(n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

(n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

(n.) The chancel.

(n.) See Comb.

(v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

(imp.) of Choose

() of Choose

(n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

(n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

(n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.

(n.) The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.

(n.) The string of a musical instrument.

(n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

(n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

(n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

(n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.

(v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

(v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

(n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.

(v. i.) To do chores.

(n.) A choir or chorus.

(a.) Over against; as, he lives anent the church.

(a.) About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.

(n.) A messenger.

(n.) A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers.

(n.) One of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels.

(n.) A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.

(n.) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.

(n.) An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.

(n.) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

(n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

(n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.

(v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.

(v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

(n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.

(n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.

(n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.

(n.) A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.

(n.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."

(n.) A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

(v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.

(v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.

(v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.

(n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

(superl.) Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.

(superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

(superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.

(superl.) Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.

(superl.) Red.

(superl.) Sharp; keen; stimulated.

(v. t.) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.

(v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground.

(n.) That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

(prep. & adv.) Nigh.

(n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

(adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.

(adv.) Behind; in the rear.

(adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

(n.) An abacus.

(pl. ) of Abacus

(n.) The rhinoceros.

(adv. & a.) On fire.

(n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.

(v. t.) To furnish with an arras.

(adv. & a.) Flowing.

(adv. & a.) In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.

(adv.) On foot.

(adv.) Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.

(adv.) Before.

(adv.) In the fore part of a vessel.

(prep.) Before (in all its senses).

(prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass.

(adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.

(a.) African.

(n.) Africa.

(n.) Alt. of Afreet

(a.) Old-womanish; imbecile.

(a.) Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.

(n.) A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.

(pl. ) of Animus

(n.) An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

(n.) The fruit or seeds of this plant.

(n.) A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons.

(n.) The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.

(n.) A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

(n.) See Annals.

(v. t.) To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

(v. t.) To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.

(v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

(v. i.) To join; to be united.

(n.) Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

(n.) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

(n.) To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.

(n.) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.

(a.) To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.

(a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority.

(n.) The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

(v. t.) To anoint with oil.

(n.) Disregard or violation of law.

(v. t.) To adorn.

(pl. ) of Ansa

(pl. ) of Anta

(n. pl.) Antae. See Anta.

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.

(n.) An imposing series of things.

(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.

(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

(n.) The panel itself.

(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.

(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

(n.) A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign.

(n.) An arrest; a legal seizure.

(v. t.) Same as Aret.

(n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column.

(n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

(n.) That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice.

(n.) That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.

(n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis.

(n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.

(a.) Old; antique.

(a.)

(a.) Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.

(n.) A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.

(n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.

(n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.

(n.) A grotesque representation.

(n.) An antimask.

(v. t.) To make appear like a buffoon.

(v. i.) To perform antics.

(n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

(n.) A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

(adv.) With art or skill.

(n.) A funeral feast.

(n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.

(n.) The language of the original Aryans.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

(pl. ) of As

(n. pl.) Alt. of Ascians

(n.) A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

(n.) A cavern.

(pl. ) of Antrum

(n. pl.) One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

(n.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

(n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

(n.) Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.

(n.) the incus. See Incus.

(v. t.) To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ash tree.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

(n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.

(n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

(n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay.

(n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic.

(n.) An Asiatic.

(adv.) On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.

(adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts.

(adv.) So as to be heard by others; privately.

(n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

(adv. & a.) Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.

(n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.

(adv. & a.) In a state of gasping.

(v. t.) Alt. of Aghast

(p. p. & a.) See Aghast.

(adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.

(n.) A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

(n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

(n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

(n.) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

(a.) Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

(n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age

(n.) See Agendum.

(a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

(n.) One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

(n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

(n.) An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.

(n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ask

(n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.

(n.) An ask; a water newt.

(adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.

(n.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

(adv.) With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.

(a.) Paid; pleased.

(v. t. & i.) To impair or become impaired; to injure.

(adv.) Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

(adv.) In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

(adv.) Aside; away.

(adv.) In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ape

(adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.

(a.) Open; evident; undisguised.

(adv.) Openly.

(n.) A place where apes are kept.

(n.) The practice of aping; an apish action.

(n.) Alt. of Asp

(a.) Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.

(a.) Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.

(n.) The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r.

(n.) A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.

(n.) The venomous asp.

(n.) A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.

(n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

(n.) A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc.

(n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.

(a.) Alt. of Aggri

(a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

(a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

(pl. ) of Agio

(v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

(n.) One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.

(n.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

(a.) Belonging to bees.

(n.) An oily liquid derived from parsley.

(a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

(n.) Alt. of Aiglet

(adv.) Aside; askew.

(adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

(n.) Agnus Dei.

(a. & adv.) Ago.

(n.) Agonic line.

(n.) Violent contest or striving.

(n.) Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.

(n.) Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.

(n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.

(n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

(adv.) In good part; kindly.

(v. i.) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.

(v. i.) To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

(v. i.) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

(v. i.) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

(v. i.) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

(v. i.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.

(v. t.) To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.

(v. t.) To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.

(n.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

(pl. ) of Apode

(n.) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

(n.) An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha.

(n.) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.

(n.) The dunlin.

(n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.

(n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.

(n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.

(n.) A specific sum of money

(n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.

(n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.

(adv. & a.) In a gushing state.

(adv.) In or to the front; in advance; onward.

(adv.) Headlong; without restraint.

(adv.) In a heap; huddled together.

(adv.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

(imp. & p. p.) of Aid

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

(v. t.) To put into a purse.

(v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.

(v. i.) To steal purses; to rob.

(a.) Sour.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ail

(imp. & p. p.) of Aim

(n.) One who aims, directs, or points.

(adv.) On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.

(a.) Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Air

(n.) One who exposes to the air.

(n.) A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

(n.) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

(n.) Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

(n.) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

(n.) The letter h or H.

(n.) Same as Achene.

(adv.) On the knee.

() Earlier form of Acknow.

(n.) A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.

(n.) A catkin of the pussy willow.

(n.) The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat.

(a.) See Pursy.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow.

(adv.) On land; to the land; ashore.

(n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

(n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

(n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.

(n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

(n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.

(v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

(v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

(v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.

(a.) Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor.

(adv.) Lately; of late.

(a.) Alt. of Alated

(n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

(conj.) Although; albeit.

(n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.

(v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.

(a.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.

(a.) Alt. of Pygmean

(n.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.

(n.) Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.

(pl. ) of Pyla

(n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.

(n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).

(a.) Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.

(n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

(n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

(n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

(v. t.) To pay; to satisfy or appease.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pyre.

(n.) Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland.

(adv.) Continually.

(a.) Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all.

(adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.

(n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

(n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

(a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.

(a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

(n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.

(n.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.

(n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

(n.) A tree of the genus Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.

(n.) A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.

(n.) A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

(n.) A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.

(n.) A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

(n.) Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

(n.) Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

(n.) A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

(n.) A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.

(a.) Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.

(v. t.) To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.

(v. t.) To fold or inclose in paper.

(v. t.) To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.

(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.

(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.

(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.

(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.

(a.) To efface or remove.

(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

(n.) An old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

(a.) Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.

(a.) Causing mirth; ludicrous.

(n.) A comedian.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coo

(n.) Alt. of Cooee

(n.) A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.

(n.) A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

(n.) Alt. of Coolie

(n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.

(n.) A thing; personal property.

() imp. & p. p. of Choose.

(n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

(n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.

(n.) An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.

(n.) Alt. of Coombe

() A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cope

(a.) Clad in a cope.

(n.) See Copse.

(n.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

(n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

(v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.

(v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.

(a.) Characterized by copses.

(n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.

(n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.

(n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

(v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

(v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh.

(v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens.

(n.) The chuck or call of a hen.

(n.) A sudden, small noise.

(n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.

(v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.

(v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.

(v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

(n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin.

(n.) A short throw; a toss.

(n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

(n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.

(a.) Crooked.

(n.) The raven.

(n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge.

(n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.

(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.

(n.) Minced meat.

(n.) A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

(n.) A coarse or stupid fellow.

(a.) Stupid; churlish.

(n.) A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.

(n.) A short, thick piece of anything.

(n.) That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.

(n.) A rustic; a countryman or laborer.

(n.) A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.

(n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

(a.) Churlish; rough; selfish.

(n.) Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.

(v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

(v. t.) To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.

(v. t.) To shake or agitate with violence.

(v. i.) To perform the operation of churning.

(a.) Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.

(a.) Tasting of cork.

(v. t.) See Choose.

(n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

(n.) See Shoot.

(n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

(n.) The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

(n.) A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

(n.) The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

(n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.

(n.) A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

(a.) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

(a.) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.

(a.) Containing corn; tasting well of malt.

(a.) Tipsy.

(n.) A corolla.

(n. pl.) The eyelashes.

(n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

(n. pl.) Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.

(n. pl.) Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.

(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

(n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.

(n.) A tight grip.

(pl. ) of Cippus

(n. pl.) See Cirrus.

(pl. ) of Cirrus

(n.) The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.

(n.) Summons to appear, as before a judge.

(n.) Citation; quotation

(imp. & p. p.) of Cite

(n.) One who cites.

(n. sing. & pl.) The human body, whether living or dead.

(n. sing. & pl.) A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.

(n. sing. & pl.) A body or code of laws.

(n. sing. & pl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.

(n.) A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

(n.) The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.

(v. t.) To scent or perfume with civet.

(a.) Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.

(a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.

(a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.

(a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.

(n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

(n.) A flock of herons.

(a.) Overgrown with sedge.

(n.) A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.

(n.) A living body or its bulk.

(n.) A corpse; the dead body of a human being.

(pl. ) of Seed

(n.) See Corf.

(v. t.) See Cozen.

(superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

(superl.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.

(superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.

(a.) See Silly.

(a.) See Cozy.

(a.) Alt. of Sipy

(n.) See Cigar.

(n.) Account; reckoning; computation.

(v. t.) To compute; to count.

(a.) Neat; spruce.

(n.) A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.

(n.) A rib of an animal or a human being.

(n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

(n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.

(n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

(n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.

(v. t.) See Seize.

(a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.

(a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nose.

(a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.

(n.) An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.

(n.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.

(n.) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.

(n.) One of the nasal bones.

(n.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

(pl. ) of Septum

(superl.) Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

(a.) Same as Dancette.

(n.) The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.

(v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.

(n.) The back.

(n.) The south wind.

() Would not.

() A combining form denoting pertaining to, or connected with, the nose; as, nasofrontal.

(a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.

(n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.

(imp. & p. p.) of Free

(n.) One who frees, or sets free.

(imp.) of Freeze

(v. t.) To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

(imp. & p. p.) of Egg

(n.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.

(n.) One who gathers eggs; an eggler.

(v. t.) One who eggs or incites.

(a.) Alt. of Fremed

(pl. ) of Frenum

(n.) The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima).

(n.) A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.

(n.) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.

(n.) A kind of ape.

(n.) A friar.

(superl) Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.

(superl) New; original; additional.

(superl) Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.

(superl) Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.

(superl) In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.

(superl) Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.

(superl) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.

(n.) Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species.

(n.) An island in a river; an ait.

(a.) Seven and one; as, eight years.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.

(a.) Eldest; firstborn.

(a.) Entailed; belonging to the eldest son.

(n.) An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.

(n.) A stream or spring of fresh water.

(n.) A flood; a freshet.

(n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

(v. t.) To refresh; to freshen.

