(n.) See Comb.

(imp.) of Choose

() of Choose

(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.

(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.

(adv. & a.) On fire.

(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.

(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.

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

(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.

(pl. ) of Ansa

(pl. ) of Anta

(n.) A cavern.

(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.) 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.

(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.

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

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

(a. & adv.) Ago.

(n.) Agonic line.

(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.) 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.

(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.

(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.) Same as Achene.

(adv.) On the knee.

(adv.) Lately; of late.

(a.) Alt. of Alated

(conj.) Although; albeit.

(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.

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

(n.) A thing; personal property.

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

(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.) Crooked.

(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.) 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.

(n.) A living body or its bulk.

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

(n.) See Corf.

(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.

(imp.) of Freeze

(n.) A friar.

(a.) Eldest; firstborn.

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

(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.

(n.) See 1st Frieze.

(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.

(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 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.

(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.

(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.

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

(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.

(n.) See Fogy.

(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.) 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.

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

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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 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.

(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.) A narrow street.

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

(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.

(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.

(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 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.

(v. t.) To choose

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

(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.) A small wooden vessel; a pail.

(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 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 filament of a stamen.

(n.) A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.

(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 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.) 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.) 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.) The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet.

(a.) Soft; flexible.

(n.) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

(n.) A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.

(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.

(v. i.) To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.

(n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.) 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.

(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.

(v. t.) To smother. See Smoor.

() imp. (/ rare p. p.) of Smite.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods.

(a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

(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.

(v. i.) To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.

(n.) A harsh nasal noise made in sleep.

(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.

(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 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 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.

(n.) A stone.

(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.) 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.

(v. t.) To summon.

(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.

(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 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 dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.

(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. pl.) The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To anoint.

(v. t.) To give extreme unction to.

(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.

(v. t.) To overtake.

(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.

(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.) 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.) A bristle or bristles.

(n.) Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.

(v. t.) To busy; to employ.

(n.) The common perch. See 1st Bass.

(pl. ) of Aura

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.) 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.) See Nix.

(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.

(pl. ) of Alga

(adv.) On my life; dearly.

(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.) 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).

(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.

(v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.

(v. t.) To cause to quake.

(n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

(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.

(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.

(n.) See Quaver.

(v. i.) To quaver.

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

(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 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.

(v. t. & i.) See Arear.

(n.) The white poplar (Populus alba).

(n.) A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds.

(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 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.

(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.

(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.

(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 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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

(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.

() The past or preterit tense of Arise.

(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.) 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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

() of Bear

(n.) Alt. of Abyme

(v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

(v. t.) To call from or back again.

(n.) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

(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 cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

(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.

(a.) Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.

(n.) Same as Nitrogen.

(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.

(v. t.) To dye or stain.

(n.) A beef; a beef creature.

(n.) Debeige.

(v. t.) To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.

(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 botch; a patch.

(v. t.) To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.

(v. i.) See Budge.

(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.) 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.

(n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

(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.

(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 hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.

(n.) A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Caddie

(n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

(pl. ) of Ruga

(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.

(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 head covering; a caul.

(v. i.) To bring forth a calf.

(v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.

(n.) See Saker.

(v. t.) To consecrate; to make sacred.

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Claik

(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 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.) Same as Sora.

(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.

(v. t. & i.) To see; to look; to mind.

(n.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

(n.) A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.

(n.) A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.

(v. i.) To drink excessively. See Booze.

(v. i.) To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

(n.) A carouse; a drinking.

(n.) Same as BourrEe.

(p. p.) Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

(v. i.) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

(n.) Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.

(v. i.) To swell out. See Bouge.

(v. t.) To cause to leak.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.) Alt. of Boulework

() 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.

(n.) Sharp passion; vexation.

(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.

(n. pl.) A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.

(n.) A water course; a ditch.

(n.) A prop or shore.

(n.) A round between the legs of a chair.

(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.) 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.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

(n.) Same as Rhaphe.

(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.

(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.

(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.) 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.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.

(adv.) Early; soon; betimes.

(n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

(v. t.) The parting of the hair on the head.

(v. t.) The top of the head; the head.

() Alt. of Shoding

(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.

() 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.

(v. t.) A fish resembling the trout.

(v. t.) A young hog; a shoat.

(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.

(n.) Same as Chute, or Shoot.

(n.) A shekel.

(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 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.) An assault.

() p. p. of Sauter.

(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 breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

(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.) 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 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.

(v. i.) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

(conj.) Abbreviation of Because.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bright

(n.) The breeze fly. See Breeze.

(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.

(v. i.) To transact business for another.

(v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

() imp. & p. p. of Break.

(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.) 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.

(n.) See Bromine.

(v. t.) To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

(n.) Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.

(n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.

(n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.

(n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.

(n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.

(n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.

(n.) A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.

(n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.

(n.) A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.

(n.) Condition; rank.

(v. t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

(v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.

(v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.

(n.) Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.

(n.) Poke (Phytolacca decandra).

(n.) A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.

(n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.

(n.) Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.

(n.) Extended area.

(n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.

(v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.

(n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

(n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

(n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

(n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

(n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

(n.) A weight of twenty pounds.

(n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

(n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

(n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.

(v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.

(v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

(v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

(v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield.

(v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

(v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.

(n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.

(n.) Mist; fog; vapors.

(a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

(a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.

(a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

(a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.

(n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

(n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

(v. t.) To report; to bruit.

(n.) A piece of money, usually silver money.

(v. i.) To move off; to stir; to walk away.

(v.) Brisk; stirring; jocund.

(n.) A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

(a.) Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.

(a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.

(n.) A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

(n.) A horn used by hunters.

(n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

(n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

(a.) Jet black.

(n.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

(n.) The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

(n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.

(n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.

(v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.

(v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

(n.) A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris.

(n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3.

(v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t.

(v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

(v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

(v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.

(v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

(v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.

(v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

(n.) Heat excited by friction.

(n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.

(n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

(n.) A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.

(a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.

(n.) The Norse language.

(adv.) From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since.

(adv.) In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.

(adv.) When or that.

(prep.) From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object.

(conj.) Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that.

(v. t.) To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.

(v. t.) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.

(v. t.) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

(n.) A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

(n.) A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

(v. t.) To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

(n.) The cormorant.

(imp.) of Steal

(n.) The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.

(n.) A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.

(n.) Hence, a small part or proportion.

(a.) Tenth.

(v. t.) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.

(v. i.) Tp pay tithes.

(n.) An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

(n.) The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc.

(n.) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.

(n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.

(n.) An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preeminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc.

(n.) A name; an appellation; a designation.

(n.) That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title.

(n.) The instrument which is evidence of a right.

(n.) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.

(n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.

(n.) To call by a title; to name; to entitle.

(v. t.) To hoist.

(n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

(v. t.) To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

(v. t.) To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.

(v. t.) To adorn.

(pl. ) of Toga

(n.) The namaycush.

(a.) An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.

(v. t.) To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

(v. t.) To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities.

(n.) A tun.

(pl. ) of Gree

(pl. ) of Gree

(v. t.) Alt. of Gregge

(a.) Green.

(a.) Great.

(n.) A little pig.

(n.) See Gree, a step.

