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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Same as Cormus, 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) See Haulm, straw.

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

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

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

(n.) A helve.

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

(n.) A helmet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Grease; tallow; lard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A denomination of weight or measure.

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

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

(n.) An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

(n.) An ultimate particle of matter not necessarily indivisible; a molecule.

(n.) A constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles.

(n.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

(n.) Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit.

(v. t.) To reduce to atoms.

(n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.

(n.) The lap or bosom.

(n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

(v. t.) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

(n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

(n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.

(n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.

(n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.

(n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.

(n.) The pole of a carriage.

(n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

(n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.

(n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

(n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

(n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.

(n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.

(n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.

(v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.

(v. i.) To emit beams of light.

(n.) Alt. of Berme

(n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.

(n.) The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs.

(n.) Any fragrant ointment.

(n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.

(v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate.

(n.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.

(v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

(n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.

(n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.

(n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.

(super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

(super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.

(v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

(v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.

(v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.

(n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

(n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.

(n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.

(n.) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

(n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.

(v. t.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.

(v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.

(v. i.) To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

(v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

(v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

(n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.

(n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.

(v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.

(n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.

(n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.

(n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.

(n.) The rim of a hat.

(v. i.) To be full to the brim.

(v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

(a.) Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.

(n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

(n.) One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.

(v. t.) To chew.

(n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.

(a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

(a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.

(n.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

(n.) An islet in a river.

(n.) Low, flat land.

(a.) Empty.

(v. t.) To empty.

(Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

(v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.

(v. t.) See Dermis.

(a.) Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim.

(a.) Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as,

() imp. of Swim.

(n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form

(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

(n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.

(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.

(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

(n.) See Drumfish.

(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

(n.) A tea party; a kettledrum.

(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

(v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

(v. i.) To throb, as the heart.

(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune.

(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

(v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

(n.) A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.

(v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

(v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

(n.) Claminess; moisture.

(n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

(v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

(v. i.) To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

(v. t.) To range or wander over.

(n.) The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.

(n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

(v. i.) To cream; to mantle.

(v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

(n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

(v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

(n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.

(n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.

(n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.

(n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.

(n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

(v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

(a.) Spacious; roomy.

(n.) Lard; grease.

(n.) Psalm.

(v. t. & i.) To starve; to famish.

(interj.) Silence; hush.

(n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

(n.) Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.

(n.) The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.

(v.) To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.

(v.) To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.

(v. i.) To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.

(v. i.) To pass judgment.

(n.) Opinion; judgment.

(n.) Same as Ogham.

(n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.

(n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together.

(n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.

(n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.

(n.) A flock of wild ducks.

(n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.

(v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.

(v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.

(v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.

(v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

(a.) To think fit.

(v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

(v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.

(v. t.) To produce; to bring forth.

(n.) Home.

(superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

(superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

(superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.

(superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.

(superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.

(superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.

(superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.

(superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.

(a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.

(a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

(v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.

(v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds.

(n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

(adv.) Also; as an additional article.

(n.) An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill.

(n.) A hint; an innuendo.

(n.) A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.

(v. t.) To make a note or memorandum of.

(n.) A part or decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient Jews, by which Jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. Its nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures.

(v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.

(v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

(v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.

(v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.

(v. i.) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.

(v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.

(v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.

(a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

(v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

(v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.

(v. t.) Ruin; death.

(v. t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.

(v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

(v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.

(v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

(v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

(v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

(n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.

(n.) Same as Slimes.

(v. i.) Alt. of Steem

(n.) Alt. of Steem

(n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.

(n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

(n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

(n.) A branch of a family.

(n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.

(n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

(n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.

(n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

(n.) The entire central axis of a feather.

(n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.

(n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

(n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

(v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

(v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

(v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.

(v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

(n.) That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.

(n.) A false front, or removable ornamental covering.

(a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight.

(v. t.) To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.

(v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

(v. t.) To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

(v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.

(n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

(n.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.

(a. & n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

(a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

(a. & n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

(a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

(a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

(a. & n.) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

(v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

(v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.

(v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate.

(v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

(v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

(n.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.

(n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.

(v. i.) To germinate.

(n.) See Etymon.

(n.) A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

(n.) The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.

(n.) Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

(n.) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.

(n.) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.

(n.) Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.

(n.) A shape; an image; a phantom.

(n.) That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

(n.) A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.

(n.) The seat or bed of a hare.

(n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

(n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

(n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.

(n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

(n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.

(n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.

(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

(n.) To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.

(n.) To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.

(n.) To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.

(n.) To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.

(n.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

(v. i.) To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

(v. i.) To run to a form, as a hare.

(n. & v. i.) See Leme.

(n.) A cord or strap for leading a dog.

(n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.

(n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.

(v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

(v. t.) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

(v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat.

(v. t.) To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree.

(v. t.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.

(v. t.) To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.

(v. t.) To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.

(v. t.) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.

(v. i.) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.

(n.) Dress; gear; ornaments.

(n.) Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim.

(n.) The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.

(n.) The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.

(v. t.) Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect.

(n.) Brightness; splendor.

(n.) A light or candle.

(n.) Sullenness.

(a.) Moody; silent; sullen.

(v. i.) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

(pron. / adj.) The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

(n.) Alt. of Imaum

(n.) Same as Haulm.

(n.) A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

(n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.

(v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

(superl.) Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

(superl.) Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent.

(superl.) Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land.

(superl.) Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.

(a.) The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

(a.) To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.

(a.) To fix or direct with firmness.

(pron.) The objective case of they. See They.

(n.) See Haulm, stalk.

(n.) See Haulm, straw.

(v. i.) To lounge; to loiter.

(n.) The privet.

(a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.

(v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.

(v. i.) To dress or act smartly.

(n.) A troop; a company.

(imp.) of Swim

() of Swim

(p. p.) of Swim

(v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

(v. i.) To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.

(v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.

(v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

(v. i.) To be filled with swimming animals.

(v. t.) To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.

(v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.

(v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.

(n.) The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.

(n.) The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

(n.) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

(v. i.) To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.

() imp. of Swim.

() imp. & p. p. of Swim.

(a.) Angry.

(n.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.

(n.) Alt. of Gramme

(n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

(n.) "Original sin;" human frailty.

(n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.

(n.) The shaft of a cart.

(n.) One of the rails of a tramway.

(n.) A car on a horse railroad.

(n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

(n.) Alt. of Prame

(n.) A leash.

(n.) Alt. of Malmbrick

(n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.

(v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.

(n.) The European widgeon.

(n.) A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.

(n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey.

(v. i.) To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish.

(pron.) The objective case of who. See Who.

(n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.

(n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.

(v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

(v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

(v. t.) To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.

(v.) The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

(v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

(v. t.) See Lam.

(v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water.

(v. i.) To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask.

(n.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

(n.) A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

(n.) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

(n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

(n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

(n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.

(n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

(n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

(n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

(n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.

(n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.

(n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.

(n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.

(v. t.) To handle.

(v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.

(v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off.