(superl.) Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.

(superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

(superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.

(superl.) Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.

(superl.) Red.

(superl.) Sharp; keen; stimulated.

(n.) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

(n.) To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.

(n.) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.

(n.) Disregard or violation of law.

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.

(n.) An imposing series of things.

(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.

(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

(n.) The panel itself.

(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.

(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

(adv.) With art or skill.

(n.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

(a.) Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

(n.) A place where apes are kept.

(n.) The practice of aping; an apish action.

(a.) Alt. of Aggri

(adv.) Aside; askew.

(n.) Violent contest or striving.

(n.) Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.

(n.) Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.

(n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.

(a.) Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.

(n.) A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.

(n.) A catkin of the pussy willow.

(n.) The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat.

(a.) See Pursy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.

(n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.

(v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.

(a.) Alt. of Pygmean

(n.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.

(n.) Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.

(v. t.) To pay; to satisfy or appease.

(adv.) Continually.

(n.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.

(n.) Alt. of Cooee

(n.) A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

(n.) Alt. of Coolie

(a.) Characterized by copses.

(n.) The raven.

(n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge.

(a.) Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.

(a.) Tasting of cork.

(a.) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

(a.) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.

(a.) Containing corn; tasting well of malt.

(a.) Tipsy.

(a.) Overgrown with sedge.

(superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

(superl.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.

(superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.

(a.) See Silly.

(a.) See Cozy.

(a.) Alt. of Sipy

(superl.) Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

(a.) Same as Dancette.

(a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.

(n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.

(n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

(a.) Downy; fluffy.

(a.) Formed like, or having, a fluke.

(a.) Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.

(a.) Heedful.

(a.) Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.

(a.) Moderately heavy.

(superl.) Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.

(superl.) Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

(a.) Abounding with thyme; fragrant; as, a thymy vale.

(n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

(n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.

(n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.

(n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise.

(adv.) Foolishly; fondly.

(a.) Eatable; fruitful.

(a.) Hellish.

(a.) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.

(n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

(n.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.

(a.) Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.

(a.) Coarse and rough; boisterous.

(a.) Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

(n.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.

(a.) Thick and spreading, like a bush.

(a.) Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.

(a.) See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n.

(a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.

(a.) Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them.

(n.) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.

(n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.

(n.) Headstrong; obstinate.

(n.) Stout; hearty; lively.

(a.) Pert.

(v. t.) See Chivy, v. t.

(v. t.) To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

(n.) The black grime or soot of coal.

(v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.

(n.) A kind of dog. See Collie.

(n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

(n.) The gadfly of cattle.

(n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

(n.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

(adv.) In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.

(adv.) In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.

(a.) Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes.

(n.) Alt. of Dinghy

(superl.) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

(superl.) Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.

(n.) An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.

(a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.

(a.) Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.

(a.) Cunning; wary.

(n.) A gift; endowment.

(n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower.

(n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.

(n.) See Doily.

(superl.) Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.

(superl.) Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.

(superl.) Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.

(superl.) Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.

(superl.) Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.

(superl.) Suspicious; open to suspicion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.

(a.) Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.

(a.) Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand.

(a.) Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.

(superl.) Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

(superl.) Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.

(superl.) Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.

(superl.) Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.

(v. t.) To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

(v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.

(adv.) See Dryly.

(a.) Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.

(a.) Dirty; soiled.

(a.) Alt. of Sonsy

(a.) Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.

(a.) See Soncy.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.

(superl.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.

(v. t.) To black or foul with soot.

(a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.

(adv.) In a red manner; with redness.

(adv.) In an ample manner.

(n.) Trial; attempt; essay.

(n.) Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.

(n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.

(n.) Tested purity or value.

(n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.

(n.) The alloy or metal to be assayed.

(v.) To try; to attempt; to apply.

(v.) To affect.

(v.) To try tasting, as food or drink.

(v.) To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.

(v. i.) To attempt, try, or endeavor.

(a.) Damp; musty.

(a.) Ragged; rough.

(adv.) An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

(a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.

(a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.

(a.) Having the smell of bilge water.

(n.) Disorder; irregularity.

(n.) Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

(n.) The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.

(n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club.

(n.) A slubbing or roving machine.

(n.) Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights.

(n.) A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

(n.) An atom; a mite; a pigmy.

(n.) A skeleton.

(n.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

(a.) Covered with, or containing, bark.

(a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.

(a.) Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

(a.) Poisonous; malignant; malicious.

(n.) A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

(a.) Consisting of blades.

(a.) Full of nits.

(a.) Shining; elegant; spruce.

(a.) Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.

(v. t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.

(v. t.) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.

(v. t.) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.

