(a.) Over against; as, he lives anent the church.

(a.) About; concerning; in respect; as, he said nothing anent this particular.

(adv.) On foot.

(adv.) Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.

(n.) Alt. of Afreet

(n.) A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

(n.) A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign.

(n.) An arrest; a legal seizure.

(v. t.) Same as Aret.

(v. t.) Alt. of Aghast

(p. p. & a.) See Aghast.

(a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

(n.) One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

(n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

(n.) An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.

(adv.) Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

(adv.) In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

(adv.) Aside; away.

(adv.) In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

(a.) Open; evident; undisguised.

(adv.) Openly.

(v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

(n.) Alt. of Aiglet

(adv.) On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.

(a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.

(a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

(n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.

(n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.

(n.) Minced meat.

(n.) A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

(n.) The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.

(v. t.) To scent or perfume with civet.

(n.) Account; reckoning; computation.

(v. t.) To compute; to count.

(a.) Neat; spruce.

(v. t.) To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

(n.) An island in a river; an ait.

(a.) Seven and one; as, eight years.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.

(v. t.) To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language.

(v. t.) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.

(n.) A license for absence from a college or a religious house.

(n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.

(v. t.) To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect.

(n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.

(n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.

(a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

(a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.

(a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

(n.) One chosen or set apart.

(n.) Those who are chosen for salvation.

(v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.

(v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.

(v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.

(v. t.) To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.

(v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

(v. t.) To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.

(v. t.) To sell upon credit, as goods.

(v. i.) To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

(v. t.) To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.

(v. i.) To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.

(n.) A mock; an insult.

(n.) A flirt.

(n.) A light and fast-sailing ship.

(v. t.) To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.

(n.) A foister; a sharper.

(n.) A trick or fraud; a swindle.

(n.) A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

(v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

(v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

(v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

(v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

(v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

(v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

(n.) A pigment or coloring substance.

(n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

(n.) A cosmetic; rouge.

(v. t.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.

() of Burn

(p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burst

(v. i.) To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.

(v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.

(v. t.) To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.

(v. t.) To break.

(v. t.) To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.

(n.) A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.

(n.) Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.

(n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.

(n.) A rupture or hernia; a breach.

(n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

(n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

(n.) A written deed; a charter.

(v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.

(v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.

(v. i.) To act together; to work in concert; to unite.

(n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

(n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.

(n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

(n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

(n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.

(n.) To beguile.

(v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

(n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

(v. t.) The side of a thing.

(v. t.) The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.

(v. t.) The seashore, or land near it.

(n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.

(n.) To sail by or near the shore.

(n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.

(n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.

(v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.

(v. t.) To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.

(v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.

(n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

(n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.

(n.) A coffin.

(n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

(n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

(n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.

(v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.

(v. i.) To place in a coffin.

(n.) Strife; contention; controversy.

() Alt. of Collet

(n.) See Eyelet.

(n.) Same as Oillet.

(n.) A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.

(n.) The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed.

(a.) Exultant.

(n.) A small owl; especially, the European species (Athene noctua), and the California flammulated owlet (Megascops flammeolus).

(v. t.) To dismiss, let go, or release.

(v. t.) A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.

(v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

(v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

(v. t.) To cause a smart in.

(v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.

(v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

(v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.

(v. i.) Smart money (see below).

(v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

(v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.

(v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.

(v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.

(v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

(v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.

(v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.

(v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.

(n.) A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

(a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

(v. t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate.

(v. t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

(v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.

(v. t.) To transfer by draft.

(v. t.) Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep.

(n.) A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.

(p. p.) Drenched; drowned.

() of Dress

(p. p.) of Dress.

(v. t.) The snuff, or burnt wick, of a candle.

() of Sniff

(n.) A driving; a violent movement.

(n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

(n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

(n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

(n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along

(n.) Anything driven at random.

(n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.

(n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

(n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

(n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

(n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.

(n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

(n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

(n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

(n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

(n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

(n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.

(n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.

(v. i.) To snort.

(v. i.) To sniff; to snuff; to smell.

(n.) A moment.

(n.) Slight snow; sleet.

(n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

(n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

(n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

(v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.

(v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

(v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

(v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

(v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

(v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

(a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

(v. i.) To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.

(v. i.) To snore.

(v. i.) To laugh out loudly.

(n.) The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.

(v. t.) To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.

(n.) The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.

(n.) The nose of a man; -- in contempt.

(n.) The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.

(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.

(v. t.) To furnish with a nozzle or point.

() of Drip

(n.) A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.

() of Drop

(v. i.) To leap; to jump.

(v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.

(v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.

(v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.

(v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.

(v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

(v. t.) To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.

(v. t.) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.

(v. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.

(n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.

(n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.

(n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.

(n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.

(v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

(v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.

(v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

(v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

(n.) Any article or separable part of one's assets.

(v. t.) To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate.

(a.) Dazed; foolish; infatuated.

(v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

(v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.

(v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

(n.) A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.

(n.) A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.

(a.) Bigoted.

(adv.) In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust.

(adv.) In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.]

(a.) An audience; a hearing.

(a.) An examination in general; a judicial examination.

(a.) The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.

(a.) A general receptacle or receiver.

(v. t.) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.

