(n.) An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.

(v. t.) To adorn.

(n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.

(n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.

(n.) The language of the original Aryans.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ash tree.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

(n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic.

(n.) An Asiatic.

(a.) Belonging to bees.

(n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

(n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.

(n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).

(n.) Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland.

(v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

(v. t.) To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.

(v. t.) To shake or agitate with violence.

(v. i.) To perform the operation of churning.

(n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

(v. t.) See Cozen.

(n.) An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.

(n.) Same as Olein.

() p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

(a.) Flushed, inflated.

(p. p.) of Fly

(n.) An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

(n.) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

(n.) See Paeon.

(n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable.

(n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.

(n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.

(n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.

(n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.

(n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

(n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]

(n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.

(n.) Alt. of Juppon

(n.) Morning.

(n.) Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.

(n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.

(pl. ) of Dozen

(n.) A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

(n.) An indefinite small number.

(v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

(v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.

(v. t.) To filter.

(v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.

(v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

(n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.

(n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

(n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.

(p. p.) of Draw

(p. p. & a.) See Draw, v. t. & i.

(n.) A toll. See Soc, n., 2.

(n.) A district held by socage.

(n.) A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6.

(n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to Solen or allied genera of the family Solenidae; a razor shell.

(n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.

(n.) The European starling.

(n.) A ruby.

(v. t.) Alt. of Astone

(n.) The olecranon, or the elbow.

(n.) Alt. of Ancone

(n.) A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

(n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.

(n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.

(n.) The aurochs or European bison.

(n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

(n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.

(n.) A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

(n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

(n.) The quantity contained in a basin.

(n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

(n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

(n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

(n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

(n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

(n.) A basin.

(n.) A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin.

(n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.

(n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.

(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

(v. t.) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

(v. t.) To form in line; to fall into line.

(n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

(n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;

(n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.

(n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.

(n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.

(n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.

(n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

(n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

(n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.

(n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.

(n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

(n.) A German.

(adj.) German.

(adj.) The German language.

(adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande.

(n.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

(n.) A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.

(n.) A low woman; a wench; a slut.

(n.) The wife of a king.

(n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.

(n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.

(n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps.

(n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.

(n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.

(n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.

(v. i.) To act the part of a queen.

(v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.

(n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

(n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.

(n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.

(v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

(v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

(n.) A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness.

(n.) Same as Ambo.

(a. & n.) See Aryan.

(a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings.

(n.) One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius.

(n.) Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

(n.) A wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material, used for various purposes

(n.) to support and steady a stone.

(n.) To support the breech of a cannon.

(n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.

(n.) To prevent casks from rolling.

(n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

(n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.

(n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

(n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.

(n.) Impure limestone.

(a.) Of or instrument to birds.

(p. p.) of Blow

(p. p.) of Blow

(p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

(p. p. & a.) Stale; worthless.

(p. p. & a.) Out of breath; tired; exhausted.

(p. p. & a.) Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.

(p. p. & a.) Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.

(v. t.) To warn.

(pl. ) of Axman

(n.) One who wields an ax.

(n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

(imp. & p. p.) of Begin

() of Begin

(v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

(v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.

(v. t.) To enter on; to commence.

(v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.

(n.) Beginning.

() p. p. of Begin.

(n.) Alt. of Behn

(n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

(n.) A child.

() p. p. of Bake.

(n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.

(n.) A small room; an inclosed place.

(n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers.

(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.

(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

(n.) Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

(n.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.

(n.) The cud of a ruminant.

(n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

(n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.

(n.) A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

(n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.

(n.) A law or rule.

(n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.

(n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.

(n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

(n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

(n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

(n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

(n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

(n.) See Carom.

(n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

(n.) The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

(v.) Alt. of Bourne

(n.) Alt. of Bourne

(a.) Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).

(n.) See Boatswain.

(n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

(n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

(n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.

(n.) The affections; fancy; imagination.

