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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A tern.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Seeling

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

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

(a.) Equal; impartial.

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) A gambling house.

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

(v. t.) To overwhelm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Broadly elliptical.

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

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

(n.) Same as Dowle.

(v. i. & t.) To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.

(v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.

(n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.

(n.) Land; country.

(n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.

(v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

(n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.

(n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.

(n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

(v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.

(n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.

(n.) An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

(v. i.) To flow forth; to roll out; to course.

(n.) A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.

(n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.

(n.) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.

(n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.

(n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.

(v. t.) To inclose with rails or a railing.

(v. t.) To range in a line.

(v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.

(v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.

(v. t.) To rail at.

(v. t.) To move or influence by railing.

(n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

(v. i.) To strike; to peck.

(v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

(n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern

(n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

(n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.

(n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.

(n.) A pickax, or mattock.

(n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.

(v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

(n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

(n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.

(n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

(n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.

(n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

(n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.

(v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.

(v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

(v. t. & i.) To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.

(v. t. & i.) To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.

(n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

(n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

(n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.

(n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.

(a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.

(n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.

(n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.

(n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.

(n.) To spike, as a cannon.

(v. t.) Enamel.

(v. t.) To enamel.

(n.) Alt. of Arillus

(v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

(v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.

(v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.

(n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

(v. i.) To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.

(a.) [See Axial.]

(n.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

(n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.

(n.) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.

(n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

(n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

(n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.

(n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

(n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

(v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

(v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

(v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

(v. t.) To utter by bellowing.

(v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

(v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

(v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

(v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

(v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

(v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

(v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

(v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.

(v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.

(n.) Act or state of boiling.

(n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

(n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

(v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.

(v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.

(v./t.) To deliver; to release.

(v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.

(v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.

(n.) Custody; keeping.

(n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.

(n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.

(n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.

(n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.

(n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

(n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

(n.) A certain limit within a forest.

(n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.

(n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

(n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

(n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.

(v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

(n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

(n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

(n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.

(n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

(n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

(n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

(n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.

(n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.

(n.) The globe or earth.

(v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.

(v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

(v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.

(n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.

(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

(n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.

(n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.

(n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.

(v. t.) To roll.

(v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.

(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

(a.) Royal.

(n.) See Rial, an old English coin.

(v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

(v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.

(v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.

(v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.

(v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.

(v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.

(v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.

(v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.

(v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to.

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

(v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.

(v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request.

(v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.

(n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.

(n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.

(n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

(n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.

(n.) A divine vocation or summons.

(n.) Vocation; employment.

(n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.

(n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

(n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

(n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

(n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.

(n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.

(n.) See Assessment, 4.

(n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

(n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

(n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

(n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

(n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

(n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

(n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.

(v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

(v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

(v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

(v. i.) To play with bowls.

(v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

(v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.

(n.) A Spanish coin. See Real.

(a.) Royal.

(n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.

(n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.

(n.) See Rille.

(v. i.) To run a small stream.

(n.) A curved handle.

(n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.

(n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.

(n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.

(n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.

(n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

(n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.

(n.) A young herring.

(n.) A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.

(n.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.

(n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.

(v. t.) To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.

(v. t.) To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place.

(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

(n.) Same as Cella.

(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell.

(a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.

(a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

(n.) Alt. of Buhlwork

(n.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

(n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.

(n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

(n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.

(n.) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.

(v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

(v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.

(v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.

(v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.

(v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.

(n.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.

(n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

(v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.

(v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.

(v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.

(v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

(v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

(v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

(v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

(v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

(v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

(n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

(n.) A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

(n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

(n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

(v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.

(v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.

(v. t.) To collect, as a toll.

(n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

(n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.

(n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.

(n.) A weapon.

(n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.

(v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.

(v. t.) To drive, as a coach.

(n.) A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.

(n.) Soul.

(n.) Same as Sal, the tree.

(n.) Limitation; abridgment.

(a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.

(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.

(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.

(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.

(n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

(n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.

(n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.

(n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

(n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.

(n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

(n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

(n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

(n.) Same as Tailing, 4.

(n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.

(n.) See Tailing, n., 5.

(v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

(v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.

(v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.

(v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

(v. t.) To embrace.

(n.) A small, retired valley; a ravine.

(n.) A young woman; a wench.

(superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.

(superl.) Brave; bold; courageous.

(superl.) Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.

(v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.

(n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.

(n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.

(n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

(n.) A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl.

