(n.) A messenger.

(n.) A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers.

(n.) One of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels.

(n.) A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.

(n.) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.

(n.) An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.

(n.) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

(adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.

(n.) See Annals.

(a.) To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.

(a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority.

(v. t.) To anoint with oil.

(n.) A funeral feast.

(n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

(n.) Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.

(n.) the incus. See Incus.

(v. t.) To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.

(n.) An oily liquid derived from parsley.

(adv.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

(a.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pyre.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church.

() A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.

(n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.

(n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.

(n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

(n.) A rustic; a countryman or laborer.

(n.) A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.

(n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

(a.) Churlish; rough; selfish.

(n.) A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

(n.) A corolla.

(n.) Summons to appear, as before a judge.

(n.) Citation; quotation

(a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.

(a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.

(a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nose.

(a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.

(n.) An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.

(n.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.

(n.) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.

(n.) One of the nasal bones.

(n.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

(n.) Olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.

(v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.

(v. i.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.

(v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.

(v. i.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.

(v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.

(v. i.) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.

(v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.

(v. i.) A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

(a.) Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

(n.) A hole; an aperture.

(n.) A short communication between adits in a mine.

(n.) A long adit in a coalpit.

(v. t.) To cut through; to pierce.

(v. t.) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

(a.) Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.

(n.) The skull.

(n.) A shoal of fish.

(n.) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.

(n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.

(n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.

(n.) The common skua gull.

(v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.

(v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.

(n.) A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.

(n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

(n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

(n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

(n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

(n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.

(a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

(a.) Affected by cold.

(a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

(a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

(v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

(v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

(v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

(v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

(v. t.) To form in or with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.

(a.) Pertaining to natural or positive right.

(a.) Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.

(n.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.

(v. i.) To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul.

(n.) The crying of a cat.

(superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.

(superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.

(superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.

(superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.

(superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.

(adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.

(adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.

(n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.

(n.) Smallclothes.

(n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.

(v. t.) To make little or less.

(n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

(n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.

(v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

(n.) To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

(n.) To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.

(n.) To give heed to.

(v. i.) To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.

(v. i.) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.

(v. i.) To exercise the sense of smell.

(v. i.) To exercise sagacity.

(v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

(v. t.) The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.

(v. t. & i.) To trail; to draggle.

(v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

(v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.

(n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.

(n.) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.

(n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

(n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.

(n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.

(n.) The pod of the sanil clover.

(v. t.) To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

(v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.

(v. t.) To embarrass; to insnare.

(n.) A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.

(v. i.) To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.

(v. i.) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.

(n.) The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.

(a.) Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.

(n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.

(v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

(v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.

(v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.

(n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

(n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

(n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

(n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.

(v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.

(v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

(v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.

(v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

(v. i.) To trickle.

(v. i.) To sow in drills.

(n.) A small trickling stream; a rill.

(n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

(n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

(n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow.

(n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus).

(n.) Same as Drilling.

(v. i.) To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.

(n.) A drudge.

(n.) Mean labor; toil.

(superl.) Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

(n.) One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.

(n.) Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.

(v. i.) To jest; to play the buffoon.

(v. t.) To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.

(v. t.) To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.

(v. i.) A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.

(v. i.) A stable; a place for cattle.

(v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.

(v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

(v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.

(v. i.) In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

(v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.

(v. t.) To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.

(v. t.) To fatten; as, to stall cattle.

(v. t.) To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.

(v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.

(v. t.) To forestall; to anticipitate. Having

(v. t.) To keep close; to keep secret.

(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.

(v. i.) To kennel, as dogs.

(v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.

(v. i.) To be tired of eating, as cattle.

(v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

(n.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.

(n.) Same as Ampulla, 2.

(n.) Alt. of Amzel

(n.) The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

(n.) An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

(a.) Twofold; double.

(n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

(n.) Same as Attle.

(a.) Relating to, or forming, the base.

(n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.

(v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle.

(n.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum).

(n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

(a.) Abounding with snow; snowy.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae.

(n.) The fourth month of the year.

(n.) Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.

(v. i.) To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.

(v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.

(v. t.) To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.

(v. i.) To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.

(n.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).

