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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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.

(v. t.) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.

(v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground.

(n.) That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

(prep. & adv.) Nigh.

(n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

(adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.

(adv.) Behind; in the rear.

(adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

(n.) An abacus.

(pl. ) of Abacus

(n.) The rhinoceros.

(adv. & a.) On fire.

(adv. & a.) Flowing.

(adv. & a.) In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.

(adv.) On foot.

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

(adv.) Before.

(adv.) In the fore part of a vessel.

(prep.) Before (in all its senses).

(prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass.

(adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.

(n.) Alt. of Afreet

(a.) Old-womanish; imbecile.

(a.) Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.

(n.) A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.

(pl. ) of Animus

(n.) An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

(n.) The fruit or seeds of this plant.

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

(n.) The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.

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

(n.) See Annals.

(v. t.) To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

(v. t.) To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.

(v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

(v. i.) To join; to be united.

(n.) Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

(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.

(a.) To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.

(a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority.

(n.) The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

(v. t.) To anoint with oil.

(n.) Disregard or violation of law.

(v. t.) To adorn.

(pl. ) of Ansa

(pl. ) of Anta

(n. pl.) Antae. See Anta.

(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.

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

(n.) An arrest; a legal seizure.

(v. t.) Same as Aret.

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

(n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

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

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

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

(n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.

(a.) Old; antique.

(a.)

(a.) Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.

(n.) A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.

(n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.

(n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.

(n.) A grotesque representation.

(n.) An antimask.

(v. t.) To make appear like a buffoon.

(v. i.) To perform antics.

(n.) A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

(adv.) With art or skill.

(pl. ) of As

(n.) A cavern.

(pl. ) of Antrum

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

(n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

(n.) Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.

(n.) the incus. See Incus.

(v. t.) To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ash tree.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

(n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.

(adv.) On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.

(adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts.

(adv.) So as to be heard by others; privately.

(n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

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

(v. t.) Alt. of Aghast

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

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age

(n.) See Agendum.

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

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

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Ask

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

(n.) An ask; a water newt.

(adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.

(n.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

(adv.) With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.

(a.) Paid; pleased.

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

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

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

(adv.) Aside; away.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ape

(adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.

(a.) Open; evident; undisguised.

(adv.) Openly.

(n.) A place where apes are kept.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The venomous asp.

(n.) A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.

(n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

(n.) A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Aggri

(a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

(pl. ) of Agio

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

(n.) One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.

(a.) Belonging to bees.

(n.) An oily liquid derived from parsley.

(a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

(n.) Alt. of Aiglet

(adv.) Aside; askew.

(adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

(n.) Agnus Dei.

(a. & adv.) Ago.

(n.) Agonic line.

(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.

(n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

(adv.) In good part; kindly.

(v. i.) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.

(v. i.) To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

(v. i.) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

(v. i.) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

(v. i.) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

(v. i.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.

(v. t.) To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.

(v. t.) To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.

(n.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

(pl. ) of Apode

(adv. & a.) In a gushing state.

(adv.) In or to the front; in advance; onward.

(adv.) Headlong; without restraint.

(adv.) In a heap; huddled together.

(adv.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

(imp. & p. p.) of Aid

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

(a.) Sour.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ail

(imp. & p. p.) of Aim

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Air

(n.) One who exposes to the air.

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

(n.) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

(n.) Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

(n.) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

(n.) The letter h or H.

(n.) Same as Achene.

(adv.) On the knee.

() Earlier form of Acknow.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow.

(n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

(n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

(n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.

(n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

(n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.

(v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

(v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

(v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

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

(adv.) Lately; of late.

(a.) Alt. of Alated

(n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

(n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

(n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

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

(adv.) Continually.

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

(adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.

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

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

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

(adv.) In an ample manner.

(n.) Same as Ampulla, 2.

(n.) Alt. of Amzel

(n.) The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

(a. & adv.) In a frenzied and reckless manner.

(v.) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.

(v.) To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.

(v.) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

(v. i.) To muse; to mediate.

(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.

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

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

(a.) Dazed; foolish; infatuated.

(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.

(n.) An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

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

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

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

(n.) See Ankle.

(prep. & adv.) Near.

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

(v. t.) To anoint.

(v. t.) To give extreme unction to.

(pl. ) of Asylum

(v. t.) To overtake.

(n.) Disorder; irregularity.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

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

(n.) A skeleton.

(v. i.) To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.

(v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.

(v. t.) To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.

(v. t.) To unite in making.

(v. t.) To make satisfaction for; to expiate.

