(prep. & adv.) Nigh.

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

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

(n.) The letter h or H.

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

(n.) A tight grip.

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

(superl) New; original; additional.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A flood; a freshet.

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

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

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

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

(a.) A forest; a woody place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The chick-pea.

(n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.

(v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.

(v.) A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like

(v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.

(v.) A matrimonial union; a marriage.

(v.) An agreement, compact, etc.

(v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

(v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

(v.) Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

(v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.

(v. t.) To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.

(v. t.) To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.

(v. t.) To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.

(v. t.) To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.

(v. t.) To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).

(v. t.) To marry; to give in marriage.

(v. t.) To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.

(v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.

(v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

(n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

(n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste.

(n.) Soft mud.

(n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.

(n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.

(n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.

(n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.

(v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.

(v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

(v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

(v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.

(n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

(n.) Hence, bankruptcy.

(n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.

(n.) One who makes or effects anything.

(n.) To beat into shape; to forge.

(superl.) True; faithful; trustworthy.

(superl.) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.

(a.) Truth; reality.

(a.) Augury; prognostication.

(a.) Blandishment; cajolery.

(a.) A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.

(n.) A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

(n.) The wood or timber of the birch.

(n.) A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.

(n.) A birch-bark canoe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.

(v. t.) To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

(n.) See Berth.

(n.) A place of shelter for cattle.

(n.) The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

(n.) An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.

(v. t.) The quantity of bread baked at one time.

(v. t.) A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.

(a.) Like ale; as, an alish taste.

(n.) The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

(n.) Same as Alme.

(n.) An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.

(n.) Same as Squash.

(v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.

(v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.

(v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.

(v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

(n.) A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

(v. t.) To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

(v. t.) Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he.

(n.) A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

(n.) The electric catfish.

(n.) A name sometimes given to the raven.

(n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

(n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

(v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

(a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

(v. t.) To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.

(n.) The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

(n.) The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

(v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

(v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

(v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

(v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

(v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.

(n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

(n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

(n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.

(n.) Half a shekel.

(v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

(v. i.) To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.

(v. i.) To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

(v. i.) To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

(n.) The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

(n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

(n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

(n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

(n.) The seat where judges sit in court.

(n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

(n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

(n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

(v. t.) To furnish with benches.

(v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.

(v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

(n.) A hill.

(v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

(v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck.

(n.) The wild radish.

(n.) Convenient sea room.

(n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

(n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

(n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.

(n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

(v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

(v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

(n.) Same as Buddha.

(n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

(n.) A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

(n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

(n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

(n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

(n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.

(n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

(n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

(n.) A bitch of the hound kind.

(n.) A mouth.

(n.) An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

(n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

(n.) A gallows.

(a.) Hasty in temper; impetuous.

(a.) Brittle, as wood or vegetables.

(n.) A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

(n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.

(n.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

(n.) Broken fragments of ice.

(v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

(n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.

(n.) Same as Rotche.

(n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works.

(n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

(n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.

(n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.

(n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

(n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

(n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

(n.) Dearth; scarcity.

(n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

(n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.

(v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

(v. t.) To surround with a ditch.

(v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.

(v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.

(n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.

(n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

(n.) The bushy tail of a fox.

(n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

(n.) Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

(n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

(n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

(n.) The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

(n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.

(n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed.

(n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

(n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

(n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.

(v. i.) To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

(n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

(n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

(n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.

(v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

(v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.

(n.) That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.

(n.) Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.

(n.) Specifically: That part of the United States lying north of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

(a.) Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north.

(v. i.) To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.

(adv.) Northward.

(n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.

(v. i.) To dabble in water; to splash.

(v. t.) To splash, as water.

(v. t.) To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.

(v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.

(n.) The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

(pl. ) of Tooth

(n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

(n.) Fig.: Taste; palate.

(n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

(n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

(n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

(n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

(n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

(n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.

(v. t.) To furnish with teeth.

