(n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

(n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

(n.) The chancel.

(n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.

(n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

(n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.

(v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.

(v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

(n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

(n.) A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8/ imperial gallons.

(n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.

(n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.

(n.) An ask; a water newt.

(v. t. & i.) To impair or become impaired; to injure.

(a.) Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.

(n.) The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r.

(n.) A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.

(n.) One who, or that which, aids.

(n.) One who aims, directs, or points.

(n.) One who exposes to the air.

(n.) A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

(a.) Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all.

(n.) A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.

(n.) A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

(n.) A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.

(n.) A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

(n.) Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

(n.) Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

(n.) A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

(n.) A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.

(a.) Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.

(v. t.) To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.

(v. t.) To fold or inclose in paper.

(v. t.) To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

(n.) That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.

(n.) The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

(n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.

(n.) One who cites.

(n.) See Cigar.

(n.) One who frees, or sets free.

(n.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.

(n.) One who gathers eggs; an eggler.

(v. t.) One who eggs or incites.

(n.) Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species.

(i.) To run out or forth; to extend.

(n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

(n.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.

(n.) An American fish; the silversides.

(a.) Older; more aged, or existing longer.

(a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.

(a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.

(a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

(a.) A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.

(a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.

(n.) One who fries.

(n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

(n.) A fluid state.

(n.) Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses.

(n.) See Fluorite.

(n.) One that uses wings.

(n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.

(n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.

(n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.

(n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

(n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

(n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.

(n.) One who names, or calls by name.

(n.) One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.

(n.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

(n.) See 1st Char.

(n.) One who buys; a purchaser.

(n.) The face; the countenance or its expression.

(n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.

(n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.

(n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

(n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.

(v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.

(v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.

(v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.

(v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind.

(v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.

(n.) The armpit; also, the arm.

(n.) Tanner's ooze. See Ooze, 3.

(v. i.) One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n.

(n.) One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.

(n.) See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

(n.) See Mohr.

(n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia.

(n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.

(n.) One who dines.

(n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

(n.) The property with which a woman is endowed

(n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.

(n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband.

(n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

(n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.

(n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.

(n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.

(n.) One who dozes or drowses.

(a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

(n.) Sadness; dismalness.

(v. i.) To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.

(v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.

(v. i.) To show mirth awkwardly.

(v. t.) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.

(v. t.) To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.

(n.) The act of sneering.

(n.) A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.

(n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

(n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.

(superl.) Alt. of Driest

(a.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.

(a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.

(a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.

(a.) Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.

(n.) Alt. of Solere

(n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

(n.) One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.

(n.) The common American black snake.

(n.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.

(n.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

(n.) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.

(adv. & a.) Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.

(prep. & adv.) Near.

(v. t. & i.) To near; to approach.

(n.) A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

(n.) Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore.

(n.) One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.

(n.) One who cheats; a sharper.

(n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

(n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.

(n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

(n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.

(v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

(v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

(v. t.) To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.

(v. t.) To fill with horror or disgust.

(v. t.) To protest against; to reject solemnly.

(v. i.) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with

(n.) Cold; chilliness.

(a.) Same as Alder, of all.

(n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.

(n.) A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

(n.) An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

(n.) A mandrel in lathe turning.

(n.) Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

(n.) Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.

(n.) Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim.

(n.) A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.

(n.) In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.

(a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.

(a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.

(n.) Counterfeit money.

(v. t. & i.) To raise; to set up; to stir up.

(adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.

(v. t.) To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

(v. t.) To agitate; to affect mentally.

(v. t.) To geld.

(v. i.) To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.

(v. t.) To bear; to behave.

(v. t.) To put up with; to endure.

(v. i.) To wander; to stray.

(n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

(n.) Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

(n.) Ambergris.

(n.) The balsam, liquidambar.

(a.) Consisting of amber; made of amber.

(a.) Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.

(v. t.) To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

(v. t.) To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.

