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

(adv.) On the jog.

(v. i.) To hide.

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

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() of Ding

(v. t.) To dash; to throw violently.

(v. t.) To cause to sound or ring.

(v. i.) To strike; to thump; to pound.

(v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.

(v. i.) To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.

(n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

(n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.

(v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.

(v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.

(v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

(v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.

(v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

(v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

(v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.

(v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

(v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

(v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

(v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

(v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

(v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

(v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

(v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

(v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

(v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

(v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

(v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.

(a.) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

(v. t.) To make smug, or spruce.

(n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society.

(n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

(n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.

(n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

(n.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.

(v. t.) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.

(v. t.) To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.

(v. t.) To chop off; to cut.

(v. i.) To sneak.

(n.) Alt. of Snigg

(n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

(n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.

(n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.

(n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.

(n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.

(n.) A trifle.

(n. & v.) See Big, n. & v.

(n.) A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.

(n.) A quagmire.

(n.) A large mass or hill, as of ice.

() imp. & p. p. of Ring.

(n.) A floor timber in a ship.

(n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.

(n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

(n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

(n.) A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

(v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

(v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

(v. t.) To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

(v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

(n.) A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.

(n.) The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

(v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).

(n.) The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.

(n.) Alt. of Bangue

(v. i.) To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.

(v. t.) To boast of.

(n.) A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.

(n.) The thing which is boasted of.

(n.) A game at cards similar to bluff.

(v. i.) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

(adv.) Proudly; boastfully.

(n.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.

(v. t.) To build.

() imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.

(n.) A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.

(v. t.) To shake; to shock.

(v. i.) To jog; to move on.

(v. i.) To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.

(v. i.) Hence, to crawl; to sneak.

(n.) A bridge.

(n.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.

(n.) A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.

(v. t.) To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.

(n.) A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners.

(n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

(n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

(n.) A sharper or pickpocket.

(v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

(n.) A fortified town.

(n.) A borough.

(imp.) of Sing

() of Sing

(p. p.) of Sing

(v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.

(v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

(v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.

(v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.

(v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.

(v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.

(v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.

(v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

(v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

(n.) Alt. of Tonge

(n.) A cricket or grasshopper.

(n.) Any small eel.

(n.) The broad-nosed eel. See Glut.

(n.) Heath.

(n.) A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.

(v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.

(v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.

(n.) A swaying, irregular motion.

(n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.

(v. i.) To drudge; to toil laboriously.

(n.) A drudge (?).

(n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.

(n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

(v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

(v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.

(v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.

(v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.

(n.) An abbreviation of Congius.

(n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

(n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

(n.) The neck or throat

(n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.

(superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.

(superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.

(superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.

(n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.

(v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.

(v. t.) To place snugly.

(v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.

(imp.) of Ring

() of Ring

(p. p.) of Ring

(v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

(v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.

(v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

(v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.

(v. i.) To practice making music with bells.

(v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.

(v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.

(v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

(n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.

(n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

(n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

(n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

(n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.

(n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.

(n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.

(n.) A circular group of persons.

(n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.

(n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.

(n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

(n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

(n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.

(v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.

(v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

(v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

(v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.

() imp. & p. p. of Ring.

(n.) Rung (of a ladder).

(n.) A small breeze or horsefly.

() imp. of Sing.

(v.) That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.

(v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.

(v.) A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.

(v. t.) To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

(v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

(v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

(v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.

(v. i.) To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.

(n.) The excrement of an animal.

(v. t.) To manure with dung.

(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

(v. i.) To void excrement.

() imp. of Ding.

(v. t.) To dash.

(n.) Alt. of Dargue

(n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

(n.) The male of certain other species of large deer.

(n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.

(n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.

(n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.

(n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.

(n.) The European wren.

(v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.

(v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

(n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.

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

(n.) The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone.

(n.) A slap; a blow.

(n.) See Whang.

(v. t.) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

(v. t.) To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?

(v. t.) To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.

(n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.

(v. t.) To beat with twigs.

(v. t. & n.) See Jag.

(v. i.) To go; to walk.

(v. i.) A going; a course.

(v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

(v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

(v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

(v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

(n.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg.

(n.) A sort of wild plum.

(n.) A kind of oats.

(n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.

(v. t.) The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.

(v. t.) The scoria of a volcano.