(v. i.) To settle or adjust an account.

(n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.

(n.) Alt. of Aucht

(n.) Property; possession.

(n.) Anything; any part.

(adv.) At all; in any degree.

(n.) The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

(n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

(n.) A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

(v. t.) To distribute by lot.

(v. t.) To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him.

(n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

(n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.

(n.) A vessel or measure containing a quart.

(n.) In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.

(adv.) On high; in the air; high above the ground.

(adv.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

(prep.) Above; on top of.

(prep.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.

(adv.) Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.

(n.) The superior or head of an abbey.

(n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

(n.) A support for the spear when couched for the attack.

(n.) A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

(n.) Circuit or compass.

(n.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin.

(n.) The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

(n.) Request; desire; solicitation.

(n.) Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.

(n.) Inquest; jury of inquest.

(n.) To search for; to examine.

(v. i.) To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.

() 3d sing. pres. of Arise, for ariseth.

(a.) In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.

(a.) Free from noise or disturbance; hushed; still.

(a.) Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as, a quiet life; a quiet conscience.

(a.) Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented.

(a.) Not showy; not such as to attract attention; undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement.

(a.) The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet.

(a.) Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security.

(v. t.) To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence.

(v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief.

(v. i.) To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.

(n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.

(v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.

(v. t.) To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.

(v. t.) To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.

(a.) As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.

(n.) A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

(n.) A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

(n.) Alt. of Arnut

(n.) The earthnut.

(n.) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.

(n.) A game played with quoits.

(n.) The discus of the ancients. See Discus.

(n.) A cromlech.

(v. i.) To throw quoits; to play at quoits.

(v. t.) To throw; to pitch.

(n.) A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

(n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

(v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

(n.) A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.

() of Blend

(imp. & p. p.) Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.

(imp. & p. p.) Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.

() of Bless

(a.) Blessed.

(n.) A gust of wind and rain.

(a.) Cease; stop; stay.

(v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.

(v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.

(v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.

(a.) Bloated.

(n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.

(v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

(n.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."

(v. i.) To turn away.

(n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

(n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.

(n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.

(n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.

(n.) A game at cards similar to loo.

(n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

(v. t.) To watch for; to look out for.

(v. t.) To wait on, serve, or attend.

(v. t.) To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.

(v. t.) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.

(v. i.) To watch.

(v. i.) To wait (on or upon).

(v. i.) To wait; to stay in waiting.

(n.) A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.

(a.) Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

(a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.

(a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

(a.) Hard to impress or penetrate.

(v. t.) To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

(v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

(prep. & adv.) Beyond.

(n.) A fencer's foil.

(n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.

(n.) Money.

(v. t.) To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

(v. t.) To be suitable to; to suit; to become.

(v. i.) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.

(v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

(v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

(v. t.) To display vaingloriously.

(v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

(v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

(v. t.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

(n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

(n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

(imp.) of Beget

() of Beget

(p. p.) of Beget

(v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

(v. t.) To get (with child.)

(v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.

() imp. & p. p. of Beget.

(n.) A box.

(v. t.) To catch in a net; to insnare.

(v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.

(v. t.) To fit out or supply a second time.

(v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.

(v. t.) To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

(n.) The act of resetting.

(n.) That which is reset; matter set up again.

(n.) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw.

(v. t.) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.

(n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.

(n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.

(n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich.

(n.) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.

(n.) One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

(n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

(n.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

(v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

() A colloquial contraction for can not.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beset

(v. t.) To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.

(v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

(v. t.) To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc.

(v. t.) To occupy; to employ; to use up.

(n.) The territory governed by a ban.

(v. t.) To suit; to fit; to become.

(v. t.) To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

(n.) See Bort.

(v. i.) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.

(n.) A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bewet

(v. t.) To wet or moisten.

(n.) A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

(n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

(n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

(n.) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.

(n.) A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.

(n.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.

(a.) Steep.

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

(n.) A gunlock.

(v. t.) To get again.

(a.) Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.

(a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

(a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.

(a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.

(a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.

(a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.

(a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.

(a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.

(a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.

(a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.

(adv.) In a right manner.

(adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.

(adv.) Exactly; just.

(adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.

(adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.

(adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.

(adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.

(a.) That which is right or correct.

(a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.

(a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.

(a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.

(a.) That to which one has a just claim.

(a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.

(a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.

(a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.

(a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.

(a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.

(a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.

(a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.

(a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.

(a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.

(v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.

(v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.

(n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.

(v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.

(v. i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.

(v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.

(v. i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

(v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.

(v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

(v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.

(v. i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.

(v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.

(v. i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.

(v. i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.

(v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.

(v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

(v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

(v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.

(v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

(v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.

(v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

(n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.

(n.) A young branch or growth.

(n.) A rush of water; a rapid.

(n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

(n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

(n.) A shoat; a young hog.

(superl.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

(superl.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.

(superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

(superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.

(superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

(superl.) Not distant in time; near at hand.

(superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

(superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.

(superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.

(superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

(superl.) Brittle.

(superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.

(adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.

(n.) A summary account.

(n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

(n.) Short, inferior hemp.

(n.) Breeches; shortclothes.

(n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

(adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.

(v. t.) To shorten.

(v. i.) To fail; to decrease.