(n.) Alt. of Amir

(n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

(n.) Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.

(n.) Love; affection.

(n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

(n.) One who, or that which, rakes

(n.) A person who uses a rake.

(n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.

(n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.

(n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.

(v.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.

(v.) Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.

(v. t.) To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.

(n.) In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

(n.) A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.

(n.) A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects.

(n.) A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

(v. i.) One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

(v. i.) A portable oven in which baking is done.

(v. t.) To carry or send back.

(v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

(v. t.) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

(v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.

(v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.

(v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

(n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

(n.) See Cadre.

(n.) One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.

(n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).

(n.) A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.

(n.) A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.

(n.) A prolonged, indistinct noise.

(v. t.) To report by rumor; to tell.

(n.) A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.

(n.) A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider.

(n.) A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.

(n.) Alt. of Sabre

(v. t.) Alt. of Sabre

(v. i.) To clip with scissors.

(n.) That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

(n.) The lowest point; the time of greatest depression.

(n.) One that bores; an instrument for boring.

(n.) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.

(n.) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

(n.) One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.

(n.) The hagfish (Myxine).

(v. & n.) One who bows or bends.

(n.) A light repast between meals; a lunch.

(v. i.) To take a light repast between meals.

(v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.

(n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.

(n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.

(n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.

(n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

(v. t.) To embower; to inclose.

(v. i.) To lodge.

(n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

(n.) One who packs boxes.

(n.) One who boxes; a pugilist.

(n.) Alt. of Boyard

(n.) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

(n.) One who, or that which, rides.

(n.) Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.

(n.) One who breaks or manages a horse.

(n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.

(n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.

(n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

(n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

(n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.

(n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

(n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.

(n.) A robber.

(n.) Rigidity; stiffness.

(n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.

(n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

(n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.

(n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.

(n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

(n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.

(n.) One who rates or estimates.

(n.) One who rates or scolds.

(n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.

(n.) Violence; force; fury.

(n.) A rhymer; a versifier.

(n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

(n.) One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.

(n.) A strong drink; cider.

(a.) Sure; certain; trusty.

(adv.) Surely; certainly.

(n.) Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.

(n.) Alt. of Sikerness

(v. t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

(n.) A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.

(n.) One who saves.

(a.) That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.

(a.) Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.

(a.) Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.

(a.) Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.

(n.) To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.

(n.) To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.

(n.) To use the sense of taste.

(v. t.) To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.

(v. t.) To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.

(v. t.) To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.

(n.) One who saws; a sawyer.

(n.) One who says; an utterer.

(n.) Alt. of Briar

(n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

(n.) Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

(n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.

(n.) A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.

(v. t.) To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.

(v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse.

(v. t.) To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away.

(v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.

(v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing.

(v. i.) To cleanse anything.

(v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.

(v. i.) To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.

(n.) Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.

(n.) A movable single seat with a back.

(n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

(n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

(n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

(n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

(v. t.) To place in a chair.

(v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

(n.) A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).

(n.) Same as Nacre.

(n.) A kind of kettledrum.

(n.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven.

(n.) A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.

(v. t.) To mark with tiver.

(n.) Scorn; derision; abusive talk.

(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

(n.) See Hoemother.

(n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.

(n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.

(n.) A serpent.

(n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

(n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

(n.) Same as Sea Adder.

(n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

(v. t.) To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.

(v. t.) To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.

(v. t.) To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.

(v. t.) To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.

(v. t.) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

(v. t.) To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

(v. t.) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

(v. t.) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.

(v. t.) To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4.

(v. t.) To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.

(v. t.) To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

(v. t.) To initiate; to introduce favorably.

(v. i.) To go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.

(v. i.) To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.

(v. i.) To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into.

(n.) One who tames or subdues.

(n.) A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

(n.) A kind of sirup made by the Indians of Arizona from the fruit of some cactaceous plant (probably the Cereus giganteus).

(n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.

(n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.

(a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.

(v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.

