(adv.) Straightway; at once.

(adv.) Soon; in a little while.

(adv.) At another time; then; again.

(adv. & prep.) See Again.

(n.) A contest for a prize at the public games.

(a.) Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

(a.) Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

(n.) A wolfhound.

(n.) An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.

(n.) See Poon.

(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.

(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.

(n.) See 2d Pawn.

(n.) A raccoon. See Raccoon.

(n.) See Scion.

(p. p.) of See

() p. p. of See.

(a.) Versed; skilled; accomplished.

(n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

(a.) A stranger.

(b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

(n.) The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.

(n.) A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.

(v. i.) To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.

(v. t.) To prick; to st?ng.

(n.) A pass in fencing; a lunge.

(n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.

(n.) See Pains, labor, effort.

(n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

(n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.

(n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

(n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

(n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

(n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

(n.) A seine. See Seine.

(n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

(n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.

(n.) That which serves for payment or recompense.

(v. t.) To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

(v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

(v. t.) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

(v. i.) To manufacture counterfeit money.

(n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

(n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.

(v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

(pl. ) of Ox

(a.) Own.

(n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

(n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.

(n.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.

(n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.

(n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down

(v. t.) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

(prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

(prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.

(prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.

(prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.

(adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.

(adv.) From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.

(adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.

(adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.

(adv.) From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.

(adv.) In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.

(adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.

(v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.

(v. i.) To go down; to descend.

(a.) Downcast; as, a down look.

(a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.

(a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

(adv.) In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise.

(adv.) Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.

(adv.) Promptly; quickly; easily.

(adv.) Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will.

(a.) Speedy; quick.

(interj.) An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh?

(n. & v.) Reign.

(n.) Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.

(n.) To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.

(n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.

(v. t.) To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.

(v. t.) To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.

(p. pr.) The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

(n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

(v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

(n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

(interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily.

(v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully.

(n.) A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.

(v. t. & i.) To stop; to cease; to desist.

(n.) Cessation; end.

(p. p.) of Be

(n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

(n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.

(p. p.) of Bear

(adv. & prep.) Alt. of Ayeins

() The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.

(n.) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.

(n.) The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.

(n.) The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.

(n.) A bath; a bagnio.

(n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.

(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.

(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.

(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.

(n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.

(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.

(n. pl.) Same as Bushmen.

(n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.

(a.) No. See the Note under No.

(n.) The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.

(n.) Hence, the highest point; culmination.

(a.) Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.

(v. i.) To take rest and refreshment at noon.

(v. i.) To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board.

(n.) A prayer or petition.

(n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.

(n.) Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.

(n.) Kind; bountiful; benign.

(n.) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

(n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

(v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.

(v. t.) Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.

(a.) Ready; prepared; destined; tending.

(v. t.) To make or get ready.

(n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

(n.) The European carrion crow.

(n.) The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

(n.) Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint.

(v. t.) To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.

(v. t.) To restrain; to control; to check.

(v. i.) To be guided by reins.

(n.) A gatepost or doorpost.

(a.) Hidden; concealed; secret.

(a.) Solitary; sad.

(n.) That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

(n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.

(n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.

(n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.

(n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.

(n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.

(n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.

(n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.

(n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.

(n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.

(n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.

(n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division Ö, and the like.

(n.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.

(n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.

(n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.

(n.) To represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.

(n.) To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.

(n.) To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.

(n.) To assign or convey formally; -- used with away.

(n.) To mark; to make distinguishable.

(v. i.) To be a sign or omen.

(v. i.) To make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.

(v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.

() of Saw

(n.) One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

(n.) A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

(n.) See Bun.

(n.) Alt. of Norna

(v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

(v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.

(v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.

(v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.

(v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.

(a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.

(a.) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.

(a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter.

(a.) Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.

(a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.

(a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the an far is open as compared with the a in say.

(a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.

(a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.

(a.) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.

(n.) Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water.

(v. t.) To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter.

(v. t.) To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.

(v. t.) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

(v. t.) To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc.

(v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.

(v. t.) To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.

(v. i.) To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted.

(v. i.) To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.

(v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.

(v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game.

(a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.

(a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.

(a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.

(a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.

() pl. of Toe.

(n.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

(n.) A snare; a gin.

(v. i.) To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.

(v. i.) To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.

(v. t.) To express by grinning.

(n.) The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.

(n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.

(n.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.

(n.) A mountain lake or pool.

(n.) An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.

(n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

(n.) Alt. of Crane

(n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.

(n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

(a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.

(a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.

(n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color.

(n.) A roan horse.

(n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

(v. t.) See Royne.

(n.) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.

(a. & n.) Vermilion red; red.

(v. i. & t.) Alt. of Rown

(p. p.) Said.

(v. t.) To sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence.

(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Brenne

(n.) Bran.

(n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.

(v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.

(v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

(n.) A place mended by darning.

(v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

(n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor.

(v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

(v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

(n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

(n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

(n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

(n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.

(n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.

(n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.

(n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

(n.) The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

(n.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.

(p. p.) of Tear

(n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.

(n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.

(v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.

() p. p. of Tear.

(adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.

(adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.

(adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.

(adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

(adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.

(adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.

(adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.

(adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

(n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.

(n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.

(n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.

(n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

(n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn

(n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.

(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.

(n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.

(n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.

(n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.

(n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.

(n.) The Ionic volute.

(n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.

(n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.

(n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

(n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.

(n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

(n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.

(n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.

(n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

(v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

(n.) See Jinnee.

(pl. ) of Jinnee

(n.) A proper name of a man.

(v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

(v. t.) To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.

(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention.

(superl.) Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.

(superl.) Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.

(superl.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

(superl.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare.

(superl.) Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

(a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.

(a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind.

(a.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.

(n.) That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.

(n.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.

(n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.

(n.) Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.

(n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.

(n.) Meantime; meanwhile.

(n.) A mediator; a go-between.

(v. t.) To refuse.

(v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.

(v. t.) To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.

(v. t.) To ward off.

(n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.

(n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.

(n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.

(n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.

(n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

(n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.

(n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.

(n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.

(v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.

(a.) Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

(a.) Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.

(a.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.

(a.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

(n.) One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.

(n.) A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.

(n.) A person or thing that closely resembles another.

(n.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.

(v. i.) To bring forth twins.

(v. i.) To be born at the same birth.

(v. t.) To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.

(v. t.) To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.

(v. i.) To depart from a place or thing.

(n.) Alt. of Jaina

(prep.) On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.

(v. i.) See Yawn.

(n.) A twilled cotton cloth.

(v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.

(v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.

(v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.

(v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.

(v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.

(v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.

(v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

(n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.

(n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.

(n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.

(n.) A small stream.

(v. i.) To squint.

(n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.

(n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.

(n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.

(n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

(n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

(n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.

(v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.

(v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.

(v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

(v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.

(v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

(a.) Diana.

(n. & v.) See Scum.

(n.) A British ray; the thornback.

(p. p.) of Sow

() p. p. of Sow.

(v. t.) To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.

(v. t.) To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

(v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.

(v. t.) To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.

(v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

(v. t.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.

(v. i.) To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.

(v. i.) To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.

(v. i.) To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.

(v. i.) To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

(n.) The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.

(n.) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.

() of Sew

(v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

(v. t.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

(v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.

(v. i.) To invoke damnation; to curse.

(n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

(n.) A fish plate for rails.

(v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.

(v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.

(v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

(n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.

(n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.

(n.) A small tub or lading vessel.

(n.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.

(n.) See Humin.

(n.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.

(n.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

(n.) The young of an animal; a whelp.

(n.) A fawn color.

(a.) Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.

(v. i.) To bring forth a fawn.

(v. i.) To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.

(n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.

(n.) An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.

(n. pl.) Eyes.

(n.) Plural of eye; -- now obsolete, or used only in poetry.

(a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.

(a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.

(adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.

(v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

(pl. ) of Ginnee

(superl.) Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

(superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.

(superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.

(superl.) Showy; ostentatious.

(n.) Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.

(n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.

(n.) A chariot.

(n.) An open space between woods.

(n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

(a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

(a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.

(n.) A weanling; a young child.

(p. p.) of Wear

(v. i.) To think; to imagine; to fancy.

(a.) Consisting of ebony.

(a.) Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.

(n.) Ebony.

(n.) Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

(a.) Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.

(a.) Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.

(a.) Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.

(a.) Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain.

(a.) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.

(a.) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.

(a.) Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers.

(v. t.) To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth.

(v. t.) To equal

(v. t.) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.

(v. t.) To set right; to complete.

(v. t.) To act up to; to keep pace with.

(v. i.) To be equal.

(a.) In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.

(a.) Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.

(a.) As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected.

(a.) At the very time; in the very case.

(n.) The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

(adv.) A contraction for even. See Even.

(v. t.) To conceal.

(v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.

(v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.

(v. i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.

(v. i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.

(v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.

(v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.

(v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.

(n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.

(n.) Unremunerative copy or work.

(adv.) When.

(n.) To grin.

(v. t.) To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.

(v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.

(v. t.) To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.

(n.) The condition of being stunned.

(n.) A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

(n.) Alt. of Glynne

(n.) See 3d Trone, 2.

() p. p. of Go.

(n.) The native name of Persia.

(n.) Alt. of Imaum

(n.) The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or on a fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked by many corrosive agents. Symbol Fe (Latin Ferrum). Atomic weight 55.9. Specific gravity, pure iron, 7.86; cast iron, 7.1. In magnetic properties, it is superior to all other substances.

(n.) An instrument or utensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc.

(n.) Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles.

(n.) Strength; power; firmness; inflexibility; as, to rule with a rod of iron.

(n.) Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust.

(n.) Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness.

(n.) Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.;

(n.) Rude; hard; harsh; severe.

(n.) Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution.

(n.) Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will.

(n.) Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious.

(v. t.) To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes used with out.

(v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

(v. t.) To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon.

(v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

(v. t.) To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.

(v. t.) To unite in marriage.

(v. t.) To enjoin upon; to command.

(v. t.) To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.

(v. i.) To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join.

(n.) The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines.