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

(pl. ) of Atrium

(n.) Same as Attle.

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

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

(n.) Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore.

(a.) Poisonous; malignant; malicious.

(a.) An audience; a hearing.

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

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

(a.) A general receptacle or receiver.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Aucht

(n.) Property; possession.

(n.) Anything; any part.

(adv.) At all; in any degree.

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Pertaining to a royal court.

(n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

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

(pl. ) of Aura

(n.) A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin.

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

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Abide

(v. i.) To wait; to pause; to delay.

(v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.

(v. i.) To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.

(v. t.) To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.

(v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to submit to.

(v. t.) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.

(v. t.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.

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

(pl. ) of Alga

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae.

(a.) Cold; chilly.

(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).

(n.) Cold; chilliness.

(n.) Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).

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

(adv.) At another time.

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

(n.) Another name; an assumed name.

(n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.

(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

(adv.) On my life; dearly.

(v. t.) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

(v. t.) To form in line; to fall into line.

(a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

(adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.

(a.) Like ale; as, an alish taste.

(a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

(a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.

(a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.

(a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.

(a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.

(a.) Of all living (by way of emphasis).

(n.) A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.

(n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

(n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;

(n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.

(n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.

(n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.

(n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.

(n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

(n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

(n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.

(n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.

(n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

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

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

(n.) Same as Apse.

(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.

(v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.

(a.) Same as Alder, of all.

(n.) See Allodium.

(v. t. / i.) To incite dogs by a call; to halloo.

(v. t.) To distribute by lot.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A mandrel in lathe turning.

(v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

(v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

(v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.

(v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.

(v. t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.

(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

(v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

(v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

() A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.

(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.

(n.) An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

(n.) Same as Alme.

(n.) An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.

(n.) Alt. of Algum

(n.) A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).

(pl. ) of Aloe

(a.) Arched; as, archy brows.

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

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

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

(prep.) Above; on top of.

(n.) Unreasonableness; absurdity.

(a.) Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.

(a.) Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.

(a.) Sole; only; exclusive.

(a.) Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.

(adv.) Solely; simply; exclusively.

(adv.) By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.

(adv.) In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.

(adv.) In company; together.

(prep.) By the length of, as distinguished from across.

() (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)

(n.) Same as Alewife.

(adv.) At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.

(adv.) Without sympathy; unfavorably.

(prep.) Away from; clear from.

(v. t.) To praise.

(n.) The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.

(adv.) With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

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

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

(n.) Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim.

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

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

(v. t.) Alt. of Areed

(a.) Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

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

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

(adv. & a.) In a reeking condition.

(n.) Alt. of Arenga

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

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

(v. t.) To geld.

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

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

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

(v. t.) To abandon.

(v. t.) To banish; to expel.

(a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

(a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

(v. t.) To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

(n.) A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

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

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

(n.) Crude tartar. See Argol.

(adv.) A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore.

(n.) Alt. of Argali

(adv.) On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

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

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

(n.) The white poplar (Populus alba).

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

(conj.) Although.

(n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

(n.) A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds.

(adv.) Always.

(n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.

(n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.

(v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

(v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

(n.) Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

(n.) Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks.

(n.) A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness.

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

(v. i.) To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

(v. i.) To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.

(v. t.) To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

(v. t.) To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.

(v. t.) To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.

(v. t.) To blame; to accuse; to charge with.

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

(n.) A mass; a heap.

(v. t.) To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.

(v. t.) To be a mate to; to match.

(v. t.) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

(v. t.) To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly.

(v. i.) To be astounded.

(v. t.) Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement.

() A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.

(n.) Circuit or compass.

(pl. ) of Ambo

(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.

(a. & n.) See Aryan.

(a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings.

(n.) One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius.

(n.) Alt. of Amir

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

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

(imp.) of Arise

(v. i.) To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

(v. i.) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise.

(v. i.) To proceed; to issue; to spring.

(n.) Rising.

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

(n.) A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.

(a.) Containing, or derived from, amidogen.

(n.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Arm

(a.) Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.

(a.) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.

(a.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey.

(prep.) Alt. of Amongst

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

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

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

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

(n.) Love; affection.

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

(v. t.) To remove, as a person or thing, from a position.

(v. t.) To dismiss from an office or station.

(v. t. & i.) To move or be moved; to excite.

(n.) The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

(n.) The earthnut.

(a.) Alt. of Aroideous

(n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

(n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.

(n.) A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

() The past or preterit tense of Arise.

(n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

(a.) Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.

(a.) Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

(a.) Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.

() A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

() A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

(v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

(v. t.) To promote; to assist.