(v. t.) To make or cause to taper.

(n.) Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.

(v. i.) To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc.

(v. i.) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.

(v. i.) To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.

(v. t.) To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.

(v. t.) To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.

(v. t.) To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend.

(v. t.) To appeal to by an oath.

(a.) Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin.

(n.) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.

(n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.

(v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.

(n.) See Drier.

(n.) A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

(n.) A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.

(n.) A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.

(n.) A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.

(n.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.

(n.) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.

(n.) The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error.

(n.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

(n.) A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.

(v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

(v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.

(v. t.) To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.

(v. t.) To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.

(v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.

(v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.

(v. t.) To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.

(v. t.) To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.

(v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on.

(v. t.) To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.

(n.) Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.

(n.) Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.

(n.) Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.

(n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.

(n.) The lap of a slide valve.

(n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.

(v. i.) To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.

(v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.

(v. t.) To cherish with care.

(superl.) Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.

(superl.) Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.

(superl.) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.

(superl.) Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.

(superl.) Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.

(v. t.) To make sober.

(v. i.) To become sober; -- often with down.

(v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

(n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.

(n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer.

(n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

(n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.

(a.) comp. of Able.

(a.) superl. of Able.

(n.) One who raves.

(n.) One who rises; as, an early riser.

(n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread.

(n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.

(n.) A shaft excavated from below upward.

(n.) A feed head. See under Feed, n.

(n.) One who rives or splits.

(n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

(n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.

(v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

(v. t.) A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head.

(v. t.) A tusk of a wild boar.

(n.) A maker of ropes.

(n.) One who ropes goods; a packer.

(n.) One fit to be hanged.

(n.) A rosier; a rosebush.

(v. i.) One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.

(v. i.) One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.

(v. i.) Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.

(v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.

(v. i.) Casual marks at uncertain distances.

(v. i.) A sort of arrow.

(n.) One who rows with an oar.

(v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.

(v. i.) To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.

(v. i.) To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.

(n.) One who deals in oils.

(n.) One who, or that which, oils.

(n.) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.

(n.) The peregrine falcon.

(n.) A small piece of artillery.

(superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

(superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.

(superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.

(superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.

(superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.

(superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.

(superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.

(superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.

(superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.

(superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.

(superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.

(n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

(adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.

(adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.

(v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.

(v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

(v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.

(v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.

(v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.

(v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.

(v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.

(v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net.

(v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.

(v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.

(v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.

(v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.

(n.) Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste.

(n.) Same as Brier.

(n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.

(n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.

(n.) The orang-outang.

(n.) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

(n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.

(n.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.

(n.) The four of cards or dice.

(v. t.) To cut diagonally.

(n.) Alt. of Ombre

(n.) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

(n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.

(n.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.

(n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.

(n.) That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.

(n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.

(n.) A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).

(n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.

(v. t.) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.

(v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.

(v. t.) To hide.

(v. i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

(n.) Alt. of Esker

(n.) See Eschar.

(n.) One who dupes another.

(n.) One who dares or defies.

(n.) One who dates.

(n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation.

(n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.

(v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.

(n.) The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

(v. t.) To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.

(adv.) Compar. of Oft.

(n.) One who ogles.

(n.) An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.

(n.) A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

(n.) Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.

(n.) A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.

(n.) One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

(n.) A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.

(a.) Sharp; sour; acid.

(a.) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

(a.) Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.

(a.) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

(n.) Same as Eagre.

(n.) Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.

(v. t.) To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage.

(v. t.) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.

(v. t.) To attempt; to undertake.

(v. t.) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.

(v. t.) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.

(v. i.) To present itself; to be at hand.

(v. i.) To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; -- used with at.

(v. t.) The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance.

(v. t.) That which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid.

(v. t.) Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball.

(n.) One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

(n.) One who taxes.

(n.) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.

(n.) Same as Taxer, n., 2.

(n.) The thigh bone.

(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

(n.) One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.

