

(n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

(n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

(n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.

(n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

(v. t.) To beat with a club.

(v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

(v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.

(v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.

(v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

(v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.

(v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

(n.) Soul.

(n.) Same as Sal, the tree.

(n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

(v. t.) To subdue; to daunt.

(v. t. & i.) To awaken; to arouse.

(n.) The griffin.

(n.) A small ditch or furrow.

(v. t.) To trench; to drain.

(v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

(v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

(v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

(v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

(v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

(n.) The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).

(n.) Same as Thar.

(n.) Limitation; abridgment.

(a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.

(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.

(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.

(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.

(n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

(n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.

(n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.

(n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.

(v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.

(v. i.) To form a scar.

(n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.

(n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

(a.) Gray.

(a.) A costly kind of fur.

(n. sing. & pl.) A little pig.

(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

(n.) The coarse part of meal.

(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

(n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.

(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

(n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.

(n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

(n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.

(n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

(n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

(n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

(n.) Same as Tailing, 4.

(n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.

(n.) See Tailing, n., 5.

(v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

(v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.

(v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.

(v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

(n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.

(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.

(n.) A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.

(n.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.

(imp.) of Take

(n.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.

(n.) See Tael.

(v. i.) That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

(v. i.) A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.

(v. i.) A count or declaration.

(v. i.) To tell stories.

(v. t.) To embrace.

() A prefix, fr. L. cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.

(v. i.) To sob with convulsions.

(v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

(v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.

(v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.

(n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song.

(n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

(v. i.) To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.

(v. i.) Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.

(n.) The act of soaring; upward flight.

(a.) See 3d Sore.

(a.) See Sore, reddish brown.

(interj.) Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo.

(n.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

(n.) A small, retired valley; a ravine.

(n.) A young woman; a wench.

(v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.

(v. t.) See Dermis.

(n.) A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.

(n.) A grotto.

(n.) Alt. of Grote

(n.) To confer; to reason; to consult.

(n.) To prate; to speak impertinently.

(v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.

(v. t.) To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

(v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

(v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking.

(n.) The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.

(n.) Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.

(n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

(superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.

(superl.) Brave; bold; courageous.

(superl.) Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.

(v. i.) To ditch.

(n.) A flat round plate

(n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

() A prefix signifying within. See Ento-.

(pl. ) of Talus

(pl. ) of Era

(conj. / adv.) Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.

(n.) A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.

(v. t.) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

(superl.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

(superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

(superl.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

(a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

(a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

() A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).

() A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate.

(v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.

(imp.) of Grow

(v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

(v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

(v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

(v. i.) To become attached of fixed; to adhere.

(v. t.) To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

(v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

(v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work.

(v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.

(v. t.) To supply with food.

(n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

(v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

(v. t.) To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.

(v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.

(v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.

(v. t.) To draw or drain.

(v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.

(v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.

(v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.

(v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.

(n.) The act of drawing with the mouth.

(n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.

(n.) A small draught.

(n.) Juice; succulence.

() A prefix signifying over, above, beyond, upon.

(n.) Same as Banxring.

(n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

(n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

(n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf.

(n.) Victuals; food.

(adv.) Forwards; with one's face to the ground.

(a.) Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim.

(a.) Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as,

(n.) See Soosoo.

(n.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.

(n.) A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.

(n.) A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

(n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

(n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.

(n.) A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.

(n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.

(n.) An epaulet.

(n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

(n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.

(n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

(n.) A clown; a country bumpkin.

(n.) A lump of mass; also, a crowd.

(n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.

(v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.

(v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.

(n.) A swaying, irregular motion.

(n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.

() imp. of Swim.

(imp.) Tore.

(n.) A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.

(n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.

(n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.

(v. t.) To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.

(n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon.

(n.) The constellation Cygnus.

(v. i.) To strike; -- with off.

(v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.

(v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.

(v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

(n.) A blow; a stroke.

(n.) An exchange; a barter.

(n.) Hastily.

(n.) A mountain lake or pool.

(n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.

(n.) A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.

(n.) A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba.

() imp. of Sweat.

(v. t.) Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

(v. t.) Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.

(n.) A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

() of Sweat

(n.) The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

(n.) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

(n.) A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.

(n.) A flower. See Gold.

(v. t.) To give the color of gules to.

(n.) The throat; the gullet.

(n.) A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

(n.) That which swallows; the gullet.