(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.

(n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

(n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

(v. t. & i.) See Avale, v.

(v. t. & i.) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.

(v. t. & i.) To bring low; to abase.

(v. t. & i.) To descend; to fall; to dismount.

(a.) Cease; stop; stay.

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

(n.) Alt. of Abyme

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

(v. i.) To turn away.

(a.) Of or instrument to birds.

(v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

(n.) Information; advice.

(n.) An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

(a.) To empty.

(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

(a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

(a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.

(a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.

(a.) To get rid of.

(a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.

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

(v. i.) To become void or vacant.

(v. t.) To call from or back again.

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To watch.

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

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

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

(imp.) of Awake

() of Awake

(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

(v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

(v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

(a.) Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

(v. t.) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.

(v. i.) To determine; to make an award.

(v. t.) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

(v. t.) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.

(a.) Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

(a.) Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs.

(v. t.) To warn.

(a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Awe

(a.) Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

(a.) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.

(a.) Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.

(a.) Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.

(a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.

(adv.) On the wing; flying; fluttering.

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

(adv.) Awkwardly.

(a.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

(a.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.

(a.) Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.

(a.) A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

(a.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

(a.) Having an axle; -- used in composition.

(pl. ) of Axman

(n.) One who wields an ax.

(prep. & adv.) Beyond.

(prep. & adv.) Beyond.

(a.) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks.

(n.) Same as Nitrogen.

(n.) The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

(n.) The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

(a.) Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.

(n.) The lapis lazuli.

(n.) The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.

(n.) The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.

(n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

(v. t.) To color blue.

(n.) Unleavened bread.

(adv.) On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.

(a.) Soaking.

(n.) See Apsis.

(a.) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

(n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

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

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

(v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

(n.) Adornment.

(a.) Adorned; decorated.

(adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.

(prep.) Down.

(p. a.) Put in dread; afraid.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Add

(n.) One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, / Oryx, nasomaculatus).

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

(n.) A serpent.

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

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

(n.) Same as Sea Adder.

(v. t.) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.

(v. t.) To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.

(v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.

(v. t.) To dishonor.

(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

(v. t.) To deceive; to impose on.

(v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.

(v. t.) Physical ill treatment; injury.

(v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.

(v. t.) Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.

(v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.

(a.) In a buzz; buzzing.

(n.) An abyss; a gulf.

(pl. ) of Acarus

(a.) comp. of Able.

(a.) superl. of Able.

() Alt. of Ablen

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

() pret. of Abide.

(n.) Act of waiting; delay.

(n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.

(n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.

(v. t.) An omen.

(v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To be ominous.

(n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

(prep.) and adv. Above.

(n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.

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

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

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

(n.) An untimely birth.

(n.) An aborted offspring.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(adv.) On all sides; around.

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

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

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

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

(prep.) In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath.

(prep.) Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach.

(prep.) Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)

(adv.) In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.

(adv.) Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page.

(adv.) Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.

(adv.) More than; as, above five hundred were present.

(v.) See Abraid.

() A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. 'anti`, Skr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of.

(pl. ) of Area

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

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

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

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

(adv.) At work; in action.

(n.) Liquid filth; mire.

(n.) Lees; dregs.

(a.) Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.

(v. t. & i.) To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.

(v. t. & i.) To earn by labor.

(v. t. & i.) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

(v. t.) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

() Alt. of Adeno-

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

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

(a.) Alt. of Adunque

(v. t.) To burn up.

(a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.

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

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

(adv.) In a cocked or turned up fashion.

(a.) Cold.

(n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

(n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

(n.) See Acorn-shell.

(a.) Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.

(a.) Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.

(a.) Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.

(a.) Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Ache

(pl. ) of Acinus

(imp. & p. p.) of Act

(a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

(a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

(a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

(a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

(a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.

(v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

(v. t.) To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

(v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.

(v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

(v. t.) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

(v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

(v. t.) To mingle with something else; to mix.

(n.) Animal fat; lard.

(n.) One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

(a.) Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

(interj. & adv.) Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.

(n.) A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.

(n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

(a.) Fitted; suited.

(v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.

(adv.) Level with the ground; flat.

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

(a.) Hinder; nearer the rear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(adv.) In return, back; as, bring us word again.

(adv.) Another time; once more; anew.

(adv.) Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again.

(adv.) In any other place.

(adv.) On the other hand.

(adv.) Moreover; besides; further.

(prep.) Alt. of Agains

(adv. & a.) In the act of grinning.

(adv.) Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold.

() A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.

(pl. ) of Alto

(pl. ) of Adytum

(n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

() The combining form of the Greek word meaning air.