(n.) Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.

(n.) That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.

(n.) A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege.

(n.) That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank.

(n.) Fame; reputation; credit.

(n.) A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors.

(n.) A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation.

(n.) A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor. See Note under Honorable.

(n.) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.

(n.) Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.

(n.) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors.

(n.) To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.

(n.) To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility.

(n.) To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange.

(n.) One who hopes.

(n.) The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.

(n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

(n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.

(n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

(n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

(n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

(n.) High flight; elevation.

(v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

(v. t.) To soar into.

(v. t.) To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

(v. t.) To offer, as violence.

(v. t.) To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

(v. t.) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.

(v. t.) To show; to manifest; to prove.

(n.) One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

(n.) A mace bearer; an officer of a court.

(n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.

(n.) A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.

(n.) Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.

(n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.

(n.) Wind; flatulence.

(n.) Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.

(n.) An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues.

(n.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.

(n.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.

(n.) To emit vapor or fumes.

(n.) To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.

(v. t.) To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.

(n.) A brick or tile.

(a.) Compar. of Late, a. & adv.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.

(a.) Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q.

(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.

(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.

(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.

(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.

(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.

(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."

(v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.

(v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.

(v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.

(n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.

(v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.

(v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.

(v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

(v. i.) To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.

(v.) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

(n.) A vessel for washing; a large basin.

(n.) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.

(n.) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

(n.) That which washes or cleanses.

(n.) One who laves; a washer.

(n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.

(n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.

(n.) A treasurer; a keeper.

(n.) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

(n.) A private or public teacher.

(n.) An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.

(n.) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.

(v. t.) To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.

(v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.

(v. t.) To fasten with a bar.

(v. t.) To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under.

(n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split.

(n.) A sharpshooter. See Yager.

(n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua).

(comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.

(n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

(n.) A jester; a buffoon.

(n.) One who urges.

(n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.

(n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

(v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.

(a.) Outer.

(a.) Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.

(a.) Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness.

(a.) Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial.

(a.) To put forth or out; to reach out.

(a.) To dispose of in trade; to sell or vend.

(a.) hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes.

(a.) To give public expression to; to disclose; to publish; to speak; to pronounce.

(n.) An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.

(n.) One who gapes.

(n.) A European fish. See 4th Comber.

(n.) A large edible clam (Schizothaerus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.

(n.) An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.

(n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.

(v. i.) To simmer.

(n.) One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.

(n.) See Sizar.

(n.) An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.

(n.) An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.

(n.) One who, or that which, dives.

(n.) Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.

(n.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.

(v. t.) To ramble over in order to clear; to scour.

(v. i.) To scour; to scud; to run.

(n.) A tern.

(n.) A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.

(n.) A slayer.

(n.) Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

(n.) One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.

(n.) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee.

(n.) A ditcher.

(n.) One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.

(n.) One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.

(n.) One excessively fond, or weak in love.

(n.) A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.

(n.) Alt. of Nitre

(a.) A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

(v. t.) To castrate; -- said of male calves.

(n.) To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.

(v. i.) To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.

(v. i.) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.

(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.

(v. t.) A rudder or helm.

(n.) A helmsman, a pilot.

(n.) In India, a mounted soldier.

(n.) One who, or that which, sows.

(n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.

(n.) Fig.: A spearman.

(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.

(n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

(n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.

(n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.

(v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.

(v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.

(n.) A sphere.

(v. t.) To ask.

(v. i.) To ask. See Spere.

(v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.

(v. t.) To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.

(v. t.) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.

(v. i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.

(v. i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

(n.) One who sews, or stitches.

(n.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)

(n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

(n.) Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.

(n.) One who cures; a healer; a physician.

(n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

(v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

(v. i.) To put off; to delay to act; to wait.

(v. t.) To render or offer.

(v. t.) To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.

(v. i.) To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.

(n.) See Cider.

(n.) A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.

(v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

(v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.

