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

(n.) Alt. of Coombe

(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.

(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.

(n.) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.

(v. i.) Chime.

(v. t.) To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.

(v. t.) To rob; to plunder.

(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 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 line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.

(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.) 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.

(a.) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

(a.) Curved; rounded.

(v. i.) To bend; to stop; to bow.

(n.) An inspissated juice. See Rob.

(n.) Alt. of Saheb

() of Climb

(v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

(v. i.) To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.

(v. i.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

(v. t.) To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

(n.) The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

(n.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.

(n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.

(n.) One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.

() Alt. of Clomben

(a.) Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

(a.) Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.

(n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.

(n.) A person of a short, fat figure.

(n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.

(adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.

(v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

(n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

(n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.

(n.) The soft part of bread.

(v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.

(n.) The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

(a.) A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.

(a.) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.

(a.) A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.

(a.) A writer of lampoons.

(a.) A paltry fellow.

(v. i.) To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.

(n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.

(n.) Alt. of Fourbe

(n.) A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.

(n.) A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.

(a.) Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.

(adv.) In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.

(v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.

(v. t.) To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test.

(v. t.) To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.

(v. t.) To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.

(v. i.) To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.

(n.) A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:

(n.) A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.

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