(v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

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

(v. t.) To win again, or win back.

(n.) A muscle; flesh.

(n.) Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.

(n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

(n.) A boar.

(n.) Chrysophanic acid.

(n.) Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

(n.) The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion.

(n.) The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.

(n.) To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.

(n.) Hence, to be predominant; to prevail.

(n.) To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.

() imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride.

(n.) See Rattan.

(pl. ) of Shoe

(n.) pl. of Shoe.

() p. p. of Shear.

(p. p.) of Show

() p. p. of Show.

(n.) See Koran. R () R, the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, and 250-254.

(n.) Alt. of Savine

(n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.

(n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

(n.) The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.

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

(a.) Anglo-Saxon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

(n.) A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.

(n.) A kind of wig.

(n.) A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

(n.) To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.

(n.) To trim up, as trees.

(n.) Dung.

(superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

(n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

(v. t.) To make brown or dusky.

(v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

(v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

(v. i.) To become brown.

(n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.

(n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.

(n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.

(n.) A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol.

(n.) A variety of the mineral allanite.

(n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

(n.) An act or expression of extreme contempt.

(n.) An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.

(n.) To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

(n.) To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

(v. i.) To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.

(a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

(n.) A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.

(n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.

(n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.

(n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.

(n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.

(n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

(n.) The warp threads of a web.

(v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.

(v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.

(v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.

(v. t.) To measure with the chain.

(v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

(n.) A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.

(a.) Titanic.

(v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

(n.) Adornment.

(a.) Adorned; decorated.

(adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.

(prep.) Down.

(n.) Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.

(n.) A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir.

(n.) Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc.

(n.) A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.

(n.) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.

(n.) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

(n.) A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.

(n.) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

(n.) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.

(n.) To betoken.

(n.) A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.

(superl.) Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.

(superl.) Having a sickly color; wan.

(superl.) Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.

(superl.) Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

(superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

(superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

(superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

(superl.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

(superl.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

(superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement.

(superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.

(superl.) Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

(adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.

(adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

(a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

(superl.) Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.

(superl.) Not roasted; half raw.

(superl.) Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.

(superl.) Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.

(n.) The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

(n.) A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.

(n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.

(n.) Any substance or pigment of a green color.

(v. t.) To make green.

(v. i.) To become or grow green.

() p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken.

(v. i.) To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.

(v. i.) To strive after earnestly, as with groans.

(v. t.) To affect by groans.

(n.) A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans.

(n.) The snout of a swine.

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

(n.) See Tarn.

() p. p. of Take.

(n.) The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.

(n.) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.

(n.) The surface formed by two such vaults.

(n.) A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.

(v. t.) To fashion into groins; to build with groins.

(n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.

(n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

(n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.

(n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

(p. p.) of Grow

() p. p. of Grow.

(n.) A servant.

(n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.

(n.) The siskin.

(p. p.) of Swear

(v. i.) See Spoom.

(n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

(n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

(n.) Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.

(v. t.) To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

(v. i.) To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

(v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

(v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

(v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

(v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

(n.) An Armenian.

(v. t.) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

(v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

(v. i.) To kick or toss up the heels.

(v. i.) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

(n.) A kick; a blow with the foot.

(n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.

(n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

(n.) The seed of plants.

(n.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power.

(n.) A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.

(n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.

(n.) One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.

(v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

(v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.

(n.) A small rat.

(v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

(v. i.) To approach or come to perfection.

(v. t.) To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.

(v. t.) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.

(p. p.) of Rise

(n.) A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.

(a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.

(n.) Rapine; rapacity.

(n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

(v. t.) To obtain or seize by violence.

(v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.

(v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

(a.) Ravenous.

(n.) Alt. of Ravine

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

() p. p. & a. from Rise.

(p. p. & a.) Obs. imp. pl. of Rise.

() of Rive

() p. p. & a. from Rive.

(n.) Ray; beam.

(n.) A small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.