(v. t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

(v. t.) To direct or address.

(v. t.) To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.

(v. t.) To visit.

(v. i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

(v. i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

(v. i.) To ply; to move.

(v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).

(v. t.) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

(v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.

(v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.

(n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.

(n.) Alloy.

(v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

(adv.) In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.

(n.) The country of Arabia.

(n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.

(n.) A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.

(n.) A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

(n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

(n.) The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

(n.) A choice taw or marble.

(a.) Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.

(v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

(v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.

(v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.

(v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.

(v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.

(v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.

(v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

(v. t.) To form a metallic compound.

(a.) Arched; as, archy brows.

() A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

(n.) Unreasonableness; absurdity.

(n.) A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

(n.) The church of a monastery.

(adv.) Always.

(n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.

(n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.

(n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.

(v. i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry.

(v. i.) To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.

(v. t.) To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.

(v. t.) To address questions to; to examine by questions.

(v. t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.

(v. t.) To write " query" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.

(n.) In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.

(n.) A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc.

(n.) Almonry.

(n.) Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.

(v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

(v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.

(v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.

(v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

(n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).

(n.) A political mass meeting.

(v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.

(v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.

(n.) Good-humored raillery.

(n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.

(a.) Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.

(a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

(a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.

(a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.

(a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.

(a.) Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.

(a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.

(a.) Having horns, or antlers.

(a.) Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

(a.) Bluish.

(adv.) In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner.

(adv.) Awkwardly.

(a.) Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

(a.) Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.

(v. t.) To lay on or cover; to adorn.

(v. t.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.

(v. t.) To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.

(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.

(n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

(n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.

(n.) The womb.

(n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.

(n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

(adv.) In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

(n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

(v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.

(v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.

(a.) Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.

(n.) Alt. of Bolye

(a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

(n.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

(a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

(a.) Resembling bent.

(v. t.) To make foul; to soil; to defile.

(a.) Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

(a.) Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.

(a.) Producing balm.

(n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

(n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

(n.) The coffee bean.

(n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

(v. i.) To bear or produce berries.

(n.) A mound; a hillock.

(a.) Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.

(a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.

(a.) Full of reefs or rocks.

(a.) Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.

(a.) Emitting reek.

(n.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame.

(n.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips.

(v. t.) To make ruddy.

(n.) A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.

(n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

(a.) Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.

(a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton.

(a.) Rugged; rough.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

(n.) One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.

(a.) Strange; odd.

(a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.

(a.) Abounding with rushes.

(a.) Made of rushes.

(superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

(superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.

(superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

(superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.

(superl.) Rust-colored; dark.

(superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.

(superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

(a.) Ruttish; lustful.

(a.) Full of ruts; as, a rutty road.

(a.) Rooty.

(n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm.

(adv.) Wearily; heavily; firmly.

(adv.) Seriously; soberly; gravely.

(adv.) Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably.

(v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

(v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

(v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

(v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

(v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

(v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.

(n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

(a.) Alt. of Cannei

(a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.

(a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.

(a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

(n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

(n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

(n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

(v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.

(v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.

(v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.

(v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.

(a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

(a.) Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.

(a.) Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.

(n.) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

(n.) A dunce; a stupid fellow.

(n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

(n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.

(a.) Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

(a.) Bookish.

(n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.

(n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

(a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.

(n.) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.

(n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

(n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.

(a.) Drunken; sotted; boozy.

(a.) Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.

(a.) Caused by boscage.

(a.) Ornamented with bosses; studded.

(n.) A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.

(n.) A name used in calling a hen or chicken.

(n.) An Irish serving woman or girl.

(n.) Alt. of Boothy

(a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

(n.) A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities.

(n.) A diseased sheep, or its mutton.

(a.) Like a ram; rammish.

(n.) The erd shrew.

(a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous.

(a.) Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.

(a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.

(v. t.) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

(n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.

(n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.

(n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.

(n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

(a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.

(n.) Disorder; merriment.

(n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.

(n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.

(adv.) In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.

(v. t.) A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.

(v. t.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.

(v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

(superl.) Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.

(superl.) Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.

(n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed.

(n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.

(n.) Weak; helpless; frail.

(n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble.

(n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.

(n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

(a.) Full of silt; resembling silt.

(n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.

(n.) A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

(n.) An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

(a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

(a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.

(a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.

(a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

(a.) Of the nature of cedar.

(a.) Cleared and ready for engagement, as a ship.

(n.) A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

(n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

(a.) Subject to sudden alarm.

(a.) Causing fright; alarming.

(n.) A woman's breast.

(n.) Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.