(v. i.) To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.

(v. i.) To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.

(v. i.) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.

(v. i.) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.

(n.) An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.

(n.) The act of opening wide, or of gaping.

(n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.

(v. i.) See 3d Yearn.

(a.) Eager; brisk; quick; active.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spin

() imp. & p. p. of Spin.

(n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

(a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.

(v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.

(v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.

(n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.

(n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.

(n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

(n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.

(n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.

(v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

() Alt. of Ta'en

() of Hew

(a.) Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

(a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.

(adv.) Long ago.

(a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].

(n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.

(a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.

(a.) That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.

(a.) A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.

(conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.

(adv.) Then. See Then.

(adv.) At that time (referring to a time specified, either past or future).

(adv.) Soon afterward, or immediately; next; afterward.

(adv.) At another time; later; again.

(conj.) Than.

(conj.) In that case; in consequence; as a consequence; therefore; for this reason.

(n.) A horse of a dark color, neither gray nor white, and having no spots.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten, obtained from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous substance.

(n.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors.

(n.) Hence, the theocracy, or church of God.

(n.) The heavenly Jerusalem; heaven.

(n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.

(n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

(n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.

(n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

(v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.

(v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

(n.) An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid.

(n.) Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.

(n.) The yaws. See Yaws.

(n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.

(n.) An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp.

(n.) A loose, flowing upper garment

(n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.

(n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.

(n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.

(n.) Any sort of dress or garb.

(n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.

(n.) A large house.

(n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.

(n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.

(v. t.) To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.

(v. i.) To sing in praise or adoration.

(n.) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.

(n.) Any kind of boor or low-lived person.

(n.) An idler; a vagabond.

(n.) A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank.

(v. t.) To form with a kern. See 2d Kern.

(n.) A churn.

(n.) A hand mill. See Quern.

(v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening.

(v. i.) To take the form of kernels; to granulate.

(n.) The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

(n.) See Monkey's puzzle.

(n.) A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them.

(n.) An Eastern inn or caravansary.

(n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

(n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.

(n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.

(n.) A low fellow.

(a.) Lost; undone; ruined.

(a.) Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as, a lone, lorn woman.

(n.) A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.

(n.) Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus Urinator (formerly Colymbus), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (U. septentrionalis), are the best known species. See Diver.

(v. t.) To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.

(v. t.) To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

(n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

(superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

(superl.) Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.

(superl.) Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.

(superl.) Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.

(superl.) Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.

(superl.) Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

(superl.) Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.

(adv.) Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.

(v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

(v. i.) To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.

(v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

(pl. ) of Flo

(v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.

(v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.

(v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.

(v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.

(v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.

(v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.

(v. t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.

(v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.

(v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.

(v. t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.

(v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.

(v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.

(v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.

(v. i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.

(n. pl.) See Flo.

(v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.

(v. i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.

(v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.

(v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.

(v. i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.

(v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.

(v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.

(v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

(v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

(n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.

(n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.

(n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.

(n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.

(n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.

(n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.

(n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.

(n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.

(n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.

(n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.

(n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.

(n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

(n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.

(n.) Monthly courses; menses.

(n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.

(adv.) At what time; -- used interrogatively.

(adv.) At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.

(adv.) While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds.

(adv.) Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.

(n.) Gorse; furze. See Furze.

(n.) Woad-waxed.

(n.) Same as Whinstone.

(n.) A lion.

(n.) A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.

(n.) A sign and a constellation; Leo.

(n.) An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time.

(p. p.) of Lie

() of Lie

(obs. p. p.) of Lie. See Lain.

(n.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

(n.) A loanin.

(n.) The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.

(n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.

(n. t.) To lend; -- sometimes with out.

(n.) A hand or match at dice.

(n.) A stake played for at dice.

(n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.

(n.) A match at cockfighting.

(n.) A main-hamper.

(v.) Strength; force; might; violent effort.

(v.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.

(v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.

(v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.

(v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.

(a.) Very or extremely strong.

(a.) Vast; huge.

(a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.

(a.) Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.

(a.) Important; necessary.

(a.) Very; extremely; as, main heavy.

(n.) See Pan, the masticatory.

(n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.

(n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.

(n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.

(n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.

(v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.

(v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

(n.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes.

(n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.

(n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.

(v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.

(v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.

(v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.

(v. t.) To afflict; to distress.

(v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.

(v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.

(n.) See Uhlan.

(p. p.) of Lie, v. i.

(v. t.) To take profit of; to make profitable.

(n.) The honey buzzard.

(n.) Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

(n.) The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.

(n.) Dwelling. See Wone.

() p. p. of Wear.

(v.) pl. of Mow, may.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.

(n.) A kind of timber truck, or carriage.

() of Mow

() of Mow

(p. p. & a.) Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

(n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.

(n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.

(n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

(n.) See Peen.

(n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.

(n.) A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.

(superl.) Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.

(superl.) Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features.

(superl.) Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.

(superl.) Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.

(superl.) Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.

(v. t.) To sharpen; to make cold.

(n.) A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach.

(v. i.) To wail as a keener does.

(n.) A heron; esp., the common European heron.

(n.) A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.