- chop
- come
- cool
- coom
- coon
- coot
- copy
- cor-
- chub
- chum
- corf
- corm
- cill
- cion
- circ
- cis-
- cist
- cite
- cive
- coss
- chat
- coak
- coal
- chaw
- coal
- coat
- coax
- coca
- chef
- coda
- code
- coif
- coil
- coin
- coir
- col-
- chit
- cack
- cade
- cadi
- cake
- calf
- calk
- calm
- calx
- cize
- clad
- clam
- cane
- caon
- cauf
- cauk
- caul
- cavy
- cawk
- cede
- cell
- cent
- cess
- cest
- chab
- club
- coll
- con-
- cosy
- cone
- coup
- cove
- cows
- coxa
- cozy
- cray
- cany
- clam
- clan
- clap
- claw
- clee
- cleg
- clew
- clue
- clew
- carf
- clip
- cark
- clip
- clod
- clog
- carp
- clot
- clad
- cask
- cloy
- clue
- clum
- cast
- coly
- com-
- coma
- comb
- crew
- crib
- cric
- crop
- crew
- crud
- crup
- crus
- crut
- cero
- cube
- cuca
- cuff
- cult
- cund
- curb
- curd
- cure
- curl
- cusk
- cute
- cyme
- cyst
- czar
(v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to
cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp
instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
(v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
(v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or
other sharp instrument.
(v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to
catch or attempt to seize.
(v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.
(v. i.) To barter or truck.
(v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
(v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
(v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
(v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
(n.) A change; a vicissitude.
(v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
(n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
(n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of
meat; as, a mutton chop.
(n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
(n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
(n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
(n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or
channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
(n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
(n.) A permit or clearance.
(p. p.) of Come
(n.) To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or
some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
(n.) To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
(n.) To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance.
(n.) To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
(n.) To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
(n.) To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a
predicate; as, to come untied.
(v. t.) To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any
tricks here.
(n.) Coming.
(superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in
warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
(superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty;
deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate;
indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
(superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
(superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic;
as, a cool manner.
(superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of
minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and
selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
(superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of
money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
(n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the
temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day;
the cool of the morning or evening.
(v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as,
ice cools water.
(v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as
passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
(v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.
(v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more
moderate.
(n.) Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which
comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.
(n.) A raccoon. See Raccoon.
(n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
(n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species
of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
(n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.
(n.) An abundance or plenty of anything.
(n.) An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original
work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.
(n.) An individual book, or a single set of books containing the
works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of
Addison.
(n.) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a
pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for
imitation.
(n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the
printers are calling for more copy.
(n.) A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See
under Paper.
(n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.
(n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or
paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as,
to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often
with out, sometimes with off.
(n.) To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course
of life.
(v. i.) To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
(v. i.) To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not
copy well.
() A prefix signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.
(n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp
family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven.
In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of
the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to
several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
(n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and
intimate friend.
(v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at
college.
(n.) Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.
(n.) A basket.
(n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
(n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or
ore in the mines.
(n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.
(n.) Same as Cormus, 2.
(n.) See Sill., n. a foundation.
(n.) See Scion.
(n.) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
() A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English
words, and signifying on this side.
(n.) A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round
or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover,
and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary
urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
(n.) See Cyst.
(v. t.) To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as
before a court; to summon.
(v. t.) To urge; to enjoin.
(v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the
words of another.
(v. t.) To refer to or specify, as for support, proof,
illustration, or confirmation.
(v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.
(v. t.) To notify of a proceeding in court.
(n.) Same as Chive.
(n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to
two English miles.
(n.) A thing (only in phrase below).
(v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse
without form or ceremony; to gossip.
(v. t.) To talk of.
(n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
(n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in
America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I.
viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name
is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat,
and whinchat.
(n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
(n.) Small stones with ore.
(n.) See Coke, n.
(n.) A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with
the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron
uniting timbers.
(n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a
wooden block sheave.
(v. t.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the
edges or faces.
(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited,
fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
(n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug
from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting,
like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording,
when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
(v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
(v. t.) To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating;
to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
(v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind
working upon; to brood over.
(v. t.) As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
(v. t.) The jaw.
(v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
(v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
(n.) An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body;
especially, such a garment worn by men.
(n.) A petticoat.
(n.) The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order
or office; cloth.
(n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool,
husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.
(n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a
tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of
tar or varnish.
(n.) Same as Coat of arms. See below.
(n.) A coat card. See below.
(v. t.) To cover with a coat or outer garment.
(v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar
with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.
(v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering,
or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
(n.) A simpleton; a dupe.
(n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca).
In med., called Erythroxylon.
(n.) A chief of head person.
(n.) The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family,
etc.
(n.) Same as Chief.
(n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a
composition.
(n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules
of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in
systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
(n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject;
as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the
professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules
for making communications at sea means of signals.
(n.) A cap.
(n.) A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a
small hood without a cape.
(n.) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in
England.
(v. t.) To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.
(v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when
not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
(v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
(v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil;
to wind; -- often with about or around.
(n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or
other like thing, is wound.
