(superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

(superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Choke

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

(n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

(n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

(n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.

(n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

(n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

(n.) One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

(n.) A long, curling wave.

(v. t.) To cumber.

(n.) Encumbrance.

(n.) The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

(a.) Alt. of Cholinic

(p. p.) of Choose

(v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

(v. t.) To wish; to desire; to prefer.

(v. i.) To make a selection; to decide.

(v. i.) To do otherwise.

(n.) A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

(n.) See Chopine.

(a.) Full of cracks.

(a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.

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

(n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

(n.) A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.

(superl.) Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good-looking; handsome.

(superl.) Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.

(adv.) In a becoming manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

(n.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.

(n.) A cord.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chore

(n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

(n.) See Choreus.

(n.) a trochee.

(n.) A tribrach.

(a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.

(n.) A convex body or surface.

(v. t.) To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

(v. t.) To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

(v. t.) To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.

(v. t.) To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.

(v. t.) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

(v. t.) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

(v. t.) To accompany; to convoy.

(v. i.) To play the thief; to steal.

(a.) Alt. of Anent

(a.) Soothing.

(n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.

() A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Angle

(a.) Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right-angled, many-angled, etc.

(n.) One who angles.

(n.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

(n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

(a.) Anglian.

() A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish.

(n.) A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

(n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.

(a.) Narrow; strait.

(v. t.) To hang.

(v. i.) To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).

(n.) A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

(n.) Alt. of Annicut

(adv.) Alt. of Anights

(n.) A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

(v. t.) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

(v. t.) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age.

(v. t.) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

(v. t.) To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.

(v. t. & i.) To strike, or strike down.

(v. t.) To startle from quiet; to alarm.

(v. t.) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.

(v. t.) The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.

(v. t.) Alarm; terror; fright.

(v. t.) A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.

(v. t.) The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.

(n.) A furious onset or attack.

(n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.

(n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

(n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

(n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

(n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.

(v. t.) To pour out or upon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Affy

(a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.

(n.) A native of Afghanistan.

(n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.

(adv.) To, in, or on the field.

(adv.) Out of the way; astray.

(adv. & a.) Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.

(adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

(adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.

(adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

(n.) See Orach.

(n.) A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

(a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.

(a.) Thorough or downright, in a good sense.

(adv. & a.) In a flushed or blushing state.

(adv. & a.) On a level.

(p. a.) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.

(n.) Same as Afrit.

(adv.) Anew; again; once more; newly.

(n.) Alt. of Afreet

(n.) A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

(adv.) In front; face to face.

(prep.) In front of.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.

(n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

(n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

(a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

(a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

(a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

(n.) Animating spirit; intention; temper.

(a.) Of or derived from anise; as, anisic acid; anisic alcohol.

(a.) Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled.

(n.) An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.

(n.) A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle.

(n. pl.) A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.

(n. pl.) Historical records; chronicles; history.

(n. pl.) The record of a single event or item.

(n. pl.) A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."

(n. pl.) Alt. of Annates

(v. t.) To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

(v. t.) To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

(a.) Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.

(a.) Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.

(n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.

(n.) Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.

(n.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.

(pl. ) of Annulus

(n.) A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.

(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

(v. t.) To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

(p. p.) Anointed.

(n.) A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidae. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

(n.) Anything anomalous.

(n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

(n.) One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym."

(n.) A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word.

(n. pl.) One of the two orders of Nemerteans. See Nemertina.

(a.) Want or defect of sight; blindness.

(n.) See Annotto.

(n.) See Anura.

(n.) To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

(n.) To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.

(n.) To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.

(n.) To be or act in return or response to.

(n.) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.

(n.) To render account to or for.

(n.) To atone; to be punished for.

(n.) To be opposite to; to face.

(n.) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

(n.) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.

(v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.

(v. i.) To make a satisfactory response or return.

(v. i.) To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.

(v. i.) To be or act in return.

(v. i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.

(v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition.

(v. i.) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.

(v. i.) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.

(n.) A reply to a change; a defense.

(n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.

(n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.

(n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.

(n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.

(a.) Being before, or in front.

(n.) Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

(n.) A song or hymn of praise.

(v. t.) To celebrate with anthems.

(n.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.

(adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.

(n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.

(a.) Alt. of Arrected

(v. t.) To direct.

(v. t.) To impute.

(v. t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

(v. t.) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

(v. t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.

(v. t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.

(v. i.) To tarry; to rest.

(v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.

(v. t.) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.

(v. t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral.

(v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.

(n. pl.) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

(n.) A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).

(v. t.) To please; to gratify.

(n.) The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.

(v. i.) To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from.

(v. i.) To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.

(v. i.) To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.

(v. i.) To happen or occur.

(v. t.) To bring to shore.

(v. t.) To reach; to come to.

(n.) Arrival.

(n.) A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir.

(n.) A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.

(a.) Consisting of arrows.

(a.) Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing.

(n.) A water course; a rivulet.

(n.) The dry bed of a small stream.

(n.) A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.

(n.) The trachea or windpipe.

(n.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

(n.) Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce.

(a.) Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.

(a.) Artificial; imitative.

(a.) Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.

(a.) Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]

(a.) Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.

(n.) One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.

(n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

(n.) One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.

(n.) An artful person; a schemer.

(pl. ) of Agami

(a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs.

(a.) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

(v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

(v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

(v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

() The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

() The way or means by which one ascends.

() An eminence, hill, or high place.

() The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.

(n.) A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.

(n.) One of the Ascii.

(n.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

(n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

(v. t.) To shame.

(a.) Relating to an antrum.

(n.) A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus

(n.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

(n.) A depository for ashes.

(n.) A place where potash is made.

(a.) Shining; radiant.

(n.) Alt. of Ashler

(n.) Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.

(n.) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick.

(adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.

(n.) A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

(pl. ) of Agape

(n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.

(n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

(v. t.) To affright; to terrify.

(p. p.) Gazing with astonishment; amazed.

(adv.) In the manner of an aged person.

(n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

(n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

(n.) The place of business of am agent.

(pl. ) of Agendum

(v. t.) To heap up.

(n.) Want of appetite; loathing of food.

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

(adv.) Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.

(n.) The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

(n.) The publishing of banns.

(v. t. & i.) To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.

(adv. & a.) Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.

(prep.) In a slanting direction over; athwart.

(a. & adv.) In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.

(a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.

(a. & adv.) Numbed, and, usually, tingling.

(adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

(adv.) In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.

(n.) One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]

(adv.) Alt. of Anyways

(a.) Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.

(n.) A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the aorta.

(n.) An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

(n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

(n.) Defective digestion, indigestion.

(n.) The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

(pl. ) of Apex

(pl. ) of Apex

(n.) The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.

(n.) Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air.

(n.) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.

(n.) Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.

(n.) Prospect; outlook.

(n.) The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth.

(n.) The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect.

(n.) To behold; to look at.

(v. t.) To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

(v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.

(v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

(v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

(v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.

(n.) Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

(n.) One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.

(n.) One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.

(v. t.) See Agast, v. t.

(a & p. p.) Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

(a.) Possible to be done; practicable.

(n.) Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

(n.) One of the whitish specks called aphthae.

(n.) The disease, also called thrush.

(n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

(a.) At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

(n. pl.) See Apex.

(adv.) Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece.

(adv. & a.) Gleaming; as, faces agleam.

(n.) A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.

(n.) A round white staylace.

(n.) A corn on the toe or foot.

(n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

(a.) Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

(a.) Allied; akin.

(n.) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

(v. t.) To recognize; to acknowledge.

(adv.) In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.

(pl. ) of Agon

(a.) Not forming an angle.

(n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

(n.) Alt. of Agouty

(n.) A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

(n. & v.) See Aggrace.

(n.) The condition of being pure.

(n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.

(n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.

(n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.

(n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.

(n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purl

(n.) Alt. of Purline

(n.) Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.

(n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

(n.) A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.

(n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.

(n.) Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.

(n.) A cardinalate. See Cardinal.

(n.) Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.

(n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.

(n.) See Purpura.

(n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.

(a.) Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.

(a.) Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.

(a.) Blood-red; bloody.

(v. t.) To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Agree

(n.) One who agrees.

(adv.) In grief; amiss.

(v. i.) To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.

(v. t.) To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.

(v. t.) To terrify; to affright.

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

(n.) Without feet; footless.

(n.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.

(pl. ) of Apode

(a.) Apodal.

(n. pl.) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.

(n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

(n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

(n.) Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.

(adv.) Balanced.

(a.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

(n.) A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purse

(v. t.) To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong.

(n.) Dress.

(v. t.) To dress; to attire; to adorn.

(a.) Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.

(a.) Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England.

(adv.) Perhaps; possibly.

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

(a.) Helping; helpful; supplying aid.

(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.

(n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.

(n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.

(n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.

(n.) A purse or purse net.

(v. t.) To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

(v. t.) To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law.

(v. t.) To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.

(v. t.) To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue.

(v. t.) To follow as an example; to imitate.

(v. t.) To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.

(v. i.) To go in pursuit; to follow.

(v. i.) To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.

(v. i.) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor.

(a.) Helpful.

(n.) Same as Aglet.

(n.) Alt. of Aigrette

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

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

(n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

(v. t.) To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.

(v. t.) To procure; to get.

(v. i.) To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.

(v. i.) To pander; -- with to.

(imp. & p. p.) of Push

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

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

(adv.) In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.

(n.) A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.

(n.) An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

(a.) Furnished with an aisle or aisles.

(n.) See Acton.

(a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

(n.) Purslane.

(n.) See Alarm.

(n.) A decoction or infusion.

(v. t. & i.) To impair; to grow worse.

(a.) To make pale; to blanch.

(a.) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight.

(a.) To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart.

(v. i.) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.

(v. i.) To lose flavor or become stale.

(n.) Terror; dismay.

(n.) Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.

(n.) An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.

(n.) Same as Patela.

(n.) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose.

(a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.

(a.) Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.

(n.) One who puts or plates.

(n.) Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.

