(n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

(n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.

(n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.

(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.

() of Burn

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

(n.) A donkey.

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

(n.) A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.

(n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.

(n.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.

(n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

(n.) A kind of bazaar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burst

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

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

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

(v. t.) To break.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A bust; a statue.

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

(a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.

(a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

(n.) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

(n.) A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.

(n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.

(n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

(n.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

(n.) Bilge water.

(v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

(v. i.) To bulge.

(v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).

(v. t.) To cause to bulge.

(a.) Having the smell of bilge water.

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

(a.) Twofold; double.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bare

(n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

(n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

(n.) A large boat used by flag officers.

(n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

(n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.

(n.) Baryta.

(a.) Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

(n.) A two-footed animal, as man.

(a.) Having two feet; two-footed.

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

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

(n.) A bristle or bristles.

(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

(n.) See Berth.

(v. t.) To busy; to employ.

(n.) The aurochs or European bison.

(n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

(n.) The common perch. See 1st Bass.

(n.) The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

(n.) An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.

(a.) Relating to, or forming, the base.

(n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.

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

(n.) One who cheats; a sharper.

(imp. & p. p.) of Base

(a.) Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.

(n.) Wearing, or protected by, bases.

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

() A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

(n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

(n.) The quantity contained in a basin.

(n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

(n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

(n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

(n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

(n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

(pl. ) of Basis

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

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

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

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

(n.) A basin.

(interj.) Enough; stop.

(n.) Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

(n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.

(n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.

(n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.

(n.) The principal rafters of a roof.

(n.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.

(n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.

(v. t.) To furnish with a blade.

(v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.

(v. t.) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

(v. t.) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

(v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep.

(v. t.) To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

(n.) The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.

(a.) Consisting of blades.

(v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

(v. t.) To bring reproach upon; to blemish.

(v.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

(v.) That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.

(v.) Hurt; injury.

(v. i.) To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

(v. t.) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

(n.) The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

(v. t.) The quantity of bread baked at one time.

(v. t.) A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bate

(a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

(pl. ) of Bath

(v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.

(v. t.) To lave; to wet.

(v. t.) To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.

(v. t.) To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.

(v. t.) To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.

(v. i.) To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.

(v. i.) To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.

(v. i.) To bask in the sun.

(n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.

(a.) Without color; pale; pallid.

(a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

(a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

(a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) Alt. of Blek

(v. i.) To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

(v. i.) To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

(v. i.) To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.

(v. i.) To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.

(v. i.) To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

(v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.

(v. t.) To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

(v. t.) To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.

(v. t.) To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.

() of Blend

(v. t.) To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.

(v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

(v. i.) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.

(n.) A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

(a.) To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.

(v. i.) To blink; to shine; to look.

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

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

() of Bless

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Blessed.

(n. & v.) See Balk.

(n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.

(n.) Impure limestone.

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

(a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

(a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

(a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.

(a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

(a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

(a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.

(a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

(a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

(a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.

(v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

(v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.

(v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

(n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.

(n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.

(n.) A halting place.

(n.) Alt. of Blinde

(imp. & p. p.) of Bay

(a.) Having a bay or bays.

(n.) An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.

(v. i.) To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

(v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.

(v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.

(v. i.) To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

(v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.

(v. t.) To trick; to deceive.

(v. i.) A glimpse or glance.

(v. i.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.

(v. i.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

(pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.

(n.) A gust of wind and rain.

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

(n.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

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

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

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

(a.) Bloated.

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) Alt. of Blonde

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

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

(a.) Having horns, or antlers.

() of Bear

(n.) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

(p. p.) of Blow

(p. p.) of Blow

(p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

(p. p. & a.) Stale; worthless.

(p. p. & a.) Out of breath; tired; exhausted.

(p. p. & a.) Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.

(p. p. & a.) Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Blue

(a.) Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.

(a.) Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.

(a.) Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

(a.) Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.

(v. t.) To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.

(pl. ) of Beau

(n.) pl. of Beau.

(n.) A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.

(n.) An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.

(n.) A game at cards; poker.

(v. t.) To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value.

(v. t.) To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off.

(v. i.) To act as in the game of bluff.

(n.) Alt. of Babu

(n.) Alt. of Bedell

(n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

(v. t.) To moisten with dew, or as with dew.

(v. t.) To make dim; to obscure or darken.