(n.) An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.

(n.) Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (Petroica mullticolor).

(n.) Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See Indian robin, below.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.

(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.

(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.

(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.

(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.

(prep.) and adv. Above.

(a.) Consisting of roses; rosy.

(n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.

(v. t.) To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.

(n.) Rowan tree.

(n.) A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.

(n.) The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath.

(n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

(n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.

() p. p. of Nim.

(n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.

(v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of.

(n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

(n.) The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, / cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns.

(n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.

(n.) A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.

(n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.

(n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.

(n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.

(v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.

(n.) A fat, liquid at ordinary temperatures, but solidifying at temperatures below 0¡ C., found abundantly in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms (see Palmitin). It dissolves solid fats, especially at 30-40¡ C. Chemically, olein is a glyceride of oleic acid; and, as three molecules of the acid are united to one molecule of glyceryl to form the fat, it is technically known as triolein. It is also called elain.

(n.) A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.

(n.) Alt. of Seroon

(n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.

(a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.

(v. t.) Same as Darn.

(v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.

(v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.

(v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.

(v. t.) To soothe by singing softly.

(n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur.

(n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

() of Crow

() p. p. of Crow.

(n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.

(n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

(n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.

(n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.

(n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.

(n.) Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.

(n.) The topmost part of anything; the summit.

(n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.

(n.) The part of a hat above the brim.

(n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

(n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

(n.) Same as Corona.

(n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

(n.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

(n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.

(n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

(n.) The dome of a furnace.

(n.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

(n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

(n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

(n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

(n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.

(n.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.

(n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

(n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

(n.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

(n.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Cuba.

(a.) One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week.

(n.) The number greater by one than six; seven units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing seven units, as 7, or vii.

(n.) A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway.

(a.) Old; ancient; as, the olden time.

(v. i.) To grow old; to age.

(adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.

(a.) Frequent; common; repeated.

(v. t.) To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

(v. t.) To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.

(v. t.) To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.

(v. t.) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

(v. i.) To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.

(n.) A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.

(n.) A natural spot of a color different from the gound.

(n.) Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.

(n.) Cause of reproach; shame.

(n.) A tincture; a tinge.

(n.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

(v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.

(v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.

(v. t.) To dissemble; to conceal.

(a.) A person who has committed a felony.

(a.) A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.

(a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.

(a.) Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.

(a.) Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle.

(n.) A spinning wheel.

(n.) The sheriff's turn, or court.

(n.) Alt. of Toxine

(pl. ) of Hose

(n. pl.) See Hose.

(n.) The monitor. See Monitor, 3.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.

(n.) The language of the ancient Romans.

(n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin.

(n.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.

(v. t.) To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.

(n.) Alt. of Latoun

() of Wax

(a.) Made of wax.

(a.) Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.

(a.) Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.

(v. t.) To deprive of sinfulness, as a sin; to make sinless.

(v. t.) To shut up or inclose, as in a pen.

(a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

(v. i.) To run up; to ascend.

(n.) Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Japan, or to the lacquered work of that country; as, Japan ware.

(v. t.) To cover with a coat of hard, brilliant varnish, in the manner of the Japanese; to lacquer.

(v. t.) To give a glossy black to, as shoes.

(n.) The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.

(a.) Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.

(a.) Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.

(n.) The Canada porcupine. See Porcupine.

(n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

(n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

(n.) See Acorn-shell.

(n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.

(n.) An enticing, dangerous woman.

(n.) Something which is insidious or deceptive.

(n.) A mermaid.

(n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.

(n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.

(n.) The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

(n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

(n.) A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.

(n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.

(n.) A chief officer of state.

(n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.

(n.) A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.

(n.) A coffee and smoking saloon.

(n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.]

(n.) A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.

(n.) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

(n.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).

(v. t.) To dress; to attire.

(v. t.) To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.

(p. p.) of Slay

(n.) The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.

(n.) A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple.