(v. i.) To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

(v. t.) To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.

(v. t.) To treat with shouts or clamor.

(n.) A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.

(n.) A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.

(n.) A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

(n.) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.

(n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.

(v. t.) To shun; to move from.

(v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.

(v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.

(v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

(v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.

(v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

(v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.

(v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

(v. t.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

(v. t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.

(v. t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.

(v. t.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.

(v. t.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.

(v. t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.

(v. t.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.

(v. t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.

(v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.

(v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.

(v. t.) A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.

(v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.

(v. t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.

(v. t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.

(v. i.) To take aim by a sight.

(n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.

(n.) The interval of a fifth.

(n.) A violent gust of wind.

(n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.

(n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

(n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.

(n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.

(n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.

(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.

(v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.

(v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.

(v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din.

(v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.

(v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

(v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.

(n.) The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.

(n.) The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

(n.) A girdle.

(superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.

(superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

(v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.

(v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.

(v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

(adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

(n.) Scantness; scarcity.

(n.) Same as Ovulist.

() of Owe

(n.) Tribute.

(v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.

(v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.

(v. i.) To have a smell.

(v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

(n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.

(n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.

(n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios).

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scio.

(v. i.) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

(n.) Report; rumor; fame.

(n.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.

(v. t.) To report; to noise abroad.

(v. t.) The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

(v. t.) The force of a blow; shock; collision.

(n.) A swift sailing boat.

(n.) A projecting rock.

(v. t.) To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.

(n.) A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.

(n.) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.

(n.) A fielder in a game for practice.

(n.) The act of scouting or reconnoitering.

(v. t.) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.

(v. t.) To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.

(v. i.) To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.

(v. t.) To scratch.

(v. i.) To rake; to search.

(n.) An hermaphrodite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Build

(n.) Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.

(a.) Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.

(n.) Writing; document; scroll.

(v. t.) To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.

(v. t.) To celebrate in song.

(v. t.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.

(v. i.) To make melody with the voice; to sing.

(v. i.) To sing, as in reciting a chant.

(v. t.) Song; melody.

(v. t.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.

(v. t.) A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.

(n.) A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

(n.) A setting about; a beginning.

(n.) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.

(v. t.) To assault; to set upon.

(v. t.) To set about; to begin.

(n.) Alt. of Nonetto

(v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

(v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

(v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

(v.) Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.

(v.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.

(v.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.

(n.) A book of the Apocrypha.

(v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

(v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

(a.) Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.

(a.) Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.

(a.) Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

(a.) Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.

(a.) Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.

(a.) Great.

(v. i.) To weep; to cry; to lament.

(n.) Mourning.

(v. t.) To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

(v. t.) To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

(v. t.) To accost; to address.

(v. i.) To meet and give salutations.

(n.) Greeting.

(v. i.) See Greet, to weep.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Grind, contr. from grindeth.

(n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.

(n.) Supply; provision.

(n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

(n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

(n.) An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

(v. i.) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

(n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.

(n.) Any small sum of money.

(v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

(v. t.) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

(v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.

(v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

(v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

(v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.

(n.) Tincture; hue; color; tinge.

(n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

(n.) A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.

(n.) Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.

(n.) Formerly, a kind of beer or ale.

(n.) Lees; dregs; grounds.

(n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt.

(v. t.) To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.

(v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.

(n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.

(n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

(n.) Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.

(n.) A game of cards; -- called also taroc.

(n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.

(v. t.) To receive or entertain hospitably.

(v. i.) To be, or act the part of, a guest.

(n.) Sward.

(a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.

(a.) Gloomy; malignant.

(v. t.) To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.

(v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

(v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sweat

(v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.

(v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

(v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

(v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

(v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.

(v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

(v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.

(v. i.) The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.

(v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.

(v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.

(v. i.) The sweating sickness.

(v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sweep

(superl.) Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

(superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.

(superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.

(superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.

(superl.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.

(superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.

(v. & n.) Same as Spurt.

(n.) One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.

() imp. & p. p. of Drop, v.

(n.) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

(n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

(n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

(n.) Play; idle jingle.

(n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

(n.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.

(n.) A sportsman; a gambler.

(v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.

(v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

(v. i.) To trifle.

(v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.

(v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.

(v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.

(v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.

(v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.

(a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

(a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

(a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

(a.) Watchful; alert.

(a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.

(a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

(v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.

(v. t.) To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

(v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

(v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

(v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.

(v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

(v. i.) To rise upright.

(n.) A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

(n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

(n.) A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

(n.) See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).

(v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

(v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

(v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.

(v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.

(v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.

(v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

(v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.

(v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

(v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

(n.) A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.

(n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.

(n.) A hermit.

(n.) A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

(v. t.) Alt. of Eructate

(v. t.) To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

(v. i.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

(v. t.) To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.

(n.) A shoot; a sprout.

(v. i.) A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.

(v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.

(v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.

(n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.

(v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.

(v. t.) To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.

(v. t.) To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.

(v. t.) To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.

(v. i.) To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.

(v. i.) To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To take account or note; -- with

(v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

(v. t.) The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.

(v. t.) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.

(v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.

(n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.

(n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

(n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.

(n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

(n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.

(n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

(n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

(n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

(n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice.

(n.) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

(n.) The session of a judicial assembly.

