(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.

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

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

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

(adv.) Alt. of Agree

(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.

(pl. ) of Ala

(conj.) Alt. of Albee

(n. & v.) See Pine.

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

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

(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.

(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.) Same as Chive.

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

(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.

(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.

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

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

(n.) Air.

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

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

(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 Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.

(n.) Health; welfare.

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

(n.) pl. of Foe.

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

(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.

(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.) 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.

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

(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.) Same as Jupon.

(n.) Alt. of Owser

(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.) 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 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.

(n.) The pintail duck.

(n.) The widgeon.

(n.) The poachard.

(n.) The smew.

(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.

(v. t.) To endure; to suffer.

(v. i.) To be able to do or endure.

(a.) Wearisome; tedious.

(v. t.) To endure.

(n.) See Soc.

(n.) One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.

(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.

(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.

(n.) See Soap.

(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.) A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.

(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.) 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.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.

(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.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

(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.

() At the.

(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.

(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.) 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.

(n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.

(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.) 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.

(n.) Alt. of Almeh

(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.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative.

(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 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.

(n.) A nostril.

(n.) Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.

(imp.) of Bear

() of Bear

(n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).

(adv.) Emulously.

(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.

(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.) The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me !" [Obs.] See Ay, interj.

(n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

(n.) A doll for children.

(v. t.) To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.

(n.) A kind of pickax.

(v. t.) To mend; to repair.

(v. t.) To renew or enkindle (a fire).

(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.

() A form of the pat tense of Bid.

(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.

(v. t. & i.) To poke; to thrust.

(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.

(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.) See Benne.

(n.) A prayer; boon.

(n.) Alt. of Ben

(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.

(v. t.) To pierce.

(n.) See Bear, barley.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve

(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.

(n.) A cow house.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

(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.

(n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

(v. t.) To reave.

(n.) An officer, steward, or governor.

() 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.) Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.

(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.

(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.) 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.) 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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

(v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.

(v. t.) To better; to mend. See Beete.

(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.

(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 hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

(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.) 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 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.

(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.

(a.) Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.

(a.) Having power; active; nimble.

(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. & 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.

(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 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.

(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 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.

(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.

(v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure.

(n.) Harm.

(n.) The number six at dice.

(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.

(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.) 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.

(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.

(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.

(n. & v.) See Ooze.

(n.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.

(v.t.) To make naked.

(n.) Ale; also, an alehouse.

(n.) A bullfinch.

(n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

(v. t.) To cause to ooze.

(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.) 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 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.

(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.) 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.

(v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

(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.) 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.

(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 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.

(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.

(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).

(v. t.) To give the color of gules to.

(n.) The throat; the gullet.

(n.) Straw.

(a.) ASlothful.

(v. i.) To grieve; to feel sad.

(n.) A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).

(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.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

(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.

(pl. ) of Cow

(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.

(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.) 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.

(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.

(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 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.) See Rind.

() 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.) 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.

(v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.

(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.) 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 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.

(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.) Redness; complexion.

() imp. of Ride.

(n.) See Rood, the cross.

(n.) Mist; smoke; damp

(n.) A vein of ore.

(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.) 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.

(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. 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.) 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

(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.) 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.) 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.) 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.

(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 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.

(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.

(v. t.) To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.

() imp. of Sit.

(n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.

(n.) Food. [Obs.] See Cates.

(n.) Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.

(n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.

(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.

(a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear.

(n.) Claw; talon.

(n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.

(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.

(v. t.) See Daze.

(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.) Day.

(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.

(n.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

(n.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.

(v. t.) To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

(a.) Dead.

(v. t.) To view or look at with side glances, as in fondness, or with a design to attract notice.

(n.) An amorous side glance or look.

(a.) Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.

(a.) To last; to continue; to endure.

(n.) A demon or spirit. See Deuce.

(n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

(n.) The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.

(a.) Easy.

(n.) A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.

(n.) See Jib.

(n. & v.) See Gibe.

(v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

(n.) Fermented wort used for making vinegar.

(n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.

(v. t. & i.) To turn round; to gyrate.

(n.) Guise.

(a.) Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte.

(n.) A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter.

(v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8.

(a.) Many.

(n.) The descent of a hill.

(n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.

(v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.

(imp.) of Tear

() of Tear

(n.) A woman.

(n.) The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.

(n.) A drying shed, as for unburned tile.

(n.) One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling.

(v. t.) To loiter; to sneak.

(n.) A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife.

(a.) Fierce.

(n.) Fire.

(n.) Fear.

(v. t. & i.) To fear.

(n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.

(n.) A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.

(n.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.