(v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

(a.) Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

(n.) See Alan.

(n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

(n.) Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

(conj.) Even though; although; notwithstanding.

(n.) A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.

(a.) Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.

(v.) Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.

(v.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.

(v. t.) To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.

(v. t.) To make intricate; to entangle.

(v. t.) To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.

(v. i.) To be bewildered, or perplexed.

(v. i.) To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.

(n.) See PyAemia.

() Alt. of Pygargus

(n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs.

(pl. ) of Pylorus

(n.) An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.

(n.) A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

(n.) Same as Leucoma.

(n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

(v. t.) To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

(v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

(v. t.) To summon; to challenge.

(v. t.) To invoke.

(v. t.) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision.

(v. t.) To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.

(v. t.) An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reexamination or review.

(v. t.) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.

(v. t.) The right of appeal.

(v. t.) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.

(v. t.) An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement.

(v. t.) A summons to answer to a charge.

(v. t.) A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty.

(v. t.) Resort to physical means; recourse.

(v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

(v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

(v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

(v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.

(n.) A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe.

(n.) One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C16H10.

(n.) Same as Pyrena.

(n.) A variety of pyroxene; -- called also fassaite.

(n.) Same as Alcaid.

(a.) Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.

(n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

(n.) Alt. of Alcayde

(n.) A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

(v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

(n.) Appearance.

(n.) A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide.

(n.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

(n.) A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.

(n.) Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.

(n.) See Halcyon.

(v. t.) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

(v. t.) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.

(a.) Made of alder.

(a.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

(n.) Sour ale; vinegar made of ale.

(a.) Gay; cheerful; sprightly.

(v. t.) To seek for; to desire.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Appius.

(n.) Young fish; fry.

(n.) A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet.

(n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

(n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.

(n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.

(n.) An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.

(a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.

(a.) Able to digest.

(a.) Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.

(n.) An agent that promotes digestion.

(n.) The digestive organs.

(a.) Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.

(n.) A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.

(v. t.) To go through with; to perform.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plane

(n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

(n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

(n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.

(n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.

(n.) An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

(n.) The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.

(n.) The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.

(n.) The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.

(n.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

(n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

(n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.

(n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.

(n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.

(v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

(n.) An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.

(n.) A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen.

(n.) A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

(v. t.) To preserve dry with sugar.

(v. t.) To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.

(n.) The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.

(n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

(n.) A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.

(n.) Conveyance; means of transportation.

(n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Cook

(n.) A female cook.

(n.) Alt. of Cookie

(n.) See Cooky.

(n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.

(n.) Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

(n.) Same as Cooly.

(a.) Coolish; cool.

(adv.) In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.

(n.) An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

(n.) A band of singers and dancers.

(n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.

(n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.

(n.) A company of singers singing in concert.

(n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

(n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

(n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

(v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

(pl. ) of Chose

(p. p.) Selected from a number; picked out; choice.

(n.) One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.

(n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

(n.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.

(n.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

(n.) See Jowl.

(a.) Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.

(a.) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

(n.) Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

(n.) Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.

(n.) Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.

(v. t.) To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.

(n.) One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.

(n.) A trick; sham; imposition.

(n.) A swindler.

(n.) A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.

(n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

(n.) The same as Chrisom.

(n.) The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.

(n.) A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coop

(n.) See Coupe.

(n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.

(n.) The box tortoise.

(v. t.) To share.

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

(n.) A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

(n.) One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

(n.) An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.

(n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.

(n.) Same as Chromium.

(n.) A copier.

(a.) Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.

(n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

(n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.

(n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

(n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

(v. t.) To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

(n.) A cop of thread.

(n.) Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts.

(n.) The language of the Copts.

(n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.

(n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.

(pl. ) of Copy

(imp. & p. p.) of Copy

(v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

(v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

(v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

(v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.

(v. t.) To confound.

(v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent.

(v. t.) To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

(v. i.) To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.

(n.) See Courage

(a.) Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.

(v. t. & i.) To mix or mingle together; to blend.

(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.

(v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.

(v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.

(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

(v.) Profane; polluted.

(v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

(n.) The people; the community.

(n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

(n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

(n.) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.

(n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

(n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

(v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

(n.) Alt. of Corby

(n.) Alt. of Corcule

(n.) Same as Cordelle.

(a.) Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.

(a.) Rough; clownish; surly.

(n.) The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.

(n.) Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.

(a.) Short and thick.

(n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.

(n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.

(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.

(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

(n.) The collective body of Christians.

(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.

(v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

(v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.

(v. i.) To participate.

(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.

(v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

(n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

(n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.

(n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.

(n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.

(n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.

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

(pl. ) of Corf

(a.) Rude; churlish; violent.

(n.) Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.

(n.) Same as Dermis.

(n.) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cork

(a.) having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

(n.) See Corm.

(n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corn

(n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

(n.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

(n.) Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.

(n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

(n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

(n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.

(n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

() Alt. of Chymistry

(n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.

(n.) Direction; quarter.

(n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.

(v. t.) To drive into a corner.

(v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

(v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

(n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

(n.) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.

(n.) A certain organ stop or register.

(n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.

(n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

(n.) The standard of such a troop.

(n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.

(n.) A headdress

(n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.

(n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.

(n.) See Coronet, 2.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).

(a.) Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.

(n.) A cicada. See Cicada.

(n.) Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

(n.) Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

(n.) a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

(n.) A wax candle used in religous rites.

(n.) A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

(n.) An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

(pl. ) of Cornu

(n.) An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.

(n.) A kind of haircloth undergarment.

(n.) See Cilia.

(n.) A kind of confectionery or cake.

(n.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.

(n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

(n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.

(n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.

(n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.

(n.) A girth.

(n.) Five; the number five in dice or cards.

(n.) See Center.

(n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.

(n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

(n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.

(n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.

(n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.

(n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.

(a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.

(v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.

(v. t.) To write in occult characters.

(v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.

(v. t.) To decipher.

(v. t.) To designate by characters.

(n.) A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.

(n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.

(n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

(n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.

(n.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.

(n.) A round body; a sphere; an orb.

(n.) Compass; circuit; inclosure.

(n.) A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.

(n.) A circular group of persons; a ring.

(n.) A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

(n.) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.

(n.) Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

(n.) A territorial division or district.

(n.) To move around; to revolve around.

(n.) To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.

(v. i.) To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.

(n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

(n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.

(n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.

(n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

(n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.

(n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.

(n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.

(n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.

(n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.

(n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold.

(v. & n.) Crown.

(n.) Alt. of Corosso

(n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

(n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

(n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.

(n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.

(n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

(n.) A tendril or clasper.

(n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.

(n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.

(n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

(n.) See under Cloud.

(a.) Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.

(a.) See Cystic.

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

(n.) A city woman

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

(a.) Containing, or covered with, cities.

(n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

(n.) The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.

(n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

(n.) A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.

(v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.

(n.) A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.

(n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.

(n.) A citron tree.

(n.) A citron melon.

(n.) A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

(pl. ) of City

(n.) The science of civil government.

(v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

(v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

(v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

(v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

(v. t.) To call forth; to summon.

(v. i.) To make one yield or submit.

(n.) A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.

(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.

(n.) An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.

(n.) Same as Correi.

(a.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.

(a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

(a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.

(a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.

(a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.

(v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

(v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.

(v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.

(v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.

(a.) Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.

(a.) Sitting; inactive; quiet.

(v. i.) To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

(v. i.) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

(v. i.) To fulfill; to accomplish.

(v. i.) To infold; to embrace.

(a.) Made or composed of sedge.

(v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

(v. t.) Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.

(n.) The corsak.

(n.) A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.

(n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.

(n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.

(v. t.) To inclose in corsets.

(n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

(n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

(n.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.

(n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Seed

(n.) One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

(n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.

() p. p. of Carve.

(n.) Alt. of Corvette

(n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

(n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

(n.) Nasal catarrh.

(conj. ) but originally a present participle)) In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.

(imp. & p. p.) of Seek

(n.) One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

(n.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.

(imp. & p. p.) of Seel

(imp. & p. p.) of Seem

(n.) One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.

(v. t.) To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.

(v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to pet.

(n.) A tailor who botches his work.

(adv.) See Cozily.

(n.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

(a.) Alt. of Cosmical

(v. i.) Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.

(superl.) In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.

(n.) Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

(n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

(n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.

(n.) A vibratory or reciprocating motion.

(n.) Same as Crossruff.

(v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

(v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

(a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

() of Seethe

(n.) To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.

(v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.

(n.) A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.

(n.) The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

(n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.

(n.) Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

(n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.

(a.) Alt. of Cossical

(imp. & p. p.) of Con

(a.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

(a.) Relating to a costa, or rib.

(n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

(a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.

(a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.

(n.) One who fishes with a seine.

(n.) See Seizin.

(n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

(n.) The exercise of the power of choice; choice.

(n.) A wishing; a wish.

(n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845.

(n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.

(v. t.) To play the pander for.

(v. i.) To act the part of a pander.

(n.) See Pundit.

(n.) See Pannier, 3.

(n.) A kind of rustic saddle.

(n.) The stomach of a hawk.

(n.) See Narwhal.

(v. t.) To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

(v. t.) To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.

(v. t.) To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.

(n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.

(n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

(n.) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

(n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.

(n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.

(n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.

(n.) Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.

(n.) Conclusion; inference.

(v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.

(v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.

(v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.

(v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.

(v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.

(v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.

(v. t.) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.

(v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

(adv.) In a soft manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Soil

(n.) Dandruff or scurf on the head.

(n.) Anger or vexation; rage.

(v. i.) To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.

(n.) One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.

(v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.

(v. t.) To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.

(n.) The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.

(n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

(n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.

(n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.

(n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.

(n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.

(n.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.

(n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.

(n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.

(v. t.) To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.

(v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.

(v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.

(n.) One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.

(n.) An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.

(superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.

(v. t.) To oppose.

(n.) To resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand; as, to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress.

(n.) To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival for a prize.

(v. i.) To be set opposite.