(n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

(n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

(v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

(v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

(v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

(v. t.) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.

(v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).

(v. i.) To have or indulge inordinate desire.

(n.) Strength; might; secret power.

(n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

(n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.

(n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.

(n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.

(v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.

(n.) An usher to a riding master.

() Alt. of Ablen

(n.) The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.

(n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.

(v. t.) To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.

(v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.

(v. t.) Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.

(v. t.) To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.

(v. t.) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.

(v. t.) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

(v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

(v. t.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

(v. t.) To banter severely.

(v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.

(v. i.) To undergo the process of being roasted.

(n.) That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.

(a.) Roasted; as, roast beef.

(v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

(v. t.) To restore.

(v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

(v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.

(v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

(v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.

(v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.

(v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.

(v. i.) To send money, as in payment.

(v. i.) See Roister.

(v. i.) To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

(v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

(n.) An untimely birth.

(n.) An aborted offspring.

(prep.) Around; all round; on every side of.

(prep.) In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person).

(prep.) Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.

(prep.) Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity.

(prep.) In concern with; engaged in; intent on.

(prep.) On the point or verge of; going; in act of.

(prep.) Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching.

(adv.) On all sides; around.

(adv.) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.

(adv.) Here and there; around; in one place and another.

(adv.) Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time.

(adv.) To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.

(v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.

(v. t.) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.

(v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

(v. i.) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

(n.) Roast.

(v. t.) See Roust, v. t.

(n.) The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.

(n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.

(v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.

(v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.

(n.) A red color used by painters.

(v. t.) To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.

(n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.

(v. t.) To anoint.

(n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.

(n.) One of the blessed in heaven.

(n.) One canonized by the church.

(v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).

(v. i.) To act or live as a saint.

(v. t.) To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.

(n.) A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points.

(v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.

(n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

(n.) The top or superior part of a thing.

(n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.

(n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.

(n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.

(n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

(n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.

(v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat.

(imp.) of Cleave

(p. p.) of Cleave

() imp. & p. p. from Cleave.

(a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.

(a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.

(n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.

(n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.

(n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

(n.) A cliff.

(n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.

(n.) The fork of the legs; the crotch.

(n.) A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

(n.) The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.

(n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

(n.) A swadding cloth.

(n.) A piece; a fragment.

(n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

(n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

(n.) A blow with the hand.

(n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.

(n.) To join or patch clumsily.

(n.) To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

(n.) To give a blow to; to strike.

(n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brenne

(a.) Alt. of Brant

(a.) Steep; high.

(a.) Smooth; unwrinkled.

(imp. & p. p.) Burnt.

(n.) A brant. See Brant.

(3d sing.pr.) for Bursteth.

(n.) Alt. of Breast

(imp.) of Breste

(n.) Same as Britzska.

(n.) A rapid in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie.

(a.) Scented.

(n.) See Scot, a tax.

(v. t.) To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.

(n.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus).

(v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

(v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

(v. t.) To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.

(v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.

(a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.

(a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.

(n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.

(n.) A sudden or crushing fall.

(n.) A small vein of ore.

(n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

(imp.) of Creep

(p. p.) of Creep

(imp.) of Dare

() imp. & p. p. of Creep.

(n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

(n.) The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.

(n.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.

(n.) The upper curve of a horse's neck.

(n.) The ridge or top of a wave.

(n.) The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

(n.) The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.

(n.) The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.

(n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.

(v. t.) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.

(v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.

(v. i.) To form a crest.

(v. t.) To overcome; to conquer.

(v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.

(n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.

(n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.

(n.) The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deal

(n.) A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race.

(n.) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.

(v. t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

(v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

(v. i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

(n.) A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.

(n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.

(n.) See Sourkrout.

(n.) A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.

(n.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.

(n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

(n.) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

(n.) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.

(n.) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.

(n.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

(n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

(n.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

(n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.

(n.) To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.

(v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

(v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

(v. t.) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.

(n.) A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

(n.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.

(n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.

() 2d per. sing. of Shall.

(n.) A cuirass or breastplate.

(imp.) of Dare. See Dare, v. i.

() of Dwell

(imp. & p. p.) of Dwell.

(n.) An eye, bud, or shoot, as of a plant; an oilet.

(a.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.

(v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.

(n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

(n.) The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

(n.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.

(n.) Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.

(n.) Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.

(n.) To inhabit.

(n.) To dress; to clothe; to array.

(n.) To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.

(a.) Feigned; counterfeit.

(a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.

(a.) A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.

(v. i.) To make a feint, or mock attack.

(n.) A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.

(n.) A Turret.

(n.) A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc.

(a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

(n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

(a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.

(a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.

(a.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

(n.) A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.

(v.) Something drawn out or extended; expanse.

(v.) A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.

(v.) Traits; features; lineaments.

(v.) The footprint of a wild beast.

(v.) Track; trace.

(v.) Treatment; exposition.

(v.) Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.

(v.) Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.

(v.) Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; -- so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.

(v. t.) To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.

(n.) A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

(n.) That in which metal is cast; a mold.

(n.) A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.

(imp.) of May

(imp. & p. p.) of Mean

() imp. & p. p. of Mean.

(n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

(n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.

(n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.

(n.) A leap or bound.

(n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.