(n.) The wren.

(v. i.) To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.

(v. i.) To pine; to lament; to long.

(n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.

(n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.

(v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

() imp. of Tear.

(n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

(n.) Same as Torus.

(n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.

(n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.

(n.) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

(n.) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

(n.) A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.

(n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.

(n.) That which is hoped for; an object of hope.

(v. i.) To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for.

(v. i.) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.

(v. t.) To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.

(v. t.) To expect; to fear.

(a.) Hoar.

(v. t.) To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.

(n.) The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote.

(v. t.) To pull violently; to touse.

(pl. ) of Hose

(n.) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.

(n.) Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

(n.) A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.

(p. p.) of Hote

(v. t. & i.) To command; to enjoin.

(v. t. & i.) To promise.

(v. t. & i.) To be called; to be named.

(n.) A peer.

(n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.

(n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.

(n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.

(n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

(n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.

(v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.

(v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.

(v. t.) To agree; to harmonize.

(n.) A wild fancy; a confused notion.

(n.) Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

(n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.

(v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

(v. i.) To be bewildered.

(n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

(v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.

(v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

(v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.

(v. t.) To cause to decrease.

(n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

(n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

(n.) An inequality in a board.

(n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice.

(n.) A weasel.

(imp.) Wore.

(v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear.

(n.) Seaweed.

(a.) Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise.

(a.) A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware.

(n.) The state of being ware or aware; heed.

(v. t.) To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.

(n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.

(n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.

(n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.

(n.) The calyx of a plant.

(n.) Lore; learning.

(n.) Pasture; feed. See Lair.

(v. t.) To feed; to fatten.

(n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

(v.) Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

(v.) Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life.

(v.) Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.

(v.) Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence.

(v.) Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher.

(a.) After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early.

(a.) Not long ago; lately.

(a.) Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.

(v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.

(v. i.) To bathe; to wash one's self.

(v. t.) To lade, dip, or pour out.

(n.) The remainder; others.

(n.) See Aisle.

(n.) An island.

(n.) A spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects.

(v. t.) To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island.

() Colloquial contraction of I have.

(n.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples.

(n.) A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.

(n.) A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.

(n.) A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt.

(v. t.) To treat like a jade; to spurn.

(v. t.) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

(v. t.) To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass.

(v. i.) To become weary; to lose spirit.

(n.) A coin of Genoa; any small coin.

(n.) A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean.

(v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.

(v. t.) To mock; to trick.

(v. t.) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

(v. t.) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

(v. t.) To provoke; to exasperate.

(v. t.) To press hard upon; to follow closely

(v. t.) To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.

(v. t.) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

(v. i.) To press onward or forward.

(v. i.) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

(v. i.) To fade; hence, to vanish.

(v. i.) To yawn; to gape.

(n.) The top or highest point; the culmination.

(n.) The crisis or height of a disease.

(n.) Mature age; full bloom of life.

(n.) A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.

(n.) Any field of arable or pasture land.

(n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

(n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

(v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.

(v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

(v. t.) To make; to construct; to do.

(v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

(n.) A trick; a swindle.

(v. i.) To open the mouth wide

(v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.

(v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

(v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.

(v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.

(n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.

(n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.

(n.) Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.

(n.) Public report or rumor.

(n.) Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.

(v. t.) To report widely or honorably.

(v. t.) To make famous or renowned.

(a.) Deaf.

(n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.

(n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.

(n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.

(n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

(n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

(n.) An assize.

(n.) Six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice.

() of Sit

(n.) The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

(n.) A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.

(n.) The posture or position of a thing.

(n.) Six.

(v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.

(v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.

(v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.

(n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

(n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

(n.) Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.

(n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.

(n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.

(n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.

(v. t.) To fix the standard of.

(v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

(v. t.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.

(v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.

(v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

(v. t.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.

(v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.

(v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

(n.) A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding.

() of Dive

(v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

(v. i.) Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

(v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.

(v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into.

(n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.

(n.) A place of low resort.

(p. p.) of Do

(n.) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

(n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.

(v. i.) To play games with dice.

(v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

(v. t.) To slay.

(n.) grief; sorrow; lamentation.

(n.) See Dolus.

(n.) Distribution; dealing; apportionment.

(n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance.

(n.) Alms; charitable gratuity or portion.

(n.) A boundary; a landmark.

(n.) A void space left in tillage.

(v. t.) To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly.

(pl. ) of Die

(n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

(n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.

(n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

(n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

(n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

() p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive.

(infinitive.) Performed; executed; finished.

(infinitive.) It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.

(a.) Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.

(n.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.

(n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

(n.) The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

(n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.