(n.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.

(n.) A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

(n.) A medusa, or jellyfish.

(n.) An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

(v. i.) To die.

(v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.

(v. t.) To take the life of; to kill.

(v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

(v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul.

(n.) Murder.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

(n.) A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

(n.) Crude tartar. See Argol.

(adv.) A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore.

(n.) Alt. of Argali

(v. t.) To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.

(n.) A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse.

(n.) Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

(n.) Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks.

() Alt. of Ariel gazelle

(n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.

(n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.

(n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

(n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen.

(n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

(n.) The tube of a musical instrument.

(n.) Something having the form of a quill

(n.) The fold or plain of a ruff.

(n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

(n.) A hollow spindle.

(v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.

(v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

(n. & v.) See Querl.

(n.) A bracelet.

(n.) An ancient astronomical instrument.

(a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.

(v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

(v. t.) To promote; to assist.

(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.

(n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

(n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

(v. t. & i.) See Avale, v.

(a.) Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

(a.) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.

(a.) Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.

(a.) Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.

(a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

(a.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.

(n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.

(n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.

(n.) Alt. of Bedell

(n.) A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

(n.) The sign /; the same as B flat.

(v. t.) To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.

(n.) Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

(n.) A secret.

(n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.

(n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.

(v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.

(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.

(n.) A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.

(n.) See Reveal.

(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.

(v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.

(v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.

(v. t.) To draw back; to retract.

(n.) A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicua, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).

(n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted.

(n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

(n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

(a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.

(a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.

(a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

(n.) The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.

(n.) A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck.

(n.) A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

(n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

(a.) Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

(n.) Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

(n.) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.

(n.) See Borrel.

(n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.

(n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

(n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

(n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.

(n.) Offspring.

(v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

(n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

(n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.

(a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

(a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.

(v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

(v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.

(n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

(n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

(n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

(n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

(v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.

(n.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

(v. i.) To quarrel noisily and outrageously.

(v. i.) To complain loudly; to scold.

(v. i.) To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.

(n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.

(n.) See Rigel.

(a.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.

(n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.

(n.) A circle; hence, a diadem.

(n.) Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.

(a.) Alt. of Shorlaceous

(n.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

(n.) A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.

(n.) A seal; a signature.

(n.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

(a.) A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.

(a.) Scabby; scurfy.

(v. i.) To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

(v. t.) To cavil at.

(n.) A captious or frivolous objection.

(n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

(v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

(v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

(v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

(n.) Same as Ousel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.

(a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.

(a.) A pedal curve or surface.

(n.) A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.

(v. i.) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

(v. i.) Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.

(v. t.) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.

(v. t.) To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.

(n.) The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

(n.) Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.

(n.) A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti.

(n. & a.) Same as Borrel.

(n.) A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.

(n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.

(v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.

(v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.

(v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

(v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.

(n.) The hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C6H4, regarded as characteristic of certain compounds of the aromatic series related to toluene; as, tolyl carbinol.

(n.) A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.

(v. t.) A gridiron.

(v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.

(n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.

(n.) To torment, as if by broiling.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.

(v. i.) To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

(v. t.) To express by growling.

(n.) The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.

(n.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.

(n.) The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.

(a. & n.) Tamil.

(n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.

(n.) One of the faces of a hewn stone.

(n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.

(n.) A heap of dressed ore.

(v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.

(v. t.) To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.

(a.) Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value.

(a.) Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task.

(a.) Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement.

(a.) Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just.

(a.) Of the same interest or concern; indifferent.

(a.) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed.

(a.) Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity.

(n.) One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal."

(n.) State of being equal; equality.

(v. t.) To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen/urate with.

(v. t.) To make equal return to; to recompense fully.

(v. t.) To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality.

(n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.

(v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a duke.

(n.) The hooded merganser.

(n.) A leaf or division of the calyx.

(v. i.) To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

(v. i.) to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.

(v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

(v. i.) To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.

(n.) The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

(n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

(n.) Alt. of Caple

(n.) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

(v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.

(v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.

(v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.

(v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

(v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.

(v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.

(n.) A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

(n.) One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.

(a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

(v. t.) To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.

(v. t.) To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.