(v. t.) To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

(v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

(n.) Peace; security; agreement.

(v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

(v. t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.

(v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.

(v. i.) To fall violently or noisily.

(v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

(n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.

(n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

(n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

(n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.

(n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

(v. t.) A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

(v. t.) The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.

(v. t.) A band or fillet; a swathe.

(n.) Act of gulching or gulping.

(n.) A glutton.

(n.) A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

(n.) See Gulf.

(n.) A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.

(n.) A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.

(n.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.

(n.) The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.

(n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.

(n.) Alt. of Drith

(n.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song.

(n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

(n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

(n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

(n.) See Concha, n.

(n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

(v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

(v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

(v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

(v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

(v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.

(v. t.) To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

(v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

(v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

(v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

(v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

(v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

(v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

(v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

(v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

(v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

(v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

(v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.

(v. i.) A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

(v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

(imp. & p. p.) Could; was able; knew or known; understood.

(v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

(v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

(v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

(n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

(n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

(n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

(n.) A cockroach.

(n.) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.

(n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.

(n.) The redfin, or shiner.

(n.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.

(v. t.) To cause to arch.

(v. t.) To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.

(n.) A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.

(v. i.) To retch.

(n.) An effort to vomit.

(v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.

(v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.

(v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.

(v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.

(v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

(v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.

(v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.

(v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

(v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.

(v. t.) To overreach; to deceive.

(v. i.) To stretch out the hand.

(v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.

(v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.

(v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

(n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.

(n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

(n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

(n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.

(n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.

(n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

(n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

(n.) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.

(n.) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.

(n.) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.

(n.) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.

(n.) Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.

(n.) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.

(n.) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.

(n.) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.

(n.) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.

(n.) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.

(n.) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.

(n.) Produced offhand.

(n.) Boisterous weather.

(n.) A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

(adv.) In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

(v. t.) To render rough; to roughen.

(v. t.) To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.

(v. t.) To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Say.

(v. i.) To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

(v. i.) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.

(v. t.) To strike noisily against or together.

(n.) A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

(n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

(n.) A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.

(n.) The game of ninepins.

(n.) A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

(n.) The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.

(n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.

() Alt. of Sauh

(n.) The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.

(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

(v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

(v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

(v. i.) Cause of loss of life.

(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

(v. i.) Danger of death.

(v. i.) Murder; murderous character.

(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.

(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

(v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

(v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

(v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.

(v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

(v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

(n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

(n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

(n.) See 4th Crowd.

(n.) See 4th Crowd.

(v. t.) To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

(v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

(v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

(v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

(v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

(v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

(v. t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

(v. t.) To get possession of; to attain.

(v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

(v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

(v. t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

(v. i.) To attain possession.

(v. i.) To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.

(v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

(v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.

(n.) Act of seizing; a grasp.

(n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

(n.) The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.

(n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.

(n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

(n.) Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

(n.) A slight remembrance; a trace.

(n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

(n.) Defensive armor for the thighs.

(n.) See Courche.

(a.) Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.

(n.) The people of Holland; Dutchmen.

(n.) The language spoken in Holland.

(v. t.) To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.

(v. t.) To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class.

(v. t.) To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.

(v. i.) To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.

(n.) pl. of Tooth.

(v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.

(n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.

(n.) A flashlight.

(superl.) Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.

(superl.) Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.

(superl.) Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.

(superl.) Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.

(superl.) Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.

(n.) Same as Hock, a joint.

(v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring.

(n.) An adz; a hoe.

(v. t.) To cut with a hoe.

(v. i.) To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

(n.) Alt. of Meathe

(n.) A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).

(v. t.) To smear; to anoint.

(n.) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.

(n.) A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.

(n.) A latching.

(n.) A crossbow.

(n.) To catch so as to hold.

(n.) To catch or fasten by means of a latch.

(v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.

(v. i.) One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.

(v. i.) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

(v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.