(n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
(n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam
heating apparatus.
(n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
(n.) A 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 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.
() A prefix signifying with, together. See Com-.
(n.) The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout;
as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.
(n.) A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or
insignificant person or animal.
(n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
(n.) A small tool used in cleaving laths.
(v. i.) To shoot out; to sprout.
(3d sing.) Chideth.
(v. i.) To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.
(a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
(v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to
coddle; to tame.
(n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish.
(n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean
countries.
(n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans,
usually the judge of a town or village.
(n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from
unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
(n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients,
leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
(n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or
pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
(n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid
mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of
soap; an ague cake.
(v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
(v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in
an oven; to coagulate.
(v. i.) To cackle as a goose.
(n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds.
Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros,
hippopotamus, and whale.
(n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine,
light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
(n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a
dolt.
(n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
(n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a
glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
(n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
(v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of
(a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by
smearing the seams with melted pitch.
(v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as
along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of
the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
(v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red
or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the
lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against
which it is laid or held.
(n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on
the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; --
called also calker, calkin.
(n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe
or boot, to prevent slipping.
(v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to
calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
(v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a
foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
(n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation
or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or
waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
(n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to
calm the winds.
(n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe,
as the mind or passions.
(super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still;
quiet; serene; undisturbed.
(super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or
excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
(n.) Quicklime.
(n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been
subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may
be, reduced to a fine powder.
(n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
(n.) Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.
(v.t) To clothe.
() imp. & p. p. of Clothe.
(v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are
edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam
(Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and
other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given
originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
(v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
(v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
(n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus
and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly
called rattans.
(n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and
bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
(n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the
canes of a raspberry.
(n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
made of one the species of cane.
(n.) A lance or dart made of cane.
(n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.
(v. t.) To beat with a cane.
(v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane
chairs.
(n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks,
worn by water courses.
(n.) A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
(n.) Alt. of Cauker
(n.) A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a
net.
(n.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or
less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.
(n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the
fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.
(n.) A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea
pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.
(n.) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.
(v. t.) To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede
a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a
monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place.
(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(n.) Same as Cella.
(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for
holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater
part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are
composed.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell.
(n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a
hundred.
(n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar,
formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
(n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so
called because 100 points won the game.
(n.) A rate or tax.
(n.) Bound; measure.
(v. t.) To rate; to tax; to assess.
(v. i.) To cease; to neglect.
(n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
(n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).
(n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the
hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
(n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the
trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
(n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common
object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp.
an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the
members.
(n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a
contribution to a common fund.
(v. t.) To beat with a club.
(v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
(v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a
common end; as, to club exertions.
(v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to
club the expense.
(v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some
common object; to unite.
(v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge
or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
(v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
(v. t.) To embrace.
() A prefix, fr. L. cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.
(a.) See Cozy.
(n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a
right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right
angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a
vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a
straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid
having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
(n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a
volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano,
usually heaped up in a conical form.
(n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir,
cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which
has one or two seeds at its base.
(n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
(v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment
of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
(n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term
used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.
(n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek,
or bay; a recess in the shore.
(n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in
the side of a mountain.
(n.) A concave molding.
(n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially
with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
(v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make
in the form of a cove.
(v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
(n.) A boy or man of any age or station.
(pl. ) of Cow
(n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
(superl.) Snug; comfortable; easy; contented.
(superl.) Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.
(a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the
contents hot.
(n.) Alt. of Crayer
(a.) Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.
(v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
(v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
(n.) Claminess; moisture.
(n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime
at once.
(v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to
cause to clang.
(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.
(v. t.) To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a
quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a
clapping of wings.
(v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt
manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
(v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands
together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
(v. t.) To express contempt or derision.
(v. i.) To knock, as at a door.
(v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.
(v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.
(v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.
(v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
(n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
(n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
(n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
(n.) A striking of hands to express approbation.
(n.) Noisy talk; chatter.
(n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
(n.) Gonorrhea.
(n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
(n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the
pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
(n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and
forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
(n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the
base of petals of the pink.
(n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
(n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to
tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
(n.) To rail at; to scold.
(v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand
as a claw.
(n.) A claw.
(n.) The redshank.
(n.) A small breeze or horsefly.
(n.) Alt. of Clue
(n.) A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
(n.) That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or
intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.
(n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a
fore-and-aft sail.
(n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
(n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is
suspended.
(n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.
(n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew
garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail
to the yard.
() pret. of Carve.
(v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
(v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the
hair; to clip coin.
(v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
(n.) A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
(v. i.) To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind;
to worry or grieve.
(v. t.) To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
(v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
(n.) An embrace.
(n.) A cutting; a shearing.
(n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of
wool.
(n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
(n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron
strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
(n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned
up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip
and beak.
(n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
(n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
(n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
(n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the
body of man in comparison with the soul.
(n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt
(n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck
piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
(v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate;
to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.
(v. t.) To pelt with clods.
(v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.
(v.) That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance,
restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
(v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an
animal to hinder motion.