(v. t.) To reap, as grain.

(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

(v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

(v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.

(v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

(v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.

(v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.

(v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.

(v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

(v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.

(v. t.) To shear.

(v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.

(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

(n.) A turn or change in a course.

(n.) Shears See Shear.

(n.) Alt. of Dakir

(n.) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.

(n.) See Dammar.

(v. i.) To linger; to stay; to tarry.

(v. i.) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.

(v. i.) To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to that statement.

(v. i.) To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.

(v. t.) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about.

(v. t.) To cause delay to; to put off.

(v. i.) Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.

(n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging.

(n.) Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking.

(n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.

(a.) Tall; strong; stern.

(n.) One who gazes.

(n.) Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

(n.) The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.

(n.) A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.

(n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

(n.) The object of regard; person or thing favored.

(n.) A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.

(n.) Appearance; look; countenance; face.

(n.) Partiality; bias.

(n.) A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

(n.) Love locks.

(n.) To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.

(n.) To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.

(n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.

(n.) A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.

(v. t.) To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.

(v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

(n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.

(a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

(n.) One that fumes.

(n.) One who makes or uses perfumes.

(n.) Same as Emir.

(n.) An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.

(n.) A measurer. See Gauger.

(n.) Father.

(n.) One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.

(n.) One who takes notice.

(n.) An annotator.

(n.) One of the Monera.

(n.) One who utters gibes.

(v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

(v. t.) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.

(v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.

(v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.

(v. i.) To make a bet; to lay a wager.

(n.) Value; worth.

(n.) Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity.

(n.) A brave man; a man of valor.

(n.) One who wakes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.

(a.) Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth.

(n.) Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.

(n.) A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21.

(n.) One who, or that which, lays.

(n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.

(n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

(n.) An artificial oyster bed.

(n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.

(n.) The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp/re.

(n.) One who, or that which, eats.

(n.) An adder or serpent.

(n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

(v. t.) To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge.

(n.) A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.

(n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.

(n.) One who vexes or troubles.

(n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.

(n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

(n.) One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.

(n.) One who tries judicially.

(n.) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.

(n.) That which tries or approves; a test.

(n.) One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.

(a.) The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

(a.) Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.

(a.) A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

(v. t.) To smear with the white of an egg.

(n.) Same as Trier, 2 and 3.

(n.) One who cements with glue.

(n.) One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

(n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.

(n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

(n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

(n.) A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

(n.) By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.

(n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

(v. i.) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.

(v. t.) To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.

(v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.

(n.) A Hebrew measure. See Homer.

(n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

(n.) A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.

(n.) One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

(n.) One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch.

(n.) An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.

(n.) An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe.

(n.) One who makes jokes or jests.

(n.) See Rest bower, under 2d Bower.

(n.) Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).

(n.) Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/).

(n.) One who hews.

(n.) One who hides or conceals.

(n.) A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

(n.) Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

(n.) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

(n.) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.

(n.) A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

(n.) A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.

(n.) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.

(n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

(n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

(n.) Stamp; character; nature.

(n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

(n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.

(n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

(n.) A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.

(n.) One who holds a feu.

(n.) A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.

(n.) Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.

(v. t.) To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.

(n.) Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness.

(n.) Alt. of Fibre

(n.) One who plays on a fife.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.

(n.) One who works with a file.

(n.) One who fines or purifies.

(n.) One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.

(n.) One who hates.

(pron. & a.) The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country.

(n.) A possessor; a holder.

(n.) The oat; oats.

(v. i.) To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter.

(a.) Belonging to the hilum.

(n.) One who hires.

(n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

(n.) One who collects bees into a hive.

(v. t.) To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure/ penalty, responsibility, etc.

(v. t.) To render liable or subject to; to occasion.

(v. i.) To pass; to enter.

(n.) One who, or that which, wipes.

(n.) Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.

(n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.

(n.) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.

(n.) A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.