(n.) That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

(n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.

(n.) A large deposit of ore in a lode.

(v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.

(n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.

(v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

(v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

(v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.

(v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

(v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.

(n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.

(n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

(v. t.) To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.

(n.) The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.

(n.) A disgorging.

(n.) Guilt. See Guilt.

(a.) Of or pertaining to gules; red.

(n.) A dolt; a dunce.

(n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.

(n.) Dung, or droppings of cattle.

(n.) The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.

(v. t.) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

(n.) Same as Tatou.

(n.) A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl.

(n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

(v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

(v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.

(v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.

(v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.

(n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

(n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.

(n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.

(n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.

(n.) To spade; to dig.

(v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spit

() A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral.

(a.) Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.

(n.) An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.

(n.) Straw.

() of Spit

(n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.

(n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.

(n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.

(v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.

(v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

(n.) An epic.

() Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

(imp.) of Draw.

(v. t.) To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.

(n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump.

(v. i.) To drudge; to toil laboriously.

(n.) A drudge (?).

(n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.

(n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

(v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

(v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.

(v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.

(v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.

(n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

(n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.

(n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.

(n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.

(n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.

(n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.

(n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.

(n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.

(v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.

(v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.

(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.

(v. i.) To become stained with spots.

(n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form

(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

(n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.

(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.

(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

(n.) See Drumfish.

(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

(n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.

(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

(v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

(v. i.) To throb, as the heart.

(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.

(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

(v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

(n.) An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.

(n.) A union of two; duality.

(a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

(a.) ASlothful.

(v. i.) To grieve; to feel sad.

(n.) A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).

(n.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

(n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

(n.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear.

(n.) A pet; a darling.

(n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.

(n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

(v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

(v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

(v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

(v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.

(v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

(v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.

(v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

(n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

(n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

(n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

(n.) Guidance; direction.

(n.) A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Celtic race in the Highlands of Scotland, or to their language.

(n.) See Arrish.

(adv.) First.

(adv.) Previously; before; formerly; heretofore.

(n.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.

(n. pl.) Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.

(n. pl.) Effects, in general.

(n.) A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.

(v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.

(n.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

(n.) Dough or paste.

(n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

(superl.) Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

(n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.

(n.) A dagger.

(n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.

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

(n.) A leader; a chief; a prince.

(n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.

(n.) In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.

(v. i.) To play the duke.

(superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

(superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.

(superl.) Insensible; unfeeling.

(superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.

(superl.) Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.

(n.) A sparrow.

(n.) A tern.

(n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.

(n.) That which goads to action; an incitement.

(n.) Something that projects; a snag.

(n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.

(n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.

(n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

(n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.

(n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.

(n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.

(n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.

(n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.

(n.) Ergotized rye or other grain.

(n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

(n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.

(n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.

(v. t.) To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.

(v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.

(v. t.) To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.

(v. i.) To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.

(superl.) Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.

(superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.

(v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.

(v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.

(v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

(v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.

(v. i.) To become dull or stupid.

(adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.

(a.) Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.

(a.) Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.

(a.) Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.

(v. t.) To put to silence.

(n.) An annular reenforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

(a.) Rare; uncommon; unusual.

(adv.) Rarely; seldom.

(a.) Same; particular; very; identical.

(n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.

(n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

(n.) Personification; embodiment.

(a.) See Cozy.

(n.) A cottage or hut.

(n.) A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.

(v. t.) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.

(v. t.) To quote.

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

(n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.

(n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.

(n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

(n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

(v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

(n.) Self.

(n.) A sill.

(n.) A cell; a house.

(n.) A saddle for a horse.

(n.) A throne or lofty seat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sell

(v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.

(v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.

(v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.

(v. i.) To practice selling commodities.

(v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.

(n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

(a.) Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

(n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.

(n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.

(n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.

(n.) A concave molding.

(n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.

(v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

(v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.

(n.) A boy or man of any age or station.

(n.) An abbreviation of Congius.

(pl. ) of Cow

(pl. ) of Cow

(n.) A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.

(n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.

(n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

(n.) A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.

(n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

(superl.) Snug; comfortable; easy; contented.

(superl.) Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.

(a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

(n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

(n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

(a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

(a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

(a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

(a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.

(a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

(a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

(v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.

(v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.

(imp. & p. p.) of Send

(v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

(v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

(v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

(v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

(v. i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

(v. i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

(n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

(a.) Sour; rough; austere.

