(adv.) Once.

(n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

(n.) A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

(n.) A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

(n.) A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

(n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.

(n.) A thing (only in phrase below).

(n.) Pace

(n.) The Easter festival.

(n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.

(v. t.) To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.

(n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.

(pl. ) of Constitutionality

() pret. of Chese.

(n.) See Naiad.

(n.) A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.

(n. sing. & pl.) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.

(n.) The orang-outang.

(n.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

(n.) Same as 2d Reis.

(pl. ) of Bass

(n.) An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

(n.) The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

(n.) Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.

(n.) The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish.

(n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.

(n.) A hassock or thick mat.

(a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone.

(a.) The lowest part in a musical composition.

(a.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.

(a.) Deep or grave in tone.

(v. t.) To sound in a deep tone.

(n.) A burden; an obligation.

(pl. ) of No

(n.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

(n. sing. & pl.) Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.

(n.) Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

(n.) The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.

(n.) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.

(n.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.

(n.) The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.

(n.) Alt. of Bayze

(n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.

(n.) Advice; opinion; deliberation.

(n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

(pl. ) of Axis

(n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

(n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.

(n.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.

(n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.

(n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

(n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.

(n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.

(pl. ) of Baa

(pl. ) of Boa

(n.) See Byssus, n., 1.

(pl. ) of Rurality

(n. sing. & pl.) A Russian, or the Russians.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Russians.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Russians.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin.

(n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.

(n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.

(n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

(n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

(a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

(a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

(adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

(v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

(n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.

(n.) A genus of shrubs and small treets. See Sumac.

(pl. ) of Rei

(n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

(n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.

(n.) Dais.

(n.) A rate or tax.

(n.) Bound; measure.

(v. t.) To rate; to tax; to assess.

(v. i.) To cease; to neglect.

(n.) Grass.

(a.) Gray.

(a.) A costly kind of fur.

(n. sing. & pl.) A little pig.

(n.) A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.

(pl. ) of Era

(n.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

(n. pl.) Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.

(n. pl.) Effects, in general.

(pl. ) of Cow

(n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.

(v. t.) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.

(prep.) Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.

(v. t.) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.

(v. t.) To lay a tax upon; to assess.

(n.) A tax; an assessment. See Cess.

(n.) See Dais.

(n.) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.

(n.) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

(n.) A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

(n.) A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.

(v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

(v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.

(v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

(v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.

(v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.

(v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

(v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.

(v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.

(n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

(n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

(pl. ) of Jo

(pl. ) of Lar

(a.) Loose.

(n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.

(n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).

(adv.) Indeed; truly. See Ywis.

(n.) A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur.

(n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.

(n.) Hence, festivity; merriment.

(n. pl.) An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

(v. i.) To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.

(n.) A hissing noise.

(pl. ) of Dey

() The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.

(n.) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.

(pl. ) of Die

(v. i.) To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.

(v. t.) To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.

(n.) A lazy fellow.

(n.) A heavy fall.

(n.) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

(n. pl.) Dice.

(n.) A dais.

(n.) See Dais.

(a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

(a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

(n.) A plump young person or child.

(n.) A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

(n.) One who is unduly anxious about trifles.

(v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

(n.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself.

(a.) Unfledged, or newly fledged.

(v. t.) To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple.

(n.) A term of endearment.

(n. sing. & pl.) A verse or verses. See Verse.

(n.) A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon.

(n.) The sheatfish; -- called also waller.

(pl. ) of Lee

(n. pl.) Dregs. See 2d Lee.

(n.) A leash.

(n. pl.) Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

(pl. ) of I

(n.) Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.

(n. pl.) The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.

(n.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.

(n.) The rainbow.

(n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.

(n.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.

(n.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.

(n.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2.

(n.) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.

(n.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.

(pl. ) of Sou

(n.) Alt. of Souse

(pron.) See the Note under Her, pron.

(n.) The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

(adv.) In this or that manner; on this wise.

(adv.) To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold.

(pl. ) of Tie

(n.) Alt. of Fesse

(n.) The neck or throat.

(v. i.) To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval.

(v. i.) To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew.

(v. t.) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.

(v. t.) To utter with a hissing sound.

(n.) A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt.

(n.) Any sound resembling that above described

(n.) The noise made by a serpent.

(n.) The note of a goose when irritated.

(n.) The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.

(adv.) Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. Z () Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. /, L. yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 273, 274.

(n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.

(n.) See Price, and 1st Prize.

(n.) A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain.

(n.) Gorse.

(n.) Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.

(n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.

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

(n.) Alt. of Kerse

(n.) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.

(n.) A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble.

(adv.) Once.

(pl. ) of Pea

(n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

(n.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus.

(v. i.) To celebrate Mass.

(n.) A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water.

(n.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

(n.) A large quantity; a sum.

(n.) Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

(n.) The principal part; the main body.

(n.) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.

(v. t.) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.

(n.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

(n.) Mass; church service.

(n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

(n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.

(n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

(n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

(n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

(v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

(v. t.) To supply with a mess.

(v. t.) The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.

(v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.

(v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.

(v. t.) Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.

(v. t.) Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.

(v. t.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.

(v. t.) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars.

(v. t.) The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

(n.) Praise; fame; reputation.

(n.) The country; the people of the neighborhood.

(v. t. & i.) To discharge urine, to urinate.

(n.) Urine.

(pron. & a.) As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned.

(pron. & a.) As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town.

(n.) A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.

(pl. ) of Nay

(n.) See Nias.

(pl. ) of Ort

(n.) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.

(conj.) Unless.

(a.) Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.

(adv.) Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.

(n.) A smaller portion or quantity.

(n.) The inferior, younger, or smaller.

(v. t.) To make less; to lessen.

(n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.

(n.) Release; remission; ease; relief.

(v. t.) To free, as from care or pain; to relieve.

(n.) A genus of birds including the bustards.

(possessive pron.) See Note under Our.

(a.) Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability.

(a.) Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds.

(n.) pl. of Penny.

(pl. ) of Ace

(pl. ) of Lachrymatory

(n.) A Malay dagger. See Creese.

(n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.

(n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.

(v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.

(pl. ) of Wye

(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

(n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.

(n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.

(n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

(v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.

(v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.

(v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.

(v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

(v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.

(v. i.) To go wrong; to err.

(v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

(n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

(n.) Loss; want; felt absence.

(n.) Mistake; error; fault.

(n.) Harm from mistake.

(n.) A promontory; a cape; a headland.

(a.) Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods.

(n.) A cloth of sky-blue color.

(a.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

(a.) Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.

(v. i.) To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.

(v. i.) To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.

(v. i.) To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.

(v. i.) To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.

(v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.

(v. i.) To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.

(v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.

(v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

(v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.

(v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.

(v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

(v. i.) To take heed; to care.

(v. i.) To go through the intestines.

(v. i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.

(v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

(v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.

(v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

(v. t.) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.

(v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

(v. t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

(v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

(v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.

(v. t.) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.

(v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.

(v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.

(v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.

(v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

(v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

(v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

(v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.

(v. i.) An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.

(v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

(v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

(v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

(v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.

(v. i.) Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.

(v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.

(v. i.) Estimation; character.

(v. i.) A part; a division.