(v. i.) To be in rivalry.

(v. t.) To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.

(n.) A wrinkle; a rimple.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys.

(v. i.) Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.

(n.) One who rebels.

(v. i.) To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.

(v. i.) To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

(n.) A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

(v. t.) To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

(v. t.) To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.

(v. i.) To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy.

(a.) Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.

(n.) The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.

(n.) A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.

(n.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.

(v. t.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).

(a.) Kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state.

(a.) Noble; generous; magnificent; princely.

(a.) Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal Society.

(n.) Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.

(n.) A small sail immediately above the topgallant sail.

(n.) One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag.

(n.) A small mortar.

(n.) One of the soldiers of the first regiment of foot of the British army, formerly called the Royals, and supposed to be the oldest regular corps in Europe; -- now called the Royal Scots.

(n.) An old English coin. See Rial.

(a.) Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point.

(n.) A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate.

(n.) A round dance.

(n.) A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay.

(n.) A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol.

(n.) Joyful music, as of a song.

(v. t.) To praise or celebrate in song.

(v. t.) To sing, especially with joyful notes.

(v. i.) To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble.

(n.) Alt. of Carrol

(a.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.

(n.) Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.

(n.) An osier basket, such as anglers use.

(n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

(v. t.) To conquer.

(n.) See Crewel.

(a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

(a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

(a.) Curly; curled.

(n.) The heron

(n.) Alt. of Decile

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.

(n.) A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).

(v. t.) To refine by means of a cupel.

(a.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.

(v. i.) To delay; to linger.

(v. i.) To abide; to remain; to continue.

(v. i.) To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.

(v. t.) To inhabit.

() imp. & p. p. of Stay.

(n.) A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.

(a.) Noble.

(n.) A handle, as of a mop; a stale.

(a.) relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.

(a.) Moving in a circular path or way; whirling; gyratory.

(a.) Pertaining to a gyrus, or convolution.

(a.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.

(a.) Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

(n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

(n.) A dead body; carrion.

(n.) That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours.

(a.) Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

(n.) The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

(n.) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.

(v. t.) To beat with a stick.

(n.) A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

(n.) In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.

(n.) That part of a garment which is turned back; specifically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar.

(a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.

(a.) Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.

(prep.) To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.

(prep.) To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month.

(conj.) As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj.

(v. t.) To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

(n. & v.) See Twill.

(v. t.) To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers.

(v. i.) To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.

(n.) The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation.

(n.) A twist; a convolution.

(n.) A vagabond.

(a.) Of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns.

(n.) The ursine seal. See the Note under 1st Seal.

(n.) Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.

(n.) A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

(n.) The suslik.

(n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

(n.) An evil spirit; a demon.

(n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.

(n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.

(n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.

(n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.

(v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

(v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.

(n.) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.

(v. t.) To rend apart.

(n.) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

(n.) Knowledge; understanding.

(n.) The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.

(n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

(n.) Any particular art.

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

(v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.

(v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.

(v. t.& i.) To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.

(n.) A shrill cry or sound.

(n.) A school, company, or shoal.

(n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

(n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.

(n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.

(n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a doge.

(n.) A kind of triangular spade.

(a.) Pertaining to a house.

(a.) Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.

(v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.

(v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

(v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

(n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.

(n.) An instrument or implement made of steel

(n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.

(n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.

(n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.

(n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.

(n.) A chalybeate medicine.

(n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.

(n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.

(n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.

(n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

(v. t.) To place or fix firmly or permanently.

(v. t.) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.

(v. t.) A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.

(n.) The shoulder.

(n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.

(v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.

(v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.

(v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.

(n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.

(n.) Scattered or ejected spittle.

(v. i. & t.) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva.

(adv.) Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.

(adv.) Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.

(adv.) Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.

(adv.) Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.

(adv.) Constant; continual.

(adv.) Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.

(n.) Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.

(n.) A steep hill or ascent.

(a.) To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.

(a.) In the future as now and before.

(a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.

(a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.

(a.) Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.

(a.) After that; after what is stated.

(a.) To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.

(a.) To stop, as noise; to silence.

(a.) To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.

(v.) A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.

(v.) A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.

(v. t.) To cause to fall by drops.