(n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.

(n.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

(n.) To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.

(n.) To give anything nauseous to.

(n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

(n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

(n.) A wall of turf or stone.

(n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

(v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

(v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.

(v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.

(v. t.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.

(v. t.) In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round.

(v. i.) To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.

(n.) See Sloough, 2.

(n.) A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.

(a.) Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.

(n.) The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.

(n.) A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.

(n.) A weathercock.

(n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

(n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

(n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

(n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

(n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

(n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.

(v. t.) To supply with a gate.

(v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

(n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

(n.) Manner; gait.

(v. i.) To foretell; to divine.

(n.) Care, heed, or attention.

(n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.

(n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

(n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

(n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.

(v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.

(v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.

(v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.

(v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

(v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

(v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.

(v. i.) To become healed.

(n.) A curate; a pardon.

(n.) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.

(n.) A list of items or of charges; an account.

(a.) Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

(n.) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

(imperative sing.) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /.

(v. t.) To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.

(v. t.) To deal; to divide; to distribute.

(n.) A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.

(v. t.) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.

(v. i.) To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly.

(n.) A low place between hills; a vale or valley.

(n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

(n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.

(n.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.

(n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

(n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

(n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

(n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.

(n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants.

(n.) The great river of Egypt.

() of Nim

(n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

(n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.

(n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.

(n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.

(n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.

(v.) A journey; a passage.

(v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.

(v.) Ado; bustle; business.

(v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.

(v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.

(v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.

(v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

() imp. of Give.

(v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.

(v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on .

(n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

(n.) The object gazed on.

(n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

(n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

(n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

(n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

(n.) Gear.

(a.) Fain; glad; delighted.

(v. t.) See Feeze.

(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

(n.) Wood; timber.

(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

(n.) The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

(a. & pron.) Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect anything else?

(adv. & conj.) Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.

(adv. & conj.) Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.

(n.) An old form of Elf.

(n.) Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.

(n.) Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.

(n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.

(n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

(n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.

(n.) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

(n.) To pass off in fumes or vapors.

(n.) To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

(v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.

(v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.

(v. t.) To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.

(n.) A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

(v. i.) Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones."

(v. i.) To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.

(n.) A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.

(n.) A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.

(n.) A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.

(n.) A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.

(n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.

(n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.

(n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

(n.) Alt. of Eyen

(n.) A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

(n.) The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator.

(n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.

(n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

(n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.

(v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

(n.) That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.

(n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.

(n.) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line.

(n.) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.

(n.) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.

(n.) The style or cut of a type or font of type.

(n.) Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired.

(n.) That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance.

(n.) Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.

(n.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.

(n.) Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery.

(n.) Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.

(n.) Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.

(n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done.

(n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount.

(v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.

(v. t.) To Confront impudently; to bully.

(v. t.) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park.

(v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.

(v. t.) To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.

(v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.

(v. t.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.

(v. t.) To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.

(v. i.) To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.

(v. i.) To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.

(v. i.) To present a face or front.

(n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

(n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.

(n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.

(v. i.) To sale, or sail fast.

(n.) A song or story.

(v. i.) To sing.

(n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

(n.) The payment of a rent or annuity.

(n.) A key of the piano or organ.

(n.) Observation; notice; heed.

(n.) Notification; information; intelligence.

(n.) State of being under observation.

(a.) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

(a.) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

(a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

(a.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

(v. t.) To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

(n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

(v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.

(v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.

(v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.

(v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.

(v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

(v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.

(v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.

(a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.

(a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.

(n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.

(n.) To play at any sport or diversion.

(n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

(n.) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

(n.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.

(n.) To denote; to designate.

(n.) To annotate.

(n.) To set down in musical characters.

(n.) The moon.

(n.) A moan.

(n.) A dull, silent person; a blockhead.

(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

(n.) Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil.

(v. i.) To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.

(v. i.) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.

(n.) An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.

(n.) Alt. of Guide

(n.) Guile.

(n.) A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.

(n.) A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.

(n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.

(n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.

(n.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.

(n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.

(v. t.) To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.

(v. t.) To clear of molehills.

(v. t.) To cast off; to molt.

(v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.

(n.) The dung of birds.

(a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.

(a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.

(a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.

(a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.

(n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.

(n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.

(n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.

(n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.

(n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.

(v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

(v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

(n.) A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.

(n.) See 2d Vail, 3.

(n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.

(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

() of Wake

(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.

(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.

(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.

(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.

(n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.

(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.

(n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

(n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.

(n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

(n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.

(n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.

(v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.

(v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

(a.) Alone.

(n.) A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice.

(n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.