(v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

(n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.

(n.) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.

(v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.

(v. i.) To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.

(v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.

(v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.

(v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.

(v. t.) To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.

(v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.

(v. i.) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

(v. i.) Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

(v. t.) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

(v. t.) To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.

(n.) An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.

(n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

(n.) Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.

(n.) The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.

(n.) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.

(n.) The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.

(n.) That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.

(n.) Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.

(n.) Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.

(n.) Credibility or truth.

(interj.) By my faith; in truth; verily.

(n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.

(n.) A dam or weir for catching fish.

(n.) A hoop or band.

(a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

(a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.

(n.) The next in order after the fifth.

(n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

(v. t.) To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

(v. t.) To lash; to ply the whip to.

(v. t.) To crack or snap, as a whip.

(v. i.) To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.

(n.) A long cut; a cut made at random.

(n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

(n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

(n.) Alt. of Slick

(n.) A cut; as, slish and slash.

() Alt. of Sloshy

(n.) Slowness; tardiness.

(n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.

(n.) Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.

(v. i.) To be idle.

(n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.

(n.) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.

(n.) In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.

(n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

(v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.

(v. t.) To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

(v. t.) To occupy as a perch.

(n.) A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

(n.) A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.

(n.) A row, line, or rank of trees.

(a.) Strong; stiff; rigid.

(n.) An anvil; a stithy.

(n.) See Catechu.

(n.) See Cultch.

(n.) One of the Czechs.

(n.) The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

(n.) Delftware.

(n.) The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.

(n.) The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.

(n.) Same as Shiite.

(n.) A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.

(a.) Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.

(a.) Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

(n.) An interval containing an octave and a second.

(n.) A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.

(n.) Alt. of Epha

(n.) That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

(n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

(n.) A worthless person.

(n.) A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

(v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.

(v. t.) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

(v. t.) To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

(v. i.) To follow with violence and trampling.

(interj.) An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

(n.) A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

(n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

(n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.

(n.) Light, unsubstantial matter.

(v. t.) To cause to foam.

(v. t.) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

(v. t.) To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

(v. i.) To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

(v. t.) To batter; to break in pieces.

(a.) Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

(n.) Noise; clatter; crash.

(n.) The frog of a horse's foot.

(n.) A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.

(n.) The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman.

(v. t.) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

(n.) See 3d Leech.

(n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

(n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

(v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.

(v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.

(v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

(n.) See Leech, a physician.

(n.) See Arrish.

(n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.

(n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.

(n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth.

(n.) A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.

(n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.

(n.) The people on the globe.

(n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.

(n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.

(n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.

(v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.

(v. t.) To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.

(v. i.) To burrow.

(n.) A plowing.

(adv.) Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.

(adv.) Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.

(adv.) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

(adv.) Throughly; from beginning to end.

(prep.) Forth from; out of.

(n.) A way; a passage or ford.

(n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.

(n.) Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa.

(n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.

(n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.

(n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.

(v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.

(v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.

(v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.

(v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.

(v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.

(v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.

(v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

(v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.

(v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.

(v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.

(v. i.) To judge; to estimate.

(n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.

(a.) See Welsh.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.

(n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.

(n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.

(n.) See 2d Leach.

(v. t.) See Leach, v. t.

(n.) The border or edge at the side of a sail.

(n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

(n.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

(n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

(v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

(v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.

(n.) A young woman; a girl; a maiden.

(n.) A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.

(n.) A colored woman; a negress.

(v. i.) To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.

(n.) A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

(n.) The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.

(n.) A small horizontal brace or girder.

(v. t.) To bind as with a girth.

(n.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

(n.) Belief; faith; fidelity.

(n.) Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth.

(n.) Betrothal.

(v. t.) To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

(v. i.) To grind or strike the teeth together.

(n.) A dunce; a blockhead.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.

(n. sing. & pl.) The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

(n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.

(v. i.) To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.

(n.) A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.

(n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.