(e. i.) To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.

(n.) A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

(n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

(v. t.) To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.

(n.) A vulture; the griffin.

(v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.

(v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

(v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.

(v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.

(v. i.) To suffer griping pains.

(v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.

(n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

(n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.

(n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

(n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.

(n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

(n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.

(n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.

(n.) See Grice, a pig.

(n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

(n.) A groat.

(v.) A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

() A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

(n.) A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood.

(v. i.) To gride. See Gride.

(v. t.) To gripe.

(n.) A vulture; the griffin.

(v. t. & i.) See Assuage.

(n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.

(v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.

(n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.

(v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.

(n.) A gutter in a candle.

(n.) A shield or target.

(n.) See Sweep, n., 12.

() imp. of Swear.

(v.) To set on, as a dog; to incite.

(n.) The male falcon.

(n.) tarsus.

(n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

(n.) To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.

() of Swear

(n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.

(n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.

(n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.

(pl. ) of Gula

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Sweden.

(n.) A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.

(n.) A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

(v. t.) To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

(v. t.) To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.

(v. t.) To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

(v. t.) To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.

(v. t.) To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.

(v. i.) To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.

(v. i.) To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.

(v. i.) To take sparingly.

(v. i.) To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.

(n.) The act of tasting; gustation.

(n.) A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.

(n.) The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.

(n.) Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.

(n.) The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.

(n.) Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.

(n.) Essay; trial; experience; experiment.

(n.) A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit.

(n.) A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

(n.) A whirlpool.

(v. t.) To swallow up.

(n.) Straw.

(n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

(n.) Vexation; chargrin; mortification.

(v. t.) To be angry at; to hate.

(v. t.) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

(v. t.) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

(n.) The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

(n.) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.

() imp. of Speak.

(n.) The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.

(n.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.

(n.) A rung, or round, of a ladder.

(n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.

(v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

(n.) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.

(n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.

(n.) A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.

(n.) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.

(v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

(v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.

(imp.) of Drive.

(n.) A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.

(n.) Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.

(n.) A crowd of people in motion.

(n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

(n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

(n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.

(n.) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.

(n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

(n.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.

(n.) One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.

(v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.

(a.) Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.

(a.) Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed.

(n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.

(n.) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.

(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.

(n.) Same as Sprew.

(v. t.) To make sweet; to soothe.

(n.) See Spook.

(n.) Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.

(v. i.) To froth; to foam.

(n.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]

(v. t.) To dispute; to discuss.

(v. t.) To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

(v. t.) To take possession of by force.

(v. t.) To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.

(v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.

(v. t.) To fasten; to fix.

(v. t.) To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.

(v. t.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

(n.) The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.

(n.) A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

(n.) The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

(n.) The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy.

(n.) An apophyge.

(n.) To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.

(v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.

(v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

(v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.

(v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.

(v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

(v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

(v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.

(v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.

(v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

(n.) See Crare.

(v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

(v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

(n.) A boast. See Crack, n.

(n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

(v. t.) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.

(v. t.) To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.

(v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.

(v. t.) To dishonor.

(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

(v. t.) To deceive; to impose on.

(v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.

(v. t.) Physical ill treatment; injury.

(v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.

(v. t.) Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.

(v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.

(n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.

(n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.

(n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.

(n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.

(n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.

(n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.

(v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.

(v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.

(v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.

(a.) Sweet.

(n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen.

(n.) To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.

(n.) A slow unwieldy trading vessel.

(n.) A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.

(n.) A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

(v. t.) To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

(v. t.) To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

(v. t.) To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.

(v. i.) To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.

(n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.

(n.) A plain face or plinth at the lower part of a wall.

(v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

(v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

(v. t.) To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

(v. i.) To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

(v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

(n.) Craziness; insanity.

(n.) A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.

(n.) A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.

(v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.

(v. t.) To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.

(n.) The act of rinsing.

() pret. of Abide.

(n.) Act of waiting; delay.

(n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.

(n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.

(v. t.) An omen.

(v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To be ominous.

(v. t.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.

(v. t.) To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

(n.) Rock.

(n.) The gadwall.

(n.) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

(n.) A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.

(n.) One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.

(n.) An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.

(n.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.

(v. i.) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

(v. t.) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

(v. t.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).

(n.) Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage.

(v. t.) To remove.

(v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

(prep.) In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath.

(prep.) Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach.

(prep.) Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)

(adv.) In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.

(adv.) Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page.

(adv.) Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.

(adv.) More than; as, above five hundred were present.

(v. t.) To plunder; -- only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

(v. i.) To run.

(n.) In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc., which represent government indebtedness.

(n.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

() obs. imp. pl.

(a.) red.

(n.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.

(n.) A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.

(v. i.) To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.

(v. t.) To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.

(v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

(n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.

(n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

(v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.

(v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.

(v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.

(v.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.

(v.) To raise; to make erect.

(v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.

(v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.

(v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

(n.) The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

(n.) Sound of any kind.

(n.) Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.

(n.) Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report.

(n.) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.

(v. i.) To sound; to make a noise.

(v. t.) To spread by rumor or report.

(v. t.) To disturb with noise.

() Would not.

(n.) See Niter.

(n.) A bird; the flicker.

(n.) A nun of the order of St. Clare.

() imp. of Cleave.

(n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

(v. t.) To salute.

(interj.) Hail!

(v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.

(n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.

(n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.

(n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.

(n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.

(v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.

() of Cleave

() of Cleave

() of Cleave

(v. t.) To call, or name.

(v. i.) To make appeal; to cry out.

(n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.

(n. & v.) See Cloak.

(n.) To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

(n.) To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up.

(n.) To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction.

(n.) To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine.

(v. i.) To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.

(v. i.) To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.

(v. i.) To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight.

(n.) The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.

(n.) Conclusion; cessation; ending; end.

(n.) A grapple in wrestling.

(n.) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.

(n.) A double bar marking the end.

(v. t.) An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey.

(v. t.) A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within.

(v. t.) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed.

(v. t.) Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.

(v. t.) Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters.

(v. t.) Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc.

(v. t.) Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner.

(v. t.) Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden.

(v. t.) Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent.

(v. t.) Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids.

(v. t.) Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning.

(v. t.) Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by to.

(n.) Low, fertile land; a river valley.

(v. t.) Short; as, to cut grass or hair close.

(v. t.) Intimate; familiar; confidential.

(v. t.) Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.

(v. t.) Difficult to obtain; as, money is close.

(v. t.) Parsimonious; stingy.

(v. t.) Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation.

(v. t.) Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.

(v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.

(adv.) In a close manner.

(adv.) Secretly; darkly.

(n.) Bill of fare.

(n.) Short for Carte de visite.

(n.) Alt. of Quarte

(n.) The common burdock; the clotbur.

(n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.

(n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.

(imp.) Cleft.

(v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.

(n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.

(v. t.) To cut.

(v. t.) To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.

(v. t.) To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.

(v. t.) To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.

(v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.

(v. i.) To harden.

(v. t.) To cover or ornament with brass.

(v. t.) To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

(v. t.) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

(v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

(v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

(v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

(n.) A carucate.

(imp.) of Break

() of Break

() of Break

(n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

(n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.

(n.) Alt. of Breede

(n.) A braid.