(n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.

(n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.

(n.) One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.

(n.) A donkey.

(n.) A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.

(imp.) of Wear

(v. i.) To be lazy or idle.

(v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

(imp.) of Weave

() of Weave

(n.) Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

(n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.

(n.) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.

(n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.

(n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.

(n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.

(n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.

(n.) To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.

(n.) Applause.

(a. / a. pron.) Each.

(v. t.) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.

(v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.

(v. t.) Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

(v. t.) The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.

(v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

(v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.

(v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.

(v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.

(v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.

(v. i.) To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

(v. i.) To sail close to the wind.

(n.) To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call.

(n.) To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand.

(superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.

(superl.) Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.

(superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.

(n.) Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.

(n.) To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention.

(n.) To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the wedding.

() imperative sing. of L. videre, to see; -- used to direct attention to something; as, vide supra, see above.

(v. i.) To ween.

(v. t. & i.) To wear. See 3d Wear.

(n.) A weir. See Weir.

(v. t.) To guard; to protect.

() The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

(n.) A man.

(n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.

(n.) See Gyre.

(v. t.) To feed or pasture.

(n.) Guise; manner.

(n.) A gown.

(imp.) of Give

(n.) To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.

(n.) To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.

(n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

(n.) To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.

(n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.

(n.) To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

(n.) To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.

(n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.

(n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition.

(n.) To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

(n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.

(n.) To pledge; as, to give one's word.

(n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.

(v. i.) To give a gift or gifts.

(v. i.) To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

(v. i.) To become soft or moist.

(v. i.) To move; to recede.

(v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.

(v. i.) To have a misgiving.

(v. i.) To open; to lead.

(n.) See Sty, a boil.

(n.) Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.

(n.) Stigma; brand; reproach.

(n.) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.

(n.) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

(n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.

(n.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

(n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.

(n.) To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.

(p. p.) of Go

(n.) Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.

(n.) Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.

(n.) Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.

(n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.

(adv.) In accordance with truth; truly.

(a. & n.) Good.

(n.) A man.

(n.) The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm.

(v. t.) To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Media in Asia.

(n.) See lst & 2d Mead, and Meed.

(superl.) Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.

(superl.) Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours.

(superl.) Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen.

(superl.) Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.

(superl.) Light-headed; foolish.

(v. i.) To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.

(v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.

(a.) Same.

(n.) A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body.

(n.) See Mad, n.

() imp. & p. p. of Make.

(a.) Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar.

(n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.

(n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.

(v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.

(v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.

(v. t. & n.) Alt. of Joll

(n.) chancel screen or rood screen.

(n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read.

(n.) A magician.

(imp.) Went. See Yode.

(n.) The European yellow-hammer.

(imp.) Went; walked; proceeded.

(n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.

(n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape.

(n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke.

(n.) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.

(n.) A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell.

(n.) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.

(n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.

(n.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.

(n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.

(n.) Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection.

(n.) A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service.

(n.) Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together.

(n.) The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.

(n.) A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon.

(v. t.) To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.

(v. t.) To couple; to join with another.

(v. t.) To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.

(v. i.) To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.

(adv.) In time long past; in old time; long since.

(v. t.) To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water.

(pron. pl.) Of them; their.

(n.) Hair.

(pron.) See Her, their.

(pron.) Her; hers. See Her.

(adv.) In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.

(adv.) In the present life or state.

(adv.) To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.

(adv.) At this point of time, or of an argument; now.

(p. p.) Taken.

(v. t.) In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.

(v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.

(v. t.) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.

(v. t.) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.

(v. t.) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.

(v. t.) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.

(v. t.) To draw; to deduce; to derive.

(v. t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.

(v. t.) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.

(v. t.) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.

(v. t.) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.

(v. t.) In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.

(v. t.) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.

(v. t.) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.

(v. t.) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.

(v. t.) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.

(v. t.) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.

(v. t.) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.

(v. i.) To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.

(v. i.) To please; to gain reception; to succeed.

(v. i.) To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.

(v. i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.

(n.) That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.

(n.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hete

(v. t. & i.) Variant of Hote.

(n.) A domestic servant; a retainer.

(v. t.) To entice.

(n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.

(v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

(v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.

(v. t.) To remove from danger; to shelter.

(v. i.) To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.

(n.) An abode or dwelling.

(n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres.

(n.) The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.

(n.) The human skin; -- so called in contempt.

(v. t.) To flog; to whip.

(prep.) Time; period; season.

(prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.

(prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.

(prep.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.

(prep.) Violent confluence.

(prep.) The period of twelve hours.

(v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

(n.) To betide; to happen.