(i.) To run out or forth; to extend.

(v. t.) To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language.

(v. t.) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eke

(n.) A license for absence from a college or a religious house.

(n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.

(v. t.) To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect.

(n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.

(n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.

(n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

(n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

(n.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.

(n.) An American fish; the silversides.

(v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.

(v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

(n.) Same as Olein.

(n.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

(n.) The elk or moose.

(n.) A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

(a.) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

(a.) Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.

(v. t.) To raise; to exalt.

(v. t.) To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud.

() imp. & p. p. of Fry.

(n.) Olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.

(n.) The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.

(n.) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

(n.) A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back.

(v. t.) To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.

(v. i.) To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.

(v. i.) To push rudely along; to elbow one's way.

(a.) Older; more aged, or existing longer.

(a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.

(a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.

(a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

(a.) A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.

(a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.

(n.) One who fries.

(n.) Alt. of Frigga

(n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

(a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

(a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.

(a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

(n.) One chosen or set apart.

(n.) Those who are chosen for salvation.

(v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.

(v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.

(v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.

(v. t.) To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.

(v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

(v. t.) To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.

(v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.

(v. i.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.

(v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.

(v. i.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.

(v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.

(v. i.) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.

(v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.

(v. i.) A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

(a.) Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.

(a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.

(v. i.) To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.

(v. t.) To sell upon credit, as goods.

(n.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

(n.) A kind of weir for catching fish.

(a.) A forest; a woody place.

(a.) A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.

(n.) See 1st Frieze.

(v. t. & n.) See Friz, v. t. & n.

(n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

(n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.

(v. t.) To clothe in a frock.

(v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.

(n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

(n.) Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.

(n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.

(v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.

(a.) Small; slender; thin; fine.

(v. i.) To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

(n.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

(n.) A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.

(v. t.) To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.

(v. i.) To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.

(n.) A mock; an insult.

(n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.

(n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

(n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

(n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

(n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.

(v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.

(v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.

(v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.

(v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.

(v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.

(v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.

(n.) See 1st Fluke.

() p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

(a.) Flushed, inflated.

(n.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.

(n.) The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.

(n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.

(v. t.) To handle awkwardly.

(v. t.) To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.

(v. t.) To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.

(v. i.) To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.

(n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

(n.) A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.

(v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.

(v. i.) To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.

(a.) Downy; fluffy.

(n.) Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.

(n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.

(n.) The European flounder. See Flounder.

(n.) A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.

(n.) The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

(n.) One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

(n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

(n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.

(a.) Formed like, or having, a fluke.

(n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

() imp. & p. p. of Fling.

(v. i.) To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

(v. t.) To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.

(n.) A failure or backing out

(n.) a total failure in a recitation.

() A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.

(n.) A fluid state.

(n.) Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses.

(n.) See Fluorite.

(n.) A flirt.

(v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

(v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.

(v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

(v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.

(v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

(v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.

(v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.

(v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir.

(v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.

(n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

(n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

(n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.

(n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.

(n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

(n.) A hand of cards of the same suit.

(a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.

(a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

(a.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.

(a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.

(adv.) So as to be level or even.

(v. i.) A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.

(v. i.) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.

(n.) A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.

(n.) A long French breakfast roll.

(n.) A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.

(n.) A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

(v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.

(v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.

(v. t.) To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.

(a.) Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.

(p. p.) of Fly

(pl. ) of Fly

(n.) One that uses wings.

(n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.

(n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.

(n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.

(n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

(n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

(n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

(v. i.) To breathe heavily; to snort.

(a.) Heedful.

(a.) Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.

(a.) Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

(n.) A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

(n.) A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.

(n.) A central point; a point of concentration.

(v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.

(n.) A hole; an aperture.

(n.) A short communication between adits in a mine.

(n.) A long adit in a coalpit.

(v. t.) To cut through; to pierce.

(v. t.) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

(n.) Same as Thuja.

(n.) Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus. The garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is a warm, pungent aromatic, much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.

(a.) Moderately heavy.

(superl.) Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.

(superl.) Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

(n.) See Fogy.

(a.) Abounding with thyme; fragrant; as, a thymy vale.

(n.) A light and fast-sailing ship.

(v. t.) To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.

(n.) A foister; a sharper.

(n.) A trick or fraud; a swindle.

(n.) A leaf of a book or manuscript.

(n.) A sheet of paper once folded.

(n.) A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

(n.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.

(n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

(n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.

(pl. ) of Folium

(n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.

(n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.

(n. collect. & pl.) The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.

(v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.

(v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.

(v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.

(v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

(v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

(v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

(v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time.

(v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

(v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

(n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

(n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

(n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

(n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.

(n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

(n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.

(n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.

(n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise.

(n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

(adv.) Foolishly; fondly.

(a.) Eatable; fruitful.

(interj. & n.) See Halloo.

(a.) Hellish.

(n.) A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

(n.) The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

(n.) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.

(n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

(v. t.) To furnish with a helve, as an ax.

() Same as Haema-.

(a.) Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.

(v.) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

(v.) A dash of water; a splash.

(n.) One who names, or calls by name.

(n.) Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. See Rhea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.

(n.) A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

(n.) A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

(v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.

(v. t.) To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.

(imp. & p. p.) of Page

(n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

(v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

(v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

(v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

(v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

(v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

(v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

(n.) A pigment or coloring substance.

(n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

(n.) A cosmetic; rouge.

(n.) Same as Alpaca.

(n.) An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.

(a.) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.

(n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

(n.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.

(n.) The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl.

(n.) An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

(n.) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

(n.) See Paeon.

(n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable.

(n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.

(n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.

(n.) A pagoda. [R.] "Or some queer pagod."

(n.) An idol.

(n.) A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

(n.) A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of oxygen, containing three atoms in the molecule. It is a streng oxidizer, and probably exists in the air, though by he ordinary tests it is liable to be confused with certain other substances, as hydrogen dioxide, or certain oxides of nitrogen. It derives its name from its peculiar odor, which resembles that of weak chlorine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pace

(a.) Having, or trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; -- used in composition; as, slow-paced; a thorough-paced villain.

(n.) One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.

(n.) See Pasha.

(n.) Alt. of Scrode

(n.) A stunted shrub, bush, or branch.

(n.) A scroll.

(n.) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

(v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

(v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

(n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

(n.) Something small and mean.

(n.) A worn-out brush.

(n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

(n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.

(a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

(pl. ) of Scudo

(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.

(n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.

(n.) The back part of the neck; the scruff.

(v. i.) To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.

() Alt. of Sculker

(n.) The skull.

(n.) A shoal of fish.

(n.) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.

(n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.

(n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.

(n.) The common skua gull.

(v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.

(v. t.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.

(n.) An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

(n.) The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

(n.) Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

(n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.

(n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

(n.) The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc.

(n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

(n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.

(n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.

(v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.

(v. t.) To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.

(v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

(v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.

(a.) Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.

(a.) Coarse and rough; boisterous.

() of Burn

(n.) Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

(n.) Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent.

(n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.

(n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.

(n. pl.) The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.

(n.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

(v. t.) To perform; to do; to finish.

(v. t.) To work or hew, as stone.

(v. i.) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

(n.) A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

(p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

(n.) A donkey.

(a.) Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

(n.) Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

(n.) A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.

(n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.

(n.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.

(n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

(n.) A kind of bazaar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burst

(v. i.) To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.

(v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.

(v. t.) To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.

(v. t.) To break.

(v. t.) To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.

(n.) A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.

(n.) Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.

(n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.

(n.) A rupture or hernia; a breach.

(n.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.

(a.) Thick and spreading, like a bush.

(a.) Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.

(n. pl.) See Scutum.

(n.) A small shield.

(n.) An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.

(n.) A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.

(n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

(n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks.

(n.) A narrow street.

(n. & v.) A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.

(a.) See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n.

(n.) A bust; a statue.

(pl. ) of Scutum

(n.) Charcoal; a cinder.

(v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.

(n.) A melody; a song.

(n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.

(n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.

(n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

(n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.

(n.) To make music upon; to tune.

(n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.

(n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

(n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.

(n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.

(v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.

(v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.

(v. i.) To make a musical sound.

(n.) See 1st Char.

(n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

(n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

(n.) A written deed; a charter.

(v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.

(n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.

(a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.

(v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

(v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.

(v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.

(v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.

(v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.

(v.) That which is pursued or hunted.

(v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.

(v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.

(n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

(n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

(n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

(a.) Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them.

(n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

(v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.

(v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

(n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

(n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

(n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.

(n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.

(n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

(v. t.) To convey in a coach.

(v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.

(v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with

(v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.

(v. i.) To act together; to work in concert; to unite.

(n.) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.

(n.) A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.

(a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.

(a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

(n.) One who buys; a purchaser.

(n.) A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).

(n.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).

(n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.

(n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.

(n.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.

(adv.) Cheaply.

(v. i.) To buy; to bargain.

(n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

(n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.

(n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.

(n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

(n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

(n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.

(n.) To beguile.

(v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

(n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

(n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

(n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.

(n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.

(n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

(n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

(n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

(n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

(n.) Small chick or crack.

(v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.

(v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

(v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.

(v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.

(v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

(v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.

(v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.

(v. i.) To clash or interfere.

(v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.

(v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

(v. t.) The side of a thing.

(v. t.) The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.

(v. t.) The seashore, or land near it.

(n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.

(n.) To sail by or near the shore.

(n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.

(n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.

(v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.

(v. t.) To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.

(v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.

(n.) A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.

(v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

(a.) Checkered; designed in checks.

(n.) Headstrong; obstinate.

(n.) Stout; hearty; lively.

(n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

(n.) The side of the face below the eye.

(n.) The cheek bone.

(n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

(n.) The branches of a bridle bit.

(n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

(n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.

(v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to.

(v. i.) To chirp, as a young bird.

(v. t.) To give expression to in a chirping tone.

(n.) A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.

(n.) The face; the countenance or its expression.

(n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.

(n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.

(n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

(n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.

(v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.

(v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.

(v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.

(v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind.

(v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.

(n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

(n.) See Copra.

(n.) The cobra de capello.

(pl. ) of Coccus

(n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

(n.) A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.

(n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

(v. t.) To choose

(n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

(n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.

(n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.

(n.) A coffin.

(n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

(n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

(n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.

(v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.

(v. i.) To place in a coffin.

(n.) Strife; contention; controversy.

(a.) Pert.

() Alt. of Cocoa palm

(n.) A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

(v. i.) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise.

(v. t.) See Chivy, v. t.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.

(n.) A book; a manuscript.

(n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code.

(n.) An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.

(n.) A collection of canons.

(n.) A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

(n.) A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

(n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.

(n.) The chick-pea.

(v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.

(n.) A chicken.

(n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.

(v. i.) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

(v. i.) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

(n.) A continuous noise or murmur.

(n.) The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.

(n.) The principal part; the most valuable portion.

(n.) The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs.

(a.) Highest in office or rank; principal; head.

(a.) Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.

(a.) Very intimate, near, or close.

(n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

(n.) A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

(n.) One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

(n.) A noble youth. See Childe.

(n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.

(n.) A female infant.

(v. i.) To give birth; to produce young.

(n.) A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum

(n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

(n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

(n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

(n.) A small wooden vessel; a pail.

(n.) A simpleton; a gull; a dupe.

() Alt. of Collet

(n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.

(a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.

(n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

(n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

(n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.