(n.) A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.

(n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

(n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

(n.) The neck or throat

(n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.

(v. t.) See Con, to direct a ship.

(v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

(v. t. & i.) To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.

(v. t. & i.) To endure; to abide.

(superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.

(superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.

(superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.

(n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.

(v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.

(v. t.) To place snugly.

(v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.

(v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.

(v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.

(v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.

(v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.

(v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.

(v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.

(v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.

(v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

(v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.

(v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

(v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.

(v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

(v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.

(n.) The act of cramming.

(n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.

(n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

(n.) Alt. of Crane

(n.) A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.

(n.) A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.

(v. t.) To rub or wash over with soap.

(v. t.) To flatter; to wheedle.

(v. & n.) See Scent, v. & n.

() obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.

() imp. & p. p. of Send.

(n.) One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

(n.) A plowshare.

(n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.

(n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

(n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.

(n.) The crop of a bird.

(n.) The stomach of an animal.

(n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.

(n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

(n.) A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

(n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.

(n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.

(n.) Alt. of Crayer

(n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.

(superl.) Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.

(superl.) Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.

(superl.) Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.

(superl.) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.

(superl.) Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.

(superl.) Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.

(superl.) Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.

(superl.) Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak.

(superl.) Gentle in action or motion; easy.

(superl.) Weak in character; impressible.

(superl.) Somewhat weak in intellect.

(superl.) Quiet; undisturbed; paceful; as, soft slumbers.

(superl.) Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.

(superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing.

(superl.) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.

(superl.) Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc.

(n.) A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

(adv.) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

(interj.) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.

(superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.

(n.) A place for keeping things in safety.

(n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.

(n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.

(v. t.) To render safe; to make right.

(v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

(v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

(n.) Claminess; moisture.

(n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

(v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

(n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.

(v. i.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.

(n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

(v. i.) To gape.

(n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

(n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.

(n.) The sagebrush.

(superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.

(superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.

(superl.) Grave; serious; solemn.

(n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

(n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.

(n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

(v. t.) To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

(v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.

(v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.

(v. t.) To express contempt or derision.

(v. i.) To knock, as at a door.

(v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.

(v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.

(v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark.

(n.) See Rind.

(imp.) of Ring

() of Ring

(p. p.) of Ring

(v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

(v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.

(v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

(v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.

(v. i.) To practice making music with bells.

(v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.

(v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.

(v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

(n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.

(n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

(n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

(n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

(n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.

(n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.

(n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.

(n.) A circular group of persons.

(n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.

(n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.

(n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

(n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

(n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.

(v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.

(v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

(v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

(v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.

(n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

(n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

() imp. of Rive.

(n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

(v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.

(v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.

(v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.

(v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.

(n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

(n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

(n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

(v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.

(v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.

(v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.

(n.) The bank of a river.

(superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.

(superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.

(superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.

(superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.

(superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.

(superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

(superl.) Intoxicated.

(v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.

(v. t.) To mature; to ripen.

(imp.) of Rise

(v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

(adv.) In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.

(v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.

(n.) Realm.

(v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.

(v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

(v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

(v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

(v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

(v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.

(v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

(v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.

(v.) To retire; to give up a siege.

(v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

(v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising.

(v.) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.

(v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.

(v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.

(v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.

(v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.

(v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.

(v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price.

(v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.

(v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.

(v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.

(v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.

(v.) In various figurative senses.

(v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

(v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.

(v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.

(v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

(v.) To come; to offer itself.

(v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life.

(v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.

(v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

(v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.

(n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen.

(n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.

(n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.

(n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.

(n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.

(n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.

(n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

(n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.

(n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

(n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

(n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

(n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.

(n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.

(n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.

(v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.

(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.

(n.) A journey, or stage of a journey.

(n.) An inroad; an invasion; a raid.

(n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.

(n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.

(v. i.) To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

(v. t.) To range or wander over.

(n.) The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.

(a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.

(a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.

(n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color.

(n.) A roan horse.

(n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

(v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.

(v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.

(v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.

(v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.

(v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.

(v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.

(v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.

(v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.

(n.) The sound of roaring.

(n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.

(n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.

(n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

(v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.

(v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.

(n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.

(n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.

(v. t.) An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.

(v. t.) A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.

(v. t.) To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.

(n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Read

(v. t.) To advise; to counsel.