(v. i.) To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act.

(v. i.) To make objection or opposition in controversy.

(n.) A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.

(n. & adv.) See Naught.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a noun.

(v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.

(v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

(v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.

(v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.

(v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

(n.) The middle point of the nasofrontal suture.

(adv.) In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.

(n.) A frieze.

(p. p.) of Freeze

(v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

(v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

(v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

(v. t.) To form; to shape.

(n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.

(n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.

(v. t.) To stimulate.

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

(v. t.) To breathe or puff out.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(a.) Poured out freely; profuse.

(a.) Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.

(a.) Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.

(a.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

(n.) Effusion; loss.

(v. t.) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.

(v. i.) To emanate; to issue.

(n.) See Afrit.

(n.) The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.

(n. pl.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

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

(n.) A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.

(n.) One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.

(n.) The European perch when two years old.

(n.) The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

(n.) Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.

(n.) One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.

(n.) A believer in egoism.

(n.) Personality.

(v. t.) To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

(n.) The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

(a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

(n.) The language spoken in France.

(n.) Collectively, the people of France.

(n.) A cheek stripe of color.

(n.) Same as Fraenum.

(n.) Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.

(a.) Mad; frantic.

(v. t.) To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness

(v. t.) To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

(v. t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

(v. t.) To boil out; to produce by boiling.

(n.) The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.

(n.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.

(v. i.) To go out; to depart; to leave.

(n.) A kind of sour cherry.

(n.) A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

(a.) A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.

(a.) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.

(a.) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.

(a.) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.

(v. t.) To paint in fresco, as walls.

(a.) Next in order after the seventh.

(a.) Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

(n.) The interval of an octave.

(a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.

(n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.

(a. & pron.) One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.

(a. & pron.) Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.

(v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.

(v. t.) To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.

(v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

(v. t.) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.

(v. t.) To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

(v. t.) The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

(v. t.) That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.

(v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.

(conj. Either) precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.

(v. t.) To shake off; to discard.

(v. t.) To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.

(v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods.

(a.) Adorned with fretwork.

(n.) A strait, or arm of the sea.

(n.) Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.

(n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.

(n.) The institution or praactices of friars.

(n.) A genus of palms.

(n.) Alt. of Elain

(v. t.) To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.

(n.) A kite of the genus Elanus.

(v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elate

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

(n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

(n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.

(n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.

(n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

(n.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats.

(n.) The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form.

(n.) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.

(n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.

(n.) To rub; to fray.

(n.) One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

(n.) One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.

(n.) One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

(n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.

(n.) A paramour of either sex.

(v. t.) To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.

(n.) An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.

(a.) Cut off; set apart.

(a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.

(a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.

(n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

(n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.

(a.) To remove; to set apart.

(a.) To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.

(n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

(n.) Same as Friesic, n.

(n.) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.

(n.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.

(v. t.) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.

(n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

(n.) A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

(n.) Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.

(n.) To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.

(a.) Made of elder.

(a.) Oldest; longest in duration.

(a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.

(n.) Fuel.

(a.) Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

(a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

(a.) Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

(n.) An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.

(n.) Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.

(n.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.

(n.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.

(v. t.) To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.

() They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.

(v. t.) To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

(v. t.) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.

(v. i.) To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

(a.) Aborned with fringes.

(a.) Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.

(a.) Woody.

(v. t.) That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.

(n.) A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

(a.) Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.

(a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.

(a.) Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

(n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.

(v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.

(v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

(n.) Exhortation.

(v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exile

(a.) Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.

(a.) Abounding in frogs.

(n.) A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise.

(a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

(n.) A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

(n.) A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

(v. i.) To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

(n.) A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

(n.) A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

(n.) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

(n.) A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.

(n.) One who pants.

(a.) Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.

() a. & p. p. from Throw, v.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.

(n.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae.

(n.) An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

(n. & v.) Thrist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thrust

(v. t.) To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.

(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.

(v. i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

(v. i.) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

(v. i.) To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.

(n.) A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.

(n.) An attack; an assault.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flow

(n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

(n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

(n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

(n.) Grain pulverized; meal; flour.

(n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.

(n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

(n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

(n.) Menstrual discharges.

(v. i.) To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

(v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition.

(v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

(v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation.

(v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

(n.) A fluoride.

(n.) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it.

(n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.

(n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

(n.) Oxide of thulium.

(a.) Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

(a.) Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.

(n.) A current of water; a stream.

(n.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

(superl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.

(n.) A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.

(n.) A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

(n.) One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.

(n.) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.

(n.) A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

(n.) A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.

(n.) Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.

(n.) The violent spasms of a dying whale.

(v. t.) To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flute

(a.) Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.

(a.) Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.

(n.) One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.

(n.) One who makes grooves or flutings.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flux

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

(v. i.) Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

(pl. ) of Flyman

(n.) The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.

(n.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foal

(n.) One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heed

(imp. & p. p.) of Foam

(imp. & p. p.) of Fob

(n.) A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.

(n.) That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

(v.t.) To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

(n.) The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.

(v. t.) To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.

(v. t.) To fill to overflow.

(n.) A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.

(a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

(a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

(a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.

(prep.) Across; athwart.

(n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

(v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.

(v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.

(v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.

(v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.

(v. t.) To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heel

(n.) A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

(n.) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heft

(n.) The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.

(pl. ) of Foeman

(n.) An enemy in war.

(a.) Same as Fetal.

(n.) Same as Fetor.

(n.) Same as Fetus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fog

(pl. ) of Fogy

(a.) Weak; feeble.

(n.) A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.

(n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foil

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid.

(n.) A phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties; -- called also hydroxy cymene.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland.

(n.) The thymus gland.

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as, thyrohyal.

(n.) A thyrsus.

(pl. ) of Thyrsus

(pl. ) of Dogma

(n.) A young cow.

(n.) The condition of being high; elevated position.

(n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.

(n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.

(n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.

(n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.

(n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

(n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.

(n.) See Hegira.

(n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

(a.) Heliacal.

(n.) One who foils or frustrates.

(n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.

(a.) Fusty; musty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fold

(n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

(v. t.) To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

(v. t.) To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.

(v. i.) To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

(a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.

(a.) Foolishly.

(pl. ) of Folio

() A combining form from Gr. "h`lios the sun.

(n.) A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

(n.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.

(v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

(v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.

(v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.

(n.) A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.

(v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.

(v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.

(v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.

(v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.

(v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

(v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.

(v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

(v. t.) To cherish with heat; to foster.

(v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.

(v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.

(adv.) Foolishly.

(adv.) In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.

(n.) A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.

(n.) A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.

(a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fool

(imp. & p. p.) of Helm

(a.) Covered with a helmet.

(n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.

(n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.

(n.) A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.

(n.) That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.

(n.) The upper part of a retort.

(n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.

(n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Help

(p. p.) of Help

(n.) One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Helve

(imp. & p. p.) of Hem

(n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance.

(n.) Equality of condition between persons holding unequal portions of a fee.

(n.) Kindred; family; birth.

(a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.

(n.) One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

(n.) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

(a.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored.

(n.) Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pelt

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

(n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pain

(n.) The eye; as, to close the peepers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peer

(n.) An ambling nag.

(n.) See Peony.

(n.) The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

(n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

(n.) An idol.

(n.) A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.

(n.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.

(n.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.

(v. t.) To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.

(v. i.) To labor too hard; to do too much.

() A combining form meaning thick; as, pachyderm, pachydactyl.

(v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.

(n.) A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.

(n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

(n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.

(v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.

(v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

(v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pad

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

(n.) A highwayman; a footpad.

(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

(v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.

(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.

(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

(v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.

(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.

(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.

(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.

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

(n.) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, ozone.

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

(n.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients.

(n.) A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.

(n.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.

(n.) A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal.

(n.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.

(n.) Scurf.

(n.) The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.

(v. t.) To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise.

(p. p. / a.) Furnished with a chape or chapes.

(n.) A subordinate place of worship

(n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial

(n.) A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.

(n.) Alt. of Burrhel

(n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

(n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.

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

(n.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burke

(n.) a small building attached to a church

(n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

(n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

(n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

(n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

(n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

(n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.

(v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

(v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burl

(n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.

(n.) One who burls or dresses cloth.

(n.) A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burn

(p. p. & a.) See Burnt.

(p. p.) Burnished.

(n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.

(n.) The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.

(n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.

(a.) Covered with scum; of the nature of scum.

(superl.) Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.

(v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

(n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.

() Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

(n.) A small brook.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burr

(n.) A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

(n.) Same as Borrel.

(n.) An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

(n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.

(n.) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.

(n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.

(v. i.) To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.

(v. i.) To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.

(pl. ) of Bursa

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae.

(n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

(n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

(n.) A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

(n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bury

(imp. & p. p.) of Bush

(n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

(n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

(n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.

(n.) A large indefinite quantity.

(n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

(n.) A small bush.

(adv.) In a busy manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Busk

(a.) Wearing a busk.

(n.) A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.

(n.) A part of a garden devoted to shrubs.

(n.) A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.

(n.) A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.

(n.) Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.

(n.) Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.

(n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a shield.

(v. t.) To beat or whip; to drub.

(v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

(v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

(n.) A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

(n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.

(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.

(v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.

(v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.

(v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.

(v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.

(v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.

(v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.

(v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.

(v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.

(v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.

(v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.

(v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.

(v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.

(v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.

(v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

(v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.

(v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.

(v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.

(v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.

(v. t.) Harm.

(v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.

(v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.

(v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.

(v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buss

(n.) Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.

(v. i.) To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

(n.) Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.

(n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

(imp. & p. p.) of Busy

(n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.

(n.) A penthouse or awning.

(n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.

(n.) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.

(n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.

(v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.

(v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time

(v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.

(v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.

(v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.

(v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.

(n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.

(n.) Weight; import; value.

(imp. & p. p.) of But

(n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

(n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.

(n.) See Scyphus, 2 (b).

(n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.

(n.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

(v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

(v. t.) To disdain.

(n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.