(a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

(a.) Affected by cold.

(a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

(a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

(v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

(v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

(v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

(v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

(n.) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.

(v. i.) Chime.

(n.) See Chine, n., 3.

(n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.

(n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.

(n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.

(n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

(n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

(n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.

(n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

(v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

(v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

(n.) A country in Eastern Asia.

(n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.

(n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.

(n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.

(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]

(n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

(v. t.) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

(v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

(n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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

(v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

(v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

(n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

(n.) Money; cash.

(v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

(v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

(n.) A ship's carpenter.

(v. i.) To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.

(v. i.) To chirp like a bird.

(v. t.) To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.

(v. i.) Lively; cheerful; in good spirits.

(v. i.) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.

(v. i.) To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

(n.) A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.

(n.) A filament of a stamen.

(n.) A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.

(v. t.) To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

(pl. ) of Collum

(n.) The black grime or soot of coal.

(v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.

(n.) A kind of dog. See Collie.

(n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]

(n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.

(v. t.) To form in or with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nose

(a.) Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chieflay used in composition; as, pug-nosed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Name

(n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

(pl. ) of Navus

(n.) A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide, nitrogen oxide, etc.

(n.) One of a series of isonitroso derivatives obtained by the action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones.

(n.) The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior).

(n.) The armpit; also, the arm.

(n.) See Eyelet.

(n.) Same as Oillet.

(n.) The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.

(n.) The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).

(n.) A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.

(n.) A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. coeruleus).

(n.) The dunlin.

(n.) A fish; the bogue, or box.

(n.) The gadfly of cattle.

(n.) A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians.

(n.) Alt. of Juppon

(a.) Pertaining to natural or positive right.

(a.) Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.

(n.) A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.

(n.) The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed.

(n.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Own

(n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

(a.) Exultant.

(n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

(n.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

(a.) Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

(a.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal.

(n.) Tanner's ooze. See Ooze, 3.

() Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Owe

(P. p. & a.) Had or held under obligation of paying; due.

(P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations.

(v. i.) One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n.

(n.) A small owl; especially, the European species (Athene noctua), and the California flammulated owlet (Megascops flammeolus).

(n.) One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.

(n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.

(v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.

(v.) A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like

(v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.

(v.) A matrimonial union; a marriage.

(v.) An agreement, compact, etc.

(v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

(v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

(v.) Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

(v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.

(v. t.) To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.

(v. t.) To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.

(v. t.) To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.

(v. t.) To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.

(v. t.) To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).

(v. t.) To marry; to give in marriage.

(v. t.) To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.

(v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.

(v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

(a.) Alt. of Lyrical

(n.) A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

(n.) A composer of lyric poems.

(n.) A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) The words of a song.

(n.) One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.

(n.) The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

(n.) Hydrophobia.

(n.) The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet.

(a.) Soft; flexible.

(n.) A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog. M () M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178-180, 242.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mate

(n.) See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

(n.) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

(n.) Morning.

(n.) Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.

(n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.

(n.) A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mew

(a.) Mean; not extreme.

(n.) Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

(n.) A macaw.

(n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.

(n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

(n.) See Mohr.

(n.) Miasma.

(v. i.) To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul.

(n.) The crying of a cat.

(v. i.) To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.

() A combining form

() Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope.

(n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.

(n.) A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.

(n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

(n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste.

(n.) Soft mud.

(n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.

(n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.

(n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.

(n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.

(v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.

(v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

(adv.) In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.

(n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.

(n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

(v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.

(v. i.) A small quantity; a taste.

(v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss.

(v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

(v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap.

(adv.) As if with a smack or slap.

(n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

(n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.

(n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

(v. t.) To dismiss, let go, or release.

(adv.) In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.

(a.) Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes.

(n.) A kind of millet. See Durra.

(v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

(v. t.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.

(v. i.) To fall suddenly into water.

(v. t.) To put out; to extinguish.

(n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.

(v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

(v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.

(v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.

(superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.

(superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.

(superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.

(superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.

(superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.

(adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.

(adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.

(n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.

(n.) Smallclothes.

(n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.

(v. t.) To make little or less.

(v. t.) A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.

(v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

(n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia.

(n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dine

(n.) One who dines.

(n.) Alt. of Dinghy

(n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

(superl.) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

(superl.) Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.

(n.) An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.

(n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

(n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.

(v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

(n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

(n.) The property with which a woman is endowed

(n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.

(n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband.

(v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

(v. t.) To cause a smart in.

(v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.

(v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

(v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.

(v. i.) Smart money (see below).

(v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

(v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.

(v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.

(v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.

(v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

(v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.

(v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.

(v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.

(v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

(v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.

(n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

(n.) Hence, bankruptcy.

(n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

(n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.

(n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.

(n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.

(n.) To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

(n.) To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.

(n.) To give heed to.

(v. i.) To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.

(v. i.) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.

(v. i.) To exercise the sense of smell.

(v. i.) To exercise sagacity.

(v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

(v. t.) The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.

(n. & v.) See Smirk.

(a.) Alt. of Smerky

(a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.

(a.) Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.

(a.) Cunning; wary.

(n.) A gift; endowment.

(n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower.

(n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.

(v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

(v. t.) To beat or thrash.

(v. i.) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.

(n.) A blow on the face.

(n.) A dove.

(n.) See Doily.

(imp. & p. p.) of Doze

(n.) A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.

(n.) A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

(v. i.) To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.

(v. i.) To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.

(v. i.) To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty.

(v. i.) To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors.

(v. t.) To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.

(v. t.) To affect in a certain way with a smile.

(v. i.) The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.

(v. i.) A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.

(v. i.) Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence.

(v. i.) Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring.

(v. i.) To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

(n.) A forced or affected smile; a simper.

(a.) Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.

(imp.) of Smite

() of Smite

(v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.

(pl. ) of Dozen

(n.) A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

(n.) An indefinite small number.

(n.) One who dozes or drowses.

(n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.

(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.

(n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.

(n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.

(n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.

(n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.

(n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.

(n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.

(n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

(n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

(n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.

(n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

(n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

(n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

(n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.

(a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

(v. t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate.

(v. t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

(v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.

(v. t.) To transfer by draft.

(v. t. & i.) To trail; to draggle.

(v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

(v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.

(v. t.) To filter.

(v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.

(v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

(n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.

(n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

(n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.

(n.) The male of the duck kind.

(n.) The drake fly.

(n.) A dragon.

(n.) A small piece of artillery.

(n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.

(n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

(n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

(n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

(imp.) of Drink.

(n.) Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.

(v. t.) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

(v. t.) To rail at; to banter.

(v. i.) To make cloth.

(v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.

(v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.

(v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.

(v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.

(v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.

(v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.

(v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.

(v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.

(n.) The act of smiting; a blow.

(n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.

(n.) One who makes or effects anything.

(n.) To beat into shape; to forge.

(v. t.) Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep.

(n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

(n.) A blouse; a smoock frock.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

(v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.

(n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.

(n.) That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

(n.) Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.

(n.) The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.

() old imp. of Drive.

(p. p.) of Draw

(n.) To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.

(n.) Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.

(n.) To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

(n.) To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.

(n.) To suffer severely; to be punished.

(v. t.) To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

(v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

(v. t.) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

(v. t.) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

(v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.

(v. t.) To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.

(superl.) Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.

(superl.) Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.

(superl.) Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.

(superl.) Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.

(superl.) Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.

(superl.) Suspicious; open to suspicion.

(n.) A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.

(v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

(v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.

(n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

(p. p. & a.) See Draw, v. t. & i.

(v. t.) To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

(v. i.) To be in dread, or great fear.

(n.) Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

(v. t.) To smother. See Smoor.

() imp. (/ rare p. p.) of Smite.

(n.) Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

(n.) An object of terrified apprehension.

(n.) A person highly revered.

(n.) Fury; dreadfulness.

(n.) Doubt; as, out of dread.

(a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

(a.) Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

(n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

(n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.

(n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.

(n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.

(v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.

(a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

(n.) Sadness; dismalness.

(v. t.) A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.

(v. t.) A slight, hasty repast.

(p. p.) Drenched; drowned.

() of Dress

(v. t.) To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

(v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.

(v. t.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

(v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.

(v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.

(v. t.) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.

(v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

(v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!

(v. i.) To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.

(n.) That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.

(n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.

(n.) Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.

(n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

(p. p.) of Dress.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.

(n.) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.

(n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

(n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.

(n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.

(n.) The pod of the sanil clover.

(n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

(v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.

(v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

(v. i.) To crawl like a snake.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.

(a.) Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.

(a.) Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand.

(v. t.) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

(n.) A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.

(n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.

(n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

(n.) An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.

(v. t.) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

(v. t.) To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

(v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.

(v. t.) To embarrass; to insnare.

(n.) A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.

(v. i.) To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.

(v. i.) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.

(n.) The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.

(a.) Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.

(v. t.) The snuff, or burnt wick, of a candle.

(n.) A snath.

(n.) A line or cord; a string.

(v. t.) To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.

(v. t.) To nip; to blast; to blight.

(n.) A reprimand; a rebuke.

(v. t.) To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.

(n.) A door latch.

(n.) See Snath.

(v. i.) To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.

(v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.

(v. i.) To show mirth awkwardly.

(v. t.) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.

(v. t.) To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.

(n.) The act of sneering.

(n.) A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.

(a.) Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.

(n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.

(n.) A small cut or mark.

(n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.

(n.) A knot or irregularity in yarn.

(n.) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.

(v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting.

(v. t.) To hit (a ball) lightly.

(n. & v. t.) See Sneck.

(a.) Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods.

() of Sniff

(a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

(superl.) Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

(superl.) Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.

(superl.) Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.

(superl.) Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.

(v. t.) To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

(v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.

(n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

(n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.

(superl.) Alt. of Driest

(n.) A driving; a violent movement.

(n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

(n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

(n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

(n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along

(n.) Anything driven at random.

(n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.

(n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

(n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

(n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

(n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.

(n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

(n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

(n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

(n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

(n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

(n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.

(n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.

(v. t.) To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.

(v. t.) To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.

(v. t.) To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.

(n.) The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.

(v. i.) To snort.

(v. i.) To sniff; to snuff; to smell.

(n.) A moment.

(n.) Slight snow; sleet.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

(n.) A fool; a blockhead.

(n.) A snipe.

(v. t.) To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle.

(n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

(n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

(n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

(v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.

(v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

(v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

(v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

(v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

(v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

(a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

(v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

(v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.

(v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

(n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

(n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

(n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

(n.) The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.

(n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.

(v. t.) To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.

(v. i.) To lurk; to lie in ambush.

(n.) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo.

(n.) The cobia.

(n.) The garfish.

(v. i.) To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.

(n.) A harsh nasal noise made in sleep.

(v. i.) To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.

(v. i.) To snore.

(v. i.) To laugh out loudly.

(n.) The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.

(v. t.) To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.

(n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.

(v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

(v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

(v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.

(v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

(v. i.) To trickle.

(v. i.) To sow in drills.

(n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.

(n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

(n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

(n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.

(n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

(n.) Same as Drilling.

(adv.) See Dryly.

(imp.) of Drink

() of Drink

(p. p.) of Drink

(v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

(v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.

(v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.

(v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

(v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

(v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.

(n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.

(n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.

(n.) The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.

(n.) The nose of a man; -- in contempt.

(n.) The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.

(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.

(v. t.) To furnish with a nozzle or point.