(a.) Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.

(a.) Famous; renowned; well known.

(n.) A brier.

(n.) A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service.

(n.) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.

(n.) A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.

(n.) The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

(n.) A gift begged; a present.

(n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.

(n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement.

(v. t.) To rob or steal.

(v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.

(v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.

(v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.

(v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.

(n.) A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.

(n.) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

(n.) Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.

(n.) Sauciness; impertinence.

(v. t.) To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.

(v. t.) To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.

(v. t.) To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

(v. t.) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

(n.) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

(n.) One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

(n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

(n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.

(n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved.

(v. t.) To make a bride of.

(n.) A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

(n.) The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.

(n.) Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.

(n.) The oyster catcher.

(n.) The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.

(n.) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.

(n.) An olivary body. See under Olivary.

(n.) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.

(a.) Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.

(n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.

(n.) A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.

(n.) That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.

(n.) One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

(a.) Double.

(n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.

(n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.

(v. t.) To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship.

(v. t.) To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to.

(v. t.) To be suitor to; to profess love to.

(v. t.) To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop.

(v. t.) Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in.

(v. t.) To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.

(v. t.) To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.

(v. t.) To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.

(v. t.) To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.

(v. t.) To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.

(v. t.) To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.

(v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na.

(v. t.) To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.

(v. t.) To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.

(v. t.) To lead off in delivering (the ball).

(v. t.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.

(v. i.) To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.

(v. i.) To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.

(v. i.) To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.

(v. i.) To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.

(v. i.) To lead off in delivering the ball.

(n.) Same as Crape.

(pl. ) of Seta

(n.) A Cretan

(n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

(n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.

(n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.

(n.) That which occasion crime.

() variant of Dere, v. t. & n.

(n.) An old ewe.

(n.) An old woman; -- usually in contempt.

(n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.

(v. t.) To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

(n.) Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).

(n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

(superl.) In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.

(superl.) Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.

(superl.) Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.

(superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.

(superl.) Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.

(superl.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

(n.) A cup or dish.

(n.) A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.

(v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

(v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

(v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

(v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

(v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

(v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

(v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

(n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

(n.) The tied end of a cartridge.

(n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

(n.) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.

(n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

(v. t.) To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.

(n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

(a.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.

(a.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

(a.) A sleeping potion; an opiate.

(n.) A stadium.

(n.) A landing place or wharf.

(v. i.) To waste away; to pine; to languish.

(n.) The inward part of a building; the interior.

(v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.

(v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.

(v. t.) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.

(v. t.) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.

(v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

(v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.

(v. t.) To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.

(n.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

(n.) A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

(n.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.

(n.) The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.

(n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore.

(v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.

(v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.

(n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.

(n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.

(n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.

(n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.

(n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

(n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.

(n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

(v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.

(v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.

(v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.

(v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.

(v. t.) To calender; as, to plate paper.

(n.) See Od. [Archaic].

(v. t.) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.

(v. t.) To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry.

(n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.

(n.) Liquid filth; mire.

(n.) Lees; dregs.

(a.) Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.

(v. t. & i.) To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.

(v. t. & i.) To earn by labor.

(v. t. & i.) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

(a.) See Habile.

(n.) A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.

(v. t.) To turn, as a screw.

(v. t.) To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry.

(n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.

(v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax.

(v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

(v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.

(v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.

(n.) One who teases or plagues.

(n.) A woman. See Feme, n.

(n.) That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

(n.) An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.

(n.) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

(n.) Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.

(n.) A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.

(v. t.) To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.

(v. t.) To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.

(v. i.) To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.

(v. i.) To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.

(v. i.) Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.

(n.) The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

(n. pl.) A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.

() imp. of Fare.

(n.) A holiday.

(n.) Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.

(superl.) Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.

(superl.) Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.

(superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

(n.) A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.

(n.) An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.

(n.) A European fish; the lyrie.

(v. t.) To make noble; to ennoble.

(n.) A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.

(n.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.

(n.) A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

(n.) A wreath.

(n.) A developable surface. See under Developable.

(n.) A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Touze

(n.) A pulling; a disturbance.

(v. t.) To burn up.

(v. t.) To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate.

(n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

(n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

(n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.

(n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

(n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

(n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

(n.) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.

(n.) See Footrope, a.

(a.) A breastband for a leadsman.

(a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

(a.) A jackstay.

(v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

(v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride.

(v. t.) To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.

(v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

(v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

(v. i.) To get on horseback.

(n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

(v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.

(v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

(v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.

(v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

(v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.

(v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.

(v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.

(v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

(v. t.) To copy; to imitate.

(v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

(v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.

(pres. & imp.) of Hote

(v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

(v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.

(v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.

(v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

(v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.

(v.) Instruments of any occupation.

(v.) A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.

(v.) The trade winds.

(v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

(n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.

(n.) Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

(n.) Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

(n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.

(n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.

(n.) A firm, or commercial establishment.

(n.) A public house; an inn; a hotel.

(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.

(n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

(n.) An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

(n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul.

(n.) The grave.

(v. t.) To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.

(v. t.) To drive to a shelter.

(v. t.) To admit to residence; to harbor.

(v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

(v. t.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.

(v. i.) To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

(v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8.

(n.) Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace.

(n.) A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle.

(v. t.) To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle.

(n.) A person having myopy; a myops.

(n.) A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.

(n.) Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.

(n.) A very small fly, abundant in many parts of the United States and Canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite.

(adv.) Perhaps; possibly; peradventure.

(a.) Possible; probable, but not sure.

(n.) Possibility; uncertainty.

(n.) Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.

(v. i.) To wane; to wither.

(n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.

(n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

(n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.

(n.) A fall or apostasy.

(v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.

(v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

(v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.

(v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.

(v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

(v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.

(superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.

(superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions.

(superl.) Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse.

(superl.) Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart.

(superl.) Free; unembarrassed.

(superl.) Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language.

(superl.) Prodigal in expending; lavish.

(superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

(adv.) Freely; licentiously.

(n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.

(n.) A larva.

(a. & adv.) Less.

(a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

(a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

(a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

(a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

(a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

(a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

(a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

(v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

(v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

(v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.

(v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

(v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

(v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

(v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

(n.) Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent.

(n.) A granary; a barn.

(n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.

(n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.

(pl. ) of Vena

(v. t.) To avenge; to punish; to revenge.

(n.) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.

(n.) A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew.

(v. t.) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.

(v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

(v. t.) To resolve; to unfold; to clear.

(v. i.) To become untied or loosed.

(n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

(n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.

(n.) That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.

(n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.

(n.) Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.

(n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood.

(n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

(n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.

(n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.

(n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.

(adv.) Two times; once and again.

(adv.) Doubly; in twofold quantity or degree; as, twice the sum; he is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.

(n.) A twist; a convolution.

(n.) A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

(n.) The act of twining or winding round.

(n.) To twist together; to form by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen.

(n.) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.

(n.) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

(n.) To change the direction of.

(n.) To mingle; to mix.

(v. i.) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.

(v. i.) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.

(v. i.) To turn round; to revolve.

(v. i.) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.

(n.) A twisted filament; a thread.

(v. i.) To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer.

