(n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

(n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

(n.) The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.

(n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.

(v. t.) To furnish with an arras.

(n. pl.) Antae. See Anta.

(n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column.

(n.) That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice.

(n.) That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.

(n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis.

(pl. ) of As

(n.) A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

(n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

(n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay.

(n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.

(pl. ) of Agio

(n.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

(n.) Agnus Dei.

(pl. ) of Apode

(pl. ) of Pyla

(n.) See Copse.

(n. sing. & pl.) The human body, whether living or dead.

(n. sing. & pl.) A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.

(n. sing. & pl.) A body or code of laws.

(n. sing. & pl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.

(pl. ) of Seed

(n.) The south wind.

(n.) A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

(pl. ) of Fly

(n.) A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

(n.) A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.

(n.) A central point; a point of concentration.

(v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.

(n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.

(n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.

(n. collect. & pl.) The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.

(n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

(n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

(n.) Same as Alpaca.

(n.) An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.

(n.) An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

(n.) The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

(n.) Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

(n. pl.) The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.

(n.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).

(n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

(n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.

(n.) A simpleton; a gull; a dupe.

(n.) A ship's carpenter.

(n.) The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

(v. t.) To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

(v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.

(v. t.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

(v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.

(v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.

(v. t.) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.

(v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

(v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!

(v. i.) To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.

(n.) That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.

(n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.

(n.) Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.

(n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

(fem. a.) Alt. of Sola

(n.) A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

(n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.

(n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.

(pl. ) of Basis

(n.) The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

(n.) The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.

(n.) The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.

(n.) The principal component part of a thing.

(pl. ) of Bath

(n.) A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash.

(adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

(adv.) At another time.

(n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

(n.) Another name; an assumed name.

(n.) A box; a pyx.

(n.) A pyxidium.

(n.) The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2. Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Ph/nician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.

(n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

(n.) In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.

(n.) Same as Apse.

(n.) The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

(pl. ) of Aloe

(n.) A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.

(n.) A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

(v. t.) To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

(n.) A mass; a heap.

(pl. ) of Ambo

(n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

(n.) One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful.

(n.) A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.

(n.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

(n.) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

(n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.

(n.) A battering-ram.

(n. pl.) An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain.

(adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.

(a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

(n.) A fault, wrong, or mistake.

(interj.) See the Note under Quit, a.

(n. pl.) The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.

(v. t.) To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

(v. t.) To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.

(v. t.) To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.

(v. t.) To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.

(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).

(v. t.) To guard; to keep; to protect.

(v. t.) To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.

(v. t.) To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.

(v. t.) To wave; to brandish.

(n.) Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.

(n.) A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

(n.) A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

(n. pl.) Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

(a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

(n.) A liquor made of rum and molasses.

(n. sing. & pl.) A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

(n.) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

(n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

(n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.

(n.) A kind of coarse serge.

(n.) A light, loose dress or robe.

(n.) See Camis.

(pl. ) of Canis

(n.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.

(n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.

(n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

(n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

(n.) A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

(n. pl.) Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.

(n. pl.) See Bowl, a ball, a game.

(pl. ) of Box

(n. pl.) See Bots.

(n.) An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.

(n.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.

(n.) Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.

(n.) Impudence; a brazen face.

(n.) Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.

(n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.

(n.) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

(pl. ) of Rex

(n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.

(n.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.

(n. pl.) The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.

(n. pl.) The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.

(pl. ) of Shoe

(n. pl.) A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.

(n.) Press; throng.

(n.) See Apsis.

(n. sing. & pl.) Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.

(n. sing. & pl.) The dross of metals.

(n.) The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.

(n.) The first discovered asteroid.

(n.) A genus of small schizopod shrimps found both in fresh and salt water; the opossum shrimps. One species inhabits the Great Lakes of North America, and is largely eaten by the whitefish. The marine species form part of the food of right whales.

(n. pl.) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.

(n. pl.) The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church.

(n. pl.) The hour of dinner; the noonday meal.

(n.) Tophus.

(n.) Tufa. See under Tufa, and Toph.

(pl. ) of Toga

(n. pl.) An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.

(n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.

(pl. ) of Gree

(adv.) By day, or every day; in the daytime.

(pl. ) of Sofa

(superl.) Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

(superl.) Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.

(superl.) Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.

(superl.) Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.

(superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.

(superl.) Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

(superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.

(a.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.

(sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.

(n.) The astragalus.

(n.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.

(n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.

(n.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

(n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.

(n.) The cloth itself; tammy.

(n.) Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.

(v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry.

(v. t.) To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

(v. t.) To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.

(v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.

(v. t.) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

(v. t.) To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.

(v. i.) To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.

(n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.

(pl. ) of Gula

(n.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.

(n. pl.) Groatts.

(a.) Thick; crowded; compact; dense.