(n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.

(v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.

(v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.

(n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

(n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

(a.) Not set; not fixed or appointed.

(n.) A little island.

(v. t.) To deprive of wit.

(n.) Want of wit or understanding; ignorance.

(n.) A quilt.

(v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

(v. t.) Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.

(v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.

(v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

(v. t.) To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

(v. t.) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.

(v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.

(v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.

(v. i.) To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.

(v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.

(n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.

(n.) The form given in twisting.

(n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.

(n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.

(n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.

(n.) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.

(n.) A roll of twisted dough, baked.

(n.) A little twisted roll of tobacco.

(n.) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.

(n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.

(n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.

(n.) A beverage made of brandy and gin.

(v. t.) A twig.

(n.) Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt.

(n.) An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.

(v. t.) To set up; to put upright.

(v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

(v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

(v. t.) To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.

(v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.

(v. i.) To become upset.

(a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.

(n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

(v. i.) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

(v. i.) To ride on a jaunting car.

(v. t.) To jolt; to jounce.

(n.) A wearisome journey.

(n.) A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.

(a.) Using; accustomed.

(n.) The scale.

(v. t.) To choose or elect in concert with another.

(n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

(n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

(n.) The shag.

(n.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

(n.) See Divot.

(n.) The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

(n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.

(n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything

(n.) A petticoat.

(n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

(v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.

(v. t.) To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.

(v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

(n.) A guillemot.

(n.) A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.

(v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

(v. t.) To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.

(n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.

(n.) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.

(v. i.) Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sleep

(n.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

(n.) Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.

(v. i.) To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.

(n. & v.) See Slant.

() imp. & p. p. of Sleep.

() the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do.

(n.) A grammar.

(n.) Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dight

(v. t.) To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.

(v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.

(n.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.

(n.) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.

(n.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.

(n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

(v. t.) To point at or out with the finger.

(n.) A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.

(v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.

(v. i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.

(v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.

(v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.

(v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright.

(v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.

(v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.

(v. i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.

(v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.

(obs. p. p.) of Stent

(v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

(v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.

(n.) An allotted portion; a stint.

(p. p.) Started.

(n.) Spelter.

(a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.

(a.) Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.

(a.) To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.

(n.) A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.

(n.) A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.

(n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.

(v. t.) To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.

(n.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.

(n.) A phalarope.

(v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

(v. t.) To put an end to; to stop.

(v. t.) To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.

(v. t.) To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.

(v. i.) To stop; to cease.

(v. t.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

(v. t.) Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

(n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.

() of Spell

() imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.

(n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.

(n.) Spelter.

(v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spend

(a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

(a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spill

() of Spill

() imp. & p. p. of Spill. Spilled.

() of Curse

() imp. & p. p. of Curse.

(a.) Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.

(n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

(n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light.

(n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical.

(n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant.

(n.) The stem or midrib of a feather.

(n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill.

(n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.

(n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.

(n.) A pole, especially a Maypole.

(n.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.

(n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.

(n.) A rod at the end of a heddle.

(n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine.

(n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.

(n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.

(n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.

(n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.

(n.) One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

(n.) Same as Delftware.

(n.) Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.

(a.) Dainty.

(v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

(v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.

(v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.

(v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;

(v. t.) the book itself.

(n.) Delight.

(v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

(v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.

(v. t.) A sail.

(v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

(v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.

(v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.

(v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

(v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shend

() obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth.

(v. t.) To shend.

(n.) The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.

(v. t.) To let fall; to depress.

(v. t.) To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties.

(v. t.) To lay down, as an office; to resign.

(v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

(v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.

(v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.

(v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.

(v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

(v. t.) The act of shifting.

(v. t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.

(v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.

(v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.

(v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

(v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

(v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.

(n.) A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys.

(v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.

() Alt. of Shistose

(n.) A young hog. Same as Shote.

(n.) The magpie.

(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.

(n.) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.

(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.

(n.) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.

(n.) The period after the close of life; death.

(n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.

(superl.) Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.

(superl.) Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.

(superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

(superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.

(n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.

(n.) The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year.

(n.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.

(a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

(n.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.

(n.) A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.

(v. i.) To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle.

(n.) Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.

(n.) Alt. of Genette

(n.) A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.

(n.) Defect; want; lack; default.

(n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.

(n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

(n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

(n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.

(n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

(n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

(v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

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

(v. i.) To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

(v. i.) To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.

(n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

(n.) The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.

(n.) The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.

(n.) A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.

(n.) The most conspicuous part.

(n.) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.

(n.) The beginning.

(a.) Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.

(v. t.) To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.

(v. t.) To appear before; to meet.

(v. t.) To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.

(v. t.) To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.

(v. t.) To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.

(v. t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.

(v. i.) The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

(v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

(v. i.) Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

(v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

(v. t.) To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

(v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.

(v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.

(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

(v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

(v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.

(v. i.) To bear fruit.

(n.) The dung of deer.

(n.) Alt. of Fumette

(n.) An ant.

(v. i.) To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart.

(n.) An island. See Eyot.

(v. t.) To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.

(v. t.) To act; to perform; to do; to effect.

(v. t.) To act the part of; to represent; to play.

(n.) Purpose; determination.

(n.) A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.

(n.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.

(n.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.

