(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.) See Agendum.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ask

(a.) Paid; pleased.

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

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

(adv.) Headlong; without restraint.

(imp. & p. p.) of Aid

(imp. & p. p.) of Ail

(imp. & p. p.) of Aim

(imp. & p. p.) of Air

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Coo

(imp. & p. p.) of Cope

(a.) Clad in a cope.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cite

(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.

() Would not.

(imp. & p. p.) of Free

(imp. & p. p.) of Egg

(a.) Alt. of Fremed

(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.

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

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Page

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

(n.) An idol.

(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.) Alt. of Scrode

(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 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.

(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

(imp. & p. p.) of Own

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mate

(imp. & p. p.) of Mew

(imp. & p. p.) of Dine

(imp. & p. p.) of Doze

(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.

(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.) A snath.

(n.) A line or cord; a string.

(n.) See Snath.

(imp. & p. p.) of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sole

(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.

(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.) Skin of bacon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Race

(imp. & p. p.) of Rage

(imp. & p. p.) of Rake

(imp.) of Bind

(p. p.) of Bind

(imp. & p. p.) of Bare

(n.) A two-footed animal, as man.

(a.) Having two feet; two-footed.

(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.) 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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bate

(a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ooze

(a.) Cold; chilly.

(n.) See Allodium.

(adv.) With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

(v. t.) Alt. of Areed

(v. t.) To abandon.

(v. t.) To banish; to expel.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Alt. of Aroideous

(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.

(a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) Alt. of Blonde

(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.

(a.) To empty.

(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

(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 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.

(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.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.

(a.) Having an axle; -- used in composition.

(prep. & adv.) Beyond.

(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.

(v. t.) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.

(n.) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bode

(v. t.) To make mad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bake

(imp. & p. p.) of Bale

(n.) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rule

(imp. & p. p.) of Cage

(a.) Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.

(n.) A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cake

(a.) Hot; burning; ardent.

(imp.) of Can

(imp. & p. p.) of Cane

(a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.

() of Stay

(imp. & p. p.) of Bone

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bore

(a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bow

(imp. & p. p.) of Bow

(imp. & p. p.) of Box

(imp. & p. p.) of Bide

(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.

(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.) 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.) A jest.

(v. i.) To jest.

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rase

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rate

(imp. & p. p.) of Rile

(imp. & p. p.) of Rime

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shy

(imp. & p. p.) of Side

(a.) Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.

(imp. & p. p.) of Save

(imp.) of Saw

(p. p.) of Saw

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Caw

(imp. & p. p.) of Cede

(v. t.) To braid.

(a.) Alt. of Ovoidal

(n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.

(v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

(v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.

(v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

(v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

(a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

(a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

(v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.

(v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.

(v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

(v. t.) To cherish with care.

(v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

(v. i.) To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant.

(v. t.) To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.

(n.) One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.

(n.) A scolding; a brawl.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cere

(v. t.) To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

(v. t.) To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.

(v. t.) To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.

(v. i.) To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

(v. i.) To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

(n.) Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.

(n.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.

(n.) Any species of a tribe (Naiades) of freshwater bivalves, including Unio, Anodonta, and numerous allied genera; a river mussel.

(n.) One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph.

(n.) Any plant of the order Naiadaceae, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc.

(a.) Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

(a.) Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless.

(a.) Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.

(a.) Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.

(a.) Mere; simple; plain.

(a.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

(a.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.

(n.) Place, or spot, in general.

(n.) Place or room which another had, has, or might have.

(n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.

(n.) A farmhouse and offices.

(v. t.) To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

(v. t.) To fill place of.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tire

(a.) Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

(p. a.) Put in dread; afraid.

(a.) Togated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tole

(imp. & p. p.) of Tone

(a.) Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.

(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

(v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

(v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.

(v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.

(v. t.) To study hard for examination.

(v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.

(v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.

(v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.

(v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

(v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.

(n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.

(imp. & p. p.) of Add

(n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.

(n.) A hard student; a dig.

() obs. imp. of Grind.

(n.) A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tame

(n.) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.

(n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

(n.) To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

(n.) To fasten by binding; to gird.

