(v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

(adv. & a.) In a state of gasping.

(adv.) In a heap; huddled together.

(n.) A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.

(n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

(n.) A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.

(v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.

(v. i.) To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.

(v. t.) To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.

(n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.

(n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.

(n.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.

(adv.) Cheaply.

(v. i.) To buy; to bargain.

(v. i.) To chirp, as a young bird.

(v. t.) To give expression to in a chirping tone.

(n.) A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.

(v. i.) To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

(n.) A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.

(n.) The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior).

(v. t.) To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.

(v. t.) To nip; to blast; to blight.

(n.) A reprimand; a rebuke.

(v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.

(v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.

(v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

(v. t.) To let droop or sink.

(n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

(v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

(v. i.) To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.

(v. i.) To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.

(v. i.) To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.

(v. i.) Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.

(v. i.) To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.

(v. i.) To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.

(v. i.) To strike; to beat; to crush.

(v. i.) To strike the foot forcibly downward.

(n.) The act of stamping, as with the foot.

(n.) The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.

(n.) The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.

(n.) that which is marked; a thing stamped.

(v. t.) A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.

(v. t.) An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.

(v. t.) Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.

(v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.

(v. t.) A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.

(v. t.) Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.

(v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.

(v. t.) A half-penny.

(v. t.) Money, esp. paper money.

() imp. of Shape. Shaped.

(n.) Alt. of Shrape

(n.) A bed of oysters or mussels.

(n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.

(n.) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.

(n.) Fig.: The top; the summit.

(v. t.) To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.

(v. t.) To remove the skin of.

(v. t.) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.

(v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.

(n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

(n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

(n.) A steep descent or declivity.

(v. t.) To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.

(n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.

(n.) A scaup duck. See below.

(n.) A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

(n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

(n.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

(n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

(n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

(n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

(n.) To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

(n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

(n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

(v. t.) Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

(v. t.) Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.

(v. t.) The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

(v. t.) Same as Scrap iron, below.

(n.) A small bag; a wallet; a satchel.

(n.) A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.

(n.) A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

(n.) Paper fractional currency.

(v. t.) To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.

(v. t.) To bite into small pieces; to crunch.

(v. i.) To bite or chew impatiently.

(n.) Alt. of Champe

(adv. & a.) In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip.

(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

(n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

(n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

(v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.

(v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

(v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

(v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

(v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

(v. i.) To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.

(v. i.) To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.

(v. i.) To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

(v. i.) To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.

(v. i.) To strike with a long stroke.

(v. i.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.

(v. i.) To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.

(v. i.) To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.

(v. i.) To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.

(v. i.) To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.

(n.) The act of sweeping.

(n.) The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.

(n.) The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.

(n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.

(n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.

(n.) Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.

(n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.

(n.) One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.

(n.) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.

(n.) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.

(n.) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

(n.) The almond furnace.

(n.) A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.

(n.) In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.

(n.) The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.

(n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.

(n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.

(n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.

(n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.

(n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.

(n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

(n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.

(n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.

(n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.

(v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.

(v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.

(v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.

(v. t.) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops.

(v. t.) To dress up; to array; accouter.

(v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.

(v. t.) To divest of clothing; to uncover.

(v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

(v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

(v. t.) To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

(v. t.) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

(v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

(v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

(v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.

(v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

(n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

(n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

(n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.

(n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

(n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.

(v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.

(v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.

(v. t.) to bind together; to unite.

(v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.

(v. t.) To afflict with cramp.

(n.) Knotty; difficult.

(n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

(n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

(n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

(n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

(n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

(n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

(n.) A mollusk. See Clam.

(v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

(v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.

(n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.

(v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.

(n.) The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.

(n.) See Clamp.

(n.) The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

(n.) An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

(n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.

(n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.

(v. t.) To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.

(v. i.) To tread clumsily; to clamp.

(v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.

(v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

(v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.

(v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

(v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

(v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.

(v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.

(v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

(n.) The act or process of creeping.

(n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.

(n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.

(v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.

(v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.

(v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.

(v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.

(a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

(a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

(n.) A coal broker.

(n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

(n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

(n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.

(n.) A game at cards.

(adv.) Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

(adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.

(adv.) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

(n.) The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.

(n.) An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.

(a.) Crooked; bent.

(a.) Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.

(v. t.) To impede or bar by estoppel.

(v. t.) To rip; to cut open.

(n.) The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa.

(v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.

(v. i.) To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.

(n.) Alt. of Syrup

(n.) A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.

(n.) A thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated.

(n.) A blow; a smart stroke.

(n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.

(v. t.) To strike; to slap.

(n.) A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.

(v. t.) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

(v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.

(v. i.) To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.

(a.) Scanty.

() imp. of Sleep. Slept.

(v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.

(v. i.) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

(v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.

(v. i.) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.

(v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.

(v. t.) To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.

(v. i.) A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

(n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

(v. t.) To lump; to throw into a mess.