(v. i.) To twinkle; to glance; to gleam.

(v. i.) To sing, or twitter.

(v. i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.

(v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

(v. i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

(v. i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.

(v. i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

(v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

(v. i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

(v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

(v. t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

(v. t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

(v. t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

(n.) Same as Ixtle.

(n.) Alt. of Ixtli

(n.) A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog.

(n.) The European tree sparrow.

(n.) The mountain linnet (Linota flavirostris).

(v. t.) To tie up.

(n.) Alt. of Urari

(n.) A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate.

(n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.

(v. i.) To urinate.

(n.) One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods.

(n.) The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

(n.) Manners; conduct; behavior.

(n.) Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.

(n.) Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.

(n.) Experience.

(v. i.) To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest.

(n.) Usury.

(v. t.) Profitable; useful.

(n.) A conserve made of grapes.

(v. t.) To invest.

(v. t.) An older spelling of Endow.

(n.) A favorite; a paramour; an ingle.

(v. t.) To cajole or coax, as favorite.

(n.) Debt.

(n.) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.

(n.) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.

(n.) The devil; a demon.

(n.) Time.

(v. i.) To sigh.

(n.) A scythe.

(v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to scythe.

(n.) A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.

(n.) A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.

(v. i.) To move on skates.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.

(n.) See Skean.

(n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.

(v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).

(n.) A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.

(v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

(v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

(v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.

(v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.

(v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

(n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.

(a.) To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.

(a.) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.

(v. i.) To go out; to become extinct.

(v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.

(v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.

(v. i.) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.

(a.) Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.

(v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

(v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.

(v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.

(v. t.) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.

(v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.

(v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.

(v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.

(v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.

(v. t.) To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.

(v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.

(v. t.) To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.

(n.) See Slav.

(n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.

(n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.

(n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.

(n.) An abject person; a wretch.

(v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.

(v. t.) To enslave.

(adv.) Alt. of Dolcemente

(v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

(v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.

(v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.

(v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.

(v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

(v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.

(v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

(v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.

(v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

(v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.

(v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

(v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

(v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.

(v. t.) To pass inadvertently.

(v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

(v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

(v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

(v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

(v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.

(v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.

(n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.

(n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.

(n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.

(n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.

(n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.

(n.) That which operates by sliding.

(n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.

(n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.

(n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.

(n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.

(n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.

(n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

(n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.

(n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

(n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.

(n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.

(n.) A slide valve.

(n.) Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.

(n.) Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.

(n.) Bitumen.

(n.) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

(n.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.

(v. t.) To smear with slime.

(n.) The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

(n.) Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.

(n.) Sorrow; dole.

(n.) A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.

(v. i.) To sneak.

(v. t.) To cut; to split; to separate.

(n.) See Sloakan.

(a.) Worthy; honorable; deserving.

(a.) Suitable; adequate; fit.

(a.) Haughty; disdainful.

(n.) Same as dorsal, n.

(n.) The back of a book.

(n.) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.

(n.) A bank; a dike.

(a.) Sweet; pleasant.

(a.) Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.

(n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

(n.) Native sodium carbonate; natron.

(v. t.) To measure or determine with a gauge.

(v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

(v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.

(n.) Same as Stela.

(n.) A stale, or handle; a stalk.

(n.) A corrupt form of Sou.

(n.) Pickle made with salt.

(n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.

(n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear.

(n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water.

(v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle.

(v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.

(v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.

(v. t.) To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.

(v. t.) To pounce upon.

(n.) The act of sousing, or swooping.

(adv.) With a sudden swoop; violently.

(v. t.) To pull by the ears; to drag about.

(n. & v.) See Souse.

(n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

(n.) Place, having more or less extension; room.

(n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.

(n.) Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.

(n.) A short time; a while.

(n.) Walk; track; path; course.

(n.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.

(n.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.

(n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.

(n.) To walk; to rove; to roam.

(n.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.

(n.) A hart or stag three years old.

(n.) A castrated man or beast.

(n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.

(n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

(n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

(v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

(v. t.) To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.

() imp. of Speak.

(n.) A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.

(n.) A strengthening cross timber.

(v. t.) To wean.

(a.) To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

(a.) To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.

(a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.

(a.) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.

(a.) To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

(v. i.) To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.

(v. i.) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.

(v. i.) To desist; to stop; to refrain.

(v. t.) Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.

(v. t.) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.

(v. t.) Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time.

(v. t.) Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.

(v. t.) Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.

(v. t.) Slow.

(n.) The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.

(n.) Parsimony; frugal use.

(n.) An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.

(n.) That which has not been used or expended.

(n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

(n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

(v. t.) To clear of knots; to make clear.

(n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.

(n.) Mode of composition. See Style.

(v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.

(v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

(imp.) of Speak

() of Speak

() of Speak

(n.) Species; kind.

(n.) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.

(v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.

(v. i.) To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.

(n.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.

(n.) The stalk of a pistil.

(n.) The trunk of a tree.

(n.) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.

(v. t.) To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.

(v. i.) To be stifled or suffocated.

(n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

(v. t.) To stick; to thrust; to stab.

(v. t.) To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.

(v. i.) To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.

() imp. of Steal.

(n.) A stolon.

(n.) A long, loose garment reaching to the feet.

(n.) A narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions.

(v. i.) To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.

(n.) A sphere.

(n.) Species; kind.

(n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.

(n.) Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief.

(v. t.) To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit.

(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.

(n.) A precious stone; a gem.

(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -

(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.

(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.

(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.

(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

(n.) To make like stone; to harden.

(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

(v. t.) To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.

(v. t.) To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.

(n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

(n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.

(n.) An ear of corn or grain.

(n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.

(v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.

(v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.

(v. t.) To fix on a spike.

(v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.

(n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.

(n.) A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.

(n.) A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.

(n.) A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.

(v. t.) To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.

(v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

(v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.

(v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

(p. p.) Alt. of Stopen

(v. t.) That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

(v. t.) To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

(v. t.) To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

(v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.

(v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.

(v. t.) Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.

(v. t.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

(n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.

(n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.

(n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.

(n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.

(n.) Shadow.

(n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.

(n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.

(n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.

(n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms.

(v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.

(v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.

(v. t.) To obscure; to dim the brightness of.

(v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken.

(v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color.

(v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

(a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

(a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

(a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.

(a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

(v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

() obs. p. p. of Shake.

(v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.

(v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.

(v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.

(v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.

(v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.

(n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.

(n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.

(n.) A fissure in rock or earth.

(n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.

(n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.

(n.) A shook of staves and headings.

(n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

(v. t. & i.) To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

(n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.

(n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.

(n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.

(n.) The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.

(v. t.) To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.

(v. t.) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To mock at; to deride.

(n.) To be ashamed; to feel shame.

(n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

(n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.

(n.) An age; a long period of time.

(n.) An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

(n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

(n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.

(n.) A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.

(v. i.) To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.

(v. i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.

(n.) The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

(n.) The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed.

(v.) A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence.

(v.) Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend.

(v.) Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares.

(v.) The pubes; the sharebone.

(v. t.) To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide.

(v. t.) To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another.

(v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

(v. i.) To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others.

(n.) See Deckle.

() obs. p. p. of Shave.