(n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.

(v. i.) Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.

(v. i.) Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.

() of Drip

(imp.) of Drive

() of Drive

(v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.

(v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.

(v. t.) To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.

(a.) To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.

(v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.

(v. i.) A prostitute.

(v. i.) Urine, esp. that of beasts.

(v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.

(v. t.) A stalking-horse.

(v. t.) A stalemate.

(v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.

(n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

(n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

(n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.

(n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

(n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

(n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

(n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

(n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

(n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

(v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.

(v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.

(v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.

(v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.

(n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.

(v. i.) To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.

(n.) A drudge.

(n.) Mean labor; toil.

(n.) A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.

(superl.) Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

(n.) One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.

(n.) Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.

(v. i.) To jest; to play the buffoon.

(v. t.) To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.

(v. t.) To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.

(n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.

(v. i.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

(v. i.) One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.

(v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.

(v. i.) A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.

(v. i.) A stable; a place for cattle.

(v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.

(v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

(v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.

(v. i.) In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

(v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.

(v. t.) To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.

(v. t.) To fatten; as, to stall cattle.

(v. t.) To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.

(v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.

(v. t.) To forestall; to anticipitate. Having

(v. t.) To keep close; to keep secret.

(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.

(v. i.) To kennel, as dogs.

(v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.

(v. i.) To be tired of eating, as cattle.

(v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.

(v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

(n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.

(n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.

(a.) Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

(v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

(v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.

(v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.

(v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

(v. t.) To let droop or sink.

(n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

() of Drop

(a.) Dirty; soiled.

(n.) A toll. See Soc, n., 2.

(n.) A district held by socage.

(a.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.

(a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.

(a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.

(a.) Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.

(pl. ) of Soldo

(n.) A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sole

(n.) A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6.

(n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to Solen or allied genera of the family Solenidae; a razor shell.

(v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

(v. i.) To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.

(v. i.) To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.

(v. i.) To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.

(v. i.) Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.

(v. i.) To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.

(v. i.) To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.

(v. i.) To strike; to beat; to crush.

(v. i.) To strike the foot forcibly downward.

(n.) The act of stamping, as with the foot.

(n.) The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.

(n.) The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.

(n.) that which is marked; a thing stamped.

(v. t.) A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.

(v. t.) An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.

(v. t.) Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.

(v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.

(v. t.) A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.

(v. t.) Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.

(v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.

(v. t.) A half-penny.

(v. t.) Money, esp. paper money.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stand

(n.) To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

(n.) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.

(n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.

(n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.

(n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.

(n.) To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.

(n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

(n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.

(n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.

(n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.

(n.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.

(n.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

(n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.

(n.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.

(n.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.

(n.) To measure when erect on the feet.

(n.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.

(n.) To appear in court.

(v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.

(v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.

(v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.

(v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.

(v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.

(v. i.) The act of standing.

(v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.

(v. i.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.

(v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.

(v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.

(v. i.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.

(v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.

(v. i.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.

(v. i.) Rank; post; station; standing.

(v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.

(v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.

(v. i.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.

(n.) A stone.

() imp. of Sting.

(n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

(n.) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.

(v. i.) To shoot with pain.

(n.) Alt. of Solere

(a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.

(a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.

(a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.

(a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.

(a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.

(a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.

(a.) Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.

(a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.

(a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.

(a.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.

(a.) United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.

(n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.

(n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.

(n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.

(fem. a.) Alt. of Sola

(v. t.) To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.

(n.) A solution; an explanation.

(n.) A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj.

(n.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.

(n.) The starling.

(v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.

(v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.

(v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

(v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.

(n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.

(n.) Stiff; rigid.

(n.) Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire.

(n.) Strong; vigorous; powerful.

(n.) Severe; violent; fierce.

(n.) Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.

(adv.) Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.

(v. t.) To stiffen.

(n.) The European starling.

(v. t.) To summon.

(v. i.) To leap; to jump.

(v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.

(v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.

(v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.

(v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.

(v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

(v. t.) To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.

(v. t.) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.

(v. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.

(n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.

(n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.

(n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.

(n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.

(v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

(v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.

(v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

(v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

(a.) Alt. of Sonsy

(a.) Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.

(v. t.) That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial.

(n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

(n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

(n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

(n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

(n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

(n.) Estate, possession.

(n.) A person of high rank.

(n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.

(n.) The principal persons in a government.

(n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

(n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.

(n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.

(n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

(n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

(a.) Stately.

(a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

(v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.

(v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.

(n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

(a.) See Soncy.

(n.) Skin of bacon.

(superl.) True; faithful; trustworthy.

(superl.) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.

(a.) Truth; reality.

(a.) Augury; prognostication.

(a.) Blandishment; cajolery.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.

(superl.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.

(v. t.) To black or foul with soot.

(n.) See Sufi.

(n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

(a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.

(n.) A ruby.

(n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents.

(n.) A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

(n.) A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.

(n.) A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

(n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

(adv.) In a red manner; with redness.

(v. t.) To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.

(adv.) In an ample manner.

(n.) Same as Ampulla, 2.

(imp. & p. p.) of Race

(n.) One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.

(n.) The common American black snake.

(n.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.

(n.) A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.

(n.) A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair.

(n.) Alt. of Amzel

(n.) The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

(a. & adv.) In a frenzied and reckless manner.

(v.) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.

(v.) To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.

(v.) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

(v. i.) To muse; to mediate.

(n.) Trial; attempt; essay.

(n.) Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.

(n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.

(n.) Tested purity or value.

(n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.

(n.) The alloy or metal to be assayed.

(v.) To try; to attempt; to apply.

(v.) To affect.

(v.) To try tasting, as food or drink.

(v.) To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.

(v. i.) To attempt, try, or endeavor.

(n.) Any article or separable part of one's assets.

(n.) pl. of Radius.

(pl. ) of Radius

(n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon.

(n.) A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration.

(n.) A finite expression, from which a series is derived.

(n.) The root of a plant.

(a.) Damp; musty.

(v. t.) To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate.

(a.) Dazed; foolish; infatuated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rage

(a.) Ragged; rough.

(n. pl.) The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.

(adv.) An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

(n.) An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

(n.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

(n.) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.

(adv. & a.) Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.

(v. t.) Alt. of Astone

(a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.

(v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

(v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.

(v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.

(v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.

(v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.

(v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.

(v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.

(v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.

(v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.

(v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.

(v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.

(v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.

(v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.

(v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.

(v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.

(n.) See Ankle.

(n.) The olecranon, or the elbow.

(n.) Alt. of Ancone

(v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.

(v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.

(v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.

(v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.

(a.) A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rake

(n.) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

(v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

(v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.

(v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

(a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.

(n.) A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.

(n.) A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.

(a.) Bigoted.

(n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

(prep. & adv.) Near.

(v. t. & i.) To near; to approach.

(v. t.) To anoint.

(v. t.) To give extreme unction to.

(n.) A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.

(n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.

(n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

(n.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

(n.) Bilge water.

(v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

(v. i.) To bulge.

(v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).

(v. t.) To cause to bulge.

(a.) Having the smell of bilge water.

(n.) An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants.

(pl. ) of Asylum

(n.) A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

(n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.

(v. t.) To overtake.

(n.) Disorder; irregularity.

(n.) Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

(n.) The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.

(n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club.

(n.) A slubbing or roving machine.

(adv.) In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust.

(adv.) In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]

(n.) Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights.

(n.) One who sustains a great burden.

(n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

(n.) A collection of maps in a volume

(n.) A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

(n.) A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

(n.) A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.

(n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

(n.) A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.

(a.) Twofold; double.

(imp.) of Bind

(p. p.) of Bind

(n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

(n.) A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

(n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

(pl.) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

(pl.) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bare

(n.) An atom; a mite; a pigmy.

(n.) A skeleton.

(v. i.) To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.

(v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.

(v. t.) To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.

(v. t.) To unite in making.

(v. t.) To make satisfaction for; to expiate.

(n.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

(pl. ) of Atrium

(n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

(n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

(n.) A large boat used by flag officers.

(n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

(n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.

(n.) Baryta.

(a.) Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

(n.) A two-footed animal, as man.

(a.) Having two feet; two-footed.

(n.) A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

(n.) The wood or timber of the birch.

(a.) Covered with, or containing, bark.

(n.) Same as Attle.

(n.) A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

(n.) A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.

(n.) A birch-bark canoe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.

(v. t.) To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

(a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.

(n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.

(n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.

(n.) A bristle or bristles.

(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

(n.) See Berth.

(n.) Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.

(a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:

(a.) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

(a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.

(n.) Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.

(v. t.) To busy; to employ.

(n.) The aurochs or European bison.

(n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

(a.) Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

(n.) The common perch. See 1st Bass.

(n.) A place of shelter for cattle.

(n.) The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

(n.) An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.

(a.) Relating to, or forming, the base.

(n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.

(a.) Poisonous; malignant; malicious.

(n.) A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

(n.) One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.

(n.) One who cheats; a sharper.

(imp. & p. p.) of Base

(a.) Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.

(n.) Wearing, or protected by, bases.

(a.) An audience; a hearing.

(a.) An examination in general; a judicial examination.

(a.) The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.

(a.) A general receptacle or receiver.

(v. t.) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.

(v. i.) To settle or adjust an account.

(n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

(n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.

() A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

(a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

(a.) Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

(a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.

(a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

(n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.

(v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle.

(n.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum).

(n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.

(n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.

(n.) Alt. of Aucht

(n.) Property; possession.

(n.) Anything; any part.

(adv.) At all; in any degree.

(n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

(n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.

(v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

(v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

(n.) The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

(a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.

(a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

(a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.

(a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

(adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

(n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.

(n.) A black pigment or dye.

(n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

(n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black

(n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.

(n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.

(n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.

(n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

(n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

(n.) The quantity contained in a basin.

(n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

(n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

(n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

(n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

(n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

(a.) Pertaining to a royal court.

(n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

(a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.

(a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

(pl. ) of Basis

(n.) The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

(n.) The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.

(n.) The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.

(n.) The principal component part of a thing.

(n.) A basin.

(n.) A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

(pl. ) of Aura

(a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to gold.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride.

(n.) Alt. of Bassaw

(a.) The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso.

(a.) One who sings the lowest part.

(a.) The double bass, or contrabasso.

(interj.) Enough; stop.

(n.) A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin.

(n.) Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

(n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.

(n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.

(n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.

(n.) The principal rafters of a roof.

(n.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.

(n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.

(v. t.) To furnish with a blade.

(v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.

(v. t.) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

(v. t.) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

(v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep.

(v. t.) To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

(n.) The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.

(n.) Gold.

(v. t.) To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.

(v. t.) To fill with horror or disgust.

(v. t.) To protest against; to reject solemnly.

(v. i.) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with

(imp. & p. p.) of Abide

(v. i.) To wait; to pause; to delay.

(v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.

(v. i.) To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.

(v. t.) To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.

(v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to submit to.

(v. t.) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.

(v. t.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.

(a.) Consisting of blades.

(n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.

(n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

(v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

(v. t.) To bring reproach upon; to blemish.

(v.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

(v.) That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.

(v.) Hurt; injury.

(a.) Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.

(a.) Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.

(a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.

(a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

(a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited.

(a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

(a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.

(a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.

(a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

(n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

(n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

(n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.

(n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.

(n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

(n.) Aim; shot; range.

(n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.

(n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

(n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."