(n.) To pour a tide or flood.

(n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

(n.) A tick. See 2d Tick.

(n.) A dog; a cur.

(n.) A countryman or clown; a boorish person.

(v. t.) To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

(n.) A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.

(n.) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.

(n.) A plate of metal used for roofing.

(n.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

(n.) A draintile.

(n.) A stiff hat.

() of Hight

(v. t.) To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.

(a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.

(n.) Welfare.

(v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul.

(n.) Home.

(n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.

(n.) A feat.

(n. pl.) Feet.

(n.) A festival.

(v. t.) To feast; to honor with a festival.

(n.) A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.

(n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.

(v. i.) To play on a fife.

(n.) See Fyke.

(n.) An orderly succession; a line; a row

(n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.

(n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.

(n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.

(n.) A roll or list.

(n.) Course of thought; thread of narration.

(v. t.) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.

(v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.

(v. t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.

(v. i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.

(n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.

(n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.

(n.) A shrewd or artful person.

(v. t.) To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.

(v. t.) To smooth or polish as with a file.

(v. t.) To make foul; to defile.

(v. t.) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.

(n.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.

(n.) A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus.

(n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

(n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.

(n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.

(n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire.

(n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.

(n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.

(n.) Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.

(n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

(n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.

(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.

(v. t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.

(v. t.) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge.

(v. t.) To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.

(v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.

(v. t.) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.

(v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.

(v. t.) To drive by fire.

(v. t.) To cauterize.

(v. i.) To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.

(v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

(v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.

(n.) A kind of wig; false hair.

(v. t.) See Haze, v. t.

(a.) Four and one added; one more than four.

(n.) The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.

(n.) To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.

(n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted.

(n.) To love less, relatively.

(v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.

(a.) To thrive; to prosper.

(pron.) The objective case of thou. See Thou.

(Indic. present) of Have

() of Have

(v. t.) To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.

(v. t.) To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one.

(v. t.) To accept possession of; to take or accept.

(v. t.) To get possession of; to obtain; to get.

(v. t.) To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require.

(v. t.) To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.

(v. t.) To hold, regard, or esteem.

(v. t.) To cause or force to go; to take.

(v. t.) To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion.

(v. t.) To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.

(v. t.) To understand.

(v. t.) To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him.

(n.) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.

(v. i.) To be hazy, or tick with haze.

(v. t.) To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

(v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

(v. t.) To hide. See Hele.

(n.) Same as Hilum.

(n.) A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind.

(pron.) See Here, pron.

(n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.

(n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward.

(n.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.

(n.) To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.

(n.) To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.

(n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

(n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.

(n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.

(n.) The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.

(n.) A proper time; a season; an opportunity.

(n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.

(n.) Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.

(n.) The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.

(n.) Tense.

(n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.

(v. t.) To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.

(v. t.) To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.

(v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.

(v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony.

(v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

(v. i.) To pass time; to delay.

(n.) A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

(n.) The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

(n.) A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

(v. t.) To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

(v. t.) To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.

(v. i.) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

(n.) Trouble; distress; teen.

(v. t.) To kindle; to set on fire.

(v. i.) To kindle; to rage; to smart.

(v. t.) To shut in, or inclose.

(n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

(n.) A ewe.

(n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.

(n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.

(n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.

(v. i. & t.) Same as Yuck.

(n.) Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.

(n.) The lapwing.

(v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.

(v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.

(v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.

(n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.

(n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.

(n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.

(n.) A handkerchief.

(n.) Stain; brand.

(n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.

(n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.

(v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.

(v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.

(v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.

(v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.

(v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.

(v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.

(v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.

(v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.

(v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.

(v.) Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.

(v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.

(v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.

(pl.) of Wit

(v.) To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.

(v.) Blame; reproach.

(n.) A girdle; a cincture.

(n.) One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.

(n.) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.

(n.) A band or stripe extending around a body.

(n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.

(n.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

(n.) Circuit; circumference.

(v. t.) To girdle; to encircle.

(v. i.) To marry, as a man; to take a wife.

(v. t.) To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.

(v. t.) To take for a wife; to marry.

(a.) Mad. See Wood, a.

(n.) Wood.

(v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.

(v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.

(n.) A dull, spiritless person.

(imp. & p. p.) Wake.

(n.) A stint.

(v. i.) To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

(v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.

(n.) A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.

(a.) Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.

(n.) The plant privet.

(v. i.) To pry.

(n.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

(n.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.

(n.) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

(n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:

(n.) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.

(n.) A kind of johnnycake.

(n.) A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.

(v. t.) To cool.

(n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

(n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.