(n.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.

(v. t.) To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.

(n.) A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.

(n.) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

(n.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.

(n.) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

(n.) An old shriveled woman.

(v. t.) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

(superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

(superl.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."

(superl.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.

(superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.

(n.) The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.

(v. i.) To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.

(n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.

(n.) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

(v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.

(n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

(n.) A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.

(n.) That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.

(n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

(n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.

(v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.

(v. t.) To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

(a.) To strike aghast; to affright.

(n.) A pass through a mountain.

(n.) A range of mountains.

(n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

(n.) The spirit; the soul of man.

(n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

(n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

(n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

(v. i.) To die; to expire.

(v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

(n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

(n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

(n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

(a.) Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

(n.) Alt. of Giggot

(v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.

(v. t.) To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.

(n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

(n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.

(n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.

(v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.

(a.) Protuberant.

(v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.

(v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.

(n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

(n.) A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.

(n.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.

(n.) That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.

(n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.

(n.) A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.

(n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.

(n.) Weight.

(n.) A whit; a bit; a jot.

(n.) A supernatural being.

(n.) A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.

(a.) Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.

(a.) Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.

(a.) Fresh, or new.

(v. t.) To moisten.

(n.) A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.

(n.) Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.

(n.) Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause.

(n.) That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

(n.) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

(n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.

(v. t.) To break forth.

(v. t.) To overthrow; to subvert.

(v. t.) To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

(v. t.) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

(v. t.) To evince; to prove.

(n.) A font.

(n.) A fountain.

(n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.

(a.) Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

(a.) Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.

(n.) That which is educed, as by analysis.

(a.) Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

(a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

(v. i.) To practice exaction.

(v. t.) To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

(v. t.) To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.

(v. t.) To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.

(v. t.) To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.

(v. t.) To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.

(v. t.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.

(v. t.) To break; to violate.

(n.) The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

() of Lean

() of Leap

(a.) Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.

(adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it.

(conj.) See Lest, conj.

(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

(n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

(n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

(v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle.

(n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care.

(n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.

(a.) Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even.

(n.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.

(v. i.) To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.

(v. i.) To flow slowly, as water.

(n. & v.) See Glint.

(n.) A glimpse, glance, or gleam.

(v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.

(v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

(n.) Glimmer; mica.

(v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

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

(n.) Trust.

(n.) A post, or station, in hunting.

(n.) A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst.

(a.) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.

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

(v. t.) To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at.

(v. i.) To cry, as a buck in rutting time.

(n.) The cry of a buck in rutting time.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.

(n.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock.

(a.) Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth. See Suant.

(n.) See Gobbet.

(n.) A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.

(n.) One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist.

(n.) Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.

(n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.

(n.) The gullet.

(n.) A California trout. See Malma.

(n.) Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.

(n.) That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.

(n.) The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

(n.) That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

(n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.

(n.) An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.

(a.) Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.

(n.) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.

(n.) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

(n.) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.

(n.) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.

(n.) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.

(n.) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

(n.) To risk; to venture confidently.

(v. i.) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

(v. i.) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.

(v. i.) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

(n.) See Muset.

(n.) A wood. See Hurst.

(v. t.) To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.

(a.) Not fit; unsuitable.

(n.) A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

(n.) An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.

(n.) A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.

(n.) A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.

(v. t.) To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.

(a.) Alt. of Ungotten

(v. t. & i.) To take off the hat of; to remove one's hat, especially as a mark of respect.

(n.) Alt. of Uniate

(a.) Burnt in.

(n.) Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience.

(v. t.) To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.

(n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.

(n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.

(n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg.

(n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.

(n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.

(n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.

(n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.

(a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.

(a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.

(a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc.

(a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.

(v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.

(v. t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.

(v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.

(v. t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.

(v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.

(n.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a.

(v. t.) To fit or furnish with joists.

(v. i.) To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

(v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.

(n.) The Barbary ape.

(n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.

(n.) Spume, or foam, of water.

(n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Split

(v. t.) To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.

(v. t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.

(v. t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.

(v. t.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.

(v. i.) To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.

(v. i.) To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.

(v. i.) To separate into parties or factions.

(v. i.) To burst with laughter.

(v. i.) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.

(v. i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.

(n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure.

(n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.

(n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

(n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.

(n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

(n.) the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.

(n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.

(a.) Divided; cleft.

(a.) Divided deeply; cleft.

(a.) Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.

(v. t.) To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

(v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.

(v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

(v. t.) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

(v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

() of Tie

() p. p. of Tie.

(superl.) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.

(superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.

(superl.) Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.

(superl.) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.

(superl.) Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings.

(superl.) Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.

(superl.) Handy; adroit; brisk.

(superl.) Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.

(superl.) Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.

(v. t.) To tighten.

(n.) A variant of Height.

(imp.) of Hight

(p. p.) of Hight

(v. t. & i.) To be called or named.

(v. t. & i.) To command; to direct; to impel.

(v. t. & i.) To commit; to intrust.

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

(n.) One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

(a.) Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

(v. t.) To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

(v. t.) To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.

(v. t.) To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.

(v. t.) To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

(n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.

(v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.

(v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.

(v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.

(v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.

(v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.

(v. i.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.

(v. i.) A struggle or contest of any kind.

(v. i.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.

(v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.

