(n.) An old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents.

(n.) The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.

(n.) A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.

(n.) The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.

(n.) A leaf of a book or manuscript.

(n.) A sheet of paper once folded.

(n.) A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

(n.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.

(n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

(n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.

(interj. & n.) See Halloo.

(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.

(n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.

(n.) A donkey.

(n.) A bust; a statue.

(n.) A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians.

(a.) Mean; not extreme.

(n.) A macaw.

(n.) A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.

(n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

(n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.

(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.

(n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.

(n.) A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.

(n.) A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.

(n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.

(a.) The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso.

(a.) One who sings the lowest part.

(a.) The double bass, or contrabasso.

(n.) The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.

(v. t. / i.) To incite dogs by a call; to halloo.

(conj.) Although.

(a.) Containing, or derived from, amidogen.

(n.) Same as Quipu.

(n.) Information; advice.

(n.) An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

(n.) Alt. of Babu

(n.) Alt. of Boldu

(n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

(n.) Grog.

(n.) A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.

(n.) Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.

(n.) A bank, especially that of Venice.

(n.) A small brass Venetian coin.

(a.) A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.

(interj.) Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.

(n.) The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.

(n.) Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.

(n.) The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition.

(adv.) As before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also.

(n.) Gold and silver, or money.

(n.) A large toadfish of the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Batrachus tau, var. pardus).

(n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.

(n.) A contraction for Violoncello.

(n.) A round, convex molding. See Illust. of Column.

(n.masc.) The comic actor in an opera.

(n.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.

(n.) A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.

(n.) The gavial.

() Alt. of Sintoist

(n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.

(interj. & n.) Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.

(interj.) To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello.

(n.) Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.

(n.) A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.

(n.) A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites.

(n.) The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose.

(n.) A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.

(a.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.

(n.) A sloth.

(n.) A kind of clay for making melting pots.

(n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

(n.) The okra plant or its pods.

(n.) The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

(n.) Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea.

(n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

(n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.

(n.) A round-up. See Round-up.

(n.) See Croaker, n., 2. (a).

(n.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.

(n.) See Rondeau, 1.

(n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.

(n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.

(n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.

(n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.

(n.) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

(n.) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

(n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

(n.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to Sargus, Pomadasys, and related genera; -- called also sar, and saragu.

(n.) A cathedral. See Dome, 2.

(n.) The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.

(n.) A writ of right.

(n.) The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso.

(n.) A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.

(n.) Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.

(n.) The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

(n.) A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

(n.) A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.

(n.) A word used as a jocular oath.

(n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs.

(a. & adv.) Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn.

(n.) A movement or piece in largo time.

(n.) A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc.

(n.) A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons.

(v. t.) To catch with a lasso.

(n.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement.

(n.) Nettle rash. See Urticaria.

(n.) A burden in popular songs.

(n.) A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).

(a.) Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.

(adv.) Tolerably; passably.

(n.) Same as Spade, 2.

(n.) An impotent person.

(n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu.

(n.) A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

(n.) A kind of military cap or headdress.

(n.) The duykerbok.

(a.) Dry.

(n.) A point or hit.

(n.) Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.

(n.) A man of a particular turn of mind.

(adv.) In fact; by the act or fact.

(adv.) Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.

(n.) The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.

(v. i.) To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.

(n.) An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.

(n.) See Gumbo.

(n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).

(n.) An Eskimo snow house.

(n.) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.

(n.) An image.

(n.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or combined with, the radical NH, which is called the imido group.

(v. i.) To destroy; to undo; to ruin.

(v. i.) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.

(a.) Thorough.

(n.) The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.

(n.) The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.

(n.) Alt. of Zoccolo

(n.) A contraction of Photograph.

(a.) First; chief.

(a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

(a.) Alt. of Pianoforte

(n.) Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang.

(adv.) Howsoever.

(interj.) See Hollo.

(n.) A shoot or sprout from the ground.

(n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.

(v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.

(n.) A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog.

(n.) The kinkajou.

(n.) A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).

(n.) A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.

(n.) See Manteau.

(n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.

(n.) The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

(n.) A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.

(n.) Alt. of Limbus

(n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

(n.) Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.

(a. & adv.) Slow; in slow time; slowly; -- rarely written lente.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet.

(n.) A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [/] in almanacs.

(n.) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.

(pron.) Whosoever.

(n.) A vista; a prospect.

(n.) Language; speech; dialect.

() A combining form from Gr. li`qos, stone.

(n.) An extensive plain with or without vegetation.

(n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

(v. t.) To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.

(v. t.) To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.

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

(n.) That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; -- the opposite of income.

(n.) A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.

(n.) A bugbear; false terror.

(n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment.

(n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

(n.) Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.

(n.) A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.

(v.) To do wrongly.

(v.) To do wrong to; to illtreat.

(v. i.) To do wrong; to commit a fault.

(n.) A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

(a.) Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

(n.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.

(n.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.

(n.) The breast.

(n.) A pharos; a lighthouse.

(n.) See Faro.

(a.) Crooked; arched; bent.