(v.) A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or
to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick
sole. Cf. Chopine.
(v. t.) To encumber or load, especially with something that
impedes motion; to hamper.
(v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke
up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
(v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
(v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with
extraneous matter.
(v. i.) To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
(v. i.) To talk; to speak; to prattle.
(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions
without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at.
(v. t.) To say; to tell.
(v. t.) To find fault with; to censure.
(pl. ) of Carp
(n.) A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several
other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See
Cruclan carp.
(n.) A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated
mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
(v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid
matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
(v. t.) To form into a slimy mass.
() of Clothe
(n.) Same as Casque.
(n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops,
usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or
smaller than a barrel.
(n.) The quantity contained in a cask.
(n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.
(v. t.) To put into a cask.
(v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
(v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill
to loathing; to surfeit.
(v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
(v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.
(v. t.) To stroke with a claw.
(n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same
as Clew.
(interj.) Silence; hush.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cast
(v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to
impel.
(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
(v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
(v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
(v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
(v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to
cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
(v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
(v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
(v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a
horoscope.
(v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as,
to be cast in damages.
(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to
make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
(v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal
or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells,
stoves, bullets.
(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among
actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in
getting under weigh.
(v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as,
to cast about for reasons.
(v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
(v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
(v. i.) To vomit.
() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
(n.) The thing thrown.
(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
(n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the
skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a
earthworm.
(n.) The act of casting in a mold.
(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a
pattern.
(n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy,
as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of
countenance.
(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically,
an opportunity of riding; a lift.
(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from
the hand.
(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance;
squint.
(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in
counting herrings, etc; a warp.
(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
(n.) Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit
Africa.
() A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with,
together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before
b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l,
cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r,
and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes
before other consonants.
(n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult
or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
(n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds
the nucleus or body of a comet.
(n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the
head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the
inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
(n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and
adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
(n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and
smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
(n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool,
flax, hair, etc.
(n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
(n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for
hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
(n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a
lathe; a chaser.
(n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
(n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a
comb.
(n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the
bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
(n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen
of scorpions.
(n.) The curling crest of a wave.
(n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which
bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
(n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be
cocked.
(v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay
smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool.
See under Combing.
(n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a
white foam, as waves.
(n.) Alt. of Combe
(n.) A dry measure. See Coomb.
(n.) The Manx shearwater.
(n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a
throng.
(n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the
company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
(n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a
purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's
crew.
() imp. of Crow
(n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
(n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.
(n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
(n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain,
salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
(n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
(n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for
supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
(n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for
docks, pier, dams, etc.
(n.) A small raft of timber.
(n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a
translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his
lessons.
(n.) A miner's luncheon.
(n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring
points in cribbage.
(v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to
cramp.
(v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to
appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
(v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in
narrow accommodations.
(v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or
examination.
(v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth
and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
(n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a
lamp.
(n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as
a receptacle for food; the craw.
(n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a
plant or tree.
(n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld,
or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season;
especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit;
harvest.
(n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
(n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
(n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting;
as, a convict's crop.
(n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a
finial.
(n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
(n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
(v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to
browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
(v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
(v. i.) To yield harvest.
(imp.) of Crow
(n.) See Curd.
(a.) Short; brittle; as, crup cake.
(n.) See Croup, the rump of a horse.
(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.) The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.
(n.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the
genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less
commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero
(Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king,
cero (S. regalis).
(n.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
(n.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three
times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.
(v. t.) To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.
(n.) See Coca.
(v. t.) To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the
hand; to slap.
(v. t.) To buffet.
(v. i.) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
(n.) A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
(n.) The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned
back from the hand.
(n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to
the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times,
such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper,
or the like.
(n .) Attentive care; homage; worship.
(n .) A system of religious belief and worship.
(v. t.) To con (a ship).
(v. t.) To bend or curve
(v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend
to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep
in check.
(v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a
curb, as a bank of earth.
(v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
(n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or
hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the
branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower
jaw of the horse.
(n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal
member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the
integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar
purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
(n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame
within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
(n.) A curbstone.
(n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just
behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
(n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished
from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when
made into cheese.
(n.) The coagulated part of any liquid.
(n.) The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as
the broccoli and cauliflower.
(v. t.) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to
curdle.
(v. i.) To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds
and whey
(n.) Care, heed, or attention.
(n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest
or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a
parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain
a cure.
(n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a
method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
(n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to
health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
(n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a
remedy; a restorative.
(v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to
make well; -- said of a patient.
(v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
(v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
from a bad habit.
(v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to
cure hay.
(v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
(v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
(v. i.) To become healed.
(n.) A curate; a pardon.
(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
(v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to
grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to
have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
(v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in
curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or
winding form.
(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as
wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first
appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
(n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the
cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called
also tusk and torsk.
(a.) Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.
(n.) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or
determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the
opening of the blossoms.
(n.) A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and
containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the
natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
(n.) In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
(n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of
the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our
shores.
(n.) A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature
entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form
in Rotifera, etc.
(n.) A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and
quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See
Encystment.
(n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.