(n.) An Asiatic burrowing rodent (Siphneus aspalax) resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.

(n.) A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.

(n.) Alt. of Wivern

(n.) One who pukes, vomits.

(n.) That which causes vomiting.

(n.) One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive.

(a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.

(a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.

(n.) One who places things in a pile.

(n.) One who pores.

(n.) A cover; a shelter; a protection.

(v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.

(v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.

(n.) One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type.

(n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.

(n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle.

(n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle.

(n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth.

(n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.

(n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.

(n.) One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.

(n.) a gutter.

(a.) Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life.

(a.) Hinder; nearer the rear.

(a.) To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.

(prep.) Behind in place; as, men in line one after another.

(prep.) Below in rank; next to in order.

(prep.) Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause.

(prep.) Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful.

(prep.) Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.

(prep.) Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of.

(prep.) Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

(prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father.

(prep.) According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind.

(prep.) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.

(adv.) Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after.

(n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.

(a.) Alt. of Aller

(v. i.) Same as Tabor.

(n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.

(v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum.

(v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently.

(v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor.

(n.) Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

(n.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.

(n.) State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.

(n.) Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.

(n.) That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

(v. t.) To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

(v. t.) To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

(a.) Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena.

(a.) Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.

(v. t.) To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate.

(n.) One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.

(n.) See Pepper.

(n.) One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.

(n.) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.

(n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.

(n.) See Kaiser.

(v. t. &) i. To cover.

(n.) A mother.

(n.) The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.

(v. t.) To moderate.

(n.) One who muses.

(adv.) Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.

(adv.) In no degree; not in the least; not.

(n.) One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.

(v. t.) To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.

(prep.) Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house.

(prep.) Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.

(prep.) Denoting relation to something that exceeds in rank or degree, in number, size, weight, age, or the like; in a relation of the less to the greater, of inferiority, or of falling short.

(prep.) Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep.

(a.) Lower in position, intensity, rank, or degree; subject; subordinate; -- generally in composition with a noun, and written with or without the hyphen; as, an undercurrent; undertone; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff.

(prep.) Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or the like; as, a bill under discussion.

(adv.) In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; -- used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail.

(n.) One who plays on a lute.

(n.) One who applies lute.

(n.) One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

(n.) An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

(n.) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

(n.) Alt. of Metre

(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.

(a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.

(a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.

(a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.

(n.) A lunar distance.

(n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.

(a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.

(v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.

(v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

(v. i.) To frown; to look sullen.

(n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.

(n.) A frowning; sullenness.

(a.) Compar. of Low, a.

(a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.

(a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.

(a.) To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.

(a.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.

(a.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.

(n.) One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

(n.) A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.

(n.) One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.

(n.) Alt. of Lovery

(n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.

(n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.

(n.) One who loses.

(n.) One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes.

(n.) A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the strands.

(n.) A limehound; a limmer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

(n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.

(v. t. & i.) See Fleer.

(n.) One who flees.

() To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.

() To grin with an air of civility; to leer.

(v. t.) To mock; to flout at.

(n.) A word or look of derision or mockery.

(n.) A grin of civility; a leer.

(n.) One who takes a side.

(n.) Cider.

(v.) One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.

(v.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).

(n.) See Flyer, n., 5.

(n.) See Flyer, n., 4.

(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.

(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

(n.) A story of a building. See Story.

(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members.

(n.) The right to speak.

(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.

(v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

(v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.

(v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.

(n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

(v. t.) To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with flour.

(n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

(n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.

(n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.

(n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.

(n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.

(n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.

(n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.

(n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.

(n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.

(n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.

(n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.

(n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.

(n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.

(n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.

(n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.

(n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.

(n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.

(n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.

(n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.

(n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.

(n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

(v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.

(n.) An abalone.

(adv.) a contraction of Never.

(n.) Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

(n.) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.

(n.) Strength; efficacy; potency.

(v. t.) To invigorate.

(n.) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.

(n.) A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government.