(v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

(v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite.

(v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.

(v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

(v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.

(v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

(v. i.) To give advice or counsel.

(v. i.) To tell; to declare.

(v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.

(v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

(v. i.) To learn by reading.

(v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

(v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.

(v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.

(v.) Reading.

() imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

(a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

(n.) See Roc.

(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.

(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.

(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.

(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.

(n.) Redness; complexion.

() imp. of Ride.

(n.) See Rood, the cross.

(n.) A rush.

(n.) A prank.

(n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

(a.) Royal; regal; kingly.

(a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.

(a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.

(a.) Relating to things, not to persons.

(a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.

(a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.

(n.) A realist.

(n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

(v. i.) To cream; to mantle.

(v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

(n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

(v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

(v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

(v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.

(v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

(v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

(v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

(v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

(a.) Filled with roe.

(v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

(v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.

(v. i.) To wander; to roam.

(v. i.) To romp.

(v. t.) See Royne.

(n.) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.

(n.) Mist; smoke; damp

(n.) A vein of ore.

(a.) Misty; foggy; cloudy.

(n.) A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.

(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

(n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.

(n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

(n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.

(v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.

(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

(v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

(v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.

(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.

(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.

(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.

(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.

(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

(v.) That which rolls; a roller.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rend

(v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.

(v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

(v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.

(v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

(v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

(v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

(v.) Part; office; duty; role.

() of Reave

() of Reave

(adv. & a.) Braced aback.

(a.) Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

(v. i.) To rant.

() imp. & p. p. of Rend.

(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.

(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.

(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.

(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

(v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

(n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

(n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

() imp. & p. p. of Ring.

(n.) Rung (of a ladder).

(n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

(n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.

(n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.

(n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.

(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

(v. t.) To cover with a roof.

(v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.

(n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.

(v. i.) To squat; to ruck.

(n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

(n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.

(n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.

(v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

(n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.

(n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.

(n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.

(n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.

(n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

(v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

(a.) Spacious; roomy.

(a. & n.) Vermilion red; red.

(n.) See Roup.

(v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

(v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

(v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.

(n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.

(n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.

(n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.

(n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.

(n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.

(n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

(n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.

(n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.

(n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

(n.) The lowest place, position, or part.

(n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.

(v. i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

(v. i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.

(v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

(v. t.) To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.

(v. t.) To concern; -- used impersonally.

(v. i.) To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.

(v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.

(n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.

(n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

(n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

(v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.

(v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

(v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

(v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.

(v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).

(v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.

(v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

(a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

(a.) Dewy.

() imp. of Rise.

(n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere

(n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.

(n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.

(n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.

(n.) The erysipelas.

(n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.

(n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.

(n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.

(v. t.) To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.

(v. t.) To perfume, as with roses.

(n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.

(v. t.) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.

(n.) See Roust.

(superl.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.

(n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.

(n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.

(n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.

(n.) A root.

(n.) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

(n.) The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

(n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.

(v. t.) To learn or repeat by rote.

(v. i.) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

(n.) One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

(v. i. & t.) Alt. of Rown

(v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.

(n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.

(n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.

(v. i.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

(n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

(v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

(v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

(n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

(n.) A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

(n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.

(n.) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.

(n.) A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

(v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

(v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

(n.) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.

(v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.

(v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

(v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

(n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

(v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.

(v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

(v. t.) To wander over or through.

(v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

(v. i.) To shake; to quake; to tremble.

(n. sing. & pl.) Neat cattle.

(n.) See Canker, n., 1.

(n.) A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

(n.) Any melody determined by inviolable rules.

(n.) See Term.

() Alt. of Nomen

(v. t.) To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.

(v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.

(n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.

(n.) The head.

(n.) The head; the noddle.

(n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.

(n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

(n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.

(n.) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.

(n.) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.

(n.) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.

(n.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.

(n.) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.

(n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.

(n.) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.

(n.) A swelling.

(n.) Same as Nowel.

(n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.).

(pl. ) of Sagum

(a.) Full of sage; seasoned with sage.

() imp. & p. p. of Say.

(a.) Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid; -- used chiefly in legal style.

(n.) An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.

(n.) Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.

(n.) A wing; a van.

(n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.

(n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

(n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.

(n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.

(n.) To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl.

(n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton.

(n.) To set sail; to begin a voyage.

(n.) To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.