(n.) Consisting of fur.

(a.) Resembling, or characterized by, buff.

(a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.

(n.) A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.

(n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.

(a.) Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.

(a.) Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.

(n.) A tern; the sea swallow.

(n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

(n.) A brisk, dashing fellow.

(a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing.

(a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.

(v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.

(v. i.) To act as a bully.

(n.) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

(n.) A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.

(a.) Irritable; touchy.

(n.) A silly fellow; a ninny.

(superl.) Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.

(superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.

(n.) A little teat; a nipple.

(n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

(n.) A coarse, rustic woman.

(v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

(adv.) Wholly.

(n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.

(n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.

(n.) A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

(n.) A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened.

(n.) Taffy.

(n.) A grape of an oval shape and whitish color.

(n.) A rich Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.

(n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.

(n.) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money.

(a.) Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.

(superl.) Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

(n.) A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.

(n.) Flattery; soft phrases.

(n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.

(n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.

(n.) One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.

(n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.

(n.) A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.

(n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.

(n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

(v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.

(v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.

(a.) Stoutly; with spirit.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a grove; situated in, or frequenting, groves.

(n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

(n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.

(n.) Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.

(n.) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish.

(superl.) Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.

(superl.) Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.

(superl.) Unwary; unready.

(superl.) Criminal; guilty.

(v. t.) To make tardy.

(n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.

(v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait.

(v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.

(v. i.) To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.

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

(v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.

(n.) Stay; stop; delay.

(a.) Full of whirlpools or gulfs.

(n.) A large knife.

(n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

(n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

(v. t.) To wear into a gully or into gullies.

(v. i.) To flow noisily.

(superl.) Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.

(n.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

(a.) Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.

() Alt. of Gunny cloth

(n.) An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter.

(n.) A small fort.

(a.) Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets.

(a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

(a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.

(a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

(v. t.) To cause to stray.

(v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.

(n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.

(n.) The act of wandering or going astray.

(v. t.) To display; to spread.

(v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

(v. t.) To spay; to castrate.

(v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

(a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.

(a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

(a.) Turbid; muddy; filthy.

(a.) Alt. of Drused

(a.) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.

(adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

(n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.

(n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.

(n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.

(n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.

(v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.

(v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.

(v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.

(v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.

(v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.

(n.) The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.

(a.) Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy.

(adv.) In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.

(a.) Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.

(a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.

(n.) One who is dumb.

(n.) A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.

(n.) Something peculiar to one's self.

(n.) A rabbit. See Cony.

(n.) A fish. See Cony.

(n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.

(n.) A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.

(v. i.) To brood; to incubate.

(n.) A pantry.

(n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.

(adv.) In a coy manner; with reserve.

(a.) Brave; fine; canny.

(a.) White like snow.

(a.) Abounding with snow; covered with snow.

(a.) Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless.

(a.) Full of moisture; wet; soppy.

(superl.) Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.

(superl.) Smeared with soap; covered with soap.

(a.) Resembling crape.

(n.) A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.

(a.) Wet; soaky.

(a.) Consisting of sod; covered with sod; turfy.

(a.) Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.

(a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.

(a.) Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.

(a.) Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.

(n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

(a.) Having a rind or skin.

(adv.) In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience.

(adv.) Without proper preparation or provision.

(a.) Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.

(superl.) Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey.

(superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.

(superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.

(superl.) Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman.

(superl.) Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy.

(superl.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive.

(superl.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.

(adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.

(n.) Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready.

(v. t.) To dispose in order.

(a.) Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.

(a.) Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.

(a.) Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.

(a.) Full of rods or twigs.

(a.) Ruddy.

(a.) Roguish.

(a.) Turbid; as, roily water.

(v. t.) To deny; to disown.

(v.) See Abraid.

(a.) Having roofs.

(a.) Misty; gloomy.

(v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

(v. t.) To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.

(v. t.) To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

(a.) Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.

(a.) Full of roots; as, rooty ground.

(v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

(v. i.) To answer a defendant's plea.

(v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

(v. t.) To return for an answer.

(v. i.) That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

(n.) One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.

(superl.) Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

(superl.) Full of noise.

(n.) A simpleton; a fool.

(n.) Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.

(n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.

(n.) An old game at cards.

(n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.

(n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

(a.) Like a sail.

(v. i.) To make a loud or shrill noise.

(n.) A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.

(n.) A mantelpiece.

(v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.

(v.) A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.

(v.) A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.

(v.) An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.

(v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.

(v.) Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.

(a.) Somewhat salt; saltish.

(superl.) Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.

(superl.) Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.

(superl.) Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.

(superl.) Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.

