(adv. & a.) In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.

(n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.

(n.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

(n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

(n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

(n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.

(n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

(n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.

(v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

(v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

(v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

(n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

(n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

(n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

(n.) Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.

(n.) A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.

(n.) The back.

(n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.

(n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

(n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

(n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

(n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.

(v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.

(v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.

(v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.

(v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.

(v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.

(v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.

(n.) A melody; a song.

(n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.

(n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.

(n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

(n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.

(n.) To make music upon; to tune.

(n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.

(n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

(n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.

(n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.

(v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.

(v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.

(v. i.) To make a musical sound.

(n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

(a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.

(a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

(v. i.) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.

(n.) Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

(n.) Miasma.

(n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

(n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.

(n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.

(n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.

(v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.

(n.) Gold.

(n.) The title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad, in India, since 1719.

(n.) Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).

(n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

(n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.

(n.) Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.

(n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.

(n.) A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).

(adv.) On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

(n.) A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

(n.) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.

(n.) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.

(n.) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.

(n.) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

(n.) A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

(n.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

(v. i.) To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

(v. i.) To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.

(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

(v. t.) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

(n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

(n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

(a.) A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

(a.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

(v. t.) To make dim; to obscure or darken.

(v. t.) To adorn with gems, or as with gems.

(n.) In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

(v. t.) To beat or bang.

(v. t.) To take away.

(v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

(v./.) To proclaim.

(v./.) To call or name.

(v./.) To assert; to maintain.

(v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

(n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

(n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.

(n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

(n.) A loud call.

(n.) A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys.

(v. t.) To sweep, as with a besom.

(n.) The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

(n.) The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.

(n.) Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.

(n.) Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.

(n.) The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.

(n.) Inclination; desire.

(n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bosom.

(a.) Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.

(v. t.) To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

(v. t.) To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

(n.) A bigamist.

(n.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.

(n.) A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.

(v. t.) To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.

(n.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.

(n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

(v. t.) See Bream.

(n.) A buffoon.

(n.) A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt.

(n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.

(n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Inermous

(n.) A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

(n.) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.

(n.) A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom.

(v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

(v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

(n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.

(n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.

(n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.

(v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.

(v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.

(v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.

(v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).

(v. i.) To breed multitudes.

(v. t.) To crowd or throng.

(v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.

(v. t.) To dash down; to beat.

(v. i.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.

(n.) An abyss; a gulf.

(n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

(n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.

(n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

(n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.

(n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.

(v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

(v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of.

(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream.

(v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

(n.) A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.

(n.) Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.

(n.) The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.

(n.) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

(v. i.) To make a carom.

(n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

(n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.

(n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.

(v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

(n.) The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc.

(n.) A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum.

(n.) Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.

(n.) A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc.

(v. t.) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

(n.) See Tucum.

(n.) A wise man; a physician, esp. a Mohammedan.

(n.) A Mohammedan title for a ruler; a judge.

(n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.

(n.) An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.

(n.) The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.

(n.) See Alarum, and Alarm.

(n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.

(n.) See Veil, n., 3 (b).

(n.) A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).

(n.) A veil-like organ or part.

(n.) The circular membrane that partially incloses the space beneath the umbrella of hydroid medusae.

(n.) A delicate funnel-like membrane around the flagellum of certain Infusoria. See Illust. a of Protozoa.

(n.) Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.

(n.) Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.

(n.) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

(n.) The religion of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islamism. Their formula of faith is: There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.

(n.) The whole body of Mohammedans, or the countries which they occupy.

(n.) A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

(n.) See Didymium.

(n.) Slumber.

(n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.

(n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.

(n.) Any exhalation.

(v. i.) To emit steam or vapor.

(v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.

(v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam.

(v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.

(v. t.) To exhale.

(v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

(n. & v.) See Esteem.

(n. & v.) See 1st and 2nd Stem.

(v. i.) To gleam.

(n.) A gleam of light; flame.

(v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.

(v. t.) A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.

(a.) Enormous.

(n.) The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.

(n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.

(n.) A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

(n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.

(n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.

(n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.

(n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.

(v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

(v. i.) To raise a tempest.

(v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.

(v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

(n.) The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.

(v. t. & i.) To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

(n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide.

(n.) A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

(n.) A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.

(n.) Same as Wegotism.

(n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

(v. i.) To grope with the hands, as in the dark.

(v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

(n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.

(n.) Brightness; splendor.

(v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.

(v. t.) To shine; to cast light; to glitter.

(v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).

(v. i.) To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

(v. i.) To be sullen or morose.

(n.) The twilight; gloaming.

(n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

(n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

(n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

(n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

(v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

(v. i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

(v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

(v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

(n.) The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

(n.) An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author.

(n.) Dialect; a variant form of a language.

(n.) The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.

(n.) The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.

(n.) See Ilium.

(n.) The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate.

(n.) Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

(n.) A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.

(n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

(n.) See Jorum.

(n.) A large drinking vessel; also, its contents.

(n.) A white or buff-colored granular powder, C6H9N11, obtained by heating ammonium sulphocyanate.

(n.) The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.

(n.) Spermaceti.

(n.) The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

(n.) The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.

(n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.

(n.) A part of a harness; a hame.

(n.) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

(n.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.

(n.) A fine, strong fiber obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum vulgare), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.; also, the plant yielding this fiber. Called also tecum, and tecum fiber.

(v. t.) To disarm.

(v. i.) To puff off, or lay down, one's arms or armor.

(v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction.

(n.) Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude.

(v. t.) To preface.

(n.) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.

(n.) Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

(v. t.) To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.

(n.) A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.

(n.) A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.

(n.) Same as Plasma.

(n.) An evil. See Mala.

(n.) A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.

(n.) A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound.

(n.) A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.

(n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.

(n.) The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.

(v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.

(v. t.) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).

(n.) See Odeon.

(n.) Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

(n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.

(n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.

(n.) Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.

(n.) The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.

(n.) A small fish; a minnow.

(n.) A little man or being; a dwarf.

(n.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

(n.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.

(n.) A short poetical encomium.

(a.) Minute.

(n.) A small kind of printing type; minion.

(n.) A minim.

(n.) One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.

(n.) A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.

(n.) That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloem.

(n.) Alt. of Phasma