(v. t.) To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.

(v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.

(v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship.

(n.) Lard; grease.

(p. p.) Said.

(v. t.) To sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence.

(v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.

(v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.

(n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.

(n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.

(n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.

(n.) A striking of hands to express approbation.

(n.) Noisy talk; chatter.

(n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.

(n.) Gonorrhea.

(n.) Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health.

(n.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile.

(n.) The alcoholic drink of Japan. It is made from rice.

(n.) See 1st Sallow.

(v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

(v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market.

(v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.

(n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

(n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

(n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

(n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.

(n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.

(n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.

(n.) To rail at; to scold.

(v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.

(n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

(n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

(v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.

(v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

(n.) Psalm.

(n.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.

(n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

(n.) Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

(n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

(n.) A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

(n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.

(n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

(n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.

(n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

(n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.

(n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.

(n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

(n.) Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

(n.) Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

(v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

(v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

(n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

(v. i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.

(v. i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.

(v. i.) Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.

(n.) A claw.

(n.) The redshank.

(n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

(n.) A small breeze or horsefly.

(v. t. & i.) To starve; to famish.

(n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.

(n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.

(n.) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

(n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

(n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.

(n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator.

(v. i.) To play at cards; to game.

(n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

(n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

(v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

(v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

(v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

(n.) Alt. of Clue

(n.) A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

(n.) That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.

(n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

(n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.

(n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.

(n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.

(n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.

(n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.

(n.) A single particle of such stone.

(n.) The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.

(n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.

(n.) Courage; pluck; grit.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with sand.

(v. t.) To drive upon the sand.

(v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

(v. t.) To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.

(n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

(n.) Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.

(n.) Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.

(n.) The object of watchful attention or anxiety.

(n.) To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.

(a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.

(a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.

() imp. of Sing.

() imp. of Sink.

(prep.) Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.

() pret. of Carve.

(n.) The Muse who presided over history.

(v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.

(v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

(v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.

(n.) A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.

(v. i.) To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.

(v. t.) To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.

(n.) A rude, rustic man; a churl.

(n.) Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.

(n.) A kind of food. See citation, below.

(v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.

(n.) An embrace.

(n.) A cutting; a shearing.

(n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

(n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

(n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.

(n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.

(n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

(n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.

(n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

(n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.

(n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt

(n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

(v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.

(v. t.) To pelt with clods.

(v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.

(v.) That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.

(v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.

(v.) A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.

(v. t.) To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

(v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

(v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

(v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.

(v. i.) To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.

(v. i.) To talk; to speak; to prattle.

(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at.

(v. t.) To say; to tell.

(v. t.) To find fault with; to censure.

(pl. ) of Carp

(n.) A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See Cruclan carp.

(n.) A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.

(n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.

(n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.

(n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.

(n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.

(v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart.

(v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

(v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

(v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

(v. t.) To form into a slimy mass.

() of Clothe

(n.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.

(n.) Same as Saree.

(n.) A shirt.

(v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

(n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.

(v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf.

(n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

(n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.

(v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.

(v. t.) To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.

() imp. of Sit.

(n.) The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

(n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.

(n.) A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

(n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

(n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.

(n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.

(n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

(v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.

(v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.

(n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.

(n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.

(n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.

(n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.

(n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.

(v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases.

(n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

(n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

(n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.

(v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

(v. t.) To disband.

(n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.

(n.) Same as Casque.

(n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.

(n.) The quantity contained in a cask.

(n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.

(v. t.) To put into a cask.

(v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

(v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

(v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

(v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.

(v. t.) To stroke with a claw.

(n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.

(interj.) Silence; hush.

() imp. & p. p. of Breed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Breed

(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Brenne

(n.) Bran.

(v. t.) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.

(n.) See Birt.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cast

(v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.

(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.

(v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.

(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.

(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

(v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.

(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.

(v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.

(v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.

(v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.

(v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.

(v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.

(v. t.) To contrive; to plan.

(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.

(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.

(v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.

(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.

(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.

(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.

(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.

(v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.

(v. i.) To calculate; to compute.

(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.

(v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.

(v. i.) To vomit.

() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.

(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.

(n.) The thing thrown.

(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.

(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.

(n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.

(v. t.) To boil or seethe; to cook.

(v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.

(v. t.) To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

(v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.

(v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

(v. i.) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.

(n.) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

(n.) The act of casting in a mold.