(n. & v.) A hayfork.

(n. & v.) A pick.

(n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill.

(n. & v.) A large haycock.

(n. & v.) A turnpike; a toll bar.

(sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.

(n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

(n.) A covering of hair or fur.

(n.) The head of an arrow or spear.

(n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

(v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

(n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.

(n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

(n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.

(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.

(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.

(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

(v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.

(v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

(n.) Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.

(n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.

(n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

(n.) A fish; the ruff.

(v.) One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

(v.) A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

(v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.

() imp. & p. p. of Heave.

(v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.

(v. i.) To hover around; to loiter; to lurk.

(n.) An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages.

(n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

(n.) A telescope.

(n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

(n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

(n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

(n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

(n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

(n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

(v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

(n.) A super.

() p. p. of Go.

(n.) A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.

(n.) Dirt; mud.

(n.) Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

(v.) A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

(v.) A small traingular piece of land.

(v.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

(v. t.) To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.

(v. t.) To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

(n.) A sound; a note; a tone.

(n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.

(n.) The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.

(n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

(v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.

(v. t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

(v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony.

(v. t.) To put into a proper state or disposition.

(v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

(v. i.) To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.

(n.) A channel for water.

(n.) A mow; a rick for hay.

(superl.) Certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive.

(superl.) Certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.

(superl.) Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring.

(superl.) Betrothed; engaged to marry.

(superl.) Free from danger; safe; secure.

(adv.) In a sure manner; safely; certainly.

(n.) A groom.

(n. & v.) See Sike.

(adv.) Afterwards; since; ago.

(adv.) Late, -- as opposed to soon.

(conj.) Since; seeing.

(n.) The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n.

(n.) See Tasse.

(adv. & prep.) In.

(n.) A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

(n.) See Haik, and Huke.

(n.) A servant. See Hine.

(v. t.) To cause not to be; to cause to be another.

(a.) Waving or wavy; -- applied to ordinaries, or division lines.

(a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

(n.) A cold in the head; catarrh.

(v. t.) The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.

(v. t.) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.

(v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.

(v. t.) To interrogate; to question.

(v. t.) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

(n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.

(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

(n.) The key or sound of the voice.

(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

(n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.

(n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.

(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

(v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

(n.) The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.

(n.) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.

(n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

(n.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.

(n.) A particular power and practice of poetry.

(n.) A poet; a bard.

(n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.

(n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.

(n.) To wonder.

(v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.

(v. t.) To wonder at.

(n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.

(n.) Wonder, or admiration.

(n.) Same as Mood.

(n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.

(n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

(v. i.) To cry like a chicken.

(v. i.) To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.

(a.) Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

(n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma.

(n.) Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose.

(n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

(v. i.) To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

(v. t.) To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

(n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

(n.) A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

(n.) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

(v. t.) To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

(n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

(n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.

(n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.

(n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.

(n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.

(n.) A gripe or grasp.

(v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.

(prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.

(prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

(a.) Evil; wicked; bad.

(n.) Same as Mail, a bag.

(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

(v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.

(n.) A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain.

(v. i.) To gaze; to stare.

(v. t. & i.) To kick.

(v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.

(v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir.

(v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.

(n.) An animal of the male sex.

(n.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.

(v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.

(adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

(adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.

(adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.

(adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.

(n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.

(prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

(n.) Luxury.

(v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.

(a.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.

(v. i.) To measure.

(n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

(n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.

(n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.

(n.) A velvet smoothing brush.

(n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.

(v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.

(n.) Meat.

(v. t. & i.) To meet.

(n.) Anything in the shape of a half moon.

(n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.

(n.) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

(n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

(n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.

(a.) Moderately warm; not hot; tepid.

(n.) A pike when full grown.

(n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

(v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

(n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

(n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

(n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

(n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

(n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.

(n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.

(n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

(n.) A thin silk stuff.

(n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).

(n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.

(n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.

(n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.

(pl. ) of Louse

(n.) A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree.

(n.) The European burbot.

(v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.

(n.) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.

(n.) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

(obs. imp. & p. p.) Lost.

(v. t.) That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.

(v. t.) That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.

(v. t.) Workmanship.

(v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.

(v. t.) To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.

(v. t.) Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.

(v. t.) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.

(v. t.) To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.

(v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.

(v. t.) To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.

(v. t.) To cause to part with; to deprive of.

(v. t.) To prevent from gaining or obtaining.

(v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

(imp.) of Leap.

(v. i.) To leap; to dance.

(v. i.) To move with a lope, as a horse.

(n.) A leap; a long step.

(n.) An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.