(v. t.) To make void; to annul.

(v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

(v. i.) To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

(v. t.) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

(n.) The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

(a.) Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

(v. t.) The quantity of bread baked at one time.

(v. t.) A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bate

(a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

(pl. ) of Bath

(v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.

(v. t.) To lave; to wet.

(v. t.) To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.

(v. t.) To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.

(v. t.) To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.

(v. i.) To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.

(v. i.) To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.

(v. i.) To bask in the sun.

(n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.

(n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

(n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.

(n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.

(v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.

(v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.

(v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

(v. t.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

() A prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.

() A prefix denoting: (a) Likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ooze

(a.) Full of nits.

(a.) Shining; elegant; spruce.

(a.) Abounding with snow; snowy.

(n.) See Nix.

(n.) The title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad, in India, since 1719.

(a.) Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.

(n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

(n.) Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

(v. i.) To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

(n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

(pl. ) of Alga

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae.

(a.) Cold; chilly.

(n.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

(v. t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.

(v. t.) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.

(v. t.) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.

(v. t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

(v. t.) To direct or address.

(v. t.) To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

(v. t.) To visit.

(v. i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

(v. i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

(v. i.) To ply; to move.

(v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).

(n.) A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash.

(n.) Cold; chilliness.

(n.) Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).

(adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

(adv.) At another time.

(n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

(n.) Another name; an assumed name.

(n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.

(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

(n.) A box; a pyx.

(n.) A pyxidium.

(n.) The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2. Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Ph/nician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.

(v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

(v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

(v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

(n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.

(n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

(n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.

(adv.) On my life; dearly.

(v. t.) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

(v. t.) To form in line; to fall into line.

(a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

(adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.

(a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

(a.) Like ale; as, an alish taste.

(a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

(a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.

(a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.

(a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.

(a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.

(a.) Of all living (by way of emphasis).

(n.) A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.

(n.) The fourth month of the year.

(n.) Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.

(n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

(n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;

(n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.

(n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.

(n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.

(n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.

(n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

(n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

(n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.

(n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.

(n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

(n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

(n.) In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.

(n.) Same as Apse.

(n.) The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

(v. t.) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

(v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.

(v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.

(n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.

(n.) Alloy.

(v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

(adv.) In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.

(v. t.) To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.

(v. i.) To drink largely or luxuriously.

(v. i.) To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.

(v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.

(v. t.) To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.

(v. i.) To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.

(n.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).

(n.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.

(n.) A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

(v. i.) To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.

(v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.

(n.) The country of Arabia.

(v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.

(a.) Same as Alder, of all.

(n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.

(n.) A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.

(n.) A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

(n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

(n.) The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

(n.) A choice taw or marble.

(n.) The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

(v. t.) To cause to quake.

(n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

(a.) Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.

(n.) The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus).

(n.) See Allodium.

(n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

(n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.

(n.) Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.

(n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.

(n.) A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

(v. t. / i.) To incite dogs by a call; to halloo.

(v. t.) To distribute by lot.

(v. t.) To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him.

(n.) A medusa, or jellyfish.

(n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.

(n.) A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

(n.) An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

(n.) A mandrel in lathe turning.

(v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

(v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

(v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.

(v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.

(v. t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.

(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

(v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

(v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

(n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

(n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.

(n.) A vessel or measure containing a quart.

(n.) In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.

() A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.

(v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

(v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.

(v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.

(v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.

(v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.

(v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.

(v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

(v. t.) To form a metallic compound.

(n.) An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

(n.) Same as Alme.

(n.) A German.

(adj.) German.

(adj.) The German language.

(adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande.

(n.) An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.

(n.) Alt. of Algum

(n.) A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).

(pl. ) of Aloe

(n.) Same as Squash.

(v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.

(v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.

(v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.

(v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

(n.) A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.

(n.) The coaita.

(a.) Arched; as, archy brows.

() A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

(adv.) On high; in the air; high above the ground.

(adv.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

(prep.) Above; on top of.

(n.) Unreasonableness; absurdity.

(n.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

(a.) Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.

(a.) Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.

(a.) Sole; only; exclusive.

(a.) Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.

(adv.) Solely; simply; exclusively.

(adv.) By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.

(adv.) In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.

(adv.) In company; together.

(prep.) By the length of, as distinguished from across.

() (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)

(n.) Same as Alewife.

(adv.) At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.

(adv.) Without sympathy; unfavorably.

(prep.) Away from; clear from.

(v. t.) To praise.

(n.) The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.

(adv.) With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

(n.) See Quaver.

(v. i.) To quaver.

(n.) A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.

(n.) A low woman; a wench; a slut.

(n.) The wife of a king.

(n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.

(n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.

(n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.

(n.) Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

(n.) Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.

(n.) Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps.

(n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.

(n.) A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.

(n.) In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.

(n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.

(n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.

(n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.

(v. i.) To act the part of a queen.

(v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.

(a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.

(a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.

(n.) Counterfeit money.

(n.) A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

(v. i.) To die.

(v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.

(v. t.) To take the life of; to kill.

(v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

(v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul.

(n.) Murder.

(v. t. & i.) To please.

(v. t.) Alt. of Areed

(a.) Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

(v. t. & i.) To raise; to set up; to stir up.

(adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.

(n.) A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

(adv. & a.) In a reeking condition.

(n.) The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.

(n.) Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.

(n.) "Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.

(n.) Alt. of Arenga

(v. t.) To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

(v. t.) To agitate; to affect mentally.

(v. t.) To geld.

(v. i.) To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.

(prep.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.

(adv.) Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.

(v. t.) To abandon.

(v. t.) To banish; to expel.

(a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

(a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

(v. t.) To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

(v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.

(v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.

(v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.

(v. t.) To blunt.

(v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.

(v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.

(v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.

(v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.

(v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.

(n.) Abatement.

(n.) A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

(n.) The church of a monastery.

(n.) The superior or head of an abbey.

(n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

(n.) A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

(v. t. & i.) See Arear.

(n.) A support for the spear when couched for the attack.

(n.) Crude tartar. See Argol.

(adv.) A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore.

(n.) Alt. of Argali

(n.) A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

(adv.) On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

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

(v. t.) To put up with; to endure.

(n.) The white poplar (Populus alba).

(v. i.) To wander; to stray.

(conj.) Although.

(n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

(n.) A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds.

(adv.) Always.

(v. t.) To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.

(n.) A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse.

(n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

(n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.

(n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.

(n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.

(v. i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry.

(v. i.) To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.

(v. t.) To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.

(v. t.) To address questions to; to examine by questions.

(v. t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.

(v. t.) To write " query" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.

(n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.

(n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.

(v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

(v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

(n.) Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

(n.) Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks.

(n.) A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness.

(n.) A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

(v. i.) To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

(v. i.) To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.

(v. t.) To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

(v. t.) To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.

(v. t.) To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.

(v. t.) To blame; to accuse; to charge with.

(v. t.) To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

(n.) A mass; a heap.

(v. t.) To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.

(v. t.) To be a mate to; to match.

(v. t.) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

(v. t.) To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly.

(v. i.) To be astounded.

(v. t.) Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement.

() A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.

(n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

(n.) Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

(n.) Ambergris.

(n.) The balsam, liquidambar.

(a.) Consisting of amber; made of amber.

(a.) Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.

(v. t.) To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

(v. t.) To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.

(n.) Circuit or compass.

(v. i.) To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.

(v. i.) To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.

(n.) A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side.

(n.) A movement like the amble of a horse.

(pl. ) of Ambo

(n.) Same as Ambo.

(n.) In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.

(n.) A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc.

(n.) Almonry.

(n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

(n.) One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful.

(n.) A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.

(a. & n.) See Aryan.

(a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings.

(n.) One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius.

(n.) Alt. of Amir

(v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better

(v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;

(v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;

(v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.

(v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

(n.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin.

(n.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

(n.) The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

(n.) Request; desire; solicitation.

(n.) Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.

(n.) Inquest; jury of inquest.

(n.) To search for; to examine.

(v. i.) To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.

() Alt. of Ariel gazelle

(n.) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

(n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.

(n.) A battering-ram.

(imp.) of Arise

(v. i.) To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

(v. i.) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise.

(v. i.) To proceed; to issue; to spring.

(n.) Rising.

() 3d sing. pres. of Arise, for ariseth.

(n.) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.

(n.) A line of persons waiting anywhere.

(v. t.) To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

(n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.

(superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

(superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.

(superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.

(superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.

(superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

(superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.

(superl.) Pregnant; with child.

(adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.

(n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.

(n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.

(n.) Quitch grass.

(v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.

(n. pl.) An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain.

(n.) A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

(n.) A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.

(n.) A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.

(a.) Containing, or derived from, amidogen.

(n.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

(adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.

(a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

(n.) A fault, wrong, or mistake.

(n.) Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.

(a.) In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.

(a.) Free from noise or disturbance; hushed; still.

(a.) Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as, a quiet life; a quiet conscience.

(a.) Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented.

(a.) Not showy; not such as to attract attention; undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement.

(a.) The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet.

(a.) Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security.

(v. t.) To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence.

(v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief.

(v. i.) To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.

(n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.

(n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.

(n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

(n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen.

(n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

(n.) The tube of a musical instrument.

(n.) Something having the form of a quill

(n.) The fold or plain of a ruff.

(n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

(n.) A hollow spindle.

(v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.

(v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

(n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.

(v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.

(v. t.) To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.

(v. t.) To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.

(imp. & p. p.) of Arm

(a.) Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.

(a.) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.

(a.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey.

(prep.) Alt. of Amongst

(a.) As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.

(n.) Same as Quipu.

(n.) A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events.

(n.) See Choir.

(v. i.) To sing in concert.

(n.) A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.

(n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

(n.) A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.

(n.) A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.

(n.) An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.

(n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.

(n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.

(n. & v.) See Querl.

(n.) A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

(n.) A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

(n.) A bracelet.

(n.) An ancient astronomical instrument.

(n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

(n.) Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.

(n.) Love; affection.

(n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

(v. t.) To remove, as a person or thing, from a position.

(v. t.) To dismiss from an office or station.

(v. t. & i.) To move or be moved; to excite.

(v. t. & i.) See Quit.

(a.) Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.

(a.) To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.

(interj.) See the Note under Quit, a.

(n.) The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

(n.) Alt. of Arnut

(n.) The earthnut.

(a.) Alt. of Aroideous

(n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

(n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.

(n.) Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

(n.) A wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material, used for various purposes

(n.) to support and steady a stone.

(n.) To support the breech of a cannon.

(n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.

(n.) To prevent casks from rolling.

(n.) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.

(n.) A game played with quoits.

(n.) The discus of the ancients. See Discus.

(n.) A cromlech.

(v. i.) To throw quoits; to play at quoits.

(v. t.) To throw; to pitch.

(n.) A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

(v. t.) To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

(v. t.) To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.

(v. t.) To name the current price of.

(v. t.) To notice; to observe; to examine.

(v. t.) To set down, as in writing.

(n.) A note upon an author.

(v. t.) Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he.

(n.) A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

() The past or preterit tense of Arise.

(n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

(a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.

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

(n.) A person who uses a rake.

(n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.

(n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.

(n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.

(n.) The electric catfish.

(n.) A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

(n.) Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.

(v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

(v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.

(v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.

(v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

(n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).

(n.) A political mass meeting.

(v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.

(v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.