(v. t.) To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.

(v. i.) To drop, or flow in drops; to distill.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal.

(n.) A spelk, or splinter.

(v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.

(n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.

(n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.

(n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.

(n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.

(n.) A story; a tale.

(n.) A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.

(v. t.) To tell; to relate; to teach.

(v. t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

(v. t.) To constitute; to measure.

(v. t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.

(v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.

(v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.

(v. i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.

(n.) A spy; a scout.

(n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

(v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

(n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

(n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

(n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

(n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

(n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

(n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

(n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

(n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.

(v. i. & auxiliary.) To owe; to be under obligation for.

(v. i. & auxiliary.) To be obliged; must.

(v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, "the day shall come when . . . , " since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic "I will go." In a question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course transferred to the person addressed; as, "Shall you go?" (answer, "I shall go"); "Shall he go?" i. e., "Do you require or promise his going?" (answer, "He shall go".) The same relation is transferred to either second or third person in such phrases as "You say, or think, you shall go;" "He says, or thinks, he shall go." After a conditional conjunction (as if, whether) shall is used in all persons to express futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futurity. (Cf. Will, v. t.) Shall may be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted.

(n.) A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.

(v. t.) To wrap in a shawl.

(n.) Same as Sheeling.

(v. t.) To put under a sheal or shelter.

(v. t.) To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.

(n.) A shell or pod.

(n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

(n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.

(n.) A pod.

(n.) The hard covering of an egg.

(n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.

(n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.

(n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.

(n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.

(n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.

(n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.

(n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.

(n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.

(n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.

(n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

(n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.

(v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.

(v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.

(v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.

(v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

(v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.

(v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

(n.) The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.

(n.) A sheeling.

(v. t.) To shell.

(v. t.) To put under cover; to sheal.

(a.) Shrill.

(n.) See Schorl.

(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.

(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.

(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.

(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.

(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.

(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.

(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.

(n.) Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant.

(n.) A gable.

(n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

(n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

(n.) A mason's setting maul.

(n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.

(n.) A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).

(n.) The black currant; also, the wild plum.

(n.) See Gazelle.

(a.) Coupled; paired.

(n.) One of the twins.

(n.) One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a.

(n.) A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.

(a.) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

(a.) Foreboding death or great disaster.

(a.) Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

(v. t.) To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

(n.) A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.

(n.) A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.

(a.) Yellow; fal/ow; dun.

(n.) A horse of a favel or dun color.

(n.) Flattery; cajolery; deceit.

(v. t.) To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

(v. t.) To drive away from one's country; to banish.

(v. t.) To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

(v. t.) To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.

(v. t.) To discharge; to shoot.

(v. t.) To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.

(v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.

() Alt. of Fusel oil

(v. t.) Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.

(v. t.) Running or flowing, as a liquid.

(v. t.) Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.

(n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.

(n.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

(n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

(n.) Nothing.

(n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.

(n.) A ravine. See Gill a woody glen.

(n.) A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp.

(n.) The act of trying or testing in any manner.

(n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.

(n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.

(n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.

(n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.

(n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.

(n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.

(n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.

(n.) A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.

(n.) A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental.

(v. t.) To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

(v. t.) To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

(v. i.) To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

(n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.

(n.) The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.

(n.) A rush for weaving baskets.

(superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.

(superl) Tender.

(superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.

(n.) A vexillum.

() Contraction for we will or we shall.

(a.) Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.

(a.) According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation.

(a.) According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.

(a.) Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets.

(n.) A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.

(n.) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.

(v. i.) To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

(v. t.) To turn round; to twirl.

(v. t.) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.

(v. i.) To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

(n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.

(n.) The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d

(n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.

(n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.

(v. i.) To growl; to snarl.

(n.) a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

(v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

(v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.

(v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.

(v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.

(v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.

(v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.

(v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag.

(v. i.) To take part in trolling a song.

(v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.

(n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition.

(n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.

(n.) A trolley.

(n.) A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.

(n.) A girl; a wench; a lass.

(n.) A person of the Mongolian race.

(n.) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.

(n.) A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.

(v. t.) To honor or reward with a medal.

(a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

(a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.

(a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.