(n. & v.) See Steen.

(n.) A vessel of clay or stone.

(n.) A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.

(v. t.) To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.

(n. & v.) See Steen.

(n.) The black tern.

(superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

(v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.

(v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.

(v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.

(v. t.) The hinder part of anything.

(v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.

(a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

(v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

(v. t.) To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.

(v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.

(v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.

(v. t.) The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.

(v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.

(v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

(v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

(n.) A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.

(n.) Same as Sewen.

(n.) The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

(v. t.) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.

(v. t.) To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.

(v. i.) To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.

() of Shear

(v. t.) Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.

(v. i.) To shine; to glisten.

(n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter.

() The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.

(n.) A slip or piece.

(n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

() p. p. of Shew.

(n.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.

(n.) One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.

(n.) An evil spirit; a devil.

(n.) A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.

(p. p.) of Nim

(n.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

(a.) Relating to elves.

(n.) A little elf or urchin.

(v. i.) To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.

(v. i.) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.

(v. t.) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.

(n.) A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.

(n.) Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

(v. t.) See Eloign.

(n.) A shoemaker's awl.

(a.) Pertaining to elves; elvish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.

(n.) Alt. of Elvanite

(pl. ) of Ey

(n. pl.) See Ey, an egg.

(n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.

(a.) Made of wood; wooden.

(a.) Relating to, or drawn from, trees.

() pl. of Tree.

(n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

(n.) A freight car on a railway.

(n.) A chariot

(n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.

(v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

(v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

(n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.

(v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

(v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.

(v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.

(p. p.) of Weave

(p. p.) of Eat

(v. t.) To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.

(v. t.) To communicate knowledge to; to teach.

(v. i.) To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.

(n.) Alt. of Lebban

(n.) Alt. of Ledden

(p. p.) of Give

() p. p. & a. from Give, v.

(v.) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.

(v.) Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given.

(adv.) Stated; fixed; as, in a given time.

(n.) See Sty, a boil.

(v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.

(v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

(v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.

(v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.

(v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.

(n.) A collection made by gleaning.

(n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.

(v. i.) To glisten; to gleam.

(n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.

(n.) A fragrant kind of green tea.

(n.) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

(n.) Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

(n.) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.

(n.) A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

(n.) A large, fine pearl.

(n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

(n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

(n.) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.

(v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the iris.

(v. t.) To put under a ban.

(v. t.) To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.

(v. t.) To emasculate; to deprive of virility.

(v. t.) To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.

(v. t.) To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.

(v. t.) To release from a pen or from confinement.

(v. t.) To loose from pins; to remove the pins from; to unfasten; as, to unpin a frock; to unpin a frame.

(v. t.) To pain; to grieve; to vex.

(v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

(v. i. & t.) To curdle, as milk.

(v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.

(p. p.) Given.

(n.) A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five.

(n.) A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

(adv.) Hence.

(pl. ) of Herdswoman

(n.) Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Incas.

(n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.

(v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.

(n.) Thane. See Thane.

(n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.

(n.) A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum.

(v. t.) To shelter, as in a haven.

(n.) A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.

(n.) Same as Yaupon.

(n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.

(n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.

() pl. pres. of Wit.

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

(a.) Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.

(n.) The weasand.

(n.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

(pl. ) of Woman

() p. p. of Heave.

(a.) Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.

(n.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull.

(a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.

(n.) A human being.

(v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.

(v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

(v. t.) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.

(v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.

(v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.

(v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.

(v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.

(v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.

(v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.

(v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.

(v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.

(v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.

(v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.

(v.) The tail of a bird.

(v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.

(v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.

(v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.

(v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.

(v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.

(v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.

(v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.

(v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.

(n.) The daisy, or mountain daisy.

(n.) Decomposed granite.

() Contraction of Swollen, p. p.

(v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.

(n.) A fainting fit; syncope.

(v. & n.) See Groan.

(n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

(n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.

(n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.

(n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.