(n.) Good-humored raillery.

(n.) A name sometimes given to the raven.

(a.) Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.

(a.) Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

(a.) Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.

(n.) Furious; raging; extremely violent.

(n.) Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.

(n.) Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.

(n.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.

(n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.

(a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

(n.) See Ramie.

(n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

() A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

(n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.

(n.) Any species of marine gastropods, of the genera Nassa, Tritia, and other allied genera of the family Nassidae; a dog whelk. See Illust. under Gastropoda.

(n. pl.) The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.

(n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.

(n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

(n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.

(n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.

(n.) A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

(n.) Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.

(n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.

(n.) A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

(n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.

(v. i.) To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

(v. i.) To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.

(v. i.) To be resplendent.

(v. t.) To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

(v. t.) To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.

(v. i.) To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.

(v. i.) To blazon.

() A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.

(a.) Without color; pale; pallid.

(a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

(a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

(a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

(v.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.

(v.) Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.

(v. t.) To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.

(v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

(n.) A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.

(v. t.) Alt. of Blek

(v. i.) To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

(v. i.) To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

(v. i.) To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.

(v. i.) To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.

(v. i.) To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

(v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.

(v. t.) To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

(v. t.) To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.

(v. t.) To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.

() of Blend

(v. t.) To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.

(v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

(v. i.) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.

(n.) A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

(a.) To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.

(v. i.) To blink; to shine; to look.

(imp. & p. p.) Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.

(imp. & p. p.) Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.

() of Bless

(v. t.) To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

(v. t.) To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.

(v. t.) To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.

(v. t.) To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.

(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).

(v. t.) To guard; to keep; to protect.

(v. t.) To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.

(v. t.) To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.

(v. t.) To wave; to brandish.

(a.) Blessed.

(n. & v.) See Balk.

(n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.

(n.) Impure limestone.

(a.) Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.

(a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

(a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

(a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.

(a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

(a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

(a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.

(a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

(a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

(a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.

(v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

(v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.

(v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

(n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.

(n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.

(n.) A halting place.

(n.) Alt. of Blinde

(imp. & p. p.) of Bay

(a.) Having a bay or bays.

(n.) An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.

(n.) In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

(n.) A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.

(n.) A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects.

(v. i.) To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

(v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.

(v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.

(v. i.) To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

(v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.

(v. t.) To trick; to deceive.

(v. i.) A glimpse or glance.

(v. i.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.

(v. i.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

(pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.

(n.) A gust of wind and rain.

(n.) Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Be

(n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

(n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

(v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

(v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

(v. t.) To promote; to assist.

(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.

(n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

(n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

(v. t. & i.) See Avale, v.

(v. t. & i.) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.

(v. t. & i.) To bring low; to abase.

(v. t. & i.) To descend; to fall; to dismount.

(a.) Cease; stop; stay.

(n.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

(v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.

(v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.

(v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.

(a.) Bloated.

(n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.

(v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

(v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.

(v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.

(v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

(v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.

(v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.

(v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.

(v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.

(a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.

(a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.

(a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

(n.) A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

(v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

(v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.

(v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.

(v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

(v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

(v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.

(n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.

(n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.

(n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.

(v. t.) Alt. of Blonde

(a.) Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.

(a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.

(a.) Having horns, or antlers.

() of Bear

(n.) A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

(n.) Alt. of Abyme

(n.) The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

(n.) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

(n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.

(n.) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

(n.) The fleshy nature of man.

(n.) The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

(n.) A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

(n.) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

(n.) A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

(n.) The juice of anything, especially if red.

(v. t.) To bleed.

(v. t.) To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

(v. t.) To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

(v. t.) To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

(n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

(n.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."

(v. i.) To turn away.

(a.) Of or instrument to birds.

(v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

(n.) Information; advice.

(n.) An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

(a.) To empty.

(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

(n.) A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

(n.) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.

(n.) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.

(n.) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.

(n.) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

(n.) A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

(n.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

(v. i.) To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

(v. i.) To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.

(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

(v. t.) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

(n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

(n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

(n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.

(n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds

(n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

(n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.

(n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.

(n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.

(n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.

(n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

(n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

(n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

(n.) An imposition; a trick.

(v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

(v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.

(v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

(a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

(a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.

(a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.

(a.) To get rid of.

(a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.

(v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.

(v. i.) To become void or vacant.

(v. t.) To call from or back again.

(n.) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

(n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

(n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.

(n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.

(n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.

(n.) A game at cards similar to loo.

(n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

(v. t.) To watch for; to look out for.

(v. t.) To wait on, serve, or attend.

(v. t.) To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.

(v. t.) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.

(v. i.) To watch.

(v. i.) To wait (on or upon).

(v. i.) To wait; to stay in waiting.

(n.) A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.

(imp.) of Awake

() of Awake

(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

(v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

(v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

(a.) Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

(v. t.) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.

(v. t.) To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

(p. p.) of Blow

(p. p.) of Blow

(p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

(p. p. & a.) Stale; worthless.

(p. p. & a.) Out of breath; tired; exhausted.

(p. p. & a.) Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.

(p. p. & a.) Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.

(a.) Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blue

(v. i.) To determine; to make an award.

(v. t.) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

(v. t.) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.

(a.) Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

(a.) Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs.

(v. t.) To warn.

(a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Awe

(a.) Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

(a.) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.

(a.) Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.

(a.) Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.

(a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.

(a.) Bluish.

(a.) Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.

(a.) Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.

(a.) Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

(a.) Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.

(v. t.) To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.

(pl. ) of Beau

(n.) pl. of Beau.

(adv.) On the wing; flying; fluttering.

(adv.) In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner.

(adv.) Awkwardly.

(a.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

(a.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.

(a.) Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.

(a.) A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

(a.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

(n.) A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.

(n.) An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.

(n.) A game at cards; poker.

(v. t.) To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value.

(v. t.) To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off.

(v. i.) To act as in the game of bluff.

(a.) Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

(a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.

(a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

(a.) Hard to impress or penetrate.

(v. t.) To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

(v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

(a.) Having an axle; -- used in composition.

(pl. ) of Axman

(n.) One who wields an ax.

(prep. & adv.) Beyond.

(prep. & adv.) Beyond.

(a.) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks.

(n.) Same as Nitrogen.

(n.) The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

(n.) The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

(a.) Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519.

(n.) One of the Aztec race or people.

(a.) Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.

(n.) The lapis lazuli.

(n.) The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.

(n.) The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.

(n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

(v. t.) To color blue.

(n.) Unleavened bread.

(n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.

(n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.

(n.) Alt. of Babu

(n.) Alt. of Bedell

(n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

(v. t.) To moisten with dew, or as with dew.

(v. t.) To make dim; to obscure or darken.

(n.) A fencer's foil.

(n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.

(n.) Money.

(v. t.) To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

(v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

(v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

(v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

(v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

(v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.

(n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

(n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

(v. t.) To dye or stain.

(n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.

(a.) Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

(n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

(n.) A table to put food upon.

(n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.

(n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.

(n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

(n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

(n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

(n.) The border or side of anything.

(n.) The side of a ship.

(n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

(v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.

(n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.

(n.) To enter, as a railway car.

(n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

(n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

(v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.

(v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

(a.) Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.

(n.) A beef; a beef creature.

(v. t.) To be suitable to; to suit; to become.

(v. t.) To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.

(v. t.) Hence: To confuse; to mystify.

(v. i.) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.

(v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

(v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

(v. t.) To display vaingloriously.

(v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

(v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

(v. t.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

(n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

(n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

(v. t.) To adorn with gems, or as with gems.

(imp.) of Beget

() of Beget

(p. p.) of Beget

(v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

(v. t.) To get (with child.)

(v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Begin

() of Begin

(v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

(v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.

(v. t.) To enter on; to commence.

(v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.

(n.) Beginning.

(v. t.) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.

() imp. & p. p. of Beget.

(n.) In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

() p. p. of Begin.

(n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

(n. pl.) Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

(n.) Alt. of Behn

(n.) Debeige.

(n.) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

(p. pr.) Existing.

(n.) Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence.

(n.) That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings.

(n.) Lifetime; mortal existence.

(n.) An abode; a cottage.

(adv.) Since; inasmuch as.

(n.) Half a shekel.

(v. t.) To beat or bang.

(v. t.) To lay on or cover; to adorn.

(v. t.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.

(v. t.) To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.

(v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

(v. i.) To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.

(v. i.) To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

(v. i.) To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

(n.) The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

(n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

(v. t.) To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.

(pl. ) of Bel-esprit

(n.) To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

(n.) To give a false representation or account of.

(n.) To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.

(n.) To mimic; to counterfeit.

(n.) To fill with lies.

(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.

(n.) A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

(n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bode

(n.) A botch; a patch.

(v. t.) To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.

(v. i.) See Budge.

(n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

(n.) A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.

(n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

(n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

(n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

(n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

(v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.

(n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

(n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.

(n.) The womb.

(n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.

(n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

(n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

(n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.

(v. i.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

(n.) The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.

(a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

(n.) A liquor made of rum and molasses.

(n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.

(adv.) In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

(n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

(n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

(v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.

(v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.

(prep.) Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.

(prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.

(prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.

(adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.

(adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.

(adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.

(adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.

(adv.) In some part or page following.

(n.) A box.

(a.) Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.

(n.) A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.

(v. t.) To make mad.

(n.) The sign /; the same as B flat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

(n. sing. & pl.) A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

(n.) Alt. of Boldu

(n.) A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.

(n.) Alt. of Bolye

(n.) A child.

(n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

(n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

(n.) The seat where judges sit in court.

(n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

(n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

(n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

(v. t.) To furnish with benches.

(v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.

(v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

(n.) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

(n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bake

() p. p. of Bake.

(v. i.) One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

(v. i.) A portable oven in which baking is done.

(a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

(n.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

(n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bale

(v. t.) To catch in a net; to insnare.

(v. t.) To take away.

(n.) The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

(a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

(a.) Resembling bent.

(v. t.) To make foul; to soil; to defile.

(a.) Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

(n.) A hill.

(n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

(n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

(n.) A boy's game played with large marbles.

(a.) Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.

(a.) Producing balm.

(n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

(v. t.) To rob; to plunder.

(n.) A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

(n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

(n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

(n.) The coffee bean.

(n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

(v. i.) To bear or produce berries.

(n.) A mound; a hillock.

(a.) Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.

(a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.

(a.) Full of reefs or rocks.

(a.) Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.

(a.) Emitting reek.

(n.) The female of the ruff.

(v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.

(n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.

(v. t.) To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.

(v. t.) To carry or send back.

(v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

(v. t.) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

(v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.

(v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.

(v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

(n.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame.

(n.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips.

(v. t.) To make ruddy.

(v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.

(v. t.) To fit out or supply a second time.

(v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.

(v. t.) To fix again or anew; to establish anew.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rue

(n.) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

(pl. ) of Byssus

(n.) A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.

(n.) The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray.

(n.) Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

(n.) A secret.

(n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.

(n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.

(v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.

(v. t.) To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

(n.) The act of resetting.

(n.) That which is reset; matter set up again.

(n.) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw.

(v. t.) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.

(n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.

(n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

(n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.

(n.) A small room; an inclosed place.

(n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers.

(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.

(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

(n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

(n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.

(n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.

(v. t.) To fasten with a cable.

(v. t.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

(v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable

(n.) A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

(n.) A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.

(v. t.) To roast, as a cabob.

(n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

(n.) A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.