(v. i.) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

(v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection.

(v. t.) A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel.

(v. t.) One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.

(v. t.) Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss

(v. t.) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand.

(v. t.) Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment.

(v. t.) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.

(v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.

(v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision.

(v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.

(v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled.

(v. t.) A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.

(v. t.) An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.

(v. t.) Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.

(v. t.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tare

(a.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

(n.) Skin; covering.

(n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.

(v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.

(v. t.) An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.

(v. t.) A guildhall.

(v. t.) A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.

(n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.

(n.) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.

() of Stride

() of Stride

(n.) One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.

(n.) A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.

() p. p. of Spread.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dry

(n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

(imp. & p. p.) of Err

(n.) A salmon in its second year.

(imp.) Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cove

(imp. & p. p.) of Cow

(imp. & p. p.) of Coy

(imp. & p. p.) of Rave

(imp.) of Rive

(p. p.) of Rive

(imp. & p. p.) of Ray

(imp. & p. p.) of Raze

(a.) Slashed or striped in patterns.

(imp. & p. p.) of Robe

(n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.

(v. t.) To approach; to accost.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rope

(a.) Dewy; bedewed.

(v. i. & t.) To whisper.

(a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball.

(a.) Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.

(a.) Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills.

(a.) Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers.

(a.) Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price.

(a.) Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.

(a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.

(a.) Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.

(a.) Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style.

(a.) Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct.

(n.) Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown].

(n.) A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures.

(n.) A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.

(n.) A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.

(n.) A circular dance.

(n.) That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.

(n.) Rotation, as in office; succession.

(n.) The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.

(n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.

(n.) A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.

(n.) Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.

(n.) A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.

(n.) The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.

(n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

(n.) A vessel filled, as for drinking.

(n.) An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.

(n.) See Roundtop.

(n.) Same as Round of beef, below.

(adv.) On all sides; around.

(adv.) Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.

(adv.) In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.

(adv.) From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.

(adv.) By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.

(adv.) Through a circle, as of friends or houses.

(adv.) Roundly; fully; vigorously.

(prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.

(v. t.) To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.

(v. t.) To surround; to encircle; to encompass.

(v. t.) To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.

(v. t.) To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.

(v. t.) To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.

(v. i.) To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

(v. i.) To go round, as a guard.

(v. i.) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rove

(imp. & p. p.) of Row

(a.) Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.

(n.) One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

(a.) Roving; nomadic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oil

(a.) Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.

(n.) A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.

(n.) A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Care

(a.) Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sate

(imp. & p. p.) of Case

(a.) To spread.

(n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

(n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

(v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

(v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.

(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.

(v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.

(v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.

(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.

(v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

(v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

(v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.

(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.

(n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.

(n.) A number produced at once; a brood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spy

(n.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.

(n.) Hence, any small party.

(n.) Sloppy mud.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dupe

(v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

(v. t.) To believe; to credit.

() of Dare

(p. p.) of Dare

(imp. & p. p.) of Dare

(imp. & p. p.) of Date

() imp. & p. p. of Cry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Daze

(v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.

(v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.

(v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

(v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

(v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

(v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

(v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

(v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

(v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

(v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cry

(n.) A decade.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cube

(n .) The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ogle

(a.) Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ear

(a.) Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.

(a.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.

(imp. & p. p.) of Taw

(imp. & p. p.) of Tax

(imp. & p. p.) of Guy

(imp. & p. p.) of Gybe

(n.) A tithe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tope

(imp. & p. p.) of Hone

(imp. & p. p.) of Hope

(imp. & p. p.) of Tote

(imp. & p. p.) of Tow

(imp. & p. p.) of Toy

(n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc.

(n.) A despicable person.

(n.) A houndfish.

(n.) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.

(n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

(v. t.) To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.

(v. t.) To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.

(a.) Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jibe

(n.) A hand basket.

(n.) An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.

(v. i.) Alt. of Maunder

(imp. & p. p.) of Maze

(imp. & p. p.) of Wane

(a.) Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.

(a.) Belated; too late.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wave

(a.) Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

(a.) Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.

(a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.