(a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

(n.) A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.

(v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.

(superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

(superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.

(superl.) Insensible; unfeeling.

(superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.

(superl.) Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.

(superl.) Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.

(superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.

(v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.

(v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.

(v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

(v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.

(v. i.) To become dull or stupid.

(n.) Self.

(n.) A sill.

(n.) A cell; a house.

(n.) A saddle for a horse.

(n.) A throne or lofty seat.

(v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.

(v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.

(v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.

(v. i.) To practice selling commodities.

(v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.

(n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

(n.) A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.

(n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.

(n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

(n.) A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.

(n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

(a.) Royal; regal; kingly.

(a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.

(a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.

(a.) Relating to things, not to persons.

(a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.

(a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.

(n.) A realist.

(v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

(v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.

(v. i.) To wander; to roam.

(v. i.) To romp.

(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

(n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.

(n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

(n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.

(v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.

(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

(v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

(v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.

(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.

(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.

(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.

(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.

(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

(v.) That which rolls; a roller.

(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.

(v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

(v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

(v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

(v.) Part; office; duty; role.

(a.) Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

(n.) The head; the noddle.

(n.) Same as Nowel.

(n.) An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.

(n.) Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.

(n.) A wing; a van.

(n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.

(n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

(n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.

(n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.

(n.) To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl.

(n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton.

(n.) To set sail; to begin a voyage.

(n.) To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.

(v. t.) To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.

(v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.

(v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship.

(n.) A rude, rustic man; a churl.

(n.) Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.

(n.) A kind of food. See citation, below.

(n.) A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

(n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.

(n.) Distribution; apportionment.

(n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

(n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

(n.) Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.

(n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.

(n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.

(v. i.) To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

(v. i.) To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.

(v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.

(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.

(v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.

(v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

(n.) A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.

(n.) A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.

(n.) Alt. of Odyle

(v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.

(v. t.) To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.

(v. t.) To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.

(v. t.) To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.

(v. t.) To perceive; to observe.

(v. i.) To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.

(v. i.) To have the sensibilities moved or affected.

(v. i.) To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.

(v. i.) To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.

(v. i.) To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.

(n.) Feeling; perception.

(n.) A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.

() imp. of Fall.

(a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

(a.) Eager; earnest; intent.

(a.) Gall; anger; melancholy.

(n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.

(n.) A barren or rocky hill.

(n.) A wild field; a moor.

(v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.

(n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

(v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.

(n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.

(n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

(n.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

(n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.

(v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.

(v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail.

(a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).

(v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.

(v. t.) To name; to designate; to call.

(v. i.) To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.

(v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.

(v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

(n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.

(n.) Sesame.

(n.) The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree.

(a.) Whole.

(n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.

(n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

(v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

(v. t.) To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

(n.) A part; a fragment; a portion.

(n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

(n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

(n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

(v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

(n.) The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.

(n.) Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.

(n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

(n.) The calyptra of mosses.

(n.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

(n.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.

(n.) Same as Velum, 3.

(n.) To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.

(n.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.

(n.) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.

(n.) To cut the turf from, as for burning.

(v. i.) To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.

(v. i.) See Waul.

(n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

(v. t.) To imprison.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.

(n.) A chief; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions.

(n.) A morass; a shallow lake.

(v. i.) To jelly.

(n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

(imp.) of Fall

(v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.

(v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.

(v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

(v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.

(v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

(v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.

(v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.

(v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

(v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.

(v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

(v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.

(v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

(v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.

(v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.

(v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive.

(v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.

(v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

(v. t.) To belong or appertain.

(v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.

(v. t.) To let fall; to drop.

(v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.

(v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower.

(v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.

(v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.

(n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

(n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.

(n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.

(n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.

(n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.

(n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.

(n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.

(n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

(n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.

(n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.

(n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.

(n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.

(n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.

(n.) The act of felling or cutting down.

(n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.

(n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.

(n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

(n.) A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.

(n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed.

(a.) To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

(a.) Sole.

(a.) Sole.

(v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance.

(n.) The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

(n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

(n.) The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

(n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

(n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

(n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.

(v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

(v. t.) Alt. of Sowle

(v. i.) See Soul, v. i.

(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.

(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.

(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.

(v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.

(v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.

(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.

(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.

(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.

(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.

(n.) Devil; -- spelt also deel.

(v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject.

(v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act.

(n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.

(n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge.

(n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul.

(v. t.) Same as Furl.