(n.) See Charge, n., 17.

(a.) Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

(n.) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.

(n.) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

(imp. & p. p.) of Butt

(n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

(n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

(v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.

(v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Seal

(n.) One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.

(n.) A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chase

(n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

(n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.

(n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.

(n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

(n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

(n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

(n.) To dress or clothe.

(v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

(imp. & p. p.) of Seam

(pl. ) of Seaman

(n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid.

(pl. ) of Seaman

(n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.

(a.) Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.

(n.) A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sear

(n.) One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

(n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

(n.) One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

(n.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.

(n.) A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.

(v. i.) To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left.

(a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.

(a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

(a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.

(a.) Unmarried.

(n.) A fine sieve.

(v. t.) To sift; to bolt.

(n.) An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buy

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Buzz

(n.) One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.

(n.) The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coal

(a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.

(n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

(n. & v.) See Chant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chaw

(a.) Alt. of Coarctate

(superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.

(superl.) Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.

(n.) See Chebacco.

(n.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coat

(n.) A coat with short flaps.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coax

(n.) One who coaxes.

(a.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cob

(n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.

(n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.

(n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.

(n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.

(n.) A cobblestone.

(n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.

(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.

(v. t.) To make clumsily.

(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.

() a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.

(n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

(n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

(n.) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).

(n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

(n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.

(n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.

(n.) The European spotted flycatcher.

(n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).

(n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

(n.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.

(a.) Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

(n.) Alt. of Chegre

(n.) See Chigoe.

(pl. ) of Chela

(imp. & p. p.) of Cock

(n.) A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice

(n.) The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone.

(n.) A chemist; an alchemist.

(n.) A solution of chloride of lime.

(a.) Chemical.

(n.) See Check.

(n.) Same as Checky.

(v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.

(n.) One given to cockfighting.

(n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.

(n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.

(n.) Pert; saucy.

(n.) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.

(n.) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.

(n.) A measure for bread.

(n.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

(n.) A cockleshell.

(n.) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

(n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.

(n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.

(n.) The dome of a heating furnace.

(v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.

(n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

(n.) The Lotium, or darnel.

(n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;

(n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France).

(n.) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).

(n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.

(n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.

(n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.

(a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

(a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

(n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.

(n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.

(n.) One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

(n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.

(v. i.) To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup.

(v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup.

(n.) A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.

(n.) See Cheetah.

(n.) A horse; hence, a support or frame.

(n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

(n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.

(n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.

(n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.

(n.) A gatherer of cods or peas.

(n.) One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

(n.) A senator; a counselor.

(n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.

(n.) An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen.

(n.) A river fish; the chub.

(n.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chew

(n.) One who chews.

(n.) A kind of meat pie.

(n.) Alt. of Chiasma

(v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling.

(v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

(n.) A miser or mean person.

(n.) A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.

(v. t.) To reduce to a code, as laws.

(n.) A codifier; a maker of codes.

(n.) Alt. of Codling

(n.) See Chica.

(n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

(n.) A cavity.

(a.) Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.

(v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

(v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.

(v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.

(n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.

(n.) Contumely; reproach.

(n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.

(n.) One of the same age; a contemporary.

(n.) The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

(n.) The coffee tree.

(n.) The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.

(n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.

(n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

(n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

(n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

(v. t.) To put into a coffer.

(v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.

(v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

(n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

(n.) A basket.

(n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

(n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

(n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

(n.) One who chides or quarrels.

(v. i.) See Cheve, v. i.

(n.) Alt. of Chigre

(n.) A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.

(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

(n.) A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cog

(p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.

(p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.

(n.) A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.

(n.) A small fishing boat.

(n.) A cobblestone.

(n.) A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth.

(n.) A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

(a.) To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

(a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.

(a.) To suit; to agree; to fit.

(n.) See Coehorn.

(n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

(n.) Any band or body of warriors.

(n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.

(n.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.

(a.) Wearing a coif.

(n.) A quoin.

(n.) Alt. of Coigny

(n.) The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coil

(imp. & p. p.) of Coin

(n.) One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.

(n.) An inventor or maker, as of words.

(v. t.) To join; to conjoin.

(adv.) In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.

(n.) Bile; choler.

() An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.

(n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

(n.) A crafty fox.

(n.) Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.

(n.) A ring or cincture.

(n.) A collar beam.

(n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

(n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.

(n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.

(n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.

(n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.

(v. t.) To context.

(n.) See Chili.

(a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

(n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

(n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.

(v. t.) To seize by the collar.

(v. t.) To put a collar on.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chime

(n.) One who chimes.

(n.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

(n.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chine

(a.) Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.

(a.) Broken in the back.

(a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

() A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.

(n.) A small collar or neckband.

(n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

(n.) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.

(n.) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

(n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.

(a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

(n.) A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

(n.) See Collie.

(n.) The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks.

(n.) A very pure form of gelatin.

(v. i.) To coo, as a pigeon.

(n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.

(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.

(n.) A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.

(n.) A part or piece of anything; a portion.

(n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

(n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

(n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

(a.) Full of chits or sprouts.

(a.) Childish; like a babe.

(n.) Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.

(n.) A neck or cervix.

(n.) Same as Collar.

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

(n.) That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

(n.) A genus of algae. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance.

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

(n.) The magpie.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nap

(a.) Of or pertaining to a serpent.

(n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.

(n.) A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.

(n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.

(a.) Characteristic of, or like, an ox.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid (C4H5N3O4) not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is related.

(n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.

(n.) A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.

(n.) Chlorine used in bleaching.

(n.) A triangle having three acute angles.

(n.) A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup.

(n.) Excessive acuteness of sight.

(n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.

(n.) A species of hickory. See Pecan.

(a.) Appeased; pacified; tranquil.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia.

(n.) A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

(n.) See Bovate.

(n.) A goad for driving oxen.

(pl. ) of Junto

(imp. & p. p.) of Peel

(n.) One who peels or strips.

(n.) A pillager.

(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.

(v. i.) To complain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peep

(n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

(n.) One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.

(adv.) In an oval form.

(pl. ) of Ovarium

(a.) Ovate.

(n.) See Oxyacid.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white crystalline powder; -- called also oxaluramide.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family.

(n.) A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.

(n.) An old name for carbonyl.

(n.) An old name for carboxyl.

(n.) A way out; exit.

(v. t.) To win a way out of.

(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.

(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.

(a.) Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.

(n.) Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty.

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

(n.) An abode or a haunt of owls.

(v. i.) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.

(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

(n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.

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

(n.) Same as Lyrid.

(a.) Alt. of Lyrated

(n.) The act of playing on a lyre or harp.

(n.) A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.

(pl. ) of Lytta

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

(n.) See Madder.

(n.) The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.

(n.) A Peruvian plant (Piper, / Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

(n.) The womb.

(n.) Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything

(n.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type.

(n.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.

(n.) The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.

(n.) The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.

(n.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.

(n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.

(n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.

(n.) Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Mewl

(n.) One that mewls.

(n.) Same as Mescal.

(v. t.) To wrap up.

(n.) A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

(n.) Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).

(a.) Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding.

(a.) Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.

(a.) Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering closely together; as, matted hair.

(n.) That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment.

(n.) That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.

(n.) That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme.

(n.) That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business.

(n.) Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter ? no matter, and the like.

(n.) Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.

(n.) Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite.

(n.) Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

(n.) That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form.

(n.) Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing.

(v. i.) To be of importance; to import; to signify.

(v. i.) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

(v. t.) To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

(n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

(n.) One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.

(a.) Much; great.

() Alt. of Micr-

(n.) A syringe.

(a.) Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.

(n.) Slush.

(n.) A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.

(n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.

(n.) A slight indentation on any surface.

(v. i.) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.

(v. t.) To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

(a.) Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool.

(imp. & p. p.) of Din

(a.) Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Douse

(n.) An extinguisher for candles.

(a.) Like a dove; harmless; innocent.

(n. pl.) See Small, n., 2, 3.

(adv.) In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Ding

(n.) Alt. of Dinghy

(n.) A kind of boat used in the East Indies.

(n.) A ship's smallest boat.

(n.) A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

(n. & a.) from Dine, a.

(n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

(n.) An entertainment; a feast.

(n.) One of the testicles of a hart or stag.

(n.) See Dower.

(n.) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.

(n.) Taste; tincture; smack.

(v. i.) To smack.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dint

(n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

(n.) A genus of whales.

(imp. & p. p.) of Down

(a.) Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.

(n.) The smew.

(v. t.) To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.

(v. t.) To smooth.

(n.) The matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands.

(n.) The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.

(n.) The cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.

(n.) A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.

(n.) One who uses the dowser or divining rod.

(pl. ) of Doxy

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Dip

(n.) A smithy.

(n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.

(n.) A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smile

(n.) One who smiles.

(n.) A little smile.

(v. t.) To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

(n.) A smutch; a dirty stain.

(a.) Smirk; smirking.

(pl. ) of Dozen

(n.) A drachma.

(n.) Same as Dram.

(n.) See Draconin.

(n.) Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing.

(a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless.

(n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.

(n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.

(n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.

(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

(n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

(n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

(n.) A variety of carrier pigeon.

(n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

(n.) The missel thrush.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drape

(n.) One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

(n.) Cloth.

(n.) One who smites.

(n.) The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smoke

(n.) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

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

(n.) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.

(n.) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

(n.) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.

(n.) That which is drawn

(n.) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.

(n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

(n. pl.) A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

(n.) One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.

(n.) A small grebe; the dabchick.

(n.) The buffel duck.

(n.) One who dries or preserves by smoke.

(n.) One who smokes tobacco or the like.

(n.) A smoking car or compartment.

(v. t.) See Smutch.

(superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

(n.) An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

(n.) A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel.

(n.) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.

(n.) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).

(n.) A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.

(n.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

(superl.) Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.

(superl.) Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.

(superl.) Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.

(superl.) Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.

(superl.) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.

(adv.) Smoothly.

(n.) The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.

(n.) That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.

(a.) To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.

