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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Frigga

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

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

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

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

(P. p. & a.) Had or held under obligation of paying; due.

(P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations.

() imp. of Sting.

(n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

(n.) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.

(v. i.) To shoot with pain.

(n.) Alt. of Algum

(adv.) By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.

(adv.) In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.

(adv.) In company; together.

(prep.) By the length of, as distinguished from across.

() (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)

(n.) Alt. of Arenga

(prep.) Alt. of Amongst

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

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

(adv.) On the wing; flying; fluttering.

(v. t.) To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.

(v. t.) Hence: To confuse; to mystify.

(p. pr.) Existing.

(n.) Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence.

(n.) That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings.

(n.) Lifetime; mortal existence.

(n.) An abode; a cottage.

(adv.) Since; inasmuch as.

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

(v. t.) To cover (the head) with a wig.

(n.) An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

(n.) A twig of a tree cut off.

(v. t.) To trim, as trees; to lop.

(v. t.) To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.

(v. i.) To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.

(n.) A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.

(v. t.) To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

(v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.

(v. t.) To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.

(v. t.) To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.

(v. t.) To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?

(n.) Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.

(n.) A rawboned person.

(n.) A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

() imp. of Swing.

(n.) A swamp.

(n.) An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field.

(n.) A young salmon.

(n.) A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.

(v. t.) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.

(v. t.) To prop or sustain with a sprag.

(a.) See Sprack, a.

(n.) A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

(n.) A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.

(n.) A brad, or nail without a head.

(n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.

(v. t.) To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.

(v. t.) To make smart.

(n.) See Krang.

(v. t.) To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.

(v. i.) To give out a clang; to resound.

(n.) A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.

(n.) Quality of tone.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cling

() of Cling

(v. i.) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.

(v. t.) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.

(v. t.) To make to dry up or wither.

(n.) Adherence; attachment; devotion.

() imp. of Cling.

() imp. & p. p. of Cling.

(v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.

(n.) A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.

(n.) A kind of crowbar.

(n.) A large wrench.

(a.) In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.

(n.) The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

(v. t.) To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship.

(n.) A tang. See Tang a state.

(v. i.) To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.

(v. t.) To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.

(n.) A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.

(n.) An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.

(v. t.) To tweak.

(n.) Alt. of Tweague

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

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

() imp. of Sling. Slung.

(n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

(n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

(n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.

(v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

(n.) Anything done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do.

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

(v. t.) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.

(v. t.) The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.

(v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension

(v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.

(v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.

(v. t.) A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.

(v. t.) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.

(imp.) of Sling

() of Sling

(p. p.) of Sling

(v. t.) To throw with a sling.

(v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to cast.

(v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.

(v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.

(n.) A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.

() imp. & p. p. of Sling.

(v. t.) To spangle.

(v. i.) To spring; to bound; to leap.

(n.) A bound or spring.

(n.) A spangle or shining ornament.

(v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.

(v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.

(v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.

(v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.

(v. t.) A goad; incitement.

(v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sting

() of Sting

(v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.

(v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.

(v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.

(v. t.) To lengthen out; to prolong.

(v. t.) To put away; to separate; to keep off.

(prep.) Alt. of Emongst

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

(n.) A leather thong.

(v. t.) To beat.

() imp. & p. p. of Sting.

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

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

(n.) The process of soaking through anything.

(n.) The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

(n.) Departure.

(n.) Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.

(n.) Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.

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

(n.) A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

(v. t.) To remove a peg or pegs from; to unfasten; to open.

(superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.

(v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

(v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.

(v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.

(n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.

(n.) To be hanged.

(v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.

(v. t.) To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.

(v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.

(n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.

(n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.

(n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.

(n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.

(n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

(n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.

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

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

(adv.) Incognito.

(superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.

(superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

(n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.

(n.) Same as Mung.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swing

(Archaic imp.) of Swing

() imp. & p. p. of Swing.

(v. t.) To pour, or take, or let go, out of a bag or bags.

(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument.

(n.) The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.

(n.) A sharp projection, as of an antler.

(n.) The fang of a tooth.

(n.) The dziggetai.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to tell a falsehood.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to be supported horizontally.

(n.) A miner's two-pointed pick.

(n.) Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

(n.) An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material.

(n.) A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed.

(n.) A portion or part; something.

(n.) A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.

(n.) Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things.

(n.) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.

(n.) In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly.

(n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fling

(v. t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

(v. t.) To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.

(v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.

(v. i.) To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.

(v. i.) To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.

(v. i.) To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.

(n.) A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.

(n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.

(n.) A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.

(n.) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.

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

(n.) See Orang-outang.

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

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

() a. & n. from Vie. W () the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 266-268.

() p. pr. of Tie.

(n.) The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.

(n.) The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.

(n.) See Krang.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wring

(v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

(v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.

(v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

(v. t.) To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.

(v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.

(v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.

(v. i.) To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.

(n.) A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.

() imp. of Wring. Wrung.

(a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.

(a.) Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.

(a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.

(a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.

(a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.

(adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.

(a.) That which is not right.

(a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.

(a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.

(a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.

(v. t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.

(v. t.) To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.

() imp. & p. p. of Wring.