(v. i.) To congeal.

(a.) Faithful; loyal.

(n.) The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.

(n.) Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

(n.) Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.

(v. t.) To feed with fuel.

(v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing.

(Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.

(Compar.) Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.

(Compar.) Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.

(Compar.) Sated; surfeited.

(Compar.) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.

(Compar.) Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.

(Compar.) Filled with emotions.

(Compar.) Impregnated; made pregnant.

(n.) Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.

(adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.

(v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.

(n.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.

(v. i.) To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.

(v. t.) To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

(n.sing. & pl.) A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

(n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

(n.) The gall bladder.

(n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

(n.) Impudence; brazen assurance.

(n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

(v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

(v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.

(v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

(v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

(v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.

(n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

(v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.

(v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

(v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

(v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

(v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.

(v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.

(v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.

(v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

(v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

(v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.

(v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.

(v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

(v. i.) Death; decease.

(n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.

(n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.

(n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

(n.) The flesh under or about the chin.

(n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.

(n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

(n.) A leech.

(n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.

(n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

(n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.

(n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

(n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

(a.) Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.

(n. & v. t.) Same as Veil.

(n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.

(n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.

(n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.

(v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.

(v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.

(n.) Submission; decline; descent.

(v. t.) To choose; to select.

(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.

(v. i.) To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.

(n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.

(n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.

(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.

(n.) The side of a level or drift.

(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.

(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.

(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

(v. t.) To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.

(v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.

(n.) A spot; a defilement.

(n.) The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

(v. t.) To mark with stripes. See Wale.

(adv.) A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.

(adv.) The body politic; the state; common wealth.

(v. t.) To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.

(a. & adv.) Well.

(n.) A whirlpool.

() Alt. of Weely

(n.) The needlefish.

(a.) Relating to time or duration.

(n.) A bird.

(superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.

(superl.) Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.

(superl.) Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.

(superl.) Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

(superl.) Ugly; homely; poor.

(superl.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.

(superl.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.

(superl.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

(v. t.) To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

(v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

(v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

(v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.

(v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

(v. i.) To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

(n.) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

(n.) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

(a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

(a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

(a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

(n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

(n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

(n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

(n.) Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

(n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).

(v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

(a.) Faithful; loyal; true.

(n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.

(v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.

(n.) A young person of either sex; a child.

(n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.

(n.) A female servant; a maidservant.

(n.) A roebuck two years old.

(n.) The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.

(n.) The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.

(n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.

(a.) Yellow.

(n.) A plow.

(n.) A hand, paw, or claw.

(v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.

(v.) The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.

(v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.

(v.) Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.

(v.) That which is strongly wished or desired.

(v.) Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine.

(v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1.

(adv.) To wish; to desire; to incline to have.

(adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, "You will go," or "He will go," describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.

(v. i.) To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire.

(n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.

(n.) To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order.

(n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch.

(v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.

(n.) An image or representation of anything.

(n.) An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god.

(n.) That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored.

(n.) A false notion or conception; a fallacy.

(n.) A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.

(v. t. & n.) Same as Jowl.

(v. t.) See Jowl.

(n.) The cheek; the jaw.

(v. t.) To throw, dash, or knock.

(n.) A spot.

(n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.

(n.) Rent; tribute.

(n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.

(n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

(n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

(n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

(v. t.) To arm with mail.

(v. t.) To pinion.

(n.) A bag; a wallet.

(n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.

(n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.

(n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.

(v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

(n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.

(v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell.

(n.) An eel.

(v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

(v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.

(n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

(v. i.) To yell; to yowl.

(n.) Same as Harl, 2.

(n.) A vetch; a tare.

(n.) A drawer.

(n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.

(n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.

(n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.

(n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.

(v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.

(conj.) As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.

(v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

(v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.

(v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.

(v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.

(v. t.) To order; to request; to command.

(v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.

(v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.

(v. i.) To give an account; to make report.

(v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.

(n.) That which is told; tale; account.

(n.) A hill or mound.

(n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

(n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.

(n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.

(n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.

(n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

(n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).

(n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.

(n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.

(n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

(a.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.

(a.) To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.

(a.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

(a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.

(a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.

(a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.

(a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.

(a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.

(v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.

(v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking.

(v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.

(n.) A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.

(n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies.

(v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.

(v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.

(v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.

(v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

(n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.

(n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

(n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

(n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.

(n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

(prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.

(prep.) To prepare; to get.