(n.) An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.

(n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.

(n.) A wince.

(n.) The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.

(v. i.) See Mich.

(n.) Mead. See Meathe.

(n.) A sow.

(n.) A small drain; an adit.

(v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.

(v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.

(v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.

(v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.

(n.) That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.

(n.) A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.

(n.) Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

(n.) The wind from the south.

(a.) Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.

(adv.) Toward the south; southward.

(adv.) From the south; as, the wind blows south.

(v. i.) To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.

(v. i.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.

(v. t.) To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.

(v. t.) To flog; to lash.

(v. i.) To dash; to swash.

(n.) A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.

(n.) Light driven spray.

(n.) A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.

(n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

(a.) High.

(n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.

(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.

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

(v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

(v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

(v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

(v. t.) To reduce; to throw.

(v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.

(v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

(v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

(v. i.) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

(n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.

(n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.

(n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

(n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.

() See Hanse.

() A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.

(a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

(a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

(n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

(v. t.) To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

(n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

(n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

(n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.

(n.) An arm of the sea; a frith.

(a.) Rough; disagreeable; grating

(a.) disagreeable to the touch.

(a.) disagreeable to the taste.

(a.) disagreeable to the ear.

(a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.

(a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

(v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

(v. t.) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

(v. t.) To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.

(v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.

(v. i.) To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.

(n.) The act of hatching.

(n.) Development; disclosure; discovery.

(n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

(n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

(n.) A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

(n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.

(n.) A bedstead.

(n.) An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.

(n.) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

(v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches.

(n.) A vetch.

(n.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.

(n.) The European polecat; also, its fur.

(n.) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

(n.) Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).

(n.) Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.

(n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.

(n.) The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.

(n.) That which is tilled; tillage ground.

(v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

(v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.

(v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

(v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

(v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.

(n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.

(n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.

(n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.

(n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.

(n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.

(n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

(n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.

(n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.

(n.) The popliteal space; the ham.

(pl. ) of Youth

(n.) The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

(n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.

(n.) A young person; especially, a young man.

(n.) Young persons, collectively.

(n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.

(n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

(n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.

(n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.

(n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.

(n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

(n.) The stormy petrel.

(v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

(n.) A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.

(n.) The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.

(n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.

(n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.

(v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

(n.) A thrust or blow.

(n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

(n.) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

(n.) A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

(n.) To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.

(n.) A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.

(n.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.

(n.) A portico; a covered walk.

(v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

(v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

(v. t.) To plait.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.

(v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

(v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

(v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

(v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

(n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

(n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

(n.) Pian; pang.

(n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

(n.) A hunch.

(n.) The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

(n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.

(n.) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

(n.) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.

(n.) That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

(n.) A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

(n.) Righteousness; true religion.

(v. t.) To assert as true; to declare.

(n.) A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.

(n.) An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

(n.) Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.

(n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).

(interj.) An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.

(n.) A hump; a protuberance.

(n.) A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.

(n.) A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

(v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

(v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

(v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.

(n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

(n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.

(n.) The case of a flour bolt.

(n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

(n.) A jig for washing ore.

(v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

(v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

(n.) An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.

(n.) A hangman. See Jack Ketch.

(v. t.) To catch.

(n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

(n.) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch

(n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.

(n.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.

(n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.

(n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

(n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.

(v. t.) To put or take into a pouch.

(v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.

(v. t.) To pout.

(v. t.) To pocket; to put up with.

(v. i.) To thrust; to push.

(v. t.) See Poach, to cook.

(n.) A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.

(n.) An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.

(n.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together.

(v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

(a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

(v. i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.

(v. i.) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

(v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.

(v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

(v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

(v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.

(v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.

(v.) An emotion or affection.

(v.) Personal reference or application.

(v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.

(v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

(v.) Feature; lineament; trait.

(v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.

(v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

(v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.

(v.) A slight and brief essay.