(superl.) Weak in intellect.

(superl.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.

(a.) Musty; tainted.

(v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

(v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.

(v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.

(v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.

(v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.

(v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.

(v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.

(v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.

(v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.

(v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.

(v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.

(v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.

(v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.

(v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

(n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.

(superl.) Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow.

(superl.) Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks.

(n.) A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.

(n.) An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.

(n.) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.

(n.) A thick-witted person; a dolt.

(n.) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.

(n.) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.

(n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.

(superl.) Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

(superl.) Sullen or discontented.

(a.) Full of dung; filthy; vile; low.

(a.) Deaf; stupid.

(v. t.) To crowd; to press together.

(n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

(n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

(n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.

(n.) A dandy roller. See below.

(n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.

(n.) A negro.

(a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.

(a.) Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.

(v. t.) To dry, or make dry.

(n.) A dear; a darling.

(n.) A crone.

(n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend

(a.) Coagulated.

(a.) Characterized by crudeness; raw.

(v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.

(v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair.

(v. t.) To destroy.

(n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.

(n.) Destruction; death.

(n.) Cause of decay.

(n.) Alt. of Cubbyhole

(v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.

(n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.

(n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.

(n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.

(n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

(n.) An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.

(n.) A blockhead; a lout.

(n.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.

(n.) A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.

(n.) The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).

(n.) A name for a negro.

(v. t.) To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.

(n.) A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.

(n.) To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.

(a.) Industrious; active.

(a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.

(a.) Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.

(a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.

(a.) Intellectually clouded.

(superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.

(superl.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.

(n.) An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

(n.) A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.

(n.) An assay. See Assay, n.

(n.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

(n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.

(a.) Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.

(n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.

(a.) Charged or sprinkled with drops.

(n.) One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.

(n.) The language used by the gypsies.

(n.) A dark-complexioned person.

(n.) A cunning or crafty person

(a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.

(v. i.) To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.

(adv.) In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.

(n.) The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.

(a.) Wet with tears; tearful.

(a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

(a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.

(a.) Of hail.

(a.) Very small; tiny.

(a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.

(a.) Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.

(a.) Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

(n.) Singular; wonderful; extraordinary.

(n.) A wonder; a marvel.

(adv.) Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.

(adv.) In a noble manner; with greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done.

(adv.) Splendidly; magnificently.

(n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

(n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.

(n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.

(v. i.) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

(v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.

(n.) The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull.

(a.) Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

(a.) Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace.

(a.) Unsteady; dizzy; tottery.

(superl.) Having horns or hornlike projections.

(superl.) Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.

(superl.) Hard; callous.

(a.) Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions.

(a.) In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.

(a.) In a lustful manner; lustfully.

(adv.) Truly. See Parde.

(n.) Myopia.

(n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter.

(n.) A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy.

(n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.

(n.) A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.

(a.) Maggoty.

(superl.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.

(superl.) Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.

(a.) Abounding in meat.

(a.) Long and flexible, like a wand.

(n.) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.

(a.) Somewhat lank.

(adv.) In a wan, or pale, manner.

(n.) A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope.

(a.) Warlike.

(a.) Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.

(a.) Vast; immense.

(n.) Same as Lorry, or Lorrie.

(a.) Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

(a.) Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence.

(a.) Watery; damp; soft.

(a.) Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.

(a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.

(n.) An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.

(a.) Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.

(a.) Like a lath; long and slender.

(n.) The snow goose.

(v. t.) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.

(a.) Having tusks.

(n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.

(a.) Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation.

(n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

(n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.

(n.) Any carving executed in ivory.

(n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.

(a.) Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth.

(v. t.) To hoard.

(a.) See Jaunty.

(v. t.) To infold or involve; to wrap up.

(v. t.) To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.

(v. t.) To refer, ascribe, or attribute.

(n.) The driver of a hackney coach.

(n.) A hackney coach.

(n.) A wig; -- so called, perhaps, from being made of, or resembling, Jersey yarn.

(v. t.) A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.

(v. t.) The practice of taking interest.

(v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.

(n.) Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.

(n.) The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.

(v. i.) To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.

(a.) Spruce.

(n.) A short crowbar. See Jimmy.

(n.) A baked sheep's head.

(n.) A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.

(n.) A familiar name of the European wren.

(n.) A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories.

(n.) Enchantment; illusion.

(n.) The country of the fays; land of illusions.

(n.) An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.

(n.) An enchantress.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fairies.

(a.) Given by fairies; as, fairy money.

(n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.

(a.) Hostile; inimical.

(a.) Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

(a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

(n.) The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.

(a.) See Skyey.

(superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.

(superl.) Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo.

(superl.) Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless.

(v. t.) To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.

(a.) Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky.

(n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.

(a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.

(a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture.

(n.) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.

(n.) A false shirt front or bosom.

(n.) A gentleman's shirt collar.

(n.) A kind of woolen stuff.

(n.) A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed.

(n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.

(n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

(n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

(n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

(n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

(n.) A child's mane for a doll.

(adv.) See Slyly.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.

(n.) A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.

(a.) Sloping; inclined.

(n.) A kind of stagecoach.

(n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.

(n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.

(n.) An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.

(n.) Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.

(n.) That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.

(n.) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.

(v. i.) To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.

(v. i.) To love.

(v. t.) To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.

(v. t.) To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.

(v. t.) To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).

(a.) Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.

(a.) Extravagant; above real value.

(superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

(superl.) Gay; merry; festal.

(n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

(n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

(a.) Resembling soup; souplike.

(v. t.) To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.

(v. t.) To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.

(v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.

(v. i.) To take satisfaction; to live in happiness.

(v. t.) See Inlay.

(a.) Sparing; parsimonious.

(v. t.) To place in the sky or in heaven.

(a.) Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

(superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

(superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.

(superl.) Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.

(superl.) Producing, or abounding with, spices.

(superl.) Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.

(a.) Like a spike; spikelike.

(a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.

(n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.

(n.) The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.

(n.) That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.

(n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.

(n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.

(n.) A putting upon record in proper form and order.

(n.) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.

(a.) Like curd; full of curd; coagulated.

(a.) Pertaining to sex.

(a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

(v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

(v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.

(v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.

(n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.

(n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.

(v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.

(superl.) Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.

(superl.) Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt.

(superl.) Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand.

(superl.) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber.

(superl.) Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.

(a.) Resembling shale in structure.

(n.) A short spoon.

(n.) A short tobacco pipe.

(n.) A light or unchaste woman.

(n.) A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves .

(v. t.) To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.

(v. t.) To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.

(v. t.) To render godlike.

(n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.

(n.) A god or goddess; a heathen god.

(v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

(n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.

(n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.

(n.) To allay; to temper.

(v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

(n.) Diminutive of Dad.

(a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.

(n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.

(adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.

(n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.

(n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.

(n.) A dairy farm.

(n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

(n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

(v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

(v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.

(v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

(v. t.) To render quiet; to soothe.

(v. t.) To subdue; to tame; to daunt.

(a.) Somewhat damp.

(a.) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.

(a.) Overgrown with rushes.

(v. t.) To deny.

(n.) Denial; refusal.

(adv.) See Shyly.

(superl.) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

(n.) A fool; a simpleton.

(v. t.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.

(n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

(a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.

(a.) Like a spine in shape; slender.

(a.) Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.

(n.) See Spinny.

(n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

(n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.

(n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.

(v. t.) To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

(n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.

(n.) See Pontee.

(n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

(n.) A baby; a dunce.

(superl.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

(adv.) With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.

(adv.) Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.

(n.) Jelly.

(n.) Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.

(n.) Spruce; smart.

(adv.) Grossly; greasily.

(a.) Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.

(a.) Neat; trim.

(n.) Exodus; withdrawal.

(a.) Frozen; stiff with cold.

(a.) Covered with a froth like hoarfrost.

(n.) The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.

(a.) Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter.

(a.) Alt. of Fubsy

(a.) Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.

(a.) Light; puffy.

(v. t.) To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.

(v. t.) To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.

(adv.) In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.

(superl.) Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.

(n.) A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.

(n.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.

(a.) Covered with fur; dressed in fur.

(a.) Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.

(a.) Resembling fur.

(a. a.) bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.

(superl) Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.

(superl) Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.

(superl) Moping.

(superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.

(superl.) Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of.

(superl.) Having nothing to carry; unburdened.

(superl.) Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats.

(superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.

(superl.) Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.

(n.) Not firmly woven; that ravels.

(n.) Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.

(superl.) Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.

(superl.) Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.

(n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."

(v. t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.

(v. i.) To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.

(v. i.) To become empty.

(adv.) Merrily; showily. See gaily.

(n. & a.) Fairy.

(v. t.) To frighten; to worry.

(a.) Like gall; bitter as gall.

(n.) See Galley, n., 4.

(n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.

(n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

(n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.

(v. t.) To supply with money.

(superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.

(superl.) Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.

(superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.

(superl.) Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.

(v. i.) To reel; to whirl.

(v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.

(n.) See Jiffy.

(v. i.) To destroy.

(n. a.) See Gypsy.

(a.) Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.