(v. i.) To cultivate land.

(n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

(n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.

(v. t.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.

(v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.

(v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.

(n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl.

(v. i. & t.) To mix; to meddle.

(n.) Honey.

(n.) A mill.

(n.) Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.

(n.) A zealot.

(v. i.) To be zealous.

(v. t. & i.) See 2d Will.

(n.) A parrot; -- familiarly so called.

(n.) One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

(n.) The head; the back part of the head.

(n.) A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.

(n.) Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.

(n.) The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.

(n.) The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.

(n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.

(n.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).

(v. t.) To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree.

(v. t.) To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass.

(v. t.) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

(v. t.) To impose a tax upon.

(v. t.) To pay as one's personal tax.

(v. t.) To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.

(v. t.) To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

(v. t.) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.

(v. i.) To vote at an election.

(a.) Pertaining to the pia mater.

(n.) A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.

(n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

(n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

(n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.

(n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.

(n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

(n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.

(n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.

(n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

(v. t.) To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.

(v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

(n.) A kiln.

(n.) A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2.

(n.) The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film.

(n.) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.

(n.) The peel or skin.

(v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

(v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.

(v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.

(v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.

(n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

(n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

(v. i.) To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.

(v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.

(v. i.) To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.

(v. t.) To utter with outcry.

(n.) The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.

(n.) A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.

(v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

(v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.

(v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.

(v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.

(v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.

(v. t.) To allure; to tole.

(v. i.) To howl.

(n.) See Ayle.

(v. t.) To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.

(v. t.) To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.

(v. t.) To twist or turn.

(v. i.) To hurl one's self; to go quickly.

(v. i.) To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).

(v. i.) To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

(n.) The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.

(n.) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.

(n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

(n.) See Carl.

(v. t.) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.

(n.) A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.

(n.) To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.

(v. t.) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.

(v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.

(n.) The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.

(n.) A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.

(n.) Alt. of Merle

(n.) A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

(n.) A heavy blow.

(n.) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.

(n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.

(v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

(n.) Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.

(n.) A court of justice.

(n.) A place where justice is administered.

(n.) A place where public meetings are held.

(v. i.) To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.

(v. i.) To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.

(v. i.) To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.

(v. t.) To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.

(v. i.) To loll.

(v. t.) To pelt; to knock about.

(n.) A skin or hide; a pelt.

(n.) A roll of parchment; a parchment record.

(v. t.) To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

(v. t.) To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.

(v. t.) To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.

(v. t.) To restore to original purity or integrity.

(v. t.) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.

(v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.

(v. t.) Health.

(a.) Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.

(a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.

(n.) Something that has no force or meaning.

(n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.

(v. t.) To annul.

(n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

(v. t.) To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.

(v. t.) To anneal.

(v. i.) To be tempered by heat.

(n.) A small collection of houses; a village.

(n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.

(n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

(n.) See Pawl.

(n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

(n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel.

(v. t.) To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

(n.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

(v. i.) To appeal.

(n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.

(n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.

(v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds.

(v. i.) To resound; to echo.

(v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.

(v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(n.) A kiln.

(n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.

(v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.

(v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.

(v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.

(v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.

(v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

(v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

(v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.

(v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.

(v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.

(v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.

(v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.

(v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.

(n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.

(n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.

(n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.

(n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.

(n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.

(n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.

(n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.

(n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

(n.) In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.

(a.) Allodial; -- a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial.

(n.) Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.

(n.) A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.

(n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

(n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

(n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

(n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

(n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

(n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.

(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

(n.) A pugilistic.

(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

(n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

(n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

(n.) To beat with the fists.

(n.) To roll into bars, as steel.

(v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

(v. t. & i.) See 2d Will.

(n.) A thin, soft kind of muslin.

(n.) A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre.

(n.) A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

(n.) Dirt; rubbish.

(v. t.) To powder; to pulverize.

(v. i.) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem.

(n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

(v. t.) To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.

(v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.

(n.) A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.

(n.) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.

(n.) A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.

(v. t. & i.) To cool; to skim or stir.

(n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

(n.) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.

(n.) Fig.: The whole ship.

(n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.

(n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

(n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

(v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

(v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

(n.) Same as Pawl.

(n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

(n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.

(n.) Same as Pallium.

(n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

(n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.

(n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

(v. t.) To cloak.

(a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.

(v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.

(v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

(n.) Nausea.

(v. t.) To spin, as a top.

(v. t.) To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.