() A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

(a.) Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

(a.) Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.

(a.) Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.

(adv.) Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles.

(n.) The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect.

(n.) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

(n.) The thing stolen.

(a.) Lofty; haughty.

(v. t.) To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

(v. t.) To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.

(v. t.) To practice; to devote one's self to.

(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate.

(v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting.

(n.) A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

(n.) The habit of resorting to a place.

(n.) Practice; skill.

(a.) Tined; tinged.

(n.) Color; tinge; tincture; tint.

(v. t.) To color or stain; to imblue; to tint.

(n.) A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Zibeth

() imp. & p. p. of Press.

(a.) Ready; prompt; prepared.

(a.) Neat; tidy; proper.

(n.) Ready money; a loan of money.

(n.) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.

(v. t.) To give as a loan; to lend.

(v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

(v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.

(v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.

(v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.

(v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.

(v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.

(v. i.) To publish a book or an article.

(n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.

(n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.

(n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.

(n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.

(n.) That which is produced by printing.

(n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.

(n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.

(n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.

(n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.

(n.) A core print. See under Core.

() of Kemb

() p. p. of Kemb.

(imp. & p. p.) Pitched; fixed; determined.

(n.) One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

(n.) Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.

(n.) Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.

(n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error.

(n.) The cowcatcher of a locomotive.

(v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.

(v.) A stroke; a touch.

(v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

(n.) Trust.

(n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.

(n.) To trust.

(n.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.

(v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

(superl.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.

(n.) That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.

(n.) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.

(n.) That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.

(n.) That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.

(n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.

(adv.) Sweetly.

(v. t.) To sweeten.

() imp. of Swell.

(v. i.) To die; to perish.

(v. i.) To faint; to swoon.

(v. t.) To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.

() imp. & p. p. of Sweep.

(n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

(n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

(n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

(n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

(n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

(n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

(n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

(v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

(a.) Fitted; suited.

(v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.

(v. t.) To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

(v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

(v. t.) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

(v. i.) To assent; to consent.

(v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

(v. t.) The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

(v. t.) The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

(v. t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

(adv.) Level with the ground; flat.

() A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.

(superl.) Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.

(superl.) Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.

(superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.

(superl.) Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.

(superl.) Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.

(superl.) Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.

(superl.) Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.

(superl.) Pregnant; big (with young).

(superl.) More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.

(superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.

(n.) The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.

(v.impers.) It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.

(a.) Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.

(n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

(n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

(n.) The sole of the foot.

(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

(n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

(n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

(n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

(n.) To set up; to install; to instate.

(v. i.) To perform the act of planting.

(n.) A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.

(n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.

(n.) That which is let in or inland; an inserted material.

(n.) A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.

(v. t.) To infix.

(n.) That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.

(n.) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

(a.) Inapt; slow; dull.

(a.) Unsuitable; unfit; inappropriate.

(a.) Not accustomed and not likely; not disposed.

(v. t.) To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.

(a.) Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.

(a.) Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond.

(v. t.) To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

(v. t.) To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.

(n.) A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.

(n.) A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.

(n.) The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.

(n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.

(prep.) In the midst of; amidst.

(adv.) In the middle.

(n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.

(n.) The first part.

(v. t.) To put forward; to display.

(v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

(v. t.) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

(n.) A little moon or satellite.

(n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

(n.) Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.

(n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.

(n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.

(n.) To reward.

(v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

(v. t.) That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.

(v. t.) The space or thing defined by limits.

(v. t.) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.

(v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.

(v. t.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.

(v. t.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.

(v. t.) To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.

(v. i.) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.

(n.) A little bag or budget.

(superl.) Not strong or violent; moderate; as, a light wind.

(superl.) Not pressing heavily or hard upon; hence, having an easy, graceful manner; delicate; as, a light touch; a light style of execution.

(superl.) Easy to admit influence; inconsiderate; easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile; as, a light, vain person; a light mind.

(superl.) Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; wanting dignity or solemnity; trifling; gay; frivolous; airy; unsubstantial.

(superl.) Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.

(superl.) Easily bestowed; inconsiderately rendered.

(superl.) Wanton; unchaste; as, a woman of light character.

(superl.) Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin.

(superl.) Loose; sandy; easily pulverized; as, a light soil.

(adv.) Lightly; cheaply.

(v. t.) To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.

(v. i.) To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in.

(v. i.) To feel light; to be made happy.

(v. i.) To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect.

(v. i.) To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into.

(a.) Same as Peart.

(n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

(n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.

(n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.

(n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

(n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

(n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

(n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

(n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.

(n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

(v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.

(v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

(n. & a.) To sail; to float.

(n. & a.) To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.

(n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.

(v. t.) To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.

(v. t.) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.

(v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

(v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

(v. i.) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.

(v. i.) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.

(v. i.) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.

(v. i.) A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.

(v. i.) A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).

(v. i.) To take the cream from; to skim.

() of Smell

() imp. & p. p. of Smell.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.

(n.) A gull; a simpleton.

(v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.

(n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.

(n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

(n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.

(v. t.) To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

(v. t.) To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.

(v. t.) To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.

(v. i.) To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.

(v. i.) To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.

(n.) A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.

(v. t.) One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.

(a.) Pert; wanton.

(v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.

(v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

(v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.