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

(v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

(v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

(v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

(v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

(v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.

(n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

(n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

(v. t.) To dye or stain.

(n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.

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

(n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

(n.) A table to put food upon.

(n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.

(n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.

(n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

(n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

(n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

(n.) The border or side of anything.

(n.) The side of a ship.

(n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

(v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.

(n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.

(n.) To enter, as a railway car.

(n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

(n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

(v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.

(v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

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

(n.) A beef; a beef creature.

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

(v. t.) To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.

(v. t.) Hence: To confuse; to mystify.

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

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

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

(v. t.) To display vaingloriously.

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To adorn with gems, or as with gems.

(imp.) of Beget

() of Beget

(p. p.) of Beget

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Begin

() of Begin

(v. t.) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.

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

(n.) In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

() p. p. of Begin.

(n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

(n.) Alt. of Behn

(n.) Debeige.

(n.) A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

(p. pr.) Existing.

(n.) Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence.

(n.) That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings.

(n.) Lifetime; mortal existence.

(n.) An abode; a cottage.

(adv.) Since; inasmuch as.

(v. t.) To beat or bang.

(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.

(v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

(v. i.) To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.

(v. i.) To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

(v. i.) To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

(n.) The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

(n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

(v. t.) To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.

(pl. ) of Bel-esprit

(n.) To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

(n.) To give a false representation or account of.

(n.) To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.

(n.) To mimic; to counterfeit.

(n.) To fill with lies.

(n.) A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

(n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bode

(n.) A botch; a patch.

(v. t.) To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.

(v. i.) See Budge.

(n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

(n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

(n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

(n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

(v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.

(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.

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

(n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.

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

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

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

(n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

(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.

(prep.) Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.

(prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.

(prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.

(adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.

(adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.

(adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.

(adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.

(adv.) In some part or page following.

(n.) A box.

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

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

(v. t.) To make mad.

(n.) The sign /; the same as B flat.

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Boldu

(n.) A child.

(n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

(n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

(n.) The seat where judges sit in court.

(n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

(n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

(n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

(v. t.) To furnish with benches.

(v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.

(v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

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

(n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bake

() p. p. of Bake.

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Bale

(v. t.) To take away.

(n.) The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

(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.

(n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

(n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

(n.) A boy's game played with large marbles.

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

(a.) Producing balm.

(n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

(v. t.) To rob; to plunder.

(n.) A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

(pl. ) of Byssus

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

(n.) Convenient sea room.

(n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

(n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

(n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.

(n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

(v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

(v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

(v. t. & i.) To see; to look; to mind.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beset

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

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Bone

(a.) Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

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

(n.) A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys.

(v. t.) To sweep, as with a besom.

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

(a.) Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.

(a.) Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

(a.) Manured with bone; as, boned land.

(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.

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

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

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

(n.) A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.

(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.

(n.) Same as Buddha.

(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.) See Bort.

(n.) A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.

(v. i.) To drink excessively. See Booze.

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

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

(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 white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bore

(n.) Same as BourrEe.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

(p. p.) Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

(n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

(n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.

(n.) The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

(n.) A small brass Venetian coin.

(a.) Drunken; sotted; boozy.

(a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bow

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

(a.) Caused by boscage.

(n.) The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

(n.) The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.

(n.) Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.

(n.) Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.

(n.) The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.

(n.) Inclination; desire.

(n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bosom.

(a.) Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.

(v. t.) To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bow

(n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

(n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

(n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.

(n.) Offspring.

(v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

(n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

(n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.

(a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

(a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.

(v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

(v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.

(v. i.) To swell out. See Bouge.

(v. t.) To cause to leak.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bewet

(v. t.) To wet or moisten.

(v. t.) To cover (the head) with a wig.

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

(n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

(n.) An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

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

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

(v. i.) To carouse; to bouse; to booze.

(v. i.) To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.

(n.) A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.

(pl. ) of Box

(imp. & p. p.) of Box

(a.) Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).

(n.) Alt. of Boyard

(n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

(v. t.) To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

(n.) See Boatswain.

(a.) Ornamented with bosses; studded.

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

(n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

(n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

(n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

(n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.

(n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

(n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

(n.) A bitch of the hound kind.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bide

(n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.

(n.) Salt or brackish water.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A shelter. Same as Beild.