(n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.

(n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.

(n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.

(n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.

(n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

(n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

(n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.

(a.) Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

(a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.

(v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.

(v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.

(v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).

(n.) To yield fruit.

(n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

(n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.

(n.) A tine, prong, or fork.

(n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.

(n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.

(n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc.

(n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.

() p. p. of Swear.

(adv.) In return, back; as, bring us word again.

(adv.) Another time; once more; anew.

(adv.) Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again.

(adv.) In any other place.

(adv.) On the other hand.

(adv.) Moreover; besides; further.

(prep.) Alt. of Agains

(adv. & a.) In the act of grinning.

(n.) See Siren.

(n.) A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.

(n.) A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane.

(n.) A fabulous deity; according to some, the son of Apollo and Urania, according to others, of Bacchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities.

(n.) Marriage; union as if by marriage.

(n.) The gazelle.

(v. t.) To name; to mention; to utter.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.

(n.) Alt. of Powen

(n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.

(n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.

(n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.

(v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.

(n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.

(n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.

(n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.

(n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

(v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

(v. t.) To please; -- chiefly used impersonally.

(n.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.

(obs. strong p. p.) of Lose.

(n.) The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

(a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.

(a.) To make or cause to be like.

(n.) A rocking or balanced stone.

() p. p. of Flay.

() of Heave

(n.) Ebony.

(n.) A sort of flat custard or pie.

(n.) A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

(n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

(n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.

(n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.

(v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn.

(n.) See Juglone.

(n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.

(n.) A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye.

(a.) Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks.

(n.) A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.

(n.) The orpine.

(a.) Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe.

(a.) Made of oatmeal; as, oaten cakes.

(n.) A quantity; a goodly number.

(n.) A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.

(n.) A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.

(n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.

(n.) The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree.

(v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.

(v. i.) To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

(n.) The mink.

(n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.

(n.) Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.

(n.) Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.

(n.) Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.

(n.) Lightning.

(n.) A female fox.

(n.) A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.

(n.) Lightning.

(v. t.) To enliven.

(n.) Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy.

(n.) The language of the Osci.

(n.) A plate.

(n.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover.

(n.) Alt. of Patine

(n.) The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.

(n.) One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

(n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.

(n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.

(n.) See Pavan.

(n.) See Pavan.

(n. & a.) Pagan.

(n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

(n.) A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.

(superl.) Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.

(superl.) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.

(superl.) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.

(superl.) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank.

(superl.) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food.

(superl.) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman.

(superl.) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.

(superl.) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.

(adv.) In a plain manner; plainly.

(a.) Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.

(a.) A field of battle.

(v.) To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.

(v.) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

(v. i.) To lament; to bewail; to complain.

(v. t.) To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.

(superl.) Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.

(superl.) Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

(n.) One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.

(n.) One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers.

(n.) A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.

(n.) See Ladykin.

(p. & a.) Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

(n.) A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.

(n. & v.) See Ligan.

(p. p.) of Know.

(n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.

(n.) The gazelle.

(n.) See Koulan.

(p. p.) of Know

(n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

(n.) The female part of the human race; womankind.

(n.) A female attendant or servant.

(v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.

(v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish.

(v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

(n.) pl. of Woman.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted from fustic (Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid.

(n.) A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.

() p. p. of Weave.

(v. i.) To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.

(v. i.) To wear the customary garb of a mourner.

(v. t.) To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.

(v. t.) To utter in a mournful manner or voice.

(n.) A large Asiatic antelope (Budorcas taxicolor) native of the higher parts of the Himalayas and other lofty mountains. Its head and neck resemble those of the ox, and its tail is like that of the goat. Called also budorcas.

(n.) Same as Yaupon.

(n.) See Mucedin.

(n.) An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.

(n.) A compost heap; a dunghill.

(n.) See Fisher, 2.

(n.) The gemsbok.

(n.) The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.

(n.) The sea otter.

(n.) A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.