(a.) To free from obstruction; to make easy.

(a.) To free from harshness; to make flowing.

(a.) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.

(a.) To give a smooth or calm appearance to.

(a.) To ease; to regulate.

(v. i.) To flatter; to use blandishment.

(v. t.) To kiss closely.

(v. t.) To smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face.

(n.) A dark soil or stain; a smutch.

() of Dream

(superl.) Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

(n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.

(a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

(a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.

(a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

(a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

(a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.

(v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.

(v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.

(v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.

(v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.

(v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.

(v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.

(n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.

(n.) A suffocating smoke.

(n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

(n.) That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.

(v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

(v. t.) To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

(adv.) In a smug manner.

(n.) A stain; a dirty spot.

(v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.

(superl.) Soiled with smut; smutted.

(superl.) Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.

(superl.) Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying.

(superl.) Sorrowful; distressful.

(superl.) Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.

(n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

(n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

(v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.

(n.) A mixture of oats and barley.

(v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.

(a.) Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.

() p. p. of Drench to drown.

(v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

(v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

(v. t.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

(n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

(adv.) In a dire manner.

(a.) Showy in dress; attentive to dress.

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

() p. p., of Drench to drown.

(a.) Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.

(a.) Snappish; cross; ill-tempered.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snake

(a.) Snappish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snare

(n.) One who lays snares, or entraps.

(v. t.) To lop; to prune.

(n.) Like a sneak; sneaking.

(n.) Alt. of Sneathe

(v. i.) To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.

(n.) A sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.

(n.) A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dirk

(superl.) of Dry, a.

(a.) Alt. of Snithy

(a.) Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind.

(v. i.) To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.

(v. i.) To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.

(a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

(v. i.) Mucus from the nose; snot.

(a.) Snobbish.

(n.) A short sleep; a nap.

(v. i.) To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snore

(n.) One who snores.

(n.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

(a.) Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.

(a.) Resembling a beast's snout.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snow

(n.) See Dizzard.

(v. t.) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

(v. t.) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

(p. p.) of Drive

(v. i.) To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

(v. i.) To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.

(n.) Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

(n.) Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

(n.) A driveler; a fool; an idiot.

(n.) A servant; a drudge.

(p. p.) of Drive. Also adj.

(n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

(n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.

(n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

(n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

(n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.

(n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

(n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

(n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stale

(v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.

(v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

(n.) See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.

() In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.

(a.) Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.

(n.) A thread; especially, a warp thread.

(n.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drone

(n.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

(n.) The dodo.

(n.) An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinee.

(v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.

(v. t.) Rest; relaxation; ease.

(n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.

(n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.

(v. i.) To take comfort; to be cheered.

(n.) A solan goose.

() A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain.

(a.) Solar.

(n.) A sultan.

(n.) A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.

(n.) anything which unites or cements.

(n.) To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.

(n.) To mend; to patch up.

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

(adv.) Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.

(a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

(a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.

(a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand.

(a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.

(a.) Real; earnest; downright.

(a.) Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.

(a.) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

(n.) A kind of woolen cloth.

(n.) A stanza.

(n.) A station; a position; a site.

(v. t.) To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.

(v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

(v. i.) To cease, as the flowing of blood.

(n.) That which stanches or checks.

(n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

(v. t.) Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.

(v. t.) Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.

(v. t.) Close; secret; private.

(v. t.) To prop; to make stanch, or strong.

(a.) Skillful; clever; crafty.

(v. i.) To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.

(n.) The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.

(n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.

(n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.

(n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.

(n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.

(n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.

(n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.

(n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.

(n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.

(n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.

(n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.

(n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.

(n.) A small pit.

(n.) A district granted to an abbey.

(a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.

(a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.

(a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.

(a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.

(v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.

(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.

(n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

(n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.

(n.) See Solar, n.

(n.) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.

(v. t.) To cover, or provide with, a sollar.

(a.) Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation.

(a.) Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful.

(a.) Soluble; as, a solute salt.

(a.) Not adhering; loose; -- opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule.

(v. t.) To dissolve; to resolve.

(v. t.) To absolve; as, to solute sin.

(n.) A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.

(imp. & p. p.) of Solve

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

(n.) Alt. of Somal

(a.) Alt. of Sombre

(a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

(a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections.

(v. t.) Alt. of Sombre

(v. t.) To make somber, or dark; to make shady.

(n.) Alt. of Sombre

(n.) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stare

(n.) One who stares, or gazes.

(a.) Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.

(n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.

(n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.

(a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.

(a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.

(a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

(v. t.) To summon; to cite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.

(n.) A sonant letter.

(n.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.

(n.) A short poem, -- usually amatory.

(n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.

(v. i.) To die; to perish.

(v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

(v. i.) To perish or die with cold.

(v. t.) To destroy with cold.

(v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

(v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.

(v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.

(v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

(n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a State of the American Union, as distinguished from the general government.

(imp. & p. p.) of State

(a.) Settled; established; fixed.

(a.) Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.

(n.) One who states.

(n.) The principal gold coin of ancient Grece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.

(v. i.) To compose sonnets.

(n.) A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.

(n.) Same as Suji.

(adv.) Soon.

(n.) A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.

(n.) A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak.

(imp. & p. p.) of Soot

(a.) To assent to as true.

(a.) To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.

(a.) To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.

(a.) Alt. of Statical

(imp. & p. p.) of Sop

(a.) Alt. of Sophical

(n.) A statue.

(n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.

(n.) A portrait.

(n.) See Softa.

(v. t.) To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet.

(n.) One who sops.

(n.) A kind of beverage; sherbet.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.

(n.) Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.

(a.) Filthy; foul; dirty.

(a.) Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.

(a.) Robbed; borrowed.

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

(n.) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.

(n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.

(n.) A whetstone; a rubstone.

(n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.

(n.) The cushion of an electrical machine.

(n.) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.

(n.) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.

(n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.

(n.) India rubber; caoutchouc.

(n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.

(n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

(n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.

(n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.

(n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

(a.) Relating to, or containing, rubble.

(n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.

(v. t.) To redden.

(n.) same as Rust, n., 2.

(n.) That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.

(n.) A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.

(n.) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters.

(n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed.

(v. t.) To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.

(a.) Alt. of Rubrical

(pl. ) of Ruby

(imp. & p. p.) of Ruby

(imp. & p. p.) of Ruck

(v. t.) To be sensible of; to feel

(v. t.) In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

(v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

(v. t.) To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.

(v. t.) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i.

(v. i.) To feel resentment.

(v. i.) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

(n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

(n.) The European goldfinch.

(n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.

(a.) To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.

(v. i.) To grow or become red; to blush.

(n.) Red chalk. See under Chalk.

(v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

(v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.

(v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.

(v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.

(v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

(v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.

(v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.

(n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

(pl. ) of Redia

(pl. ) of Redia

(n.) Alt. of Redlegs

(n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.

(imp.) of Redraw

(v. t.) To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.

(v. i.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.

(n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

(n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.

(n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

(n.) To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.

(n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

(n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.

(n.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.

(n.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.

(n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

(v. t..) To reduce.

(n.) A central or retired work within any other work.

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

(n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

(n.) The spine; the vertebral column.

(n.) Same as Rhachis.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.

(adv.) In a racy manner.

(v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

(v. t.) To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like.

(v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like.

(n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.

(n.) A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.

(v. t.) To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.

(n.) Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality.

(a.) Ambrosial; immortal.

(n.) An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.]

(imp. & p. p.) of Amuse

(a.) Diverted.

(a.) Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.

(n.) One who amuses.

() a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rack

(n.) One who racks.

(n.) A horse that has a racking gait.

(n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.

(n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

(n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.

(a.) Wanting in muscle; without flesh.

(n.) A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

(v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket.

(n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

(n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

(v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.

(v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.

(v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.

(n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

(n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.

(n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

(v. t.) To interweave or twist together.

(n.) A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.

(v. t.) To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.

(n.) A float; a raft.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.

(n.) An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.

(n.) A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.

(v. t.) To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.

(v.) The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.

(v. t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

(v. t.) To maintain; to defend.

(v. t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

(v.) To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

(v.) To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

(v.) To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.

(v.) To fix or determine the rate or amount of.

(n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend.

(n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.

(n. pl.) The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

() A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm; as, radio-ulnar, radio-muscular, radio-carpal.

(n.) The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

(n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.

(n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

(n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.

(n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.

(n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.

(n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.

(n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

(v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

(v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.

(v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.

(v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

(n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

(a.) Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.

(v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

(v. i.) To lend aid; to help.

(v. i.) To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.

(n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.

(n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.

(n.) A kind of writ or real action.

(n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.

(n.) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

(n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.

(n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.

(n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.

(v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

(v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

(v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

(v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Raft

(n.) A raftsman.

(n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.

(v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.

(v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.

(v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rag

(n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.

(n.) Measure; dimension; size.

(v.) To assess; to value; to rate.

(v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.

(v. t.) To set free; to release.

(v. t.) To solve; to clear up.

(v. t.) To set free from guilt; to absolve.

(v. t.) To expiate; to atone for.

(v. t.) To remove; to put off.

(v. t.) To soil; to stain.

(v. t.) To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]

(v. t.) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo.

(v. i.) To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.

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

(n.) Wantonness.

(n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

(n.) Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.

(n.) Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.

(n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.

(n.) Rough; shaggy; rugged.

() a. & n. from Rage, v. i.

(n.) A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.

(pl. ) of Ragman

(n.) A man who collects, or deals in, rags.

(n.) A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull.

(n.) A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Anaks

(v. t.) To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

(v. t.) To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.

(v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

(v. t.) To receive or adopt.

(v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

(v. i.) To undertake, as by a promise.

(n.) The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

(n.) The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

(v. t.) To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

(v. t.) To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.

(v. t.) To confirm; to make certain or secure.

(v. t.) To affiance; to betroth.

(v. t.) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

(n.) Estate; state.

(imp. & p. p.) of Raid

(n.) One who engages in a raid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rail

(n.) One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rain

(n.) Same as Annotto.