(v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

(v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

(v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

(v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

(n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.

(n.) A boys' game; tag.

(v. t.) To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

(v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.

(v. t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.

(v. t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

(v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.

(v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

(v. t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.

(v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.

(v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

(v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.

(v. t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

(v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.

(v. t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.

(v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

(v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress.

(v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

(v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

(v. i.) To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.

(v. i.) To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.

(v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

(n.) A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

(v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

(n.) An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.

(n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

(v. t.) To leave in the lurch; to cheat.

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

(n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.

(n.) A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

(v. i.) To take luncheon.

(n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

(n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.

(v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.

(v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.

(v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

(v. t.) TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

(n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

(n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.

(n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

(n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

(n.) A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland.

(obs. strong imp.) of Laugh.

(n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.

(n.) See 2d Loch.

(n.) A ledge; a right-angled projection.

(v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

(v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

(v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

(v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.

(v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

(v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

(v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.

(v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

(n.) To trick up in a showy manner.

(n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

(n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

(n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

(n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

(n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.

(a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

(a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.

(n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

(n.) A pool.

(n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.

(n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

(n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

(n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

(n.) The coxa, or femur, of an insect.

(n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

(n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.

(n.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

(n.) The Egyptian sacred baboon.

(n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.

(n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity.

(n.) Human nature

(n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

(n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

(n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.

(n.) Kindred; stock; race.

(n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

(v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.

(v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.

(v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

(n.) A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.

(n.) Alt. of Orache

(n.) See Nouch.

(n.) The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.

(n.) A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

(n.) A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.

(n.) The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

(n.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

(n.) Same as Obi.

(a.) Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man.

(a.) Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.

(a.) A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1.

(pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons.

(pron.) A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.

(n.) The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

(v. & n.) See Leach.

(n.) Strong desire; passion. (Archaic).

(v. t.) To call; to summon.

(v. t.) To call upon to witness; to obtest.

(v. t.) To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.

(v. t.) To back; to support; to confirm; to establish.

(v. t.) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.

(v. i.) To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.

(v. i.) To assert; to aver; to declare.

(n.) Warrant; attestation.

(n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.

(a.) Hateful; odious; disliked.

(a.) Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.

(n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.

(n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

(n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.

(n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

(n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

(n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

(n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

(v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

(v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

(v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

(v. t.) To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.

(v. t.) To accuse of crime; to inform against.

(v. i.) To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

(n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

(n.) The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.

(n.) See Catechu.

(v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.

(v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.

(v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.

(a.) Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts.

(a.) Tender; pitiful; weeping.

(v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.

(a.) Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.

(a.) Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.

(a.) Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.

(a.) Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.

(a.) That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.

(a.) Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.

(a.) Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.

(a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.

(a.) See Wroth.

(v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.

(n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.

(n.) An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;

(n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.

(n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.

(n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.

(n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

(n.) The entrance into a harbor.

(n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

(n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

(n.) Cry; voice.

(n.) Speech; language; testimony.

(n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

(v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

(v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.

(v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.

(v. t.) To make mouths at.

(v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.

(v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.

(v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

(a.) Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.

(n.) Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.

(n.) That which causes merriment.

(v. i.) To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.

(v. i.) To scoff or sneer; to jeer.

(n.) The cry of a horse; a whinny.

(n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture.

(v. t.) To cover or dress with mulch.

(v. t. & i.) To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.

(n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

(n.) See Pitchstone.

(n.) To cover over or smear with pitch.

(n.) Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

(v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

(n.) A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

(n.) Alt. of Pascha

(v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.

(v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.

(v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.

(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.

(v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.

(v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling

(v. t.) To begin and not complete.

(v. i.) To become soft or muddy.

(n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

(v. t.) To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

(v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value.

(v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

(v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

(v. i.) To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

(n.) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

(n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

(n.) A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

(n.) Height; stature.

(n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

(n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

(n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

(n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

(n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.

(n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.

(n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.