(v. t.) To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.

(v. t.) To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself.

(v. t.) To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.

(v. t.) To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.

(v. t.) To strip; to plunder; to fleece.

(v. i.) To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.

(v. t.) A thin slice; a shaving.

(v. t.) A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.

(v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.

(v. t.) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.

(v. t.) A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.

(v. t.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave.

() of Shear

(v. t.) To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

(v. t.) To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.

(v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.

(v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

(v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.

(v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

(v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.

(v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

(v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.

(n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.

(n.) A rush.

(a.) Secret; secretive; faithful to a secret.

(n.) A secret.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shine

(v. i.) To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.

(v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.

(v. i.) To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.

(v. i.) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.

(v. t.) To cause to shine, as a light.

(v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.

(n.) The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.

(n.) Sunshine; fair weather.

(n.) A liking for a person; a fancy.

(n.) Caper; antic; row.

(v. i.) Shining; sheen.

(a.) Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.

(a.) Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

(n.) A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.

(n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.

(n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.

(n.) A slice; as, a shive of bread.

(n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.

(n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.

(n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

(n.) A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.

(n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

(n.) A trifle.

(v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

(v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

(v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

(a.) Accumulated; hoarded.

(v. t.) To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

(v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

(v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

(v. t.) See Inure.

(n.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

(n.) A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.

(n.) One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.

(n.) The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.

(n.) Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.

() imp. of Stave.

(n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.

(n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.

(v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.

(v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

(v. i.) To breathe.

(n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.

(n.) A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.

(n.) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.

(n.) The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

(v. i.) To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.

(n.) A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.

(n.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.

(v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

(v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.

(n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

(n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate.

(n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.

(n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.

(n.) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.

(n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

(n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.

(n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

(n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.

(v. t.) To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

(v. t.) To render fat.

(v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.

(v. t.) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

(v. t.) A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.

(v. t.) Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.

(v. i.) To gaze; to stare.

(n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

(a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

(n.) An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.

(n.) pl. of Goose.

(n.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists.

(n.) A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.

(n.) See Genius.

(n.) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

(n.) A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.

(n.) The cavity in such a nodule.

(n.) A kind of ornamental firework.

(n.) A pupil; a student.

(n.) Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

(n.) The final chorus; the catastrophe.

(n.) An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.

(v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.

(v. t.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

(n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.

(adv.) Frostily.

(n.) A panegyrical funeral oration.

() imp. of Freeze.

(v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.

(v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.

(v. t.) To wash out.

(n.) Same as Fumage.

(n.) A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

(v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

(v. t.) To foist; to interpolate.

(v. i.) To maneuver; to move hither and thither.

(n.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.

(n.) A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.

(v. t.) To move.

(n.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.

(n.) A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.

(n.) A fuse. See Fuse, n.

(n.) A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.

(n.) A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.

(n.) The track of a buck.

(n.) The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring.

(n.) A similar wheel used in other machinery.

(n.) See Fit a song. G () G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.

(n.) A cable.

(n.) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.

(n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.

(n.) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.

(v. t.) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

(v. i.) To flow from a body through the pores, or by a natural discharge, as juice.

(n.) Alt. of Eyry

(n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.

(n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

(n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

(n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

(v. t.) To emulate.

(a.) Growing out.

(v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

(v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

(a.) To fit; to suit; to agree.

(n.) A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.

(n.) A fathom.

(n.) The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.

(v. i.) To tell stories or gests.

(n.) See Ghoul.

(n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.

(n.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

(n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.

(n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.

(n.) See Grilse.

(n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

(v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes.

(v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

(v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

(n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.

(a.) Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.

(v. i.) Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.

(v. i.) Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.

(v. i.) Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.

(n.) An indefinite expanse.

(v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.

(n.) A wandering; a vagary.

(n.) The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.

(n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.

(n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument

(n.) Esteem; regard.

(n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/].

(n.) In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.

(n.) Valor.

(v. t.) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.

(v. t.) To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.

(v. t.) To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.

(v. t.) To be worth; to be equal to in value.

(n.) A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.

(n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.

(n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.

(n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.

(n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.

(n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.

(n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.

(v. t.) A waif; a castaway.

(v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.

(v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

(v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

(v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.

(v. t.) To desert; to abandon.

(v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.

(v. t.) To pierce.

(n.) A kind of high shoe anciently worn.

(n.) Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.

(n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.

(n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

(n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.

(n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.

(n.) A virgate; a yardland.

(n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.

(n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.

(n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

(n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.

(n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.

(n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.

(n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.

(n.) The penis.

(n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

(v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.

(v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.

(v. t.) To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.

(v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.

(v. i.) To practice weaving; to work with a loom.

(v. i.) To become woven or interwoven.

(n.) A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.

(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

(n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

(n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

(n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.

(n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

(v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

(v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

(v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.

(v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.

(v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

(v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

(n.) A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

(n.) Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.

(n.) A short division of any composition.

(n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.

(n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.

(n.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

(n.) A piece of poetry.

(v. t.) To tell in verse, or poetry.

(v. i.) To make verses; to versify.

(v. t.) To earn. [Obs.] See Addle, to earn.

(n.) A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.

(n.) A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.

(n.) See Etui.

(n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.

(n.) The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

(n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.

(n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

(n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

(n.) To coin.

(n.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

(v. t.) To commit forgery.

(v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.

(v. t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

(n.) The strong point; that in which one excels.

(n.) The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.

(a. & adv.) Loudly; strongly; powerfully.

(v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.

(v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.

(v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

(n.) A ditch or moat.

(n.) See Fossa.

(v. i.) To happen.

(v. t.) To shun.

(v. t.) To call out; to summon forth.

(v. t.) To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.

(n.) See Aedile.

(v. t.) To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.

(a.) Alt. of Eery

(v. t.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

(v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

(v. t.) To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.

(v. t.) To cause; to bring about; to produce.

(v. t.) To support.

(v. t.) To provide with a frame, as a picture.

(v. i.) To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.

(v. i.) To proceed; to go.

(n.) Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

(n.) The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

(n.) A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched

(n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

(n.) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.

(n.) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

(n.) A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.

(n.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.

(n.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.

(n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

(n.) Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.

(n.) Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.

(n.) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

(n.) A crowd, a rabble.

(n.) Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art

(n.) A genealogical tree represented in stained glass.

(n.) A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse.

(n.) Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.

(v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.

(v. t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.

(v. t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.

(v. t.) A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

(v. t.) The contract for such letting.

(v. t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.

(v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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

(n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

(n.) The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

(v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

(v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

(v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

(v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

(v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

(v.) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

(v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

(v. i.) To depart; to set out.

(v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.

(n.) A voyage; a journey.

(n.) See water buck, under 3d Buck.

(n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

(n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.

(n.) A layer or stratum.

(n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.

(n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

(n.) A caldron; a copper kettle.

(v. t.) To lose.

(v. t.) To hurt.

() imp. of Wene.

(n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

(n.) A breeze fly.

(v. t.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

(v. t.) To foment with a stupe.

(n.) A stupid person.

(v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

(v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.

(v. t.) A pen; an author's pen.

(v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

(v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

(v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.

(v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.

(v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

(v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.

(v. t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.

(v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.