(superl.) Alt. of Mouldy

(n.) Same as Mollemoke.

(n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary.

(n.) Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.

(n.) Spoiled by age; rank; stale.

(n.) Dull; heavy; spiritless.

(a.) Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.

(n.) Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.

(a.) Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.

(a.) Like pap; soft; succulent; tender.

(adv.) Lately; recently.

(adv.) Anew; afresh; freshly.

(a.) Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.

(a.) Disarranged; rumpled.

(a.) Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn.

(a.) Made of lawn or fine linen.

(adv.) In a lax manner.

(superl.) Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.

(superl.) Causing weariness; tiresome.

(superl.) Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.

(v. t.) To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.

(v. t.) To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.

(v. t.) To harass by anything irksome.

(v. i.) To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.

(a.) Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.

(a.) Resembling lead.

(superl) Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.

(superl) Consisting of leaves.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.

(superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.

(superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.

(a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.

(adv.) Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.

(adv.) In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

(adv.) Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc.

(n.) A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

(a.) Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.

(a.) Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.

(a.) Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.

(n.) The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.

(a. & a. pron.) All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber.

(a. & a. pron.) Every one. Cf.

(v. i.) To build; to construct.

(v. i.) To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.

(v. i.) To teach or persuade.

(v. i.) To improve.

(n.) Alt. of Ewry

(a.) Despicable.

(a.) Foxlike.

(superl.) Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.

(superl.) Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.

(a.) Lean.

(a.) Leafy.

(a.) Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.

(a.) Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence.

(a.) Dizzy; giddy.

(a.) Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.

(a.) Spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination.

(v. i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.

(v. i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.

(v. i.) Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

(v. i.) A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.

(v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.

(v. i.) A piece for special practice. See Etude.

(n.) To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.

(n.) To apply the mind to books or learning.

(n.) To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.

(v. t.) To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.

(v. t.) To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.

(v. t.) To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.

(v. t.) To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.

(a.) Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.

(a.) Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

(a.) Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.

(a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular.

(n.) Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.

(n.) That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.

(n.) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.

(n.) The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.

(n.) An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.

(n.) To exult with joy; to rejoice.

(n.) To boast; to be proud.

(a.) Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, suet; as, a suety substance.

(adv.) In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.

(adv.) Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.

(adv.) Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.

(adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.

(adv.) In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.

(n.) A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.

(n.) Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life.

(adv.) Piously; devoutly; righteously.

(n.) Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.

(n.) Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.

(a.) A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.

(v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

(v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.

(n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.

(n.) A large wicker basket.

(n.) Same as 1st Willow, 2.

(adv.) In an icy manner; coldly.

(v. t.) To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

(n.) The state of being one; oneness.

(n.) Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.

(n.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.

(n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.

(n.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.

(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

(v. t.) To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.

(a.) Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.

(a.) Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.

(n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

(n.) A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.

(v. t.) To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment.

(superl.) Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

(superl.) Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.

(superl.) Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.

(a.) That jolts; as, a jolty coach.

(a.) In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.

(a.) See Yeasty.

(n.) A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.

(n.) Company; band; army.

(a.) Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.

(a.) Poor; mean.

(n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

(v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.

(adv. & prep.) Near; hard by; along; past.

(a.) Like hemp.

(a.) See Hende.

(n.) The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second.

(a.) Having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage.

(a.) Abounding in ferns.

(v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.

(v. i.) To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.

(v. t.) A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.

(v. t.) A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.

(v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.

(superl.) Performed by the hand.

(superl.) Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit.

(superl.) Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.

(superl.) Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.

(a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.

(a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.

(a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.

(a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.

(a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.

(a.) Five times ten; as, fifty men.

(n.) The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.

(n.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.

(n.) A lively, spirited young girl.

(a.) Composed of film or films.

(a.) Full; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial.

(adv.) By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.

(superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

(superl.) Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.

(superl.) Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

(n.) A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

(a.) Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.

(a.) Abounding in fishes.

(a.) Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.

(a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.

(a.) Strong; firm; compact.

(a.) Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.

(a.) Able to withstand the cold of winter.

(n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

(superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

(n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.

(n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.

(n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).

(n.) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.

(a.) Testy; irritable.

(a.) Made of fir; abounding in firs.

(v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

(v. t.) To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.

(v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.

(a.) Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.

(a.) Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.

(n.) Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.

(n.) Demanding haste or immediate action.

(n.) Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.

(n.) Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.

(n.) Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.

(n.) Forward; early; first ripe.

(a.) Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.

(adv.) In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.

(a.) Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.

(a.) Lofty; as, hilly empire.

(v. i.) To neigh; to whinny.

(n.) A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.

(n.) A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.