(n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

(n.) A hindrance; an obstruction.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

(n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

(n.) A ship that sails slowly.

(n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

(n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

(v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle.

(v. t.) To make sluggish.

(v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

(v. t.) To strike heavily.

(v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

(a.) To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.

(a.) To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.

(v. t.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.

(v. t.) Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.

(v. t.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.

(v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.

(v. t.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.

(v. t.) The valve of a pump box.

(v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.

(n.) A gander.

(n.) Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.

(n.) A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.

(n.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.

(n.) Any species of cormorant.

(a.) Hairy; shaggy.

(v. t.) To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

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

(a. & adv.) Long.

(n.) A rope to steady the peak of a gaff.

(v. t.) To fill; to stuff; to cram.

(a.) Full; also, trim; neat.

(v. t.) To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

(n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

(a.) Quick of perception; alert; sharp.

(n.) A trough, or tray.

(n.) A hod for mortar.

(n.) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.

(n.) A concubine; a harlot.

(imp.) Hung.

(n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).

(n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.

(n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.

(n.) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.

(n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.

(n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.

(n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.

(n.) The tongue of a buckle.

(n.) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.

(v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.

(v. i.) To make a ringing sound; to ring.

(n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

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(v. i.) To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.

(v. i.) To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc.

(v. i.) To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve.

(v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.

(v. i.) To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc.

(v. i.) To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room.

(v. i.) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.

(v. i.) To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.

(v. i.) To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.

(v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.

(v. i.) To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.

(v. i.) To be, or be like, a suspended weight.

(v. i.) To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.

(v. i.) To lean or incline; to incline downward.

(v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds.

(v. i.) To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed.

(n.) The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.

(n.) Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.

(n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.

(v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

(v. i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.

(v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.

(v. t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.

(n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.

(n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.

(n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

(n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

(n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.

(v. t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.

(v. t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.

(n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.

(v. t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.

(n.) A flat stone used for paving.

(n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

(v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.

(n.) A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.

(v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle.

(n.) The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

(n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.

(n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.

(n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.

(n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.

(n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.

(n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

(n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

(n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

(n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.

(n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

(n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

(n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

(n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.

(n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.

(n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.

(n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

(n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.

(n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

(n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.

(v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.

(v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.

(v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.

(v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.

(v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.

(v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.

(v. t.) To cheapen.

(v. t.) To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.

(n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.

(n.) A thief; a filcher.

(n.) A piggin. See 1st Pig.

() imp. & p. p. of Sing.

(n.) A privy or jakes.

(n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.

(n.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also gong bell.

(v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.

(v. t.) To suck.

(n.) A long draught.

(n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.

(n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.

(v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.

(v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

() imp. & p. p. of Hang.

(superl.) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

(superl.) Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

(superl.) Far-reaching; extensive.

(superl.) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30.

(n.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

(n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.

(n.) The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.

(adv.) To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.

(adv.) To a great extent in time; during a long time.

(adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.

(adv.) Through the whole extent or duration.

(adv.) Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?

(prep.) By means of; by the fault of; because of.

(a.) To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.

(a.) To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for.

(superl.) Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

(superl.) Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.

(superl.) Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.

(v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.

(v. i.) To steal; to rob; to filch.

(v. i.) To prick; to goad; to progue.

(n.) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.

(n.) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.

(n.) A goal; progue.

(n.) A large marine annelid (Nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.

(n.) An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.

(v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

(n.) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.

(n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.

(n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist.

(n.) One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Whigs.

(a.) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.

(a.) The burbot of Lake Ontario.

(a.) An American hake of the genus Phycis.

(a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

(n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).

(n.) Alt. of Vugh

(n.) The grivet.

(n.) The kittiwake.

(n.) A field.

(v. i.) To wriggle.

(n.) The cry of the wild goose; a honk.

(v. i.) To make the cry of the wild goose.

(n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

(n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

(n.) A high, tapering silk hat.

(n.) A worthless horse.

(n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.

(v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

(n.) A knot in wood; a protuberance.

(n.) A wooden peg for hanging things on.

(n.) The prong of an antler.

(n.) The rugged top of a hill.

(n.) A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.

(n.) A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.

(n.) One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.

(n.) A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds.

(n.) The chief piece in the game of chess.

(n.) A crowned man in the game of draughts.

(n.) The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.

(v. i.) To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.