(a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.

(a.) Imaginary.

(n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to the ilium; iliac.

(n.) An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

(v. t.) To remove the oil from.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to Poetry.

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

(n.) Alt. of Yodle

(n.) A country bumpkin.

(n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

(n.) A slender piece of anything.

(n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

(n.) A metallic rod or pin.

(n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.

(n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

(n.) A little sum of money.

(v. t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

(v. t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.

(v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.

(v. t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.

(v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.

(v. t.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.

(v. i.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

(v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

(v. t.) To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

(v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.

(v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.

(v. t.) To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.

(v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.

(v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

(n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

(n.) Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.

(n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.

(n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.

(n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.

(n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

(n.) A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

(v. t.) To bind with a forel.

(n.) To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.

(n.) A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.

(n.) A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.

(n.) A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters.

(v. t.) Same as Hamele.

(a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.

(n.) A division of a perianth.

(a.) Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.

(a.) Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.

(a.) Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.

(n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.

(n.) A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke.

(n.) The tuyere of a furnace.

(a.) Hateful; detestable.

(n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.

(n.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert.

(n.) A miner's name for freestone.

(a.) Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.

(a.) Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.

(n.) The suslik.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones.

(a.) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.

(a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.

(a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.

(a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.

(a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.

(a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.

(a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.

(n.) The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.

(n.) Same as Zorilla.

(a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.

(a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

(n.) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers.

(n.) The brill.

(v. i.) To flow.

(n.) A stream.

(n.) A nugget of virgin metal.

(n.) Ore selected for excellence.

(n.) The button of metal from an assay.

(n.) A pommel.

(n.) A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135/ lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133/ lbs.; in Japan, 133/ lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan.

(n.) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

(n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

(n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

(v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

(n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

(v. t.) To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.

(a.) Pertaining to the inion.

(v. t.) To hunt by the track; to track.

(v. t.) To draw or drag, as along the ground.

(v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.

(v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.

(v. t.) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.

(v. i.) To be drawn out in length; to follow after.

(v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.

(n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.

(n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.

(n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.

(n.) Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.

(n.) Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.

(n.) A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.

(n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.

(n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.

(n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

(n.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

(v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

(v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.

(v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.

(v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.

(v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.

(v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.

(v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.

(v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

(v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.

(v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.

(v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.

(v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.

(v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten.

(v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.

(v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.

(n.) The act of swelling.

(n.) Gradual increase.

(n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.

(n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.

(n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.

(n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

(n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.

(n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.

(n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.

(n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy.

(a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.

(n.) See Grail., a dish.

(v. t.) To wash; to drench.

(n.) To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.

(n.) To inebriate; to fill with drink.

(v. i.) To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.

(n.) The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.

(n.) Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.

(n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

(n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.

(n.) Small particles of earth; gravel.

(n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk.

(n.) One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol.

(n.) A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.

(n.) A stone mason's hammer.

(n.) Alt. of Kevin

(n.) A novelty; a new thing.

(a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.

(v. t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.

(v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

(a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.

(n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

(n.) Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.

(n.) Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

(n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.

(n.) Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

(n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.

(v. t.) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.

(v. t.) To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money.

(v. i.) To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.

(n.) The act of prowling.

(v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

(v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.

(v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.

(v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.

(v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.

(v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.

(v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.

(v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.

(n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.

(n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.

(n.) A mine from which ores are taken.

(a.) Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.

(a.) True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.

(n.) A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.

(n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.

(n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.

(n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

(n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

(n.) Glass in a state of fusion.

(n.) The rails of a railroad.

(v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

(n.) A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond.

(n.) One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel.

(a.) Wasteful; slothful.

(a.) Same as Mesial.

(n.) A leper.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the lores.

(n.) An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.

(n.) A precious stone; a gem.

(n.) An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing.

(n.) A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby.

(v. t.) To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels.

(a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence

(a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.

(a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.

(a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.

(n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.

(n.) One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.

(n.) The floor of a coal mine.

(v. t.) To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.

(a.) Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.

(a.) That which is new or unusual; a novelty.

(a.) News; fresh tidings.

(a.) A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.

(a.) A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.

(n.) Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior.