(pl. ) of Cactus

(n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

(n.) See Cadre.

(n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.

(n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.

(n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich.

(n.) Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

(v. t.) To sow again.

(a.) Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.

(n.) A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.

(n.) Alt. of Cadeworm

(v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden.

(v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.

(v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

(n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

(a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton.

(n.) Alt. of Caddie

(n.) A kind of coarse serge.

(n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

(n. pl.) See Caecum.

(pl. ) of Ruga

(a.) Rugged; rough.

(pl. ) of Caecum

(imp. & p. p.) of Rule

(n.) One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.

(n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).

(n.) Grog.

(n.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.

(n.) The cud of a ruminant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

(v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

(v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck.

(n.) One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.

(a.) Strange; odd.

(n.) A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.

(n.) A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.

(n.) A prolonged, indistinct noise.

(v. t.) To report by rumor; to tell.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cage

(a.) Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.

(n.) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.

(n.) One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

(n.) A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.

(n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

(n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cake

(n.) The wild radish.

(n.) A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.

(a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.

(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.

(n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.

(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.

(a.) Abounding with rushes.

(a.) Made of rushes.

(n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.

(superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

(superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.

(superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

(superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.

(superl.) Rust-colored; dark.

(superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.

(superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.

(n.) A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

(a.) Ruttish; lustful.

(a.) Full of ruts; as, a rutty road.

(a.) Rooty.

(n.) A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider.

(a.) Hot; burning; ardent.

(n.) Alt. of Califate

(n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.

(n.) A cup. See Calyx.

(n.) A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.

(n.) A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.

(n.) See Reveal.

(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.

(v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.

(v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.

(v. t.) To draw back; to retract.

(n.) Alt. of Sabre

(n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.

(v. t.) Alt. of Sabre

(v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.

(n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.

(n.) The fur of the sable.

(n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.

(n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.

(a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.

(v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

(n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

(n.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

(n. & v.) See Saber.

(n.) A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.

(n.) A kind of head covering; a caul.

(n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm.

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

(v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.

(n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.

(n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

(pl. ) of Saccus

(n.) A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicua, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).

(n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted.

(n.) A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.

(n.) A light, loose dress or robe.

(n.) See Camis.

(imp.) of Can

(n.) See Saker.

(v. t.) To consecrate; to make sacred.

(n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

(n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

(v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

(v. t.) To vie with, or rival, in return.

(v. t.) To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager.

(v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.

(v. i.) To make a retort; to bandy words.

(pl. ) of Sacrum

(a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.

(a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.

(a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

(v. i.) To clip with scissors.

(n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.

(adv.) Wearily; heavily; firmly.

(adv.) Seriously; soberly; gravely.

(adv.) Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably.

(n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.

(v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

(v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.

(v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.

(v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

(v. t.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.

(n.) See Clake.

(v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

(v./.) To proclaim.

(v./.) To call or name.

(v./.) To assert; to maintain.

(v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

(n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

(n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.

(n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

(n.) A loud call.

(n.) Alt. of Claik

(n.) The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.

(v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

(v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

(v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

(v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

(v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

(v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.

(n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cane

(a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.

(pl. ) of Canis

(n.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.

(n.) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.

(n.) A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.

(a.) Alt. of Cannei

(n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.

(n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.

(n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.

(v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

(n.) A law or rule.

(n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.

(n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.

(n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

(n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

(n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

(n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

(n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

(n.) See Carom.

() A colloquial contraction for can not.

(n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.

(n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth.

(n.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.

(n.) That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

(n.) The lowest point; the time of greatest depression.

(n.) The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.

(n.) Same as Sora.

(n.) A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck.

(n.) A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

(n.) A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.

(n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

() of Stave

(n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.

(n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.

(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.

(n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.

(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

() of Stay

(n.) Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.

(a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.

(a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.

(a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

(pl. ) of Discus

(n.) Convenient sea room.

(n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

(n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

(n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.

(n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

(v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

(v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

(n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

(v. t. & i.) To see; to look; to mind.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beset

(v. t.) To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.

(v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

(v. t.) To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc.

(v. t.) To occupy; to employ; to use up.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bone

(a.) Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

(n.) The territory governed by a ban.

(n.) A bank, especially that of Venice.

(v. t.) To suit; to fit; to become.

(n.) A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys.

(v. t.) To sweep, as with a besom.

(v. t.) To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

(a.) Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.

(a.) Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

(a.) Manured with bone; as, boned land.

(n.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

(n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

(n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

(n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

(v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.

(v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.

(v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.

(v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.

(a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

(a.) Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.

(a.) Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.

(n.) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

(n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.

(n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

(n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

(n.) A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.

(n.) A dunce; a stupid fellow.

(n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

(n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.

(a.) Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

(n.) Same as Buddha.

(a.) Bookish.

(n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.

(n.) Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

(n.) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.

(n.) See Bort.

(n.) A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.

(v. i.) To drink excessively. See Booze.

(v. i.) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.

(n.) A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.

(n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

(n.) A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

(n.) A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

(n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

(v. i.) To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

(n.) A carouse; a drinking.

(a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.

(n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bore

(n.) Same as BourrEe.

(n.) See Borrel.

(n.) One that bores; an instrument for boring.

(n.) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.

(n.) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

(n.) One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.

(n.) The hagfish (Myxine).

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

(p. p.) Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

(n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

(n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.

(n.) The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

(n.) A small brass Venetian coin.

(n.) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.

(n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

(n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.

(v.) Alt. of Bourne

(n.) Alt. of Bourne

(v. i.) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

(n.) Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.

(a.) Drunken; sotted; boozy.

(a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bow

(a.) Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.

(a.) Caused by boscage.

(n.) The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

(n.) The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.

(n.) Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.

(n.) Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.

(n.) The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.

(n.) Inclination; desire.

(n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bosom.

(a.) Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.

(v. t.) To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bow

(n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

(n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

(n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.

(n.) Offspring.

(v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

(v. & n.) One who bows or bends.

(n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

(n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.

(a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

(a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.

(v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

(v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.

(n.) A light repast between meals; a lunch.

(v. i.) To take a light repast between meals.

(v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.

(n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.

(n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.

(n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.

(n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

(v. t.) To embower; to inclose.

(v. i.) To lodge.

(n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

(v. i.) To swell out. See Bouge.

(v. t.) To cause to leak.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bewet

(v. t.) To wet or moisten.

(v. t.) To cover (the head) with a wig.

(n.) A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

(n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

(n.) An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

(n. pl.) Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.

(n.) A book.

(n.) The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

(n.) A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible.

(n.) A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.

(n. pl.) See Bowl, a ball, a game.

(v. t.) To make ready; to prepare; to dress.

(v. i.) To carouse; to bouse; to booze.

(v. i.) To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.

(n.) A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.

(pl. ) of Box

(imp. & p. p.) of Box

(a.) Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).

(n.) One who packs boxes.

(n.) One who boxes; a pugilist.

(n.) Alt. of Boyard

(n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

(n.) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

(v. t.) To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

(n.) See Boatswain.

(a.) Ornamented with bosses; studded.

(n.) A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.

(n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

(n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

(n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

(n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.

(n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

(n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

(n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

(n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.

(n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension.

(n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

(n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.

(n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

(n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.

(n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.

(n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.

(n.) Harness; warlike preparation.

(n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace.

(n.) The mouth of a shaft.

(v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.

(v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.

(v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

(v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.

(v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.

(v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.

(n.) A bitch of the hound kind.

(n.) A name used in calling a hen or chicken.

(n.) An Irish serving woman or girl.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bide

(n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.

(n.) Salt or brackish water.

(n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

(n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

(n.) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.

(n.) A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.

(n.) A shelter. Same as Beild.

(v. t.) To shelter.

(a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

(n.) Alt. of Boothy

(n. pl.) See Bots.

(n.) A mouth.

(n.) An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

(v. i.) To swell out.

(v. i.) To bilge.

(v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.

(n.) Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.

(n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

(n.) A gallows.

(n.) Alt. of Boulework

(v. t.) To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.

(v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

(v. t.) To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.

(n.) A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.

(n.) A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.

(n.) A quick motion; a start.

(n.) A fancy; freak; caprice.

(v. i.) To start; to awake.

(v. t.) Deceitful.

(n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

(n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

(n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

(v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

(n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

(n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.

(v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.

(v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.

(v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.

(v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.

(v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.

(v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.

(n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

(n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.

(n.) Spring from one foot to the other.

() imp. & p. p. of Bind.

(p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

(p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

(p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

(p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

(p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.

(p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive.

(v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.

(n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

(n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.

(n.) The affections; fancy; imagination.

(v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

(v. t.) To conceive; to understand.

() imp. of Break.

(n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

(n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

(v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

(v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.

(v. t.) A baker's kneading though.

(v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.

(v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

(v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

(v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

(v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

(v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

(v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.

(v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

(v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.

(a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

(n.) Sharp passion; vexation.

(n.) A jest.

(v. i.) To jest.

(n.) A bigamist.

(v. t.) A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

(v. t.) A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.

(v. t.) A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

(v. t.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.

(v. t.) An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.

(v. t.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.

(v. t.) To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).

(v. t.) To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.

(v. t.) Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.

(v. t.) To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.

(n.) Buckwheat.

(n.) Alt. of Branks

(v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.

(v. i.) To prance; to caper.

(n.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.

(a.) Steep.

(a.) Hasty in temper; impetuous.

(a.) Brittle, as wood or vegetables.

(n.) A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

(n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.

(n.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

(n.) Broken fragments of ice.

(n.) An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.

(n.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.

(n.) Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.

(n.) Impudence; a brazen face.

(n.) Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.

(n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.

(n.) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

(v. t. & i.) To burst.

(superl.) Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

(superl.) Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.

(superl.) Making a fine show or display.

(n.) A brave person; one who is daring.

(n.) Specifically, an Indian warrior.

(n.) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.

(n.) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.

(v. t.) To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare.

(v. t.) To adorn; to make fine or showy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.

(n.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

(n.) A gunlock.

(v. t.) To win again, or win back.

(pl. ) of Rex

(a.) A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.

(interj.) Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.

(v. i.) To quarrel noisily and outrageously.

(v. i.) To complain loudly; to scold.

(v. i.) To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.

(n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.

(n.) A muscle; flesh.

(n.) Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.

(n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

(n.) A boar.

(n.) A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities.

(n.) A diseased sheep, or its mutton.

(a.) Like a ram; rammish.

(n.) See Rigel.

(n. pl.) A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum).

(n.) Chrysophanic acid.

(n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.

(v. t.) To get again.

(n.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.

(n.) A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.

(n.) A water course; a ditch.

(a.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.

(n.) A prop or shore.

(n.) A round between the legs of a chair.

(v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

(n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.

(n.) Same as Rani.

(n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

(n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.

(n.) To separate into parts; to sift.

(n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

(n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.

(n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.

(n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.

(v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

(v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

(v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

(v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.

(v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

(v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

(v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

(v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.

(v.) A kitchen grate.

(v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.

(v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.

(v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

(v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

(v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.

(v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.

(v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.

(v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.

(v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.

(v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.

(v.) See Range of cable, below.

(v. t.) To rule; to govern.

(n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.

(n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.

(n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

(n.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.

(n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

(n.) A word answering in sound to another word.

(n.) To make rhymes, or verses.

(n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.

(v. t.) To put into rhyme.

(v. t.) To influence by rhyme.