(imp.) of Wax

(p. p.) of Wax

(imp. & p. p.) of Wax

(n.) A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lave

(a.) Unsteady; fickle.

(n.) A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

(a.) Overgrown with ivy.

(n.) A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jade

(imp. & p. p.) of Jaw

(a.) Having jaws; -- chiefly in composition; as, lantern-jawed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Urge

(n.) Same as Jereed.

(a.) Cold.

(a.) Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.

(a.) Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.

(a.) Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.

(a.) Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gape

(n.) Same as Aeneid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fame

(a.) Having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sire

(a.) Having a site; situated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dew

(imp. & p. p.) of Size

(a.) Adjusted according to size.

(a.) Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.

(n.) See 5th Scald.

(n.) See Skid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dive

() imp. & p. p. of Sky, v. t.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sky

(p. pr.) Doing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dice

(imp. & p. p.) of Dole

(a.) Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dose

(imp. & p. p.) of Dote

(imp. & p. p.) of Dike

(a.) Stupid; foolish.

(a.) Half-rotten; as, doted wood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slue

(a.) Bright; lustrous; shining.

(a.) Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons.

(n.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.

(n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.

(imp.) of Sow

() of Sow

(n.) A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spae

(n.) See 1st Spade.

(adv.) Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad.

(n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

(n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.

(n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.

(n.) To go; to fare.

(n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.

(n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.

(n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.

(n.) To be expedient.

(v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.

(v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.

(v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.

(v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.

(v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.

(v. t.) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

(v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

(v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

(v. t.) To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.

(v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

(v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

(v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

(v. i.) To be diffused; to spread.

(v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.

(n.) Stop; halt; hindrance.

(n.) A stand; a post; a station.

(v. i.) To stand.

() imp. & p. p. of Stand.

() imp. & p. p. of Spy.

(imp.) of Sew

(p. p.) of Sew

(imp. & p. p.) of Cure

(a.) Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.

(n.) Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc.

(n.) A plant; chard.

(n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

(n.) The hard wing case of a beetle.

(n.) A gap in a fence.

(n.) A boundary; a division.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dele

(a.) Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.

(n.) To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.

(n.) To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame.

(n.) A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.

() imp. & p. p. of Shy.

(n.) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines.

(n.) An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fare

(imp. & p. p.) of Gaze

(a.) Cold; very cold; frozen.

(p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.

(p. p. & a.) Invested with the power of determining destiny.

(p. p. & a.) Exempted by fate.

(v. i.) To set the foot; to step.

(v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.

(v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.

(v. t.) To step or walk on.

(v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.

(v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.

(v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.

(v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.

(n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.

(n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.

(n.) Way; track; path.

(n.) The act of copulation in birds.

(n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.

(n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.

(n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.

(n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.

(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.

(n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.

(n.) The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

(a.) Hairy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fay

(imp. & p. p.) of Tree

(imp. & p. p.) of Fry

(v. t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fume

(a.) Smoky; vaporous.

(v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fuse

(imp. & p. p.) of Ache

(imp. & p. p.) of Gage

(imp. & p. p.) of Face

(a.) Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fade

(a.) That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.

(imp. & p. p.) of End

(imp. & p. p.) of Game

(a.) Well known by reputation or report; eminent; celebrated; as, a noted author, or traveler.

(n.) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

(n.) The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.

(n.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.

(n.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.

(v. i.) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

(v. t.) To cause to turn; to bend.

(n.) Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.

(v. t.) To cleanse, as wool.

(n.) Clean wool.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gibe

(n.) A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.

(n.) A chord of three notes.

(n.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.

(n.) An element or radical whose valence is three.

(a.) Strong; powerful; efficient.

(a.) Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection.

(a.) Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wake

(v.) Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

(v.) Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.

(v. t.) To cover with mold or soil.

(n.) A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

(v. t.) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.

(v. i.) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.

(n.) The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.

(n.) That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason.

(n.) Cast; form; shape; character.

(n.) A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.

(n.) A fontanel.

(n.) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

(v. t.) To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion.

(n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.