(v. t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.

(v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

(v. t.) To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.

(v. t.) To persuade.

(a.) Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.

(n.) An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

(n.) An everglade.

(n.) An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.

(v. i.) To shine with a bright, dazzling light.

(v. i.) To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.

(v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.

(v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

(n.) A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.

(n.) A fierce, piercing look or stare.

(n.) A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

(n.) A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.

(n.) Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.

(n.) See Glaive.

(v. i.) To become glazed of glassy.

(n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

(v. t.) A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

(n.) A lump; a clod.

(n.) Turf; soil; ground; sod.

(n.) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.

(v. i.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.

(n.) A live coal.

(n.) The glede or kite.

(v. i.) To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.

(v. i.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

(n.) The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

(n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).

(n.) A sneer; a flout.

(a.) Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.

(n.) The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon.

(n.) A triad; trinity.

(n.) A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.

(n.) Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.

(n.) The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.

(n.) A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.

(n.) A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.

(v. t.) To gather or form into a globe.

(v. t.) To put in the aspect of a trine.

(n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.

(n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.

(v. i.) To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

(n.) Gloom.

(n.) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.

(v. i.) To glare; to glower.

(a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.

(n.) A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.

(n.) A boxing glove.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove.

(v. i.) To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.

(v. i.) To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.

(v. t.) To smooth over; to palliate.

(n.) Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.

(n.) Specious show; gloss.

(n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt.

() imp. of Tread.

(n.) Tread; footing.

(a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

(a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

(a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

(a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

(a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.

(v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

(n.) A throne.

(n.) A small drain.

(n.) Alt. of Trones

(n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.

(n.) The word or expression so used.

(n.) A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.

(v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.

(n.) A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.

(n.) Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.

(n.) An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

(n.) A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

(n.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.

(n.) A brief reflection or maxim.

(n.) A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See Butterine.

(n.) A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.

(n.) A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.

(n.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.

(n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.

(n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.

(n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.

(n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.

(n.) A twin crystal.

(n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.

(v. t.) To mix; to mingle; to meddle.

(n.) Millet.

(n.) An icicle.

(a.) Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

(a.) Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.

(a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.

(v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.

(v. i.) To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.

(v. t.) To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.

(v. t.) Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach.

(v. i.) To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.

(v. i.) To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.

(v. t.) United; joint; as, unite consent.

(n.) An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.

(n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.

(n.) Show; appearance; cast.

(n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.

(n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.

(n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.

(v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.

(v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

(n.) A decree of the Sultan.

(a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.

(v. t.) To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

(v. t.) To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

(n.) A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.

(a.) See Ovine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

(v. i.) To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.

(v. i.) To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.

(n.) The act of one who winces.

(n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.

(n.) A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds.

(v. i.) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.

(v. i.) One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.

(n.) The barn owl.

(n.) The magpie.

(n.) A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.

(adv.) Together. See Ifere.

(v. t. & i.) To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.

(n.) A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.

(v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.

(n.) A waterfall; a cascade.

(n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.

(n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

(n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.

(n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

(n.) Validity; efficacy.

(n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.

(n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.

(n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.

(n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.

(v. i.) To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

(v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.

(v. i.) To distrain for rent.

(p. p.) Driven.

(n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

(n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

(n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

(n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

(n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

(adv.) From this place; away.

(adv.) From this time; in the future; as, a week hence.

(adv.) From this reason; as an inference or deduction.

(adv.) From this source or origin.

(v. t.) To send away.

(n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.

(n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.

(n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.

(n.) To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.

(n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

(n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.

(n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.

(v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

(v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.

(v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

(a.) Same as Pate or Patte.

(a.) First.

(n.) A corner.

() imp. of Swear.

(a.) Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.

(n.) That which is void or empty.

(n.) A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.

(n.) See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.

(n.) A funeral ceremonial.

(v. t.) Same as Hearse, v. t.

(n.) Same as Inkle.

(n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, , /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.

(n.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.

(n.) A feast.

(n.) A sieve.

(n.) A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.

(n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

(a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

(v. t.) To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.

(v. t.) To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.

(v. t.) To haul; to hoist.

(n.) A half.

(v. t.) To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.

(v. t.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

(n.) A saint.

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

() Alt. of Hanch

(n.) An Indian wigwam or tent.

(n.) See Tierce.

(n.) One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

(n.) Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

(n.) Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.

(n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.

(a.) See FitchE.

(n. & i.) See Fidget.

(n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.

(n.) An association; a league or confederacy.

(superl.) Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.

(superl.) Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.

(superl.) Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.

(n.) A witness.

(n.) The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like.

(n.) The red-breasted merganser.

(n.) A hinge.

(n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

(n.) The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

(n.) To hasten; to hurry.

(n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.

(n.) Same as Theave.

() pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote.

(n.) A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

(n.) Discourse on a certain subject.

(n.) A composition or essay required of a pupil.

(n.) A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.

(n.) That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument.

(n.) The leading subject of a composition or a movement.

(n.) A hawse hole.

(n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.

(n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.

(n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.

(v. t.) To make dry; to dry.

(n.) See Pasch and Easter.

(n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.

(n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

(n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

(v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.

(v. t.) To bend.

(v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.

(n.) A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth.

(v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron.

(n.) A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.

(n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.

(n.) The cheetah.

() A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil.

(n.) See Zantewood.

(v. i.) A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.

(v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

(v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.

(a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.

(a.) To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.

(v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.

(v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.

(v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

(v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

(v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.

(n.) A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation.

(a.) To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.

(n.) A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.

(n.) A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

(n.) A band consisting of a twig twisted.

(n.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe.

(n.) A partition between flues in a chimney.

(v. t.) To bind or fasten with withes.

(n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.

(n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

(n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

(n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.

(v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

(v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

(v. i. & i.) To prove.

(n.) Proof.

(n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.

(n. & v.) Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

(n. & v.) Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.

(v. t.) To pay the price of.

(v. t.) To set a price on; to value. See Prize.

(v. t.) To ask the price of; as, to price eggs.

(n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

(n.) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

(n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

(n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.

(n.) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

(n.) Show; ostentation; glory.

(n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.

(n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

(v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.

(v. i.) To be proud; to glory.

(#) Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna

(a.) First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.

(a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.

(a.) First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.

(a.) Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

(a.) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.

(a.) Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.

(n.) The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.

(n.) The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.

(n.) That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.

(a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.

(a.) The first of the chief guards.

(a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

(a.) A prime number. See under Prime, a.

(a.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.

(a.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.

(a.) To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.

(a.) To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.

(a.) To trim or prune, as trees.

(a.) To mark with a prime mark.

(v. i.) To be renewed, or as at first.

(v. i.) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

(v. i.) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.

(n.) A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.

(a.) Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.

(n.) An enterprise.

(n. & v.) See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.

(n.) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.

(n.) A bleaching vat; a kier.

(n.) A large vat used in dressing ores.

(v. t.) To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.

(v. t.) To heave; to tilt, as a cart.

(a.) Rough; shaggy.

(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.

(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.

(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance

(n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.

(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.

(n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.

(n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.

(n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.

(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.

(n.) A castle; a fortified building.

(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.

(v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.

(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.

(n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

(n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.

(n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.