(n.) The erd shrew.

(a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous.

(n.) Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

(n.) The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion.

(n.) The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.

(n.) To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.

(n.) Hence, to be predominant; to prevail.

(n.) To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.

(a.) Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.

(n.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.

() imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride.

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

(n.) Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.

(n.) One who breaks or manages a horse.

(n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.

(n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.

(n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

(n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

(n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.

(n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

(n.) Same as Rhaphe.

(a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.

(a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

(a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

(a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.

(n. pl.) The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.

(n. pl.) The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.

(n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

(n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.

(n.) A robber.

(n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest.

(n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.

(n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.

(n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

(n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

(v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.

(v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.

(v. t.) To wrinkle.

(a.) Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.

(v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

(v. t.) To strip; to rob; to pillage.

(v. t.) To raffle.

(v. i.) To raffle.

(v. i.) To commit robbery.

(n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.

(n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.

(n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

(v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.

(v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rase

(n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.

(a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

(a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.

(a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.

(a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.

(a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.

(a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.

(a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.

(a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.

(a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.

(adv.) In a right manner.

(adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.

(adv.) Exactly; just.

(adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.

(adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.

(adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.

(adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.

(a.) That which is right or correct.

(a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.

(a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.

(n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

(n.) See Rattan.

(n.) Same as Rotche.

(n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works.

(n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.

(n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.

(a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.

(a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.

(a.) That to which one has a just claim.

(a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.

(a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.

(a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.

(a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.

(a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.

(a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.

(a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.

(a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.

(a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.

(v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.

(v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.

(a.) Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.

(a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.

(n.) A circle; hence, a diadem.

(n.) Rigidity; stiffness.

(n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.

(n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

(n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.

(n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.

(n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

(n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rate

(n.) Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.

(n.) One who rates or estimates.

(n.) One who rates or scolds.

(a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.

(adv.) Early; soon; betimes.

(n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.

(n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.

(n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.

(n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

(v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.

(v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

(v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

(n.) Relaxation.

(a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

(v. t.) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

(n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.

(n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.

(n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.

(n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

(n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.

(n.) Violence; force; fury.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rile

(n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rime

(n.) A rhymer; a versifier.

(n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

(n.) The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.

(n.) Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.

(v. t.) To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

(v. t.) To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.

(v. t.) To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.

(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.

(n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.

(n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.

(n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.

(n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

(v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

(v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

(n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.

(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

(a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

(v. t.) The parting of the hair on the head.

(v. t.) The top of the head; the head.

() Alt. of Shoding

(pl. ) of Shoe

(pl. ) of Shoe

(n.) One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.

(n.) See Sola.

(n.) A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.

(n.) See Shoal.

() imp. & p. p. of Shine.

(n.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry.

() imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.

(n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.

(n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.

(n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

(v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook.

(n.) pl. of Shoe.

() imp. of Shape. Shaped.

(n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.

(v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.

(v. i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.

(v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.

(v. i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

(v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.

(v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

(v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.

(v. i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.

(v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.

(v. i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.

(v. i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.

(v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.

(v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

(v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

(v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.

(v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

(v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.

(v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

(n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.

(n.) A young branch or growth.

(n.) A rush of water; a rapid.

(n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

(n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

(n.) A shoat; a young hog.

() imp. of Shear.

(n.) A sewer.

(n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.

(v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

(v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.

(v. t.) To set on shore.

(a.) Alt. of Shorlaceous

() p. p. of Shear.

(superl.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

(superl.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.

(superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

(superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.

(superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

(superl.) Not distant in time; near at hand.

(superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

(superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.

(superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.

(superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

(superl.) Brittle.

(superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.

(adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.

(n.) A summary account.

(n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

(n.) Short, inferior hemp.

(n.) Breeches; shortclothes.

(n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

(adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.

(v. t.) To shorten.

(v. i.) To fail; to decrease.

(v. t.) A fish resembling the trout.

(v. t.) A young hog; a shoat.

(v. i.) To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

(v. t.) To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.

(v. t.) To treat with shouts or clamor.

(n.) A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.

(v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.

(v. t.) To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.

(v. i.) To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.

(v. i.) To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.

(n.) The act of shoving; a forcible push.

() p. p. of Shove.

(p. p.) of Show

(n.) A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.

(n.) A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

(n.) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.

(n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.

() p. p. of Show.

(a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.

(n.) A twig of a tree cut off.

(v. t.) To trim, as trees; to lop.

(v. t.) To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.

(n.) Alt. of Shrape

(n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.

(n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shred

(n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.

(n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.

(a.) Wicked; malicious.

(a.) Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.

(a.) Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.

(a.) To beshrew; to curse.

(n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

(n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.

(n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.

(n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

(n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

(n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

(n.) A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

(n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.

(v. t.) To lop; to prune.

(n.) Disorder; merriment.

(n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.

(n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.

(v. t.) To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.

(v. i.) To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.

(n.) A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.

(n.) A shock of grain.

(n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.

(n.) The shell of an oyster or clam.

(v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

(v. t.) To shun; to move from.

(v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.

(v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.

(v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

(v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.

(v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

(v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.

(v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

(n.) Same as Chute, or Shoot.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shy

(adv.) In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.

(n.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

(n.) A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.

(n.) See Dermis.

(n.) A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

(n.) A strong drink; cider.

(a.) Sure; certain; trusty.

(adv.) Surely; certainly.

(n.) Dearth; scarcity.

(n.) A shekel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Side

(a.) Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.

(v. t.) To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.

(n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.

(n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.

(n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.

(n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.

(n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.

(n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.

(n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.

(n.) A workman's bench.

(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

(n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

(n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.

(v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

(v. t.) To surround with a ditch.

(v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.

(v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.

(n.) Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.

(n.) A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).

(n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.

(n.) A kind of coarse basket.

(n.) The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.

(v. t.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

(v. t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.

(v. t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.

(v. t.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.

(v. t.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.

(v. t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.

(v. t.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.

(v. t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.

(n.) The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition.

(adv.) As before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also.

(v. t.) A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.

(v. t.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.

(v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.

(v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.

(v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.

(v. t.) A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.

(v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.

(v. t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.

(v. t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.

(v. i.) To take aim by a sight.

(n.) A seal; a signature.

(n. pl.) The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.

(n.) The Greek letter /, /, or / (English S, or s). It originally had the form of the English C.

(adv.) On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.

(a.) Soaking.

() Alt. of Pyr-

() As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.

(n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.

(n.) The interval of a fifth.

(n.) See Koran. R () R, the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, and 250-254.

(n.) A violent gust of wind.

(n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.

(n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

(n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.

(n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.

(n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.

(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.

(v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.

(v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.

(v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din.

(v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.

(v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

(v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.

(n.) Alt. of Sikerness

(n. pl.) A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.

(n.) Gold and silver, or money.

(n.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.

(n.) A rhombohedron.

(n.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

(v. t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

(n.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.

(n.) A large toadfish of the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Batrachus tau, var. pardus).

(superl.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

(superl.) Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.

(superl.) Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.

(n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed.

(n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.

(n.) Weak; helpless; frail.

(n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble.

(n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.

(n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

(a.) Full of silt; resembling silt.

(n.) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.

(n.) A description or history of the forest trees of a country.

(n.) A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.

(n.) A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.

(n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.

(n.) An assault.

() p. p. of Sauter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Save

(n.) One who saves.

(n.) Alt. of Savine

(a.) That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.

(a.) Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.

(a.) Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.

(a.) Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.

(n.) To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.

(n.) To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.

(n.) To use the sense of taste.

(v. t.) To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.

(v. t.) To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.

(v. t.) To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.

(n.) A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

(imp.) of Saw

(p. p.) of Saw

(n.) One who saws; a sawyer.

(n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.

(n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

(n.) The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language.

(a.) Anglo-Saxon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

(a.) Short in duration.

(a.) Concise; terse; succinct.

(a.) Rife; common; prevalent.

(adv.) Briefly.

(adv.) Soon; quickly.

(n.) One who says; an utterer.

(a.) A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.

(a.) An epitome.

(a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.

(a.) A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.

(n.) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.

(n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.

(v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

(n.) Alt. of Briar

(n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

(n.) Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

(n.) A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

(n.) A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.

(v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.

(v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

(n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.

(a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.

(a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.

(n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.

(n.) One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.

(n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.

(n.) The sign or constellation Libra.

(n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.

(n.) An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.

(n.) A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

(n.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

(v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.

(n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.

(n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.

(n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.

(n.) A scale insect. (See below.)

(n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.

(n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

(n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.

(n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.

(v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.

(v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

(v. t.) To scatter; to spread.

(v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

(v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.

(v. i.) To separate; to scatter.

(n.) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

(n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.

(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.

(n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.

(n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.

(n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.

(n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.

(n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.

(v. t. & n.) See Calk.

(n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever.

(v.) That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

(v.) That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.

(v.) Sake; interest; advantage.

(v.) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.

(v.) Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.

(v.) The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.

(n.) To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.

(n.) Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.

(n.) The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.

(n.) Tears; -- so called from their saltness.

(v. t.) To steep or saturate in brine.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.

(v. t.) To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

(v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.

(v. t.) To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.

(v. t.) To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.

(v. t.) To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?

(n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.

(a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

(a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.

(a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.

(v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.

(v. i.) To lead up by steps; to ascend.

(a.) A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.

(a.) Scabby; scurfy.

(v. i.) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

(conj.) Abbreviation of Because.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

(n.) The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.

(n.) The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bright

(n.) The breeze fly. See Breeze.

(n.) A bed of oysters or mussels.

(n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.

(n.) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.

(n.) Fig.: The top; the summit.

(v. t.) To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.

(v. t.) To remove the skin of.

(v. t.) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.

(v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.

(a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

(a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.

(a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.

(a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cave

(superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

(superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.

(superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

(superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.

(superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

(superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.

(superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

(superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.

(superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

(superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

(n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.

(n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.

(n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

(v. i.) To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

(v. t.) To cavil at.

(n.) A captious or frivolous objection.

(n.) A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.

(imp. & p. p.) of Caw

(a.) Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

(n.) A kind of wig.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

(v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

(v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.

(n.) Extinction.

(n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cede

(a.) Of the nature of cedar.

(n.) A girdle.

(n.) A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.

(a.) To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.

(n.) A badger.

(n.) A brocket.

(v. t.) To braid.

(n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

(v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

(v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

(v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

(v. i.) To transact business for another.

(v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

() imp. & p. p. of Break.

(n.) The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

(pl. ) of Cello

(n.) A contraction for Violoncello.

(superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.

(superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

(v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.

(v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.

(v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

(adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

(n.) Scantness; scarcity.

(n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

(n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.

(n.) The shaft of a column.

(n.) The apophyge of a shaft.

(v. t. & i.) To escape.

(n.) An escape.

(n.) Means of escape; evasion.

(n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

(n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.

(n.) Same as Ovulist.

(a.) Alt. of Ovoidal

(n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.

(n.) A round, convex molding. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

(n.) An ovum.

(pl. ) of Ovulum

() of Owe

(n.) Same as Ousel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.

(a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.

(a.) A pedal curve or surface.

(a.) Cleared and ready for engagement, as a ship.

(n.) A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

(n.) To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.

(n.) To trim up, as trees.

(n.) Press; throng.

(n.) A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.

(a.) Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith.

(n.) Aliment; food.

(n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.

(n.) See Bromine.