(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 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.

(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.

(v. t.) To reprimand; to sneap.

(v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.

(n.) A reprimand; a snub.

(v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

(n.) A drop.

(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.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.

(n.) The fruit of these trees.

(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.) 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.

(n.) The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.

(n.) An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.

(v. i.) See Quob, v. i.

(n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.

(n.) A quip; a gibe.

(n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.

(v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

(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.

(n.) A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.

(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.

(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 peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

(n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

(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.) 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.) 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.

(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 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.

(n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf.

(n.) Victuals; food.

(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 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.

(v. t.) To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.

(n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump.

(n.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear.

(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.) 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.

(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

(a.) Sour; rough; austere.

(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 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.

(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.) To bend or curve

(v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.

(v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

(v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe.

(n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.

(n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.

(n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.

(n.) A curbstone.

(n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.

(v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

(v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.

(v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.

(v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.

(n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.

(n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.

(n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

(n.) A word; a vocable.

(n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.

(n.) The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.

(n.) Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.

(v. t.) See Jam, v. t.

(n.) Clothing in general.

(n.) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

(n.) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

(n.) External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.

(n.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

(v. t.) To clothe; array; deck.

(n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.

(n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

(n.) The wryneck.

(n.) The slack part of a sail.

(a.) Thick; viscous.

(n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.

() A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna.

(n.) A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.

(v. t.) To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.

(n.) The itch in animals; also, a scab.

(v. t.) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.

(v. t.) To scratch; to rub.

(n.) A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.

(n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.

(v. i. & t.) To scold; to nag.

(n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.

(n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.

(n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.

(n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib.

(n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.

(v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.

(v. t.) To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.

(v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.

(superl.) Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

(superl.) Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

(v. t.) To make glib.

(n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.

(v. t.) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

(n.) A truffle.

(n.) An iambus or iambic.

(n.) A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

(n.) Grass; herbage.

(n.) A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.

(v. t.) To comb.

(n.) See Curb.

(n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

(v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.

(n.) A sudden grasp or seizure.

(n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

(n. & v.) See Swab.

(n.) The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.

(n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

(n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

(n.) A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

(n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

(v. t.) To supply with limbs.

(v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

(n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.

(n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.

(n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.

(n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

(a.) Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.

(a.) Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.

(v. t.) To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

(n.) The young of the sheep.

(n.) Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.

(n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.

(v. i.) To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.

(n.) The belly; the abdomen.

(n.) The uterus. See Uterus.

(n.) The place where anything is generated or produced.

(n.) Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

(v. t.) To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

(n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

(n.) A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer.

(n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.

(n.) See Knop.

(v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.

(v. t.) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.

(v. t.) To nab. See Nab, v. t.