(n.) Alt. of Ambury

(n.) A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

(n.) A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

(adv.) In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

(adv.) Behind a ship; in the rear.

(v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.

(v. i.) To escape.

(n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

() of Astone

(v. t.) To stun; to astonish; to stupefy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Raise

(n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

(n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

(n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.

(n.) An emblem of hope.

(n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

(n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

(n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.

(v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.

(v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

(v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.

(n.) An anchoret.

(v. t.) To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay.

(adv.) In a stooping or inclined position.

(a.) Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike.

(adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.

(n.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

(n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow.

(n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter.

(n.) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

(a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.

(a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.

(n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).

(n.) A grape, or a bunch of grapes.

(n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.

(n.) A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.

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

(n.) A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.

() The combining form of the Greek word 'a`stron, meaning star.

(n.) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

(a.) Pertaining to the Andes.

(a.) Andean; as, Andine flora.

(n.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become big; to enlarge.

(a.) compar. of Big.

(n.) A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.

(n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bigging

(a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.

(pl. ) of Bijou

(n.) A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

(prep. & adv.) Beneath.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bank

(n.) A byland.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bilge

(n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

(n.) A money changer.

(n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.

(n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.

(n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.

(n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.

(a.) Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

(n.) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.

(v. t.) To stupefy.

(n.) A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.

(n.) Any place of retreat and security.

(n.) An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bilk

(imp. & p. p.) of Bill

(n.) A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

(n.) A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

(n.) Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.

(n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

(v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.

(v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.

(v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.

(n.) A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors.

(n.) A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.

(adv.) Alt. of Ataunto

(a.) Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.

(n.) Alt. of Ataxy

(a.) Characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements.

(n.) The influence of a star upon other stars or upon men.

(a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

(n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter.

(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.

(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.

(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.

(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

(v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.

(n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

(n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

(n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bar

(v. t.) To repent; to displease; to disgust.

(n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

(n.) Bullion in the bar or mass.

(n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.

(n.) A great wave or flood of anything.

(v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.

(n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Barb

(imp. & p. p.) of Bin

(a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

(n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.

(a.) Double; growing in pairs or couples.

(n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

(n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

(a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)

(a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

(n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

(n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

(n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.

(n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.

(v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of.

(n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.

(n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

(n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

(a.) Alt. of Atomical

(a.) Same as Binate.

(n.) See Barbel.

(a.) Barbarian.

(p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

(p.a.) Wearing rich caparisons.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.

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

(n.) A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Atone

(n.) One who makes atonement.

(a.) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

(a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.

(a.) Destitute of tone vocality; surd.

(n.) A word that has no accent.

(n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.

(n.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.

(v. t.) To surpass in council.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an atrium.

(n.) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

(n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

(n.) Bioplasm.

(a.) Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.

(adv.) Without covering; nakedly.

(adv.) Without concealment or disguise.

(adv.) Merely; only.

(adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

(a.) Full of obstructions.

(n.) A bargeman.

(n.) The manager of a barge.

(n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

(n.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

(n.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

(a.) Coal-black; very black.

(n.) A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

(v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

(v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

(v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

(v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.

(v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

(v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.

(v. i.) To adhere; to be attached.

(v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

(n.) An attachment.

(v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

(v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.

(v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.

(v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.

(v. t.) To overtake.

(v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

(v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.

(v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

(n.) Attainment.

(a.) Alt. of Bipontine

(n.) One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bark

(n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

(n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

(a.) Made of bark.

(n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.

(n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.

(n.) A pistol.

(n.) The spotted redshank.

(n.) One who strips trees of their bark.

(n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.

(v. t.) To pierce; to attack.

(v. t.) To broach; to begin.

(v. t.) To take to task; to blame.

(n.) A birdcatcher.

(n.) A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name.

(n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

(v. t.) To whip with a birch or rod.

(a.) Birchen; as, birken groves.

(n.) A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

(v. t.) To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.

(v. t.) To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.

(v. t.) To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve.

(v. t.) To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects.

(v. t.) To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.

(v. t.) To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.

(v. i.) To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; -- usually followed by to.

(v. i.) To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; -- often followed by on or upon.

(v. i.) (with to) To take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business.

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

(v. t.) Attentive; heedful.

(n.) Attention; heed.

(n.) A lively or mettlesome fellow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Birr

(n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

(n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

(n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.

(n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.

(n.) A resin, called also galipot.

(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

(v. t.) To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

(v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.

(v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke.

(n.) Witness; testimony; attestation.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into two parts.

(v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.

(n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.

(n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.

(n.) In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

(n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.

(n.) An old name for a woman's bustle.

(v. t.) To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

(v. t.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.

(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

(n.) A jar.

(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.

(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

(a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

(a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.

(a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

(a.) Mentally dull; stupid.

(n.) A tract of barren land.

(n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.

(n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

(v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.

(n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.

(n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

(n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.

(v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate.

(v. t.) To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

(n.) Shame; abuse.

(n.) A rule steelyard.

(n.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

(n.) Unglazed white porcelain.

(n.) A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

(n.) A white soup made of crayfish.

(a.) Purblind; blinding.

(n.) Alt. of Bistre

(n.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.

(n.) A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

(n.) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.

(n.) A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.

(n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.

(n.) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

(v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

(v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

(n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.

(n.) The thing given in exchange.

(n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.

(n.) A farmyard.

(n.) A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

(n.) An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.

(v. t.) To entrap; to insnare.

(v. t.) To adorn with trapping; to array.

(n.) See Bister.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bit

(v. t.) To commend; to commit.

(p. p.) of Bite

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

(n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.

(n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

(v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

(v. t.) To arrange fitly; to make accordant.

(adv. or prep.) Between.

(a. & adv.) Twisted; distorted; awry.

(v. t.) To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.

(adv.) Betwixt.

(a.) Alt. of Atypical

(n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.

(a.) Flaxen-colored.

(a.) Reddish brown.

(a.) That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.

() p. p. of Bite.

(a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

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

(adv.) In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

(adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

(a.) Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.

(n.) Bitumen.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

(n.) A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

(n.) Fig.: A magnate or grandee.

(n.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

(v. t.) To convert into a salifiable base.

(n.) A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

(n.) See Algorism.

(a.) Of or relating to the bivium.

(n.) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.

(n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

(n.) The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

(n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.

(n.) A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.

(a.) Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.

(a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

(v. t.) To figure or variegate.

(n.) Same as Ambry.

(n.) A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.

(n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bask

(n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.

(n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

(n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

(n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.

(v. t.) To put into a basket.

(n.) Same as Bascinet.

(a.) Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

(n.) One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.

(n.) The language spoken by the Basque people.

(n.) A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques.

(pl. ) of Bass

(v. t.) Alt. of Auntre

(v. t.) To venture; to dare.

(n.) Alt. of Aunty

(n.) A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

(n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.

(a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.

(n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.

(v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

(n.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

(n.) One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.

(n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

(n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

(n. pl.) Soot flying in the air.

(n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

(imp. & p. p.) of Baste

(n.) A staff or cudgel.

(n.) See Baton.

(n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bat

(n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.

(n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

(n.) A species of crowfoot.

(n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).

(a.) Containing gold.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.

(n.) The south wind.

(a.) Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

(a.) Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.

(a.) Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.

(a.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

(n.) Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blame

(n.) One who blames.

(a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

(a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

(a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

(a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

(a.) To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

(a.) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

(a.) Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

(v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

(v. t.) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

(v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

(v. i.) To use evasion.

(n.) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blare

(n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).

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

(n.) A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.

(v. i.) Rich; fertile.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bathe

(n.) One who bathes.

(n.) Same as Papula.

(pl. ) of Papyrus

(imp. & p. p.) of Nail

(n.) One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

(n.) One who fastens with, or drives, nails.

(a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.

(a.) Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.

(adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.

(n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.

(n.) The precious stone called onyx.

(pl. ) of Ooecium

(a.) Shaped like an egg.

(n.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

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

(n.) A vernier.

(n.) A name sometimes given to the nitro group or radical.

(n.) The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

(n.) The fourth month of the French republican calendar [1792-1806]. It commenced December 21, and ended January 19. See VendEmiaire.

(v. t.) To divide into plots or parts; to apportion.

(adv.) Alt. of Algates

(a.) Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.

(v. t.) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

(v. t.) To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

(v. t.) To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.

(n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.

(n.) A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

(a.) Nutritive; nourishing.

(n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

(n.) A diviner by spirits.

(n.) A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.

(v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.

(v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

(v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

(v. i.) To come or chance (upon).

(a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.

(n.) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.

(n.) A fillet, or listel.

(n.) One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line.

(n.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

(a.) Wing-footed, as the bat.

(n.) An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

(n.) Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.

(n.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.

(v. t.) To make fit.

(n. pl.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

(v. t.) To allure; to entice.

(n.) A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

(v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

(v. t.) To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.

(v. t.) To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

(v. t.) To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble.

(v. imperative.) Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.

(n.) A South African wild ass (Equus, / Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.

(a.) Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.

(n.) Alt. of Quahaug

(n.) Alt. of Quaich

(n.) A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.

(n.) The upland plover.

(a.) Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.

(a.) Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.

(a.) Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quake

(n.) A genus of eagles.

(n.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.

(a.) Watery; aqueous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.

(n.) The language of the Arabians.

(n.) A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

(n.) Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.

(a.) Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.

(n.) Arable land; plow land.

(pl. ) of Alley

(pl. ) of Alley

(n.) Alt. of Allis

(a.) United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

(n.) One who quakes.

(n.) One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.

(n.) The nankeen bird.

(n.) The sooty albatross.

(n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.

(v. t.) To raise.

(n.) A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.

(n.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.

(n.) The old squaw.

(pl. ) of Quantum

(n.) The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree.

(n.) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.

(n.) A long, arched building or gallery.

(n.) Same as 1st Quarrel.

(a.) Quadrate; square.

(n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

(n.) A heap of game killed.

(n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.

(v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

(n.) A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).

(v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

(n.) An arched or covered passageway or avenue.

(a.) Hidden; secret.

(pl. ) of Arcanum

(imp. & p. p.) of Arch

(v. i.) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.

(v. t.) To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.

(v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.

(n.) Allurement.

(n.) Gait; bearing.

(n.) Same as 2d Carte.

(a.) Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

(n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

() pl. of Arch, n.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ally

(pl. ) of Ally

(a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.

() A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

(n.) A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc.

(n.) The plant from which the dye is obtained.

(n.) Alt. of Alman

(n.) See Ambry.

(n.) An almoner.

(n.) The fruit of the almond tree.

(n.) The tree that bears the fruit; almond tree.

(n.) Anything shaped like an almond.

(n.) One of the tonsils.

(n.) Alms.

(adv.) Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.

(n.) Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

(n.) A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons.

(n.) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.

(n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.

(n.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.

(a.) Squat; flat.

(adv.) In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly.

(n.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.

(n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

(n.) A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips

(v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

(v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

(v. t.) To utter with quavers.

(n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.

(n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

(n.) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.

(v. i.) To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.

(a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.

(a.) Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

(n.) The arctic circle.

(n.) A warm waterproof overshoe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an arc.

(a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

(a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes.

(a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.

(n.) Wool of the alpaca.

(n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

(a.) Like the Alps; lofty.

(n.) Alt. of Alpia

(n.) A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.

(n.) The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.

(v. t.) To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.

(v. t.) To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

(pl. ) of Arena

(n.) A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

(n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

(n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

(n.) Same as Areola.

(a.) Acting by turns; alternate.

(n.) See Abnet.

(n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

(n.) He who, or that which, abases.

(n.) Alt. of Abassis

(imp. & p. p.) of Abate

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

(n.) Alt. of Abattis

(n.) One who abates a nuisance.

(n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

(n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

(n.) A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

(n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.

(v. t.) To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.

(v. t.) To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

(v. t.) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.

(n.) A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia.

(n.) The adjutant bird.

(a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.

(n.) Silver, or money.

(n.) Whiteness; anything that is white.

(n.) The white color in coats of arms, intended to represent silver, or, figuratively, purity, innocence, beauty, or gentleness; -- represented in engraving by a plain white surface.

(a.) Made of silver; of a silvery color; white; shining.

() Same as Aby.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

(n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

(n.) One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation.

(a.) Pertaining to the alula.

(n.) Alum.

(n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

(pl. ) of Alumnus

(n.) The channel of a river.

(a.) Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

(adv.) At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.

(adv.) Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally.

(n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.

(v. i.) To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.

(a.) Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece.

(n.) A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.

(a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo.

(n.) A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size.

(imp. & p. p.) of Argue

(n.) One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

(v. t. & i.) To argue pertinaciously.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Amaze

(n.) One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

(n.) A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.

(n.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis

(n.) An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.

(imp. & p. p.) of Amble

(n.) A horse or a person that ambles.

(v. t.) A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.

(v. t.) A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.

(v. t.) The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.

(a.) Sharp; shrill.

(a.) Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd.

(v. t.) To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.

(v. t.) To attack by ambush; to waylay.

(v. i.) To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.

(n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

(n. sing. & pl.) Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

(pl. ) of Amentum

(v. t.) To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.

(v. t.) To punish, in general; to mulct.

(n.) The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.

(adv.) Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

(a.) Having an aril.

(a.) Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.

(adv. & a.) In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.

(p. p.) of Arise

(n.) An awn.

(a.) Belonging to the ark.

(n.) Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

(prep.) Alt. of Amid

(n.) A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

(n.) Somebody; one unknown.

(n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.

(n.) a quince tree or shrub.

(v. i.) To stir; to wince.

(n.) Quinine.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

(n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.

(n.) A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.

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

(v. t.) A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

(n.) Armada.

(n.) Same as Amnion.

(n.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

(n.) A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

(n.) An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.

(n.) A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks.

(n.) A petty love affair or amour.

(pl. ) of Quipu

(a.) Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.

(n.) Same as Quitch grass.

(n.) Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.

(n.) As much as the arm can hold.

(n.) The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.

(n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom.

(n.) Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

(n.) A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea.

(n.) An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm.

(n.) Armor for the arm.

(a.) Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

(n.) To go up; to ascend.

(n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

(n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

(v. t.) To signify; to amount to.

(n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

(n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.

(n.) Alt. of Ampere

(n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere.

() A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.

(a.) Nimble; active.

(v. i.) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

(n.) The act or state of quivering; a tremor.

(n.) A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

(n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

(n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms.

(n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords.

(n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.

(n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.

(n.) The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

(n.) Armor.

(n.) A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.

(n.) A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

(interj.) Stand off, or begone.

(v. t.) To drive or scare off by some exclamation.

(n.) Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quote

(n.) One who quotes the words of another.

(adv.) In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.

(adv.) In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

(adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place.

(prep.) On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.

(prep.) From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner.

(v. t.) To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.

(interj.) See Aroint.

(n.) Alt. of Arpen

(n.) Debauchery; lewdness.

(n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.

(n.) A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.

(interj.) Indeed; forsooth.

(n.) Part or proportion; quota.

(n.) A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.

(v. t.) To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

(v. t.) To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.

(n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.

(n.) Same as Rabbet joint, below.

(pl. ) of Rabbi

(n.) Same as Rabbi.

(n.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand.

(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

(v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.

(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.

(n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.

(a.) Dissolute; lewd; debauched.

(a.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ram

(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.

(v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.

(v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.

(v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.

(n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

(n.) Boughs or branches.

(n.) Warbling of birds in trees.

(a.) Wild; untamed.

(v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.

(v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.

(v. i.) To extend or grow at random.

(n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.

(n.) A bed of shale over the seam.

(a.) Same as Ramal.

(n.) A Ramist.

(n.) A scraping; a shaving.

(n.) Ramenta.

(v. t.) To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

(v. i.) To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.

(v. i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.

(n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

(n.) Refuse matter.

(n.) One who, or that which, rams or drives.

(n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity

(n.) A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod

(n.) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.

(v. t.) To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.

(v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

(v. t.) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

(n.) Aspiration.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, an asp.

(adv. & a.) Squatting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pant

(n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or season with pepper.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds.

(v. i.) To fire numerous shots (at).

(n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.

(n.) A net; a noose.

(v. t.) To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

(v. t.) To show that one has observed; to take public note of; remark upon; to make comments on; to refer to; as, to notice a book.

(v. t.) To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers.

(v. t.) To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.

(v. t.) To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.

() Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notae.

() A sentiment; an opinion.

() Sense; mind.

() An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions.

() Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it.

(n.) An annotator.

(n.) The brown coati. See Coati.

(a.) Of or belonging to the nostrils.

(a.) Affected by blasts; gusty.

(a.) Causing blast or injury.

(n.) The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

(n.) One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.

(n.) The editor of a periodical.

(n.) An informant.

(v. t.) To occasion; to originate.

(v. t.) To tell; to say; to declare.

(n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

(prep.) With the exception of; excepting.

(n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

(n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.

(pl. ) of Batman

(n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

(n.) See Baton, and Baston.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blaze

(n.) One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.

(n.) A shield.

(n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

(n.) The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

(n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.

(v. t.) To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.

(v. t.) To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

(v. t.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.

(v. i.) To shine; to be conspicuous.

(a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

(v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

(n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.

(n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.

(v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.

(v. i.) To make fertile.

(a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive.

(v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

(v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land.

(v. i.) To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.

(n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.

(v. t.) To furnish or fasten with battens.

(v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

(v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

(v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

(v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

(v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

(v. t.) Paste of clay or loam.

(v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

(n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

(v. i.) To slope gently backward.

(n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.

(a.) Fertile. See Battel, a.

(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.

(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.

(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.

(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.

(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.

(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.

(n.) See Batten, and Baton.

(v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.

(v. t.) The game itself.

(v. t.) The wanton slaughter of game.

(n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

(pl. ) of Batz

(a.) Bleak.

(a.) Somewhat blear.

(a.) Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.

(v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

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

(v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

(v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.

(n.) A looking aside or askance.

(v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale.

(n.) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

(n.) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

(n.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.

(v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

(n.) Same as Bawbee.

(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.

(n.) The fool's club.

(n.) A baboon.

(n.) A halfpenny.

(n.) A trinket. See Bauble.

(n.) The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

(n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication.

(n.) Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bawl

(n.) One who bawls.

(n.) A kind of hawk.

(n.) A baker; originally, a female baker.

(v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.

(v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.

(n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

(n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.

(n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

(n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.

(n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.

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

(a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

(a.) A stupid, clownish fellow.

(pl. ) of Bayou

(n.) Alt. of Bazar

(n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

(n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn.

(n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

(a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.

(n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

(n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

(n.) A high hill near the shore.

(n.) That which gives notice of danger.

(v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.

(v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bead

(n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

(a.) Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.

(v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

(v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.

(v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

(n.) A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

(a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.

(a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.

(n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

(n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.

(n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.

(interj.) Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

(v. t. & i.) To advance; to move forward; to elevate.

(v. t. & i.) To depart; to move away.

(v. t. & i.) To vaunt; to boast.

(n.) A vaunt; to boast.

(n.) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.

(v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

(v. t.) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.

(v. i.) To take vengeance.

(n.) Vengeance; revenge.

(n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.

(n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

(n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.

(v. t.) Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

(n.) A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.

(n.) A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

(n.) The whole; all that is to be.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beam

(a.) Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.

(a.) Turned away or backward.

(a.) Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.

(v. t. & i.) To turn away.

(n.) One who abides, or continues.

(n.) One who dwells; a resident.

(a.) Cast down; low-lying.

(a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

(a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

(n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

(n.) The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

(n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

(n.) An advocate.

(n.) Alt. of Avoset

(n.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana.

(a.) Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

(a.) Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

(a.) Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

(a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

(a.) Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

(v. t.) To stain with blood.