(n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.

(n.) A pool or lake.

(n.) A boundary.

(v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.

(n.) A mare.

(Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.

(Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.

(v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.

(v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.

(v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.

(v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.

(n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.

(n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.

(n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.

(n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

(n.) Instruction; doctrine.

(n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.

(n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.

(n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.

(n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.

(n.) A trench or rampart.

(n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.

(a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

(a.) Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.

(a.) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.

(n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.

(n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.

(n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.

(n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.

(n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.

(n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.

(n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.

(n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.

(n.) Lineament; feature; figure.

(n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.

(n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.

(n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.

(n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.

(n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.

(n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.

(n.) A measuring line or cord.

(n.) Flax; linen.

(n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.

(n.) A lane. See Loanin.

(a.) Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.

(v. i.) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a.

(n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

(n.) The linden tree. See Linden.

(n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.

(n.) Birdlime.

(n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.

(v. t.) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.

(v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.

(v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.

(v. t.) To cement.

(n.) A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.

(superl.) Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character.

(superl.) Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent.

(superl.) Having probability; affording probability; probable; likely.

(superl.) Inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk.

(n.) That which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy.

(n.) A liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes.

(a.) In a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him.

(a.) In a like or similar manner.

(a.) Likely; probably.

(a.) To suit; to please; to be agreeable to.

(a.) To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy.

(a.) To liken; to compare.

(v. i.) To be pleased; to choose.

(v. i.) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).

(n.) A lodge; a habitation.

(n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.

(n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

() of Heave

() of Heave

(v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.

(n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice.

(n.) The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them.

(n.) An African ape; the hamadryas.

(a.) Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

(a.) Naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See Nudum pactum.

(n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.

(n.) The navel.

(n.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.

(n.) A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.

(n.) A promotory or headland.

(n.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.

(n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.

(n.) The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.

(n.) The sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and the goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera.

(n.) One of the early discovered asteroids.

(n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.

(v. t.) To allege; to assert.

(n.) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.

(v. i.) To shine.

(v. t.) To lend; to grant; to permit.

(a.) Smooth; as, the lene breathing.

(a.) Applied to certain mute consonants, as p, k, and t (or Gr. /, /, /).

(n.) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).

(n.) Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. /, /, /).

(n.) An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.

(n.) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

(n.) An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities of certain countries on the continent of Europe, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on his journey; a visa.

(v. t.) To examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa.

(n.) Learning; lesson; lore.

(v. t. & i.) To learn; to teach.

(a.) Empty.

(n.) Flesh; skin.

(v. t.) To lose.

(superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.

(superl.) Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.

(superl.) Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.

(superl.) Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.

(superl.) Remote; distant; far.

(superl.) Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.

(superl.) On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

(superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15.

(adv.) To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.

(adv.) So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

(adv.) So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.

(n.) That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.

(n.) That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.

(v. t.) To let; to leave.

(n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

(n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.

(n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

(n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.

(n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.

(n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.

(n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.

(n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.

(v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.

(v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.

(v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.

(v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

(a.) Dear. See Lief.

(n. & v.) Same as 3d & 4th Leave.

(v. i.) To live.

(v. t.) To believe.

(v. t.) To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause.

() Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.

(a.) Lively; animated; forcible.

(pl. ) of Lira

(n.) A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.

(v. i.) To win all the tricks by a vole.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.

(n.) pl. of Louse.

(adv., & n.) Little.

(v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.

(v. i.) To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.

(v. i.) To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.

(v. i.) To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.

(v. i.) To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.

(v. i.) To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.

(v. i.) To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.

(v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.

(v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.

(v. t.) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.

(v. t.) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.

(a.) Having life; alive; living; not dead.

(a.) Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.

(a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.

(a.) Vivid; bright.

(a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.

(n.) Life.

(n.) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.

(n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.

(n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.

(n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.

(n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.

(v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.

(v. t.) To choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.

(v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.

(v. t.) To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.

(v. t.) To condemn; to devote; to doom.

(n.) The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.

(n.) Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life.

(n.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.

(n.) Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.

(n.) A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.

(n.) Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.

(n.) That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise.

(n.) The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.

(n.) A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.

(n.) Woad.

(v. i.) To go; to move forward.

(v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.

(v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.

(v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.

(n.) The act of wading.

(v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

(v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

(v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

(v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

(v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

(v. t.) To give security for the performance of.

(v. i.) To bind one's self; to engage.

(n.) The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.

(n.) An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.

(n.) A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.

(n.) Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.

(n.) Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.

(n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form

(n.) A rounded projection or division of a leaf.

(n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.

(n.) A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain.

(n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.

