(v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur.

(n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.

(adv.) Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

(adv.) In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having, wings.

(a.) Axillary; in the fork or axil.

(a.) Sore; painful.

(n.) One who sees.

(n.) A person who foresees events; a prophet.

(a.) Alt. of Egre

(n.) An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.

(n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.

(n.) Hair.

(n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.

(n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.

(v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.

(v. i.) To come in sight; to appear.

(v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.

(n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

(n.) A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

(n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

(v. t.) To make equal in rank.

(v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal.

(v. i.) To move hastily; to scour.

(n.) Alt. of Charr

(n.) A car; a chariot.

(n.) Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.

(v. t.) Alt. of Chare

(v. i.) Alt. of Chare

(n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

(n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.

(n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.

(n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.

(n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

(n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.

(n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.

(n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

(n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.

(v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

(a.) Alt. of Sere

(a.) To wither; to dry up.

(a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.

(n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

(n.) A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.

(n.) Cordage or cables, made of this material.

(n.) A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing.

(n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

(n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

(a.) Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.

(n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

(n.) The polestar; the north star.

(n.) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.

(n.) That which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor.

(n.) Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.

(n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.

(n.) A person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.

(v. t.) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems.

(v. i.) To be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.

(v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

(n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.

(n.) A rush or impetus; force.

(n.) A quarry.

(n.) Emir.

(n.) One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.

(n.) Same as Ameer.

(v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.

(v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.

(v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.

(v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.

(v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

(v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

(v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor

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

(v. t.) To gain or win.

(v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.

(v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.

(v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.

(v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.

(v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.

(v. t.) To behave; to conduct.

(v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.

(v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.

(v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.

(v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.

(v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.

(v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.

(v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.

(v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?

(v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.

(v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.

(n.) A bier.

(n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.

(n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.

(n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

(n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.

(n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

(n.) A portable punching machine.

(n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.

(v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.

(n.) Alt. of Bere

(v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.

(v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

(v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

(n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

(n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

(n.) A moral stain or blot.

(n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

(n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

(n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

(n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

(n.) A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Z. lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b).

(n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

(n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

(n.) A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

(n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

(n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

(n.) A chamber or a cottage.

(n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.

(n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.

(n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.

(n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.

(n.) The sweetbread.

(n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.

(n.) A small circular saw.

(n.) A triangular chisel.

(n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.

(n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.

(n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

(n.) Same as Thar.

(n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.

(n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.

(v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.

(v. i.) To form a scar.

(n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.

(n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

(n.) A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.

(n.) A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.

(v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.

(v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.

(v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.

(v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.

(v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.

(v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.

(v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.

(v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.

(n.) The sound of roaring.

(n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.

(n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.

(n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.

(n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.

(n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.

(n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah.

(n.) The European black tern.

(n.) Alt. of Apara

(n.) One who apes.

(n.) A work horse, or working ox.

(v. t.) To assert, or prove, the truth of.

(v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.

(v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

(adv.) Early; soon.

(n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.

(n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

(a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

(v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

(v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.

(v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.

(v. t.) To lift and take up.

(v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.

(v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.

(v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.

(v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

(n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.

(n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.

(n.) See Ocher.

(n.) One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

(prep. & adv.) A contr. of Over.

(n.) The constellation Taurus.

(n.) A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.

(n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

(n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.

(n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

(n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

(n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

(n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.

(n.) A haircloth.

(n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

(n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.

(n.) A tower.

(v. t.) A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.

(v. t.) A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.

(v. t.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.

(v. i.) To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.

(n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

(n.) The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?

(n.) Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.

(n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

(n.) A measure of distance traveled.

(n.) A boundary. See Mere.

(v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.

(v. t.) To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.

(a.) Worse.

(n.) A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.

(n.) One who uses.

(n.) Enjoyment of property; use.

(n.) A gear; a tackle.

(n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.

(v.) To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.

(v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.

(n.) A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.

(v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

(v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.

(n.) An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

(n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.

(n.) Passage; means of approach or access.

(n.) An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.

(n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor.

(v. t.) To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t.

(v. t.) To deafen with noise.

(v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.

(v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

(v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

(v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

(v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

(v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

(n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

(n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

(superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

(superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.

(superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.

(superl.) Afflictive; painful.

(superl.) Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.

(n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

(v. t.) To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

(v. t.) To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

(v. t.) To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.

(v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.

(v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

(v. i.) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

(v. t.) To change the place of in any manner; to move.

(v. t.) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.

(v. t.) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.

(v. t.) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.

(v. i.) To move; to change one's position.

(v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.

(v. i.) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.

(v. i.) To rise, or be up, in the morning.

(n.) The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

(n.) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

(n.) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

(a.) Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.

(a.) See Stoor.

(v. i.) To coo.

(n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.

(n.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.

(n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.

(n.) Goods; property; household stuff.

(n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

(n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

(n.) Warlike accouterments.

(n.) Manner; custom; behavior.

(n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.

(n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

(n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

(n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

(n.) See 1st Jeer (b).

(n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

(v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

(v. t.) To provide with gearing.

(v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.

() Alt. of Geering

(n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

(n.) Alt. of Emeer

(n.) One who eyes another.

(superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.

(superl.) Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.

(superl.) Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.

(superl.) Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day.

(superl.) Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.

(superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

(superl.) Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement.

(superl.) Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.

(superl.) Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting.