(imp. & p. p.) of Laze

(imp. & p. p.) of Ease

(imp. & p. p.) of Ebb

() imp. & p. p. of Find.

(v. t.) To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.

(n.) A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.

(v. i.) To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.

(v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.

(adv.) Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Edge

(imp. & p. p.) of Fox

(a.) Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

(a.) Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.

(n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

(n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

(n.) A trap or snare.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vex

(a.) Annoyed; harassed; troubled.

(a.) Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.

(n.) An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.

(n.) A spell or charm.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.

(a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.

(v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vice

(a.) Vicious; corrupt.

() imp. & p. p. of Try.

(adj.) Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.

(imp. & p. p.) of Act

(imp. & p. p.) of Sty

(n.) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.

(n.) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.

(n.) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.

(n.) Any very small prominence.

(n.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.

(n.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.

(n.) A live coal. See Gleed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Note

(v. i.) A live or glowing coal; a glede.

(imp. & p. p.) of Glue

(n.) See Trode.

(imp.) of Will

() imp. of Undo.

(imp. & p. p.) of Idle

(v. t.) To deprive of divinity; to undeify.

(v. t.) To cause to recognize no god; to deprive of a god; to make atheistical.

(a.) Odd; strange; ugly; old; uncouth.

(a.) Lonely; dreary; unkard.

(v. t.) To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Imp

(imp. & p. p.) of Wind

(imp. & p. p.) of Joke

(imp. & p. p.) of Joy

(a.) Wet; moist; as, a madid eye.

(v. t.) To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.

(v. t.) To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

(v. t.) To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.

(v. t.) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

(v. t.) To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.

(v. t.) To give a reward to; to bless.

(v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

(v. i.) To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.

(v. i.) To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.

(v. i.) To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.

(n.) Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Yoke

(imp. & p. p.) of Wind

(n. & v.) See Sward, n. & v.

(n.) Sword.

(n.) The head.

(imp.) of Hew

(p. p.) of Hew

(n.) An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hide

(a.) Affected by the tide; having a tide.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tile

(imp. & p. p.) of Hale

(imp. & p. p.) of Fete

(a.) Having an offensive smell; stinking.

(a.) Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors.

(n.) Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

(n.) A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.

(n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.

(n.) An open space; an extent; an expanse.

(n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.

(n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.

(n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).

(n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.

(n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.

(n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.

(v. i.) To take the field.

(v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

(v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

(n.) An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fife

(imp. & p. p.) of File

(imp. & p. p.) of Find

(imp. & p. p.) of Fine

(n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fire

(imp. & p. p.) of Tew

(a.) Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fix

(imp. & p. p.) of Hate

(a.) Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.

(a.) Stable; non-volatile.

(n.) See Fiord.

(imp. & p. p.) of Haw

(imp. & p. p.) of Haze

(imp. & p. p.) of Hire

(imp. & p. p.) of Time

(imp. & p. p.) of Hive

(n.) See Hoarding, 2.

(n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.

(v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

(v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

(a.) Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.

(a.) Furnished with tines; as, a three-tined fork.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wipe

(imp. & p. p.) of Wire

(imp. & p. p.) of Moo

(a.) Wearing a zone, or girdle.

(a.) Having zones, or concentric bands; striped.

(a.) Zonate.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.

(n.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.

(n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

(n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wive

(n.) See Weld.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mope

(imp. & p. p.) of Puke

() imp. & p. p. of Pry.

(n.) See Peen.

(a.) Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pile

(a.) Having a pile or point; pointed.

(a.) Having a pile or nap.

(a.) Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pore

(imp. & p. p.) of Pine

(n.) A crossbow. See Prod, 3.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ink

(imp. & p. p.) of Try

(imp. & p. p.) of Tube

(n.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.

(a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

(a.) Rising above the level; protuberant.

(a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gore

(imp. & p. p.) of Tune

(n.) A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.

(n.) A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.

(n.) A false die. See Gord.

(n.) Alt. of Gourde

(n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

(n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

(n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

(n.) The military power of a country.

(n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

(superl.) Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.

(superl.) Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.

(superl.) Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.

(superl.) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.

(adv.) Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold.

(n.) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

(n.) An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.

