(imp. & p. p.) of Choke

(imp. & p. p.) of Chore

(imp. & p. p.) of Angle

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

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Affy

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

(adv.) Out of the way; astray.

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

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

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

(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.

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

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purl

(imp. & p. p.) of Agree

(imp. & p. p.) of Purse

(imp. & p. p.) of Push

(a.) Furnished with an aisle or aisles.

(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.

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

(n.) Alt. of Alcayde

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plane

(imp. & p. p.) of Cook

(imp. & p. p.) of Coop

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Copy

(imp. & p. p.) of Cork

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Corn

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

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

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

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

(a.) Made or composed of sedge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Seed

(imp. & p. p.) of Seel

(imp. & p. p.) of Seem

(imp. & p. p.) of Con

(imp. & p. p.) of Soil

(v. t.) To pour out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elate

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exile

(imp. & p. p.) of Flow

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flux

(imp. & p. p.) of Foal

(imp. & p. p.) of Heed

(imp. & p. p.) of Foam

(imp. & