(n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

(n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

(n.) The chancel.

(v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

(imp.) of Choose

() of Choose

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

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

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

(n.) The string of a musical instrument.

(n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

(n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

(n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

(n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.

(v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

(v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

(n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.

(v. i.) To do chores.

(n.) A choir or chorus.

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

(a.) Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.

(a.) Causing mirth; ludicrous.

(n.) A comedian.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coo

(n.) Alt. of Cooee

(n.) A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.

(n.) Alt. of Coolie

(n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.

(n.) A thing; personal property.

() imp. & p. p. of Choose.

(n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

(n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.

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

(n.) Alt. of Coombe

() A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cope

(a.) Clad in a cope.

(n.) See Copse.

(n.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

(n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

(v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.

(v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.

(a.) Characterized by copses.

(a.) Crooked.

(n.) Minced meat.

(n.) A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

(n.) A coarse or stupid fellow.

(a.) Stupid; churlish.

(n.) A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.

(n.) A short, thick piece of anything.

(n.) That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.

(n.) A rustic; a countryman or laborer.

(n.) A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.

(n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

(a.) Churlish; rough; selfish.

(n.) Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.

(v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

(v. t.) To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.

(v. t.) To shake or agitate with violence.

(v. i.) To perform the operation of churning.

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

(a.) Tasting of cork.

(v. t.) See Choose.

(n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

(n.) The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

(n.) A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

(n.) The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

(n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.

(n.) A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

(n.) A corolla.

(n. pl.) The eyelashes.

(n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

(n. pl.) Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.

(n. pl.) Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.

(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

(n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.

(n.) A tight grip.

(pl. ) of Cippus

(n.) Summons to appear, as before a judge.

(n.) Citation; quotation

(imp. & p. p.) of Cite

(n.) One who cites.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.

(a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.

(a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.

(a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.

(n.) See Corf.

(v. t.) See Cozen.

(a.) See Cozy.

(n.) Account; reckoning; computation.

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

(a.) Neat; spruce.

(v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.

(n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

(n.) The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc.

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

(n.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

(v. t.) To perform; to do; to finish.

(v. t.) To work or hew, as stone.

(v. i.) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

(n.) A narrow street.

(n. & v.) A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.

(n.) Charcoal; a cinder.

(v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.

(n.) A melody; a song.

(n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.

(n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.

(n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

(n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.

(n.) To make music upon; to tune.

(n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.

(n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

(n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.

(n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.

(v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.

(v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.

(v. i.) To make a musical sound.

(n.) See 1st Char.

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

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

(n.) A written deed; a charter.

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

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

(n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

(n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

(n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.

(n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.

(n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

(v. t.) To convey in a coach.

(v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.

(v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with

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

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

(n.) A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).

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

(n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.

(n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.

(n.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.

(adv.) Cheaply.

(v. i.) To buy; to bargain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) To beguile.

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

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

(n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

(n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.

(n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.

(n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

(n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

(n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

(n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

(n.) Small chick or crack.

(v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.

(v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

(v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.

(v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.

(v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

(v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.

(v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.

(v. i.) To clash or interfere.

(v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.

(v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.

(v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

(a.) Checkered; designed in checks.

(n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

(n.) The side of the face below the eye.

(n.) The cheek bone.

(n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

(n.) The branches of a bridle bit.

(n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

(n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.

(v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to.

(v. i.) To chirp, as a young bird.

(v. t.) To give expression to in a chirping tone.

(n.) A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.

(n.) The face; the countenance or its expression.

(n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.

(n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.

(n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

(n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.

(v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.

(v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.

(v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.

(v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind.

(v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.

(n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

(pl. ) of Coccus

(n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

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

(v. t.) To choose

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

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

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

(n.) A coffin.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Strife; contention; controversy.

(a.) Pert.

() Alt. of Cocoa palm

(n.) A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

(v. i.) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise.

(n.) A book; a manuscript.

(n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code.

(n.) An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.

(n.) A collection of canons.

(n.) A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

(n.) A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

(n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.

(n.) The chick-pea.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.

(v. i.) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

(v. i.) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

(n.) A continuous noise or murmur.

(n.) The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.

(n.) The principal part; the most valuable portion.

(n.) The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs.

(a.) Highest in office or rank; principal; head.

(a.) Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.

(a.) Very intimate, near, or close.

(n.) A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum

(n.) A small wooden vessel; a pail.

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

(n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.

(a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.

(n.) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.

(v. i.) Chime.

(n.) See Chine, n., 3.

(n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.

(n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.

(n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.

(n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

(n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

(n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.

(n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

(v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

(v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

(n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.

(n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.

(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]

(n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

(v. t.) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

(v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

(n.) A ship's carpenter.

(v. i.) To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.

(v. i.) To chirp like a bird.

(v. t.) To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.

(v. i.) Lively; cheerful; in good spirits.

(v. i.) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.

(v. i.) To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

(n.) A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.

(n.) A filament of a stamen.

(n.) A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.

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

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

(n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

(n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.

(n.) A small room; an inclosed place.

(n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers.

(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.

(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

(n.) A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

(n.) A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.

(v. t.) To roast, as a cabob.

(n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

(n.) A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.

(pl. ) of Cactus

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

(n.) See Cadre.

(n.) Alt. of Cadeworm

(v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden.

(v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.

(v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

(n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

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

(n.) Alt. of Caddie

(n.) A kind of coarse serge.

(n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

(n. pl.) See Caecum.

(pl. ) of Caecum

(imp. & p. p.) of Cage

(a.) Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.

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

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

(n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

(n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cake

(a.) Hot; burning; ardent.

(n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.

(n.) A cup. See Calyx.

(n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm.

(n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.

(n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

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

(imp.) of Can

(n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

(n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

(a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.

(a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.

(a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

(v. i.) To clip with scissors.

(n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.

(n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.

(v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

(v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.

(v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.

(v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

(v. t.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.

(n.) See Clake.

(v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

(v./.) To proclaim.

(v./.) To call or name.

(v./.) To assert; to maintain.

(v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

(n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

(n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.

(n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

(n.) A loud call.

(n.) Alt. of Claik

(n.) The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cane

(a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.

(pl. ) of Canis

(a.) Alt. of Cannei

(n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.

(n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.

(n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.

(v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

() A colloquial contraction for can not.

(n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.

(v. t. & n.) See Calk.

(n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever.

(v.) That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

(v.) That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.

(v.) Sake; interest; advantage.

(v.) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.

(v.) Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.

(v.) The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.

(n.) To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.

(v. i.) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

(conj.) Abbreviation of Because.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cave

(n.) A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.

(imp. & p. p.) of Caw

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

(n.) A kind of wig.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

(v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

(v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.

(n.) Extinction.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cede

(a.) Of the nature of cedar.

(n.) A girdle.

(n.) The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

(pl. ) of Cello

(n.) A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.

(n.) Condition; rank.

(v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.

(v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.

(pl. ) of Cercus

(imp. & p. p.) of Cere

(n.) A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol.

(n.) A variety of the mineral allanite.

(n.) A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a whale.

(n.) A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.

(n.) A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti.

(v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

(v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

(v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.

(v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

(v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.

(v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

(n.) Heat excited by friction.

(n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.

(n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

(n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

(n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.

(n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

(n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

(n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.

(v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

(v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

(n.) A movable single seat with a back.

(n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

(n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

(n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

(n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

(v. t.) To place in a chair.

(v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

(n.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.

(n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

(n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.

(v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.

(v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land.

(v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

(n.) The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.

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

(v. t.) To celebrate in song.

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

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

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

(v. t.) Song; melody.

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

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

(superl.) Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

(superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

(superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

(superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

(superl.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

(superl.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

(superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement.

(superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.

(superl.) Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

(adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.

(adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

(a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

(n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

(n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

(n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

(n.) See Concha, n.

(n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

(v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

(v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

(v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

(v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

(v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.

(v. t.) To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

(v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

(v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

(v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

(v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

(v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

(v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

(v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

(v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

(v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

(v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

(v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.

(v. i.) A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

(v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

(imp.) Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

(n.) The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.

(n.) A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

(a.) Curved; rounded.

(v. i.) To bend; to stop; to bow.

(imp. & p. p.) Could; was able; knew or known; understood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cove

(v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

(v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.

(v. t.) To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.

(v. t.) To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.

(v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.

(v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.

(v. t.) To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.

(v. t.) To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.

(v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on.

(v. t.) To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.

(n.) Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.

(n.) Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.

(n.) Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.

(n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.

(n.) The lap of a slide valve.

(n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.

(v. i.) To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.

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

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

(n.) The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

(n.) The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy.

(n.) An apophyge.

(n.) To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A pantry.

(n.) A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.

(n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cow

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Coy

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

(n.) A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.

(v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

(v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.

(v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

(v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

(v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

(v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.

(v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.

(v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

(v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

(v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.

(v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.

(n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.

(n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.

(n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.

(n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

(n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.

(n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.

(n.) A boast; boasting.

(n.) Breach of chastity.

(n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

(n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.

(n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.

(a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.

(n.) Same as Conine.

(a.) Alt. of Conical

(n.) A conic section.

(n.) Strength; might; secret power.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) See Crare.

(v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.

(v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

(n.) A boast. See Crack, n.

(n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

(n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

(n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

(n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.

(n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

(n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.

(v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.

(v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.

(v. t.) to bind together; to unite.

(v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.

(v. t.) To afflict with cramp.

(n.) Knotty; difficult.

(n.) See Krang.

(n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

(n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

(n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

(n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.

(n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.

(n.) A sick person; an invalid.

(n.) Sick; infirm.

(n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.

(n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

(n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

(n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen.

(n.) To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.

(n.) A gambling game with dice.

(a.) Resembling crape.

(n.) A slow unwieldy trading vessel.

(v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

(v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

(v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

(n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

(n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

(n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

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

(n.) A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.

(n.) A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

(v. t.) To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

(v. t.) To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

(v. t.) To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.

(v. i.) To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.

(v. i.) To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

(v. i.) to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.

(v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

(v. i.) To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.

(n.) The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

(n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

(v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

(v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

(v. t.) To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

(v. i.) To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

(v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

(n.) Craziness; insanity.

(n.) A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.

(n.) A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.

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

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

(a.) Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.

(v. i.) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.

(v. t.) To produce a creaking sound with.

(n.) The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

(n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

(n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.

(n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

(n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.

(n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.

(v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

(v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of.

(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream.

(v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

(n.) An usher to a riding master.

(n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

(n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.

(n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

(n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

(n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

(n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

(n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

(n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

(n.) A mollusk. See Clam.

(n.) Alt. of Caple

(n.) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

(v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

(n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.

(n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer.

(n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

(n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.

(v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

(v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.

(n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.

(v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.

(v. t.) To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.

(v. i.) To give out a clang; to resound.

(n.) A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.

(n.) Quality of tone.

(n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.

(v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.

(v. i.) To sound with a clank.

(n.) A bird; the flicker.

(v. t.) Variant of Clasp

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

(v. i.) To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

(v. i.) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.

(v. t.) To strike noisily against or together.

(n.) A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

(n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

(n.) A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.

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

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

() imp. of Cleave.

(n.) A mantelpiece.

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

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

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

(superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

(superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.

(superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.

(superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.

(superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.

(superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.

(superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.

(superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.

(superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.

(superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.

(superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.

(n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

(adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.

(adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.

(v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.

(v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

(v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.

(v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.

(v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.

(v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.

(v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.

(v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net.

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

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

(v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.

(v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.

(v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.

(v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.

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

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

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

() of Cleave

(imp.) of Cleave

() of Cleave

() of Cleave

(p. p.) of Cleave

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To call, or name.

(v. i.) To make appeal; to cry out.

(n.) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

(n.) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

(v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

(v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.

(v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.

(n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

(n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

(v. t.) To snatch.

(n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

(n.) The latch of a door.

() of Climb

(v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

(v. i.) To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.

(imp. & p. p.) of Care

(v. i.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

(v. t.) To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

(n.) The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

(n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cling

() of Cling

(v. i.) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.

(v. t.) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.

(v. t.) To make to dry up or wither.

(n.) Adherence; attachment; devotion.

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

(n.) The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.

(n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

(v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

(v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.

(v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].

(n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.

(n.) A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

(n.) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.

(n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

(n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.

(n.) The striking of a clock.

(n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

(v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

(v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

(n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).

(n.) Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

(n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.

(n.) One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.

(n.) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

(v. i.) To make a carom.

(pl. ) of Carp

(n. & v.) See Cloak.

() Alt. of Clomben

(n.) See Clamp.

() imp. of Cling.

(n.) The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

(n.) Low, fertile land; a river valley.

(n.) A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.

(n.) The game of ninepins.

(n.) The common burdock; the clotbur.

(n.) A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

(n.) The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.

(n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.

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

(n.) A swadding cloth.

(n.) A piece; a fragment.

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

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

(n.) A blow with the hand.

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

(n.) To join or patch clumsily.

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

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

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

(imp.) Cleft.

(v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.

(n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.

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

(v. t.) To cut.

(v. t.) To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.

(v. t.) To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.

(v. t.) To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.

(v. t.) To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

(v. t.) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

(v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

(v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

(v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

(n.) A carucate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.

(imp. & p. p.) of Case

(n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

(n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.

(n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.

(n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.

(n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.

(v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.

(v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

(v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

(n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.

(n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.

(n.) An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

(n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.

(n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.

(v. t.) To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.

(v. i.) To tread clumsily; to clamp.

() imp. & p. p. of Cling.

(v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.

(n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

(n.) One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

(n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

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

(n.) Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.

(n.) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

(n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.

(n.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.

(n.) The four of cards or dice.

(v. t.) To cut diagonally.

(n.) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

(n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.

(n.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.

(n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.

(n.) That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.

(n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.

(n.) A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).

(n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.

(v. t.) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.

(v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.

(v. t.) To hide.

(v. i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

(n.) A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

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

(v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

(v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity.

(n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

(n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

(adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

(v. t.) To encounter.

(n.) An encounter.

(v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

(v. t.) To believe; to credit.

(imp.) of Creep

(p. p.) of Creep

(v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.

(v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

(v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.

(v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

(v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

(v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.

(v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.

(v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

(n.) The act or process of creeping.

(n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.

(n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.

(n.) Same as Crape.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To form a crest.

() imp. & p. p. of Cry.

(n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation.

(n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.

(n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

(n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.

(n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.

(n.) That which occasion crime.

(v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.

(v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.

(v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.

(v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.

(a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

(a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

(n.) A coal broker.

(n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

(n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

(n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.

(n.) A game at cards.

(n.) The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.

(v. i.) To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

(v. i.) To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

(v. t.) To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.

(n.) The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

(n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

(v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.

(v. i.) To give off crock or smut.

(n.) A low stool.

(n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.

(v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.

(n.) See Cross, n.

(n.) An old ewe.

(n.) An old woman; -- usually in contempt.

(n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.

(n.) A crone.

(n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend

(n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

(n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

(n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

(n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

(n.) A pothook.

(n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

(n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

(n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

(n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

(n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

(v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

(v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.

(v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.

(v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.

(v. t.) To soothe by singing softly.

(n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur.

(n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

(n.) Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).

(n.) The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.

(n.) An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.

(n.) See Sourkrout.

(v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.

(v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.

(v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

(v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

(v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

(v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

(v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

(v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

(v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

(v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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

(n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

(superl.) In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.

(superl.) Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.

(superl.) Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.

(superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.

(superl.) Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.

(superl.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

(a.) Coagulated.

(a.) Characterized by crudeness; raw.

(n.) See Crewel.

(a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.

(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

(a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

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

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

(a.) Curly; curled.

(n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

(n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.

(n.) The soft part of bread.

(v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.

(a.) Crooked; bent.

(a.) Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.

(v. i.) Alt. of Crunkle

(n.) The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

(n. pl.) See Crus.

(pl. ) of Crus

(n.) A cup or dish.

(n.) A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.

(v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

(v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

(v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.

(v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

(v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

(n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

(n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) See 4th Crowd.

(n.) See 4th Crowd.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cry

(pl. ) of Cry

(n.) The heron

(pl. ) of Carpus

(v. t.) To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

(v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

(v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

(v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

(v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

(v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

(v. t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

(v. t.) To get possession of; to attain.

(v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

(v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

(v. t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

(v. i.) To attain possession.

(v. i.) To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.

(v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

(v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.

(n.) Act of seizing; a grasp.

(n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

(n.) The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.

(n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.

(n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

(n.) Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

(n.) A slight remembrance; a trace.

(n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

(n.) Alt. of Cubbyhole

(imp. & p. p.) of Cube

(n.) The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

(a.) Alt. of Cubical

(n.) A curve of the third degree.

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

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

(v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

(v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

(v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

(v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

(v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

(v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

(v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

(n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

(n.) The tied end of a cartridge.

(n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

(n.) A name for a negro.

(n.) Defensive armor for the thighs.

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

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

(n.) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.

(a.) See Cuming.

(n.) A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway.

(n.) A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).

(v. t.) To refine by means of a cupel.

(n.) A cuirass or breastplate.

(n.) See Courche.

(v. t.) To choose or elect in concert with another.

(n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

(n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Cure

(n.) One who cures; a healer; a physician.

(n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

(n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu.

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

() of Curse

(v. t.) To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

(v. t.) To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

(v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.

(v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.

(v. t.) Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.

(v. t.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

() imp. & p. p. of Curse.

(a.) Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.

(a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

(a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

(a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.

(a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

(v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

(n.) The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

(n.) See Dermis.

(n.) Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc.

(n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

(n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.

(n.) An age; a long period of time.

(n.) An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.

(n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

(n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.

(n.) A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.

(v. i.) To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.

(v. i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.

(n.) See Cider.

(n.) A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.