(a.) White or whitish.

(a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.

(a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

(a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.

(a.) Of a pale silvery gray.

(a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.

(n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.

(n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse

(n.) See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

(a.) Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

(superl.) Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.

(superl.) Next the wind; windward.

(superl.) Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.

(superl.) Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.

(superl.) Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.

(superl.) Fig.: Empty; airy.

(a.) Having wings; rapid.

(a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy.

(a.) See Zincky.

(superl.) Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.

(superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.

(a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.

(a.) Silly; weakly sentimental.

(a.) Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.

(n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.

(n.) The osier willow (Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a).

(n.) A withe. See Withe, 1.

(a.) Made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also, abounding in withes.

(n.) Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.

(n.) Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like.

(n.) A moppet.

(n.) A slatternly, untidy woman.

(n.) A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot.

(a.) Being in its prime.

(n.) A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always of a green color.

(n.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned.

(n.) Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.

(n.) Duty; dutifulness; filial reverence and devotion; affectionate reverence and service shown toward parents, relatives, benefactors, country, etc.

(n.) See Pygmy.

(n.) Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule.

(n.) Alt. of Poppyhead

(a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.

(a.) Secret; clandestine.

(a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.

(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.

(n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.

(n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

(n.) The scup.

(n.) The sailor's choice, or pinfish.

(n.) The margate fish.

(n.) The spadefish.

(n.) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.

(a.) See Piny.

(a.) A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.

(n.) See 1st Pink.

(n.) A midwife.

(a.) Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

(a.) Puffed up; as, huffy bread.

(a.) Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.

(a.) Bulky; unwiedly.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant.

(superl.) Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill.

(superl.) Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition.

(n.) See Sunfish (b).

(a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

(a.) Abounding with tufts.

(a.) Growing in tufts or clusters.

(n.) A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.

(n.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.

(n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

(n.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.

(a.) Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.

(a.) Pertaining to the gout.

(a.) Swollen, as if from gout.

(a.) Boggy; as, gouty land.

(superl.) Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf.

(superl.) Having the nature or appearance of turf.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to the turf, or horse racing.

(a.) Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore.

(a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.

(a.) Arrogant; haughty.

(a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look.

(a.) Rough; dark; tempestuous.

(a.) Composed of, or resembling, grapes.

(n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.

(n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.

(n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.

(n.) An old maid or gossip.

(a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.

(a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.

(v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.

(n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

(n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

(v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

(v. t.) To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.

(n.) Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety.

(a.) Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.

(n.) Noise; confusion; uproar.

(v. t.) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

(v. t.) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

(v. t.) To cause to be done quickly.

(v. i.) To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.

(n.) The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

(n.) Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

(a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

(n.) A housewife or housekeeper.

(n.) A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.

(n.) A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.

(n.) A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.

(v. t.) To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or incloses; to let loose; to open.

(v. t.) To divest of the traits of a boy.

(a.) Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.

(a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

(n.) Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.

(a.) Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand.

(a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.

(a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.

(n.) The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.

(n.) The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.

(n.) A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.

(n.) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.

(n.) See Procuration.

(v. i.) To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.

(superl.) Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.

(a.) Like a plate; consisting of plates.

(v. t.) To deceive; to outwit; to hoax.

(n.) A young fellow; formerly, a low thief.

(a.) Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

(superl.) Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight ot substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock.

(a.) Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.

(superl.) Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.

(superl.) Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.

(superl.) Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant.

(superl.) Lustful; lascivious.

(v. t.) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.

(v. t.) To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.

(v. t.) To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.

(v. t.) To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.

(v. t.) Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.

(v. i.) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

(interj.) Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.

(n.) A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.

(superl.) Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.

(superl.) Full of lumps, or small compact masses.

(superl.) Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.

(superl.) Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.

(a.) Not high; not elevated in place; low.

(a.) Low in rank or social importance.

(a.) Not lofty or sublime; humble.

(a.) Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.

(adv.) In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.

(adv.) In a low condition; meanly.

(n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.

(a.) Infested with lice.

(a.) Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.

(superl.) Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

(superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

(superl.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.

(a.) Formed with meshes; netted.

(adv.) In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.

(n.) A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

(superl.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.

(n.) A kind of wild red cherry.

(a.) Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.

(superl.) Infected with the mange; scabby.

(n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.

(n.) Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.

(n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.

(n.) A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.

(n.) A child's name for mamma, mother.

(a.) See Luny.

(n.) An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.

(a.) Limp; flexible; flimsy.

(a.) Consisting, or like, malt.

(n.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.

(n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.

(n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

(v. i.) To jut out; to project.

(a.) Made of jet, or like jet in color.