(superl.) Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen.

(adv.) Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.

(n.) Fairness, beauty.

(n.) A fair woman; a sweetheart.

(n.) Good fortune; good luck.

(v. t.) To make fair or beautiful.

(v. t.) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.

(n.) A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.

(n.) A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.

(n.) A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair.

(n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

(n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.

(n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.

(n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.

(n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.

(n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.

(n.) To be anxious or solicitous for.

(n.) To suspect; to doubt.

(n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.

(v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

(n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.

(n.) A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.

(n.) A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar.

(n.) Same as Weir.

(v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.

(v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.

(v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.

(v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.

(v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.

(v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.

(v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.

(v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.

(v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.

(n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.

(n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.

(adv.) At any time; at any period or point of time.

(adv.) At all times; through all time; always; forever.

(adv.) Without cessation; continually.

(a.) One more than three; twice two.

(n.) The sum of four units; four units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.

(n.) Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.

(n.) A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

(adv.) A contraction for ever. See Ever.

(v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn.

(n.) Lore; lesson.

(a.) See Leer, a.

(n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n.

(n.) Alt. of Wear

(n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.

(n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.

(n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.

(v. t.) To learn.

(a.) Empty; destitute; wanting

(a.) Empty of contents.

(a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.

(a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.

(n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.

(n.) The cheek.

(n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.

(n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.

(v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.

(v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.

(n.) A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr.

(v. i.) To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr.

(n.) One who sues; a suitor.

(n.) Same as lst Gore.

(n.) One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker

(n.) A foot.

(n.) A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.

(a.) Simple; unmixed. See Mere, a.

(n.) See Mere, a lake.

(n.) A boundary. See Mere.

(n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).

(n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.

(n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

(n.) A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.

(n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.

(n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

(n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

(v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

(v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

(v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

(v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

(v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.

(v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.

(v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

(n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

(n.) A tiara.

(n.) One who, or that which, ties.

(n.) A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.

(v. t.) A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.

(n.) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.

(n.) The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.

(n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.

(v. impersonal, pres.) It needs; need.

(a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

(a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.

(a.) Musty; moldy; stale.

(n.) Hoariness; antiquity.

(v. t.) To become moldy or musty.

(pron. & a.) The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.

(n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

(n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

(n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

(n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.

(v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

(v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

(v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.

(n.) See Kier.

(n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.

(n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.

(n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.

(superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

(superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.

(superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected

(superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.

(superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.

(superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.

(superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.

(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.

(superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.

(superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.

(superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.

(superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

(n.) One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.

(n.) The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.

(n.) A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber.

(n.) See Koulan.

(v. i.) To make a rolling or burring sound.

(adv.) At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off.

(n.) The southwest wind.

(a.) Poor.

(v. i.) To pore.

(v. t.) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.

(v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.

(v. t.) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.

(v. i.) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.

(n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.

(prep.) Above the perpendicular height or length of, with an idea of measurement; as, the water, or the depth of water, was over his head, over his shoes.

(prep.) Beyond; in excess of; in addition to; more than; as, it cost over five dollars.

(prep.) Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding; as, he triumphed over difficulties; the bill was passed over the veto.

(adv.) From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter.

(adv.) From one person or place to another regarded as on the opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of motion; as, to sail over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the enemy.

(adv.) Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is over.

(adv.) From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels.

(adv.) From inside to outside, above or across the brim.

(prep.) Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the city.

(prep.) Across; from side to side of; -- implying a passing or moving, either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it; as, a dog leaps over a stream or a table.

(prep.) Upon the surface of, or the whole surface of; hither and thither upon; throughout the whole extent of; as, to wander over the earth; to walk over a field, or over a city.

(prep.) Above; -- implying superiority in excellence, dignity, condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen.

(prep.) Above in authority or station; -- implying government, direction, care, attention, guard, responsibility, etc.; -- opposed to under.

(prep.) Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter.

(adv.) Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over.

(adv.) In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top; as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart.

(adv.) At an end; beyond the limit of continuance; completed; finished.

(a.) Upper; covering; higher; superior; also, excessive; too much or too great; -- chiefly used in composition; as, overshoes, overcoat, over-garment, overlord, overwork, overhaste.

(n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places.

(adv. & a.) Nearer.

(n.) A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

(n.) An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.

(n.) A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).

(n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]

(n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.

(n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.

(n.) A married couple; a man and wife.

(n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.

(n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.

(n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.

(v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.

(v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

(v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.

(v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.

(v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.

(v. t.) To impair.

(v. t.) To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

(v. t.) To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow.

(v. t.) To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass.

(v. t.) To give attention to as a teacher or judge.

(v. t.) To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor.

(v. i.) To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.

(v. i.) To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen.

(v. i.) To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter.

(v. i.) To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.

(v. t.) To hurry a long with a whizzing sound.

(n.) A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.

(n.) Same as Weir.

(n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

(n.) One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.

(pl. ) of Os

(n. pl.) See 3d Os.

(n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

(n.) A catarrh.

(n.) The emperor of Russia. See Czar.

(n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.

(n.) A burying place.

(n.) A pasture; sometimes, food.

(n.) See Czar.

(n.) Cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. See Coir.

(n.) A knurl.

(n.) The aurochs.

(n.) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.

(n.) A young leveret.

(n.) See Gnar.

(v. i.) To growl or snarl as a dog.