(n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

(n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.

(n.) A contest for a reward; competition.

(n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.

(v. t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.

(v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

(v. t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.

(n.) Estimation; valuation.

(v. t.) To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

(v. t.) Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.

(n.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.

(n.) The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.

(v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.

(v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

(v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.

(v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.

() imp. of Tread.

(n.) A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.

(n.) A kind of tape or braid.

(v. t.) To guess.

(n.) In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

(n.) A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.

(pl. ) of Goose

(n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

(n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

(n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

(n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.

(n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

(n.) A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear.

(n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

(n.) A narrow passage or entrance

(n.) A defile between mountains.

(n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

(n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

(n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

(n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

(n.) The groove of a pulley.

(n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

(n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

(v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

(n.) Furze. See Furze.

(n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

(n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

(n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.

(n.) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.

(n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

(n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

(v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge.

(v. t.) To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.

(v. t.) To cheat in a bargain; to chouse.

(n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

(n.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.

(n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.

(n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.

(n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.

(n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.

(n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.

(n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.

(n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.

(n.) Thanks.

(n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.

(n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.

(n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.

(n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.

(v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

(v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.

(v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace.

(v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

(n.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.

(n.) A spring; a fountain.

(n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.

(n.) The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.

(n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.

(v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.

(v. i.) To slip along a windlass.

(n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).

(n.) A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.

(n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

(n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.

(n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.

(v. t.) To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

(v. t.) To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

(v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

(n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.

(n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.

(n.) Poor, weak beer; small beer.

(v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.

(v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.

(v. t.) To copulate with (a woman).

(n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.

(a.) Anger; wrath; scorn.

(a.) Sorrow; grief; misery.

(v. & n.) See Groan.

(n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

(n.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

(n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.

(n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

(n.) Grapeshot.

(v. t.) To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.

(a.) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

(n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.

(n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

(v. t.) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.

(v. t.) To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.

(v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

(v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend.

(v. i.) To make a harsh sound by friction.

(v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.

(v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.

(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.

(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.

(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

(n.) To entomb; to bury.

(v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

(n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

(n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

(n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet

(n.) a memorandum book.

(n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.

(n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.

(n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.

(n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.

(n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.

(n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.

(n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.

(n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.

(n.) The company assembled round a table.

(n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.

(n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.

(n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.

(n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.

(n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.

(n.) A circular plate of crown glass.

(n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.

(n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.

(n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.

(v. t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.

(v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.

(v. t.) To supply with food; to feed.

(v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.

(v. t.) To lay or place on a table, as money.

(v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.

(v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

(v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

(v. i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.

(v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

(v. t.) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.

(v. t.) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

(v. t.) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

(v. i.) To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.

(v. i.) To yield grass for grazing.

(v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.

(n.) The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.

(n.) A light touch; a slight scratch.

(n.) Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.

(n.) A spot, stain, or blemish.

(n.) One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

(v. i.) See Ensue, v. i.

(n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

(n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.

(n.) See Posse comitatus.

(imp.) of Swear

(v. t.) To carve.

(v. t.) To wrap the head of in a hood.

(n.) A bale of raw silk.

(a.) Much.

(a.) A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech.

(v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.

(v. t.) To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.

(v. t.) To preen; to prepare; to dress.

(v. i.) To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.

(n.) A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.

(v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

(v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.

(n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

(n.) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.

(v. t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.

(v. t.) To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

(v. t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

(v. t.) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.

(v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.

(v. t.) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

(v. i.) To make trial; to essay.

(v. i.) To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.

(v. i.) To succeed; to turn out as expected.

(n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.

(n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

(n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.

(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.

(v. t.) To write in prose.

(v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

(v. i.) To write prose.

(n.) The prow or fore part of a ship.

(n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

(n.) To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.

(n.) To worship false and impure gods.

(v. t.) To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.

(a.) Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

(a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.

(a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.

(a.) Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.

(a.) Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.

(v. i.) To poke; to thrust.

(imp.) of Kythe.

(n.) Alt. of Masse shot

(n.) Alt. of Lynden

(n.) See Meter.

(n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.

(n.) A poem.

(n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.

(n.) A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.

(v. i.) To make a lunge.

(v. t.) To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.

(n.) Same as Namaycush.

(interj.) Marry.

(n.) Border; margin; edge; verge.

(n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.

(n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

(n.) One who is loved.

(n.) A dwelling house, generally with land attached.

(n.) The parsonage; a clergyman's house.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.

(n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.

(n.) Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.

(n.) Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.

(v. t.) To clean from lice.

(a.) Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.

(n.) Mania; insanity.

(n.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.

(n.) The European blackbird. See Blackbird.

(v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

(v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.

(superl.) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

(superl.) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.

(superl.) Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.

(superl.) Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.

(superl.) Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.

(superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.

(superl.) Unconnected; rambling.

(superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.

(superl.) Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.

(superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.

(n.) Freedom from restraint.

(n.) A letting go; discharge.

(a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

(a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.

(a.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.

(a.) To solve; to interpret.

(v. i.) To set sail.

(v. t.) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.

(n.) Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility.

(v. t.) To grace.

(n.) A thrust. See Lunge.

(n.) The training ground for a horse.

(n.) Same as 4th Lunge.

(n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

(n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.

(n.) A den or cave.

(n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.

(n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

(n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt.

(n.) A collection of objects lodged together.

(n.) A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.

(v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.

(v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

(v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.

(n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.

(n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.

(n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

(n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.

(n.) To lay down; to prostrate.

(n.) See Poise.

(n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny.

(n.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.

(pron.) In or at that place.

(pron.) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech.

(pron.) To or into that place; thither.

(n.) A paling; a hurdle.

(n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.

(n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.

(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.

(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

(v. t.) To form into flakes.

(v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

(n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.

(n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.

(n.) Ardor of affection; the passion of love.

(n.) A person beloved; a sweetheart.

(n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.

(n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.

(v. t.) To kindle; to inflame; to excite.

(v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

(v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

(v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.

(v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.

(v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

(n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.

(n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.

(n.) Leaf of lard.

(pron.) The plural of this. See This.

(v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

(v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

(v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.

(v. t.) To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.

(v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.

(v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

(v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.

(v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

(v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

(n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

(n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.

(n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

(pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

(n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

(v. t.) To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.

(v. t.) To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.

(v. t.) To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

(v. t.) To surround so as to prevent escape.

(v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

(v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

(v. i.) To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

(pl. ) of This

(n.) A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.

(n.) The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.

(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to undergo.

(v. i.) To wait.

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

(pron.) The plural of that. See That.

(v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

(v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

(a.) Sloping.

(adv.) In a sloping manner.

(v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

(v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

(v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.

(n.) A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards.

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

(n.) A rudder. See 5th Steer.

(n.) Helmsman. See 6th Steer.

(v. t.) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.

(v. i.) To scold; to quarrel.

(n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

(n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

(v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

(v. t.) To put in agony.

(v. t.) To fleet; to skim.

(n.) A wave.

(v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.

(n.) A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.

(n. pl.) Trifles; jests.

(n.) One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.

(n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.

(n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.

(n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

(n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.

(v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster

(v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.

(v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.

(v. t.) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.