(n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

(a.) Alt. of Malayan

(superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

(superl.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

(a.) Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.

(a.) Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.

(a.) Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.

(v. t.) To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

(a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.

(a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.

(a.) Violent; impetuous.

(a.) Lying in heaps.

(a.) Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

(a.) Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.

(a.) Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.

(a.) Having the heaves.

(superl.) Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.

(superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

(superl.) Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.

(superl.) Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.

(superl.) Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.

(superl.) Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.

(superl.) Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.

(superl.) Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.

(superl.) Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.

(superl.) Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.

(superl.) Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.

(superl.) With child; pregnant.

(adv.) Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.

(v. t.) To make heavy.

(a.) Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.

(a.) Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.

(a.) Like flax; flaxen.

(adv.) Alt. of Noways

(superl.) Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

(superl.) Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.

(superl.) Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

(a.) Neat; tidy; spruce.

(n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.

(a.) Abounding in nuts.

(a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.

(n.) A pet name for a donkey.

(superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.

(superl.) Necessary; requiste.

(a.) Having long legs.

(a.) Vinnewed.

(n.) Leprosy.

(n.) A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.

(a.) Lethean.

(a.) Easily bent; pliable.

(a.) Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

(n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

(n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

(n.) That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.

(n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

(n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.

(v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.

(v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.

(a.) Having locks or tufts.

(a.) Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.

(n.) A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.

(adv.) Fitly; seasonably.

(n.) A little pie.

(a.) Arch; cunning; sly.

(a.) See Ochery.

(n.) Any eared seal.

(a.) Wavy; waving/ curly.

(adv.) In an odd manner; unevently.

(adv.) In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously.

(adv.) In a manner measured by an odd number.

(a.) Having a peak or peaks.

(a.) Sickly; peaked.

(a.) Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

(a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.

(a.) Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady; as, nappy ale.

(superl.) Dark; obscure; gloomy.

(n.) See Muraena.

(a.) The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.

(a.) The state of a layman.

(a.) Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.

(adv.) Laggingly.

(n.) See Cymry.

(a.) Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.

(a.) Capacious.

(n.) A muraena.

(a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.

(a.) Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.

(superl.) Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.

(superl.) Containing many words; full of words.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk.

(a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."

(a.) Yielding milk.

(a.) Mild; tame; spiritless.

(superl.) Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.

(superl.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green.

(superl.) Containing a worm; abounding with worms.

(superl.) Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.

(v. t.) To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

(v. t.) To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague.

(v. t.) To harass with labor; to fatigue.

(v. i.) To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries.

(n.) A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry.

(a.) Infested with moths; moth-eaten.

(a.) Full of, or consisting of, motes.

(n.) A minnow.

(a.) Infested with mice; smelling of mice.

(superl.) A bounding with juice; succulent.

(a.) Dark; gloomy. See Murky.

(a.) Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.

(a.) Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.

(superl.) Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

(superl.) Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.

(superl.) Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.

(superl.) Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.

(superl.) Not clear or bright.

(v. t.) To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy.

(a.) Raining in very small drops.

(superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.

(superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.

(n.) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate.

(n.) See Mulley.

(n.) See Misy.

(n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.

(a.) Like a miss, or girl.

(superl.) Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

(superl.) Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.

(n.) A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.

(n.) Dried flesh of a mummy.

(n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.

(n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).

(n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

(n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.

(v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.

(superl. -) Strong; sinewy.

(n.) The stormy petrel.

(a.) Like a net, or network; netted.

(n.) A bog or quagmire.

(n.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.

(a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.

(n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).

(n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.

(n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.

(n.) See Denarius.

(a.) Worth or costing one penny.

(n.) A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.

(n.) A suddent squall. See Pirry.

(v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.

(v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.

(v. i.) To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc.

(n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.

(a.) Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.

(a.) Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.

(v.) A part or portion.

(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.

(v.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.

(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.

(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.

(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.

(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

(v.) Cause; side; interest.

(v.) A person; as, he is a queer party.

(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

(v.) Partial; favoring one party.

(adv.) Partly.

(superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

(a.) Fat and short; pudgy.

(n.) The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.

(n.) Poetry; metrical composition; poems.

(n.) A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.

(n.) See Porgy.

(n.) A small whale.

(superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.

(n.) A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty.

(v. t. & i.) To project beyond.

(a.) Resembling a kecksy.

(a.) See Poky.

(n.) See Poly.

(a.) Without horns; polled.

(superl.) Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.

(superl.) Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.

(a.) Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.

(a.) Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

(n.) The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.

(n.) A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.

(v. i.) To bring forth whelps; to pup.

(n.) See Pise.