(n.) A ledger.

(a.) Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.

(a.) Light; slender; slim; trivial.

(n.) A vinedresser.

(n.) One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

(a.) Any one of numerous species of Old World venomous makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidae.

(a.) A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.

(n.) A person affected with leprosy.

(n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

(n.) A mask used to disfigure or disguise.

(n.) The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

(n.) One who lines, as, a liner of shoes.

(n.) A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.

(n.) A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.

(n.) A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.

(n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.

(n.) A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground.

(a.) More agreeable; more pleasing.

(adv.) Rather.

(n.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.

(n.) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.

(n.) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.

(n.) See Vizier.

(n.) See Visor.

(n.) A husband's brother; -- used in reference to levirate marriages.

(n.) The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.

(n.) Alt. of Litre

(n.) One who, or that which, lives.

(n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

(n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.

(n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

(n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.

(n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.

(n.) The pygostyle.

(n.) One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.

(n.) One who makes a vow.

(n.) Malignity.

(n.) One who, or that which, wades.

(n.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.

(n.) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.

(n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.

(v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

(a.) Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

(a.) Of greater dignity; more important.

(a.) Of full legal age.

(a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.

(a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

(a.) A person of full age.

(a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].

(a.) A mayor.

(n.) One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.

(n.) The person who makes a promissory note.

(n.) One who writes verses; a poet.

(n.) A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.

(n.) One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.

(a.) Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.

(v. i.) To meet; to clash.

(v. i.) To go in order to meet; to make reply.

(v. i.) To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs.

(v. i.) To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.

(n.) Alt. of Ochre

(n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement.

(conj.) Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).

(pron. & a.) Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.

(pron. & a.) Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.

(pron. & a.) Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.

(pron. & a.) Left, as opposed to right.

(adv.) Otherwise.

(n.) One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

(n.) See Attar.

(n.) Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia.

(n.) The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines.

(n.) A corruption of Annotto.

(n.) See Payer.

(a.) Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world.

(n.) The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye.

(n.) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.

(v.) One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession.

(n.) A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues.

(n.) Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

(v. t.) To ulcerate.

(n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

(n.) An umbrere.

(n.) See Grayling, 1.

(n.) An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.

(a.) Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.

(v. t.) To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

(n.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.

(n.) One of the breasts of a woman.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.

(n.) See 2d Tiler.

(n.) Lager beer.

(n.) Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.

(n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.

(n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

(n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

(n.) Any pang or distress.

(n.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

(n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.

(n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.

(n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

(n.) To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.

(n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.

(n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

(v. t.) To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.

(v. t.) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.

(v. t.) To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.

(v. t.) To belabor; to beat.

(v. t.) One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.

(v. t.) One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.

(n.) One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.

(n.) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

(n.) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).

(n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.

(n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.

(n.) Alt. of Motorial

(n.) A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.

(a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

(a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.

(n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.

(n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

(n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

(n.) A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.

(n.) A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.

(n.) One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.

(n.) A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.

(n.) One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

(n.) In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army.

(n.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

(n.) Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.

(n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.

(n.) A despicable person; a wretch.

(n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.

(n.) A kind of large earth auger.

(n.) Same as Moodir.

(n.) Alt. of Mitre

(v. t.) Alt. of Mitre

(v. i.) Alt. of Mitre

(n.) One who, or that which, mixes.

(n.) One who, or that which, plies

(n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.

(n.) See Pliers.

(n.) See Petard.

(n.) A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,

(v. i.) To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out.

(n.) A member of a jury; a juryman.

(n.) A member of any jury for awarding prizes, etc.

(n.) One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs.

(n.) One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia.

(n.) One who pokes.

(n.) That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.

(n.) A poking-stick.

(n.) The poachard.

(n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.

(n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed.

(a.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates.

(n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree.

(n.) One who poles.

(n.) An extortioner. See Poller.

(v. t.) To cover.

(n.) A cover.