(v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

(v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.

(n.) Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

(n.) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.

(a.) Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

(n.) A needle.

(v. i.) To sneeze.

(n.) A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple.

(v. t.) To lay.

(v. t.) To lighten; to allay.

(pron. & conj.) Whether.

(adv.) At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.

(adv.) At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; -- used relatively.

(adv.) To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?

(conj.) Whereas.

(n.) Place; situation.

(n.) Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent.

(n.) That which requires time; labor; pains.

(v. t.) To cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness or disgust; to spend or pass; -- usually followed by away.

(v. i.) To loiter.

(conj.) During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; as, while I write, you sleep.

(conj.) Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas.

(n.) A vial.

(prep.) Until; till.

(v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.

(v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.

(n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.

(superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.

(superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.

(superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.

(superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.

(superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.

(superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.

(n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.

(n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.

(n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.

(n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.

(n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

(v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

(n.) A wand. See Verge.

(n.) Leprosy.

(a.) Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation.

(a.) Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.

(a.) Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well.

(n.) The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself.

(n.) A regular combination of parts; a system.

(pron.) The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which.

(n.) Neighborhood; vicinity; venue. See Venue.

(n.) Death.

(n.) A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.

(n.) Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.

(v. t.) To let; to hinder. See Let, to hinder.

(n.) The act of rising.

(n.) A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.

(v. t.) To attend the levee or levees of.

(n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.

(v. t.) To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.

(n.) Flax. See Linen.

(v. i.) To lisp.

(n.) The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.

(n.) Influence; power; sway.

(n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.

(n.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.

(n.) The tone or sound emitted by anything.

(n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.

(n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.

(n.) Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.

(n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.

(n.) One who speaks; a speaker.

(n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.

(v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.

(v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.

(v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.

(v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint.

(v. i.) To clamor; to cry out.

(n.) Alt. of Liana

(n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.

(pl. ) of Volta

(n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.

(v. i. & i.) To listen or listen to; to hearken to.

(a.) Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.

(a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.

(a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

(n.) Same as Liter.

(a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.

(a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.

(a.) Full; perfect; complete; pure.

(n.) A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.

(n.) The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

(a.) Same as Lief.

(n.) A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.

(n.) Alt. of Wacky

(n.) One of the New England States.

(n.) See Loach.

(n.) A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.

(v. i.) To lie or recline.

(n.) Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.

(n.) A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.

(n.) A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.

(n.) A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.

(n.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

(v. t.) To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

(n.) See Pattee.

(a.) Alt. of Pattee

(n.) A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.

(n.) A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.

(n.) See Ocher.

(n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

(n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

(n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.

(n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.

(n.) A break or paragraph in writing.

(n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.

(n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.

(n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.

(n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

(n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.

(v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

(n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.

(n.) A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains.

(n.) The twelfth part of a troy pound.

(n.) Fig.: A small portion; a bit.

(n.) A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, / uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once.

(n.) A fairy; a goblin; an elf.

(pl. ) of Pea

(v.) A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose

(v.) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.

(v.) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.

(v.) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience.

(v.) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.

(n.) See Paage.

(n.) A pea.

(n.) A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.

(a.) Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.

(n.) Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.

(n.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot.

(n.) In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.

(n.) See Umber.

(n.) See Tithe.

(n. & v.) See Lack.

(v. t.) A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

(v. t.) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.

(v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.

(v. t.) An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.

(v. t.) A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

(v. t.) To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.

(n.) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim.

(n.) A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9.

(n.) See Kyrie eleison.

() of Kithe

(v. t.) Alt. of Kithe

(v. t.) To make known; to manifest; to show; to declare.

(v. t.) To come into view; to appear.

(adv. / interj.) Alt. of Pardie

(n.) The common people; the mob.

(n.) A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West Point.

(v. i.) To talk; to converse; to parley.

(n.) Conversation; talk; parley.

(n.) A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed."

(a.) Of or pertaining to the morn; morning.

(n.) A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

(a.) Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.

(n.) The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.

(n.) The first or early part; as, the morning of life.

(n.) The goddess Aurora.

(n.) The walrus. See Walrus.

(n.) A clasp for fastening garments in front.

() imp. of Mote.

(imp.) of Mot

(compar.) Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.

(n.) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.

(n.) That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.

(a.) In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.

(v. t.) To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.

(pl. ) of Mina

(n.) A clump of trees in a prairie.

(v. t.) To mingle; to mix.

(n.) A small biting fly; a midge.

(v. i.) To contract mold; to grow moldy; to mold.

(n.) The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking.

(v. t.) To moisten; to wet.

(n.) Judgment; justice; sentence.

(imp.) of Write

(v. t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.

(v. t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.

(v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.

(v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.

(v. t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.

(v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.

(v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.

(v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.

(v. i.) To compose or send letters.

(v. i.) To root with the snout. See 1st Root.

() imp. & archaic p. p. of Write.

(n.) energy; pep.

(n.) courage, determination.

(n.) Know-how, expertise.

(n. & v.) See Moil, and Moile.

(n.) Same as Saki.

(n.) Wine boiled and mingled with honey.

(n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

(n.) A sinew or a tendon.

(n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.

(n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.

(n.) Audacity; assurance.

(n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.

(n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.

(v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

(n.) A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.

(n.) The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.

(n.) A sort of base money or coin.

(v. t.) To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.

(v. t.) To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.

(v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.

(n. & v.) See Miter.

(pl. ) of Penny

(n.) A weight; a poise.

(v. t.) To poise or weight.

(n.) A kind of black tea.

(n.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.

(v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.

(v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.

(v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.

(v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.

(v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.

(v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.

(v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.

(v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.

(v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.

(n.) A puddle; a plash.

(n.) Porridge.

(n.) See Saltpeter.

(a.) Alt. of Passee

(n.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.

(n.) The woodcock.

(n.) A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

(n.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.

(v. t.) A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n.

(n.) See Fane.

(n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.

(n.) Hence, a harbor.

(v.) Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

(v.) The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.

(v.) The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.

(v.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

(n.) To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.

(n.) To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

(n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

(n.) To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.

(n.) To weigh (down); to oppress.

(v. i.) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

(n.) That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

(n.) Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases.

(n.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon.

(n.) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.

(n.) See Phoebe.

(n.) Benzene.

(n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.

(n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.

(n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.

(n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.

(n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).

(n.) A definite position or passage of a document.

(n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.

(n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.

(n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.

(n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.

(n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.

(n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.

(n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.

(n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.

(n.) A region; country.

(n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.

(n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.

(v. t.) See Kythe.

(n.) A boy; especially, a boy servant.

(n.) Any male servant; a menial.

(n.) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.

(n.) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

(n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..

(n.) A sword or dagger.

(v. t.) To prune with the knife.

(v. t.) To cut or stab with a knife.

(n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

(v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

(v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.

(v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.

(v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.

(v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.

(v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.

(v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

(v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification.

(v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

(v. t.) The act of purging.

(v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

(n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.

(n.) The jigger. See Jigger.

(n.) A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.

(n.) Keenly felt desire; a longing.

(n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.

(v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.

(v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.

(v. t.) To pride or value; -- used reflexively.

(v. i.) To cause annoyance or irritation.