(n.) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.

(a.) Affected by tabes; tabetic.

(a.) Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inn

(a.) Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [/].

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.

(n.) The hyoid bone.

(v. t.) To raise or rouse from bed.

(a.) Alt. of Unbidden

(imp. & p. p.) of Pose

(a.) Firm; determined; fixed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pipe

(a.) Formed with a pipe; having pipe or pipes; tubular.

(a.) Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune.

(imp. & p. p.) of Muse

(imp. & p. p.) of Pule

(imp. & p. p.) of Pry

(superl.) Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense

(superl.) Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.

(superl.) Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.

(superl.) Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.

(superl.) Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pox

(n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.

(n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.

(n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.

(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

(pl. ) of Pound

(n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.

(n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.

(v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

(v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.

(v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.

(v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.

(v. t.) To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lute

(imp. & p. p.) of Mete

(imp. & p. p.) of Lure

(a.) Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

(a.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

(a.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

(n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.

(n.) Clear; transparent.

(n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.

(n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

(imp. & p. p.) of Love

(imp. & p. p.) of Low

(adv.) Same as Mesiad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lope

(n.) Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae.

(a.) Having a mane.

(n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.

(imp. & p. p.) of Loo

(imp. & p. p.) of Line

(imp. & p. p.) of Lime

(imp. & p. p.) of Like

(imp. & p. p.) of Pale

(a.) Striped.

(a.) Inclosed with a paling.

(n.) A heddle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hear

() imp. & p. p. of Hear.

(a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.

(a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.

(n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

(n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.

() of Sky

(a.) Surrounded by sky.

(v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.

(v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.

(v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

(v. i.) Menstrual disharge; menses.

(v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

(v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

(imp. & p. p.) of Orb

(a.) Having the form of an orb; round.

(a.) Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

(n.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oar

(a.) Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.

(a.) Having feet adapted for swimming.

(a.) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.

(n.) Alt. of Neele

(a.) Having leaves like those of the vine; ornamented with vine leaves.

(a.) Green.

(a.) Pleasant; jocose.

(v. t.) To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.

(v. t.) To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.

(v. t.) To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.

(a.) True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.

(a.) Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.

(a.) Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash.

(a.) Having flat sides or surfaces; as, a six/paned nut.

(a.) Gray.

(n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.

(imp. & p. p.) of Live

(a.) Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vote

(imp. & p. p.) of Vow

(a.) Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wad

(imp. & p. p.) of Wade

(imp. & p. p.) of Wage

(a.) Having lobes; lobate.

(a.) Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pave

(a.) Timid; fearful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paw

(n.) An atom or radical which has a valence of eight, or is octavalent.

(n.) A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.

(n.) Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.

(a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Type

(n.) A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lame

(imp.) of Lade

(p. p.) of Lade

() of Lade

(imp. & p. p.) of Lace

(a.) Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.

(v. t.) Decorated with the fabric lace.

(n.) See Kurd.

(v. t.) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough.

(v. t.) Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat.

(a.) Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed.

(a.) Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.

(v. t.) To applaud.

() of Plead

(v. t.) To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father.

(v. t.) To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea.

(v. t.) To contend; to struggle.

(v. t.) To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury.

(v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty.

(v. t.) To allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pare

() imp. & p. p. of Ply.

(imp. & p. p.) of Woo

(v. t.) To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.

(n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

(n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds.

(n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.

(n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.

(n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.

(n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.

(n.) The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.

(n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.

(n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number.

(a.) Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air.

(v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will.

(n.) See 2d Weld.

() imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mine

(n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.

(n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.

(n.) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.

(n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.

(n.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

() Alt. of Mouldy

(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.

(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.

(imp. & p. p.) of Move

(imp. & p. p.) of Wry

(imp.) of Mow

(p. p.) of Mow

(a.) Musty; moldy; slimy; mucous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mire

(imp. & p. p.) of Yaw

(imp. & p. p.) of Mix

(a.) Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mure

(imp. & p. p.) of Ply

(v. t.) To impound, as cattle.

(v. t.) To distrain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Poke

(imp. & p. p.) of Pole

(a.) Purified; refined.