(n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

(n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.

(n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.

(n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.

(n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

(n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

(n.) Same as Avocet.

(v. t.) To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

(v. t.) To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

(v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

(v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

(n.) Evidence; declaration.

(imp. & p. p.) of Avow

(n.) An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

(a.) Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.

(a.) Covered with bloom, as fruit.

(n.) Bloom; a blossoming.

(a.) Blossomy.

(a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

(a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

() of Beat

(a.) Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.

(n.) One who avows or asserts.

(n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

(n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

(n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

(v. t.) To pluck or pull off.

() of Awake

(p. p.) of Awake

() of Awake

() of Awake

(v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

(n.) A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

(n.) Alt. of Blowess

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

(n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

(n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

(n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

(n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

(n.) A braggart, or loud talker.

(n.) See Blowze.

(n.) A blossoming; a bloom.

(n.) A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.

(a.) Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

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

(a.) Weary.

(adv.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

(v. t.) To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

(adv.) For a while; for some time; for a short time.

(adv.) With a blue color.

(a.) A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.

(a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.

(a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.

(a.) Exhausted; tired out.

(a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.

(a.) Tried; practiced.

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

(n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.

(n.) An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

(n.) A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

(n.) A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.

(n.) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

(n.) An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.

(n.) The fur of the beaver.

(n.) A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.

(n.) Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.

(n.) That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

(a.) Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear.

(a.) Inspiring no awe.

(n.) A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

(n.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

(adv.) Wrongly.

() See Ax, Axman.

(v. t.) To blot; to stain.

(v. t.) To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.

(v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

() imp. of Become.

(n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

() Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.

(n.) A medicine for relieving coughs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beck

(n.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

(n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.

(n.) A spade for digging turf.

(v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

(n.) A sign made without words; a beck.

(v. t.) To catch; to grasp; to insnare.

(v. t.) To embrace; to surround.

(imp.) of Become

(p. p.) of Become

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.

(n.) The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

(n.) An axil.

(v. i.) To come; to get.

(v. t.) To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.

(n.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.

(v. t.) To curl; to adorn with curls.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bed

(a.) Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

(a.) Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.

(n.) The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.

(n.) Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.

(a.) Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

(v. t.) To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

(n.) Axle or axletree.

(n.) Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

(n.) A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

(a.) Confined to no zone or region; not local.

(a.) Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid.

(n.) The bleating of a sheep.

(pl. ) of Baal

(v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

(v. i.) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.

(v. i.) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.

(v. i.) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.

(v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.

(v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

(n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

(n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

(n.) Finery of a kind to please a child.

(n.) A baboon.

(a.) Like a babe; a childish; babyish.

(n.) The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.

(n.) A believer in Babism.

(n.) The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

(n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

(pl. ) of Baby

(v. t.) To make a daff or fool of.

(v. t.) To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.

(v. t.) To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

(n.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

(a.) Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

(v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

(n.) Same as Beadle.

(n.) An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

(n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.

(n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.

(n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.

(a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.

(v. t.) To cause to dote; to deceive.

(n.) A pan for warming beds.

(n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

(v. i.) Alt. of Bedridden

(v. t.) To sprinkle, as with drops.

(v. t.) To drug abundantly or excessively.

(v. t.) To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.

(n.) See Bedouin.

(a.) Full of blurs; blurred.

(a.) Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.

(v. t.) To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.

(a.) Of or relating to beeches.

(imp. & p. p.) of Baby

(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.

(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.

(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.

(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

(n.) plural of Beef, the animal.

(imp.) of Befall

(v. t.) To happen to.

(v. i.) To come to pass; to happen.

(v. t.) To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.

(v. t.) To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish.

(prep.) In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boat

(imp. & p. p.) of Back

(prep.) Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.

(prep.) An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.

(prep.) Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.

(prep.) In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.

(prep.) Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.

(prep.) Open for; free of access to; in the power of.

(adv.) On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.

(adv.) In advance.

(adv.) In time past; previously; already.

(adv.) Earlier; sooner than; until then.

(a.) To make foul; to soil.

(a.) To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beg

(n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

(n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.

(n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.

(n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

(v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.

(v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

(v. t.) To gild.

(imp.) of Begird

(p. p.) of Begird

(v. t.) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

(v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.

(v. t.) To encompass; to begird.

(v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

(interj.) Go away; depart; get you gone.

(p. p.) Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).

(n.) See Beghard.

(n.) Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

(v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.

(v. i.) To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

(v. t.) To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

() imp. & p. p. of Behold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bob

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

(n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

(n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.

(a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

(n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

(n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.

(n.) A vow; a promise.

(v. t.) To vow.

(a.) On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.

(a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.

(a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.

(adv.) At the back part; in the rear.

(adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

(adv.) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.

(adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.

(adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.

(n.) The backside; the rump.

(imp. & p. p.) of Behold

(v. t.) To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes.

(v. i.) To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see.

(v. t.) Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.

(v.) and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

(v. t.) To howl at.

(v. t.) To jade or tire.

(v. t.) To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.

(v. t.) To confess; to acknowledge.

(v. t.) To fasten, as with a lace or cord.

(v. t.) To cover or adorn with lace.

(v. t.) To beat with a strap. See Lace.

(n.) Good friend; dear friend.

(v. t.) To retard or make too late.

(v. t.) To laud or praise greatly.

(n.) Alt. of Beldame

(imp. & p. p.) of Beleave

(n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

(n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

(n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

(n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.

(n.) An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.

(imp. & p. p.) of Belie

(n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

(n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

(n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.

(n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.

(n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

(n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.

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

(n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

(n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.

(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

(adv.) It is likely or probably; perhaps.

(v. t.) To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

(a.) Forthwith; speedily; quickly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bell

(a.) Hung with a bell or bells.

(a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

(a.) Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.

(a.) Real; actual; put in execution.

(adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.

(adv.) In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below."

(a.) Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.

(n.) A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

(n.) A dagger.

(n.) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.

(n.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.

(n.) A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.

(n.) A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.

(n.) See Baudekin.

(n.) The Osage orange.

(pl. ) of Body

(n.) See Bascule.

() compar. of Bad, a.

(n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

(n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

(n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.

(v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

(v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

(n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

(a.) Alt. of Bellical

(n.) Lead colic.

(v.) To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

(v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.

(v.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.

(v. t.) To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.

(n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Body

(imp. & p. p.) of Bog

(n.) To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

(n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

(n.) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.

(v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

(pl. ) of Bogy

(v. t.) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

(v. t.) To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors.

(v. i.) To renounce on oath.

(n.) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.

(adv. & a.) On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.

(adv. & a.) In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.

(v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

(v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

(v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

(v. i.) To practice deceit.

(v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

(n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bag

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

(v. i.) To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

(v. i.) To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.

(v. i.) To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.

(v. i.) To be suitable for; to be due to.

(v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.

(v. t.) To be deserved by.

(v. t.) To act the lord over.

(v. t.) To address by the title of "lord".

(v. t.) To love.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boil

(a.) Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

(n.) One who boils.

(n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled.

(n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

(pl. ) of Bagman

(n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

(n.) A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.

(n.) A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.

(n.) Alt. of Baguette

(imp. & p. p.) of Bail

(imp. & p. p.) of Belt

(a.) Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

(a.) Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.

(a.) Worn in, or suspended from, the belt.

(n.) A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

(v. t.) To bespatter, as with mud.

(v. t.) To mask; to conceal.

(v. t.) To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

(v. t.) To make mean; to lower.

(v. t.) To meet.

(v. t.) To mete.

(v. t.) To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

(v. t.) To envelop in mist.

(v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

(v. t.) To mock; to ridicule.

(v. t.) To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

(v. t.) To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.

(adv.) In a bold manner.

(n.) A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

(n.) any fungus of the family Boletaceae.

(n.) A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.

(n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

(n.) See Bailor.

(n.) One who bails or lades.

(n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.

(n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle.

(n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

(n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.

(n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

(n.) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

(n.) The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

(v. t.) To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.

(v. t.) To promise; to name.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bend

(imp. & p. p.) of Boll

(a.) See Boln, a.

(a.) Swollen; puffed out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bait

(n.) One who baits; a tormentor.

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

(n.) The trade of a baker.

(n.) The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

(n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

(n.) The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

(n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.

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

(n.) An instrument used for bending.

(n.) A drunken spree.

(n.) A sixpence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bolt

(imp. & p. p.) of Bolt

(n.) See Boultel.

(n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.

(n.) One who sifts flour or meal.

(n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

(n.) A balcony.

(n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

(n.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

(n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.

(adv.) Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

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

(n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

(n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

(v. t.) To deprive (of), or take away (from).

(n.) A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.

(n.) A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.

(n.) Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.

(a.) Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

(a.) Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome.

(a.) Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.

(a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

(a.) To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination.

(n.) An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.

(v. t.) To pelt roundly.

(v. t.) To rain upon; to wet with rain.

(v. t.) To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

(n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

(imp. & p. p.) of Balk

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

(n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ball

(n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

(v. i.) To make or sing ballads.

(v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.

(n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

(n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.

(n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

(n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

() of Bereave

() imp. & p. p. of Bereave.

(v. t.) To berhyme.

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

(n.) Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

(n.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.

(a.) Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.

(n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

(n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

(n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.

(n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

(v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

(n.) A cudgel.

(n.) The peele.

(a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.

(a.) Civered with reeds; reedy.

(a.) Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.

(a.) Consisting of a reed or reeds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reef

(n.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen.

(n.) A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reek

(imp. & p. p.) of Reel

(n.) One who reels.

(n.) The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.

(v. t.) To restore after hunger or fatigue; to refresh.

(n.) A riddle or sieve.

(n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.

(n.) Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.

(v. t.) To raddle or twist.

(n.) A riddle or sieve.

(n.) A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.

(v. t.) To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.

(v. t. & i.) To fill, or become full, again.

(v. t.) To find again; to get or experience again.

(v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.

(v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.

(v. i.) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

(v. i.) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

(v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

(a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

(a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.