(v. t.) To shelter.

(a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

(n.) Alt. of Boothy

(n. pl.) See Bots.

(n.) A mouth.

(n.) An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

(v. i.) To swell out.

(v. i.) To bilge.

(v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.

(n.) Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.

(v. t.) To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.

(v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

(v. t.) To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.

(n.) A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.

(n.) A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.

(n.) A quick motion; a start.

(n.) A fancy; freak; caprice.

(v. i.) To start; to awake.

(v. t.) Deceitful.

(n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

(n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

(n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

(v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

(n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

(n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

(n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.

(n.) The affections; fancy; imagination.

(v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

(v. t.) To conceive; to understand.

() imp. of Break.

(n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

(n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

(v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

(v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.

(v. t.) A baker's kneading though.

(v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.

(v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

(v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

(v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

(v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

(v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

(v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.

(v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

(v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.

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

(n.) Sharp passion; vexation.

(n.) A jest.

(v. i.) To jest.

(n.) A bigamist.

(n.) Buckwheat.

(n.) Alt. of Branks

(v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.

(v. i.) To prance; to caper.

(a.) Hasty in temper; impetuous.

(a.) Brittle, as wood or vegetables.

(n.) A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

(n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.

(n.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

(n.) Broken fragments of ice.

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

(superl.) Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

(superl.) Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.

(superl.) Making a fine show or display.

(n.) A brave person; one who is daring.

(n.) Specifically, an Indian warrior.

(n.) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.

(n.) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.

(v. t.) To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare.

(v. t.) To adorn; to make fine or showy.

(a.) A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.

(interj.) Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.

(v. i.) To quarrel noisily and outrageously.

(v. i.) To complain loudly; to scold.

(v. i.) To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.

(n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.

(n.) A muscle; flesh.

(n.) Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.

(n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

(n.) A boar.

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

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

(n.) A violent gust of wind.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

(a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.

(a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bright

(v. t.) To braid.

(n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

(v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

(v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

(v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

(v. i.) To transact business for another.

(v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

() imp. & p. p. of Break.

(n.) Aliment; food.

(n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.

(v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

(v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.

(v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

(v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

(a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

(a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

(v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.

(v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.

(v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

(v. t.) To cherish with care.

(v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

(n.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.

(n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

(v. t.) See Bream.

(n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.

(n.) Report; rumor; fame.

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

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

(n.) Mist; fog; vapors.

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

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

(a.) Same as Brusque.

(a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

(a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.

(a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

(a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.

(n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

(n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

(v. t.) To report; to bruit.

(n.) A woman's breast.

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

(n.) A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

(n.) Consisting of fur.

(n. fem.) The comic actress in an opera.

(a.) Comic, farcical.

(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.

(n.) A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

(n.) A horn used by hunters.

(n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

(n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

(a.) Jet black.

(n.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

(imp. & p. p.) of Build

(v. t.) To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

(v. t.) To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.

(v. t.) To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.

(v. i.) To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

(v. i.) To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

(n.) Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.

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

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

(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 bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

(n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

(n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

(n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

(n.) A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.

(n.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.

(n.) A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.

(n. & a.) Same as Borrel.

(v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.

(v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.

(v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

(v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.

(v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.

(v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.

(v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

(v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.

(v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.

(v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.

(v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.

(v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.

(v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.

(v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.

(v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.

(v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

(v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.

(v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.

(v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.

(v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm.

(v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.

(v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

(v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

(v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.

(v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.

(v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.

(v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.

(v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.

(v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.

(v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.

(v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.

(v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.

(v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.

(v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.

(v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

(v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

(n.) See Commutator.

(v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.

(v. i.) To harden.

(v. t.) To cover or ornament with brass.

(a.) To spread.

(n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

(n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

(v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

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(n.) Alt. of Breede

(n.) A braid.

(a.) Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.

(a.) Famous; renowned; well known.

(n.) A brier.

(imp.) of Breste

(n.) A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service.

(n.) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.

(n.) A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.

(n.) The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

(n.) Same as Brier.

(n.) A gift begged; a present.

(n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.

(n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement.

(v. t.) To rob or steal.

(v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.

(v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.

(v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.

(v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.

(v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge.

(v. t.) To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.

(v. t.) To cheat in a bargain; to chouse.

(pl. ) of Beau