(v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.

(v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

(v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).

(v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.

(v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

(v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.

(v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

(v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

(v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

(v. i.) A coal cart.

(v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.

(n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.

(n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.

(v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.

(v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

(v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

(v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.

(n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

(n.) An orb or ball.

(n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

(n.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.

(n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

(n.) See Waft, n., 4.

(imp. & p. p.) Whipped.

(interj.) Be silent; be still; hush; silence.

(n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.

(v. t.) To hush or silence.

(v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.

(a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.

(v. i.) To hoot.

(n.) The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).

(n.) A small European rodent (Eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.

(v. t.) To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

(v. t.) To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

(v. t.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.

(v. i.) To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.

(v. t.) The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.

(v. t.) The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector.

(n.) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.

(n.) To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

(v. t.) To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.

(v. t.) Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.

(n.) Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.

(n.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic.

(a.) Lawful.

(n.) That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

(n.) That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc.

(n.) The time during which the light of the sun is visible; day; especially, the dawn of day.

(n.) The brightness of the eye or eyes.

(n.) The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or window pane; a skylight; in architecture, one of the compartments of a window made by a mullion or mullions.

(n.) Life; existence.

(n.) Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.

(n.) The power of perception by vision.

(n.) That which illumines or makes clear to the mind; mental or spiritual illumination; enlightenment; knowledge; information.

(n.) Prosperity; happiness; joy; felicity.

(n.) The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; -- opposed to shade. Cf. Chiaroscuro.

(n.) Appearance due to the particular facts and circumstances presented to view; point of view; as, to state things fairly and put them in the right light.

(n.) One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example; as, the lights of the age or of antiquity.

(n.) A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.

(superl) Having light; not dark or obscure; bright; clear; as, the apartment is light.

(superl) White or whitish; not intense or very marked; not of a deep shade; moderately colored; as, a light color; a light brown; a light complexion.

(n.) To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up.

(n.) To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up.

(n.) To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.

(v. i.) To become ignited; to take fire; as, the match will not light.

(v. i.) To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; -- with up; as, the room lights up very well.

(superl.) Having little, or comparatively little, weight; not tending to the center of gravity with force; not heavy.

(superl.) Not burdensome; easy to be lifted, borne, or carried by physical strength; as, a light burden, or load.

(superl.) Easy to be endured or performed; not severe; not difficult; as, a light affliction or task.

(superl.) Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment.

(superl.) Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons; as, light troops; a troop of light horse.

(superl.) Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.

(superl.) Not heavily burdened; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted; as, the ship returned light.

(superl.) Slight; not important; as, a light error.

(superl.) Well leavened; not heavy; as, light bread.

(superl.) Not copious or heavy; not dense; not inconsiderable; as, a light rain; a light snow; light vapors.

(n.) The blindworm.

(n.) A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.

(n. & adv.) See Aught.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) Owned; possessed.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.

(imp., p. p., or auxi) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.

(n.) A writer of an ode or odes.

(a.) Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.

(a.) Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.

(a.) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason.

(n.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.

(n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

(v. t.) To punish with the knout.

(imp. & p. p.) of Kneel

(imp. & p. p.) of Kneel.

(n.) See Lodge, n.

(n. & v. t.) See Plait.

() A colloquial contraction of woll not. Will not. See Will.

() imp. of May.

(v.) Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity.

(n.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

(a.) Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.

(n.) That which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious, calamitous, or wicked state or degree.

(a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.

(v. i.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.

(v. & n.) See Molt.

(v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.

(v.) A bank; a fund.

(n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

(n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

(n.) To attain in value; to amount.

(v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

(v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.

(v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.

(v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.

(v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.

(v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted

(v.) A horse.

(v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

() of Wrap

(v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.

(v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.

(v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.

(n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.

(n.) Active or moving power.

(n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

(n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.

(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.

(n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.

() imp. of Write. Wrote.

(n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.

(v. i.) To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.

(n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.

(n.) A blemish or defect.

(v. t.) To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.

(v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline.

(n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.

(n.) A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.

(v. t.) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.

(v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.

(a.) Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.

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

(n.) That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.

(n.) The lapwing.

(n.) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing.

(n.) The pewee.

(n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer.

(n.) Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.

(n.) The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick.

(n.) An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.

(n.) An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.

(n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.

(n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints.

(n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc.

(n.) Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.

(n.) A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.

(n.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time

(n.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune.

(n.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes.

(n.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal.

(n.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.

(n.) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.

(n.) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef.

(n.) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.

(n.) Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.

(n.) A switch.

(n.) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

(n.) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.

(n.) The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.

(n.) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.

(n.) A tyne or snag of an antler.

(n.) One of the spaces on a backgammon board.

(n.) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.

(n.) To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.

(n.) To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.

(n.) Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.

(n.) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.

(n.) To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points.

(n.) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.

(n.) To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.

(n.) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

(n.) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

(v. i.) To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at.

(v. i.) To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

(v. i.) To approximate to the surface; to head; -- said of an abscess.

(n.) A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.

(n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.

(n.) Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.

(n.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.

(v. t.) To place on a pivot.

(v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.

(n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.

(n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.

(n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.

(n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

(p. p.) Hoisted.

(n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

(n.) Same as Palea.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidae. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.