(n.) A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.

(n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.

(n.) Rust of metals.

(n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.

(n.) A dryad.

(n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.

(n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.

(n.) The center of an escutcheon.

(n.) A gambling game with dice.

(a.) Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.

(pl. ) of Saga

(n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.

(n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.

(v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus.

(n. pl.) Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

(v. t.) Variant of Clasp

(pl. ) of Carp

(n.) A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.

(n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

(n. pl.) Same as Sacs.

(n.) An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.

(n.) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

(pl. ) of Spy

(n. pl.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.

(n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

(n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

(pl. ) of Area

(n.) See Cross, n.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.

(pl. ) of Cry

(v. t.) Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out.

(v. t.) Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.

(n. pl.) dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.

(n.) A corruption of the word faith.

(n.) A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

(n.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.

(n.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.

(n.) The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.

(n. pl.) The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

(n.) The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.

(n.) A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.

(n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.

(n.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.

(n.) See 3d Tore, 2.

(n. pl.) Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.

(n.) The European throstle or song thrush (Turdus musicus).

(n.) A slattern; a mawk.

(n.) A stone.

(n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.

(n. pl.) See 4th Ware.

(pl. ) of Lar

(n. pl.) See 1st Lar.

(pl. ) of Lath

(n. pl.) See Wends.

(n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.

(n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.

(n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.

(n.) A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha.

(pl. ) of Ivy

(n.) A privy.

(n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace.

(n.) A genus of Carnivora including the common bears.

(pl. ) of Gas

(pl. ) of Sinus

(n.) An opening; a hollow; a bending.

(n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.

(n.) A cavity; a depression.

(n.) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.

(n.) A dilated vessel or canal.

(n.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.

(n.) A depression between adjoining lobes.

(n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.

(n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.

(n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

(n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.

(n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.

(n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.

(n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.

(n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.

(n.) Church lands.

(n.) A line drawn across or through another line.

(n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.

(n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

(n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.

(a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.

(a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.

(a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.

(a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.

(prep.) Athwart; across.

(v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.

(v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.

(v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.

(v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.

(v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.

(v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.

(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.

(v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.

(v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.

(v. i.) To lie or be athwart.

(v. i.) To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.

(v. i.) To be inconsistent.

(v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.

(n.) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts.

(n.) The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

(pl. ) of Sky

(pl. ) of Slav

(pl. ) of Dido

(n.) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa.

(n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.

(n.) Milk sickness.

(n. pl.) Half-roasted ore.

(n.) A striving; an effort; a conatus.

(n.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.

(n.) Source. See Source.

(n.) A goddess.

(n.) See Dermis.

(n.) A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.

(pl. ) of Dago

(n.) A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

(pl. ) of Pupa

(n. pl.) Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.

(n.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

(pl. ) of Tray

(n. pl.) See Trais.

(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.

(n.) See Gonys.

(n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

(n.) A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila.

(n.) The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

(pl. ) of Elf

(n.) A genus of fishes. See Saury.

(n.) A mythical serpent.

(n.) A student of the first year.

(n.) A paint; a dye; also, false show.

(n.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

(n.) A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.

(pl. ) of Emyd

(n.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.

(n.) The god of mockery and censure.

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

(n.) A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

(n.) Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

(n. pl.) Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.

(n.) The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.

(a.) Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.

(n.) The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.

(n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.

(n. pl.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.

(n. pl.) Brow; ridge.

(n. pl.) Eyelids or eyelashes.

(n.) The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.

(n.) The east wind.

(pl. ) of Edda

(pl. ) of Fowl

(pl. ) of Fox

(n. pl.) See Fox, n., 7.

(n. pl.) A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.

(n.) Fetters.

(pl. ) of Sty

(n.) The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.

(n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.

(n.) Goiter.

(n.) A pessary.

(v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.

(v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

(v. t.) Anything made of glass.

(v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.

(v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.

(v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

(v. t.) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.

(v. t.) A weatherglass; a barometer.

(v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) To case in glass.

(v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

(v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

(n. pl.) The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.

(n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.

(n.) A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

(n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

(n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

(n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

(n.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.

(n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.

(n.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

(n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

(n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

(n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.

(n.) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.

(n.) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.

(n.) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.

(n.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.

(n.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

(pl. ) of Idea

(n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region now included in the State of Iowa.

(a.) Irascible; passionate.

(n.) An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke.

(n.) The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship.

(a.) Treacherous; betraying.

(n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.

(pl. ) of Solo

(n.) Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

(n.) A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.

(v. t.) To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.

(n.) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.

(n.) An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.

(n.) A false or specious explanation.

(v. t.) To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.

(v. t.) To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.

(v. i.) To make comments; to comment; to explain.

(v. i.) To make sly remarks, or insinuations.

(n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.

(syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned.

(n.) Winter.

(n.) Animal fat; lard.

(n.) Time.

(pl. ) of Halo

(a.) Neat; pretty; well made; graceful.

(n.) The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.

(n.) A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.

(n.) Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.

(n.) An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

(n. pl.) Natives of Finland; Finlanders.

(n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.

(n. pl.) Second best wool from Merino sheep.

(pl. ) of Testa

(n. pl.) The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.

(n. pl.) The brains.

(n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.

(a.) The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.

(n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.

(n.) A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.

(n.) See Hals.

(n.) Same as Hilum, 2.

(pl. ) of Time

(n.) The croup.

(n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

(n.) An anvil.

(n.) One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.

(n.) The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera.

(v. t.) To deceive or cheat.

(v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker.

(v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor.

(n.) One who cheats or deceives.

(n.) Drugged liquor.

(pron.) See the Note under Your.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc.

(pl. ) of Zero

(n.) See Amends.

(n.) pl. of Wife.

(n.) A mope; a drone.

(n.) The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum Butea, under Gum.

(n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.

(n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.

(n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.

(v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.

(v.) To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.

(v.) To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

(v.) To embrace closely; to hug.

(v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.

(v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.

(v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.

(v.) To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.

(v.) To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.

(v. i.) To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.

(v. i.) To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.

(v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.

(n.) An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.

(n.) Specifically, a printing press.

(n.) The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.

(n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.

(n.) The act of pressing or thronging forward.

(n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.

(n.) A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.

(n. pl.) The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata).

(n.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.

(n. pl.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]

(n.) A saddlecloth; a housing.

(n. pl.) Traces.

(n.) The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.

(n. pl.) See Good, n., 3.

(pl. ) of Turf

(n.sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.

(pl. ) of Alto

(pl. ) of Beau

(n.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.

(n.) That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils.

(n.) A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.

(n.) The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.

(n.pl.) A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.

(n.) A hook or claw.

(n.) Connection; tie.

(n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.

(a.) Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.

(pl. ) of Mus

(n.) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty.

(n.) Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.

(n.) The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.

(n.) The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.

(n.) An internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebrae and inserted into the femur. In man there are usually two on each side, and the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas.

(n. pl.) A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice.

(n. pl.) See 1st Jeer (b).

(pl. ) of Kilo

(n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.

(n. f.) Alt. of Metisse

(n.) A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.

(n.) The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.

(pl. ) of Manus

(n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

(n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.

(n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.

(n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.

(n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.

(n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.

(n. pl.) The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.

(n.) See Lotus.

(n.) A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the language or people of the of Man.

(n.) The language spoken in the Isle of Man. See Manx.

(n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species.

(n.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.

(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.

(n.) A word; reason; speech.

(n.) The divine Word; Christ.

(n.) A place; a locality.

(n.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.

(n.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

(pl. ) of Shot

(n. pl.) The refuse of cattle taken from a drove.

(n. pl.) The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.

(n.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

(n.) Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.

(n.) A small stream of water.

(n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

(n. pl.) The buttocks.

(n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

(n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

(n.) A dolt; a blockhead.

(pl. ) of Oasis

(n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.

(pl. ) of Oath

(n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.

(n.) A sort of gold or silver lace.

(n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.

(adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.

(n. pl.) Loins.

(v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.

(v. i.) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.

(v. i.) Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.

(n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.

(pl. ) of Wife

(n. pl.) An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.

(n.) A genus of plants including all true grapevines.

(n.) A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

(n.) Alt. of Lewisson

(pl. ) of Lex

(n.) pl. of Life.

(a. & adv.) Alive; living; with life.

(pl. ) of Life

(n.) The farm attached to a mansion house.

(n.) A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

(pl. ) of Path

(pl. ) of Umbo

(n.) A genus of trees including the elm.

(pl. ) of Tyro

(n. pl.) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

(n.) Glory; fame; renown; praise.

(v. t.) To praise; to extol; to glorify.

(n.) A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.

(n.) A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.

(n.) The chief city of France.

(n. pl.) The most important tribe belonging to the Kaffir race. They inhabit a region on the southeast coast of Africa, but formerly occupied a much more extensive country. They are noted for their warlike disposition, courage, and military skill.

(n.) A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.

(n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

(pl. ) of Moth

(pl. ) of Mina

(n.) A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.

(a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

(n.) A catkin or ament. See Ament.

(n.) Sherry. See Sherry.

(n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.

(n.) A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.

(n.) Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.

(n.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.

(n.) A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.

(pl. ) of Pes

(n. pl.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

(n. pl.) Ninepins. See Kayles.

(pl. ) of Peri

(n.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

(n. pl.) Small particles of ore.

(pl. ) of Hoof

(n.) The male member, or organ of generation.