(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.

(n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.

(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.

(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.

(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.

(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.

(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.

(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.

(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.

(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.

(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.

(n.) A bird.

(a.) Safe.

(conj. & prep.) Save; except.

(n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.

(n.) Food. [Obs.] See Cates.

(n.) A dish of stewed meat of different kinds.

(n.) A mixture; a medley.

(n.) A collection of miscellaneous pieces.

(n.) A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.

(n.) A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

(n.) Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.

(n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.

(v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.

(n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah.

(n.) See Collop.

(n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

(n.) A young, foolish fellow.

(n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.

(v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

(v. t.) To horse; to get with young.

(v. t.) To befool.

(n.) Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.

() A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants.

(n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

(n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

(n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

(n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

(n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.

(n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.

(n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

(n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.

(n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

(n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

(n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

(n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

(n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.

(n.) The curling crest of a wave.

(n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.

(n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

(v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.

(n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

(n.) Alt. of Combe

(n.) A dry measure. See Coomb.

(n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

(v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

(v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.

(v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

(v. t.) An old kind of dance.

(v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.

(v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.

(n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

(n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

(n.) That which is dumped.

(n.) A pile of ore or rock.

(n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.

(n.) The excrement of an animal.

(v. t.) To manure with dung.

(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

(v. i.) To void excrement.

(n.) A blow.

(n.) One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.

(n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.

(n.) Short form for Dura mater.

(a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear.

(n.) Claw; talon.

(v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.

(n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.

() imp. of Ding.

(v. t.) To dash.

(a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.

(n.) Moisture; humidity; water.

(n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.

(v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

(v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

(v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

(n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.

(n.) Defiance; challenge.

(v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.

(v. t.) To terrify; to daunt.

(n.) A small fish; the dace.

(n.) Alt. of Dargue

(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.

(a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.

(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.

(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.

(a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.

(a.) Deprived of sight; blind.

(n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.

(n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.

(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.

(v. t.) To darken to obscure.

(v. t.) To lay a tax upon; to assess.

(n.) A tax; an assessment. See Cess.

(v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

(n.) A place mended by darning.

(v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

(n.) The European black tern.

(n.) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

(n.) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.

(n.) A spear set as a prize in running.

(n.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.

(v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

(v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

(v. i.) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.

(v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

(n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.

(n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.

(n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

(n.) See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.

(v. t.) See Daze.

(v. t.) To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

(v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.

(v. t.) To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.

(v. t.) To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.

(v. t.) To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

(v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

(v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.

(n.) Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.

(n.) A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.

(n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.

(n.) A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.

(n.) Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.

(n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.

(n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.

(n.) The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.

(n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.

(n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

(n.) The Manx shearwater.

(n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.

(n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

(n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

() imp. of Crow

(n. pl.) See Datum.

(n.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

(n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.

(n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.

(n.) Assigned end; conclusion.

(n.) Given or assigned length of life; dyration.

(v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.

(v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.

(v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

(n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

(n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.

(n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

(n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

(n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

(n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

(n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

(n.) A small raft of timber.

(n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.

(n.) A miner's luncheon.

(n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

(v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

(v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.

(v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

(v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

(v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.

(n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.

(pl. ) of Datum

(v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

(v. t.) To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.

(v. t.) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.

(v. t.) To flatter excessively or glossy.

(v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

(v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.

(n.) A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.

(n.) A picture coarsely executed.

(v. t.) See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.

(n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor.

(n.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.

(n.) Day.

(n.) See Dak.

(v. t.) To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.

(n.) A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.

(v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

(v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

(n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

(n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

(v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

(n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.

(n.) A glittering stone.

(a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.

(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.

(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.

(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.

(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.

(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.

(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.

(a.) Bringing death; deadly.

(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.

(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.

(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.

(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.

(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.

(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.

(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.

(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.

(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.

() A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.

(n.) Alt. of Apara

(n.) One who apes.

(n.) Any part of a curved line.

(n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

(n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

(n.) Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

(n.) Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.

(a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.

(a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.

(a.) Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.

(a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

(a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.

(v. t.) To deafen.

(v. t.) To cover with an arch or arches.

(v. t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

(v. i.) To form into an arch; to curve.

(a.) Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

(a.) Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.

(n.) A chief.

(adv.) In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order.

(n.) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0¡ Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris.

(adv.) In two; in twain; asunder.