(n.) A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the Nativity of our Lord; a Christmas carol.

(n.) The core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object.

(n.) The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native.

(a.) Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.

(a.) Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc.

(n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.

(n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.

(n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.

(n.) See Argol.

(n.) A gallery for minstrels.

(n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.

(n.) A bay window. See Bay window.

(v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.

(v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.

(v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.

(v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.

(v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

(n.) Alt. of Wharling

(n.) A pustule; a whelk.

(n.) A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.

(n.) Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.

(n.) A mine.

(n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.

(n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.

(n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.

(n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.

(n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.

(n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.

(n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.

(n.) The burden or refrain of a song.

(n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.

(n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.

(n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.

(v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.

(v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.

(v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.

(v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.

(v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.

(v. i.) To roll forward.

(n.) The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.

(n.) A sterile transformed stamen.

(n. & v.) A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

(n. & v.) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

(n. & v.) The fly of a spindle.

(a.) Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.

(a.) Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.

(a.) Containing life; living.

(a.) Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal.

(a.) Very necessary; highly important; essential.

(a.) Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.

(n.) A vital part; one of the vitals.

(n.) A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.

(n.) A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point.

(n.) An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.

(n.) Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation.

(n.) A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.

(n.) An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.

(n.) A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level.

(n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine.

(a.) Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake.

(a.) Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.

(a.) Even with anything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to.

(a.) Straightforward; direct; clear; open.

(a.) Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.]

(a.) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.

(v. t.) To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden.

(v. t.) To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.

(v. t.) To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.

(v. t.) Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.

(v. t.) To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children.

(v. i.) To be level; to be on a level with, or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit.

(v. i.) To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.

(a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.

(a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.

(n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.

(n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

(n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

(n.) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

(n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.

(n.) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.

(n.) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.

(v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.

(v. t.) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.

(v. i.) To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against.

(n.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.

(n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

(n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.

(n.) A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.

(n.) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.

(n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of octane, and as entering into its derivatives; as, octyl alcohol.

(n.) One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

(n.) A fringe or border.

(v. t. ) To fringe; to border.

(n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.

(n.) Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.

(n.) Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

(n.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

(n.) A light-colored tern.

(n.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

(n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.

(n.) A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

(n.) A size of type, between agate and diamond.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.

(v. t.) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.

(v. t.) To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.

(v. i.) To resemble pearl or pearls.

(v. i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.

(n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

(a.) Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical.

(n.) See Lamella.

(n.) A tassel.

(n.) A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

(n.) A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.

(n.) A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.

(n.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.

(n.) A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.

(n.) The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It always has a /quare form, as in the illustration.

(n.) In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.

(v. t.) To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.

(v. t.) To affix in or on a label.

(n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.

(n.) An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated.

(n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.

(v. t.) To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.

(v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to knell.

(n.) The tolling of a bell; a knell.

(n.) A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

(n.) One who, or that which, is crossgrained.

(v. t.) To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.

(v. i.) To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.

(n.) The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.

(n.) To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.

(v. t.) To summon, as by a knell.

(n.) Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

(v. t.) To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.

(v. i.) To be in danger.

(n.) A morality play. See Morality, 5.

(v. i.) To moralize.

(n.) An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces.

(n.) Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries.

(n.) A kind of cherry. See Morello.

(n. & v.) See Muzzle.

(a.) Relating to a yoke, or to marriage.

(a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.

(v. i.) To cry, as a cat; to waul.

(n.) The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.

(n.) Same as Xylene.

(n.) Any one of three metameric radicals which are characteristic respectively of the three xylenes.

(n.) A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.

(a.) Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice.

(n.) A word; an oral utterance.

(n.) Oral declaration; word of mouth; also, a writing not under seal.

(a.) Given or done by word of mouth; oral; also, given by a writing not under seal; as, parol evidence.

(n.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.

(n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.

(n.) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.

(n.) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.

(n.) A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.

(n.) A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.

(v. t.) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.

(n.) A knot in wood. See Gnarl.

(v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.

(v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.

(v. t.) A fabric women with a twill.

(v. t.) A quill, or spool, for yarn.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.

(n.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.

(n.) A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.

(n.) A person under a guardian; a ward.

(n.) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.