(v. t. & i.) To lie; to tell lies.

(n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

(imp. & p. p.) of Make

(v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.

(v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.

(v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.

(v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.

(v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.

(v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.

(v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.

(v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.

(v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.

(v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.

(v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

(v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.

(v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.

(v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in.

(v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.

(v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.

(v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.

(v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.

(v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue.

(v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

(n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.

(a.) See Patte.

(n.) A pie. See Patty.

(n.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.

(n.) The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.

(n.) The skin of a calf's head.

(n.) The pavement.

(v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.

(v. t.) Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.

(n. & v.) See Ooze.

(n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

(n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

(n.) Variety; gradation; degree.

(n.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.

(n.) See 2d Tike.

(v. t.) To lose.

(v. i.) To become lost; to perish.

(n.) A prong or point of an antler.

(n.) Anxiety; tine.

(n.) The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

(n.) Form or character impressed; style; semblance.

(n.) A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.

(n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.

() Curdled milk.

(n. & v.) Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire.

(v. i.) To prey. See 4th Tire.

(n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.

(n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.

(n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.

(n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.

(n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.

(v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

(v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

(superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

(n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

(n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

(v. i.) To play; to sport.

(n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

(superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.

(superl.) Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.

(v. t.) To make lame.

(v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

(v. t.) To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.

(v. t.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.

(v. t.) To draw water.

(v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.

(n.) The mouth of a river.

(n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

(n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.

(n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

(n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.

(n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage.

(v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces.

(v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.

(v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.

(v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage).

(v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.

(v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze.

(n.) In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.

(n.) The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.

(n.) In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in man.

(n.) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

(n.) A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy.

(v. t.) To supplicate by kneeling.

(v. t.) To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

(v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.

(v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.

(n.) A hill.

(n.) A root.

(superl.) Greater; superior; increased

(superl.) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.

(superl.) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.

(superl.) Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.

(n.) A ferment.

(n.) The morbific principle of a zymotic disease.

(a.) To dwell; to abide.

(a.) Dwelling; habitation; abode.

(a.) Custom; habit; wont; use; usage.

(n.) A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.

(n.) That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.

(adv.) In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.

(adv.) With a verb or participle.

(adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.

(adv.) In addition; further; besides; again.

(v. t.) To make more; to increase.

(n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

() imp. of Wear.

() imp. of Ware.

() of Mot

() of Mot

(pres. subj.) of Mot

(v.) See 1st Mot.

(n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

(n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.

(n.) A place of meeting for discussion.

(n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.

(n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.

() p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.

(v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.

(v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.

(v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

(v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.

(v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.

(v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.

(v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.

(v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.

(v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.

(v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

(n.) The act of moving; a movement.

(n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.

(n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

(v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

(n.) The neck of a bird.

(v. i.) To perch on anything, as birds do.

(n.) Week.

(n.) The wipe, or lapwing.

() Alt. of Wyten

(n.) An Arctic fork-tailed gull (Xema Sabinii).

(pl.) of Mow

(v.) See 4th Mow.

(n. & v.) See 1st & 2d Mow.

(n.) Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move.

(adv.) Soon.

(n.) An ant.

(n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.

(v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

(v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.

(v. i.) To stick in mire.

(n.) The issue in a writ of right.

(n.) Expense; cost; disbursement.

(n.) A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom.

(n.) A gate. See 1st Gate.

(n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.

(n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

(n.) A very stubborn person.

(n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.

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(n.) Nose.

(n.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.

(n.) A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

(n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

(n.) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

(n.) A wall.

(n.) To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up.

(n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.

(n.) The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.

(n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.

(n.) See Kail, 2.

(n.) A low ridge.

(n.) The brambling finch.

(n.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

(n.) A bag; a sack; a pocket.

(n.) A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.

(v. t.) To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.

(v. t.) To thrust with the horns; to gore.

(v. t.) To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.

(v. i.) To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.

(n.) The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.

(n.) A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.

(n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

(n.) A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.

(n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.

(v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

(v. t.) To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.

(v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

(v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

(n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

(n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.

(n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.

(n.) The firmament; the sky.

(n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n.

(n.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

(n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious.

(n.) A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.

(n.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.

(n.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.

(n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.

(n.) The brill.

(v. i.) To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.

(n.) The belly.

(n.) An osier basket used for catching fish.

(v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

(n. pl.) Cows.

(v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

(v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

(n.) Paleness; pallor.

(v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

(v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

(n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

(n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

(n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.

(n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.

(n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

(n.) A cheese scoop.

(n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

(superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

(superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.

(superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.

(superl.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

(superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

(n.) A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pise work.