(v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.

(n.) A boggy place.

(n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

(a.) Bright; glittering; fiery.

(v. t.) To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.

(v. i.) To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.

(n.) Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.

(n.) A rennet bag.

(v. t.) Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.

(v. t.) Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.

(v. t.) Excessive; as, a steep price.

(n.) A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.

(n.) Stock; race; family.

(v. i.) To stamp with the foot.

(n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.

(n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

(n.) A post fixed in the earth.

(v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.

(v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

(v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

(v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

(v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.

(v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.

(v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

(v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.

(v. t.) To degrade.

(n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

(n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

(n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

(superl.) Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.

(superl.) Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded; somewhat pointed or edged; peaked or ridged; as, a sharp hill; sharp features.

(superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash.

(superl.) High in pitch; acute; as, a sharp note or tone.

(superl.) Raised a semitone in pitch; as, C sharp (C/), which is a half step, or semitone, higher than C.

(superl.) So high as to be out of tune, or above true pitch; as, the tone is sharp; that instrument is sharp. Opposed in all these senses to flat.

(superl.) Very trying to the feelings; piercing; keen; severe; painful; distressing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air.

(superl.) Cutting in language or import; biting; sarcastic; cruel; harsh; rigorous; severe; as, a sharp rebuke.

(superl.) Of keen perception; quick to discern or distinguish; having nice discrimination; acute; penetrating; sagacious; clever; as, a sharp eye; sharp sight, hearing, or judgment.

(superl.) Eager in pursuit; keen in quest; impatient for gratification; keen; as, a sharp appetite.

(superl.) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.

(superl.) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact in dealing; shrewd; as, a sharp dealer; a sharp customer.

(superl.) Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty; as, sharp sand.

(superl.) Steep; precipitous; abrupt; as, a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve.

(superl.) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone, without voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f; surd; nonvocal; aspirated.

(adv.) To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.

(adv.) Precisely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp.

(n.) A sharp tool or weapon.

(n.) The character [/] used to indicate that the note before which it is placed is to be raised a half step, or semitone, in pitch.

(n.) A sharp tone or note.

(n.) A portion of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.

(n.) A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.

(n.) Same as Middlings, 1.

(n.) An expert.

(v. t.) To sharpen.

(v. t.) To raise above the proper pitch; to elevate the tone of; especially, to raise a half step, or semitone, above the natural tone.

(v. i.) To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

(v. i.) To sing above the proper pitch.

(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

(n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow.

(n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

(n.) A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.

(n.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup.

(v. t.) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.

(n.) A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.

(n.) A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.

(n.) A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.

(v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

(v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

(v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

(v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

(n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

(n.) A trough for washing ore.

(n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

(n.) A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.

(v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.

(n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

(n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

(n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.

(n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.

(n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

(n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.

(n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

(v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

(v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.

(v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus.

(v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.

(n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.

(n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.

(v. i.) To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

(v. i.) To manifest sullenness; to sulk.

(n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

(n.) Alt. of Trompe

(n.) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

(n.) Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.

(n.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.

(n.) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.

(n.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

(v. i.) To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.

(v. i.) To march on; to go forward in haste.

(n.) A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.

(v. i.) To blow a trumpet.

(n.) A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.

(n.) An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.

(n.) A good fellow; an excellent person.

(v. i.) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.

(v. t.) To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.

(v. t.) To trick, or impose on; to deceive.

(v. t.) To impose unfairly; to palm off.

(n.) Ill luck; misfortune.

(v. t.) To unfold.

(n.) A rich goblet, esp. one used on state occasions.

(n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

(n.) One of the Anthozoa.

(n.) Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.

(a.) To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with up.

(n.) Sunrise.

(n.) Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.

(n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.

(n.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.

(v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.

(v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep.

(n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.

(n.) A dungfork.

(v. t.) To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

(v. t.) To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.

(v. i.) To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.

(n.) A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.

(n.) Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.

(n.) Forcible possession; hold.

(n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.

(n.) The handle of a sword or of an oar.

(a.) Alt. of Syrupy

(v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

(v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.

(v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

(v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.

(n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.

(n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.

(n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.

(n.) A tool for trimming hedges.

(n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

(v. t.) To remove a cap or cover from.

(n.) Alt. of Poulpe

(n.) Alt. of Thorpe

(n.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.

(n.) A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder.

(n.) See Whaap.

(n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.

(n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.

(n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.

(n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.

(v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.

(v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.

(n.) See Wisp.

(n.) A flock of snipe.

(n.) The hoopoe.

(v. i.) To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl.

(v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

(v. t.) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

(n.) A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl.

(n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

(n.) Same as Knop,2.

(n.) A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs

(n.) a sweet, demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle.

(n.) A beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep.

(adv.) Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.

(n.) A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.

(a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.

(a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

(a.) To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.

(v. t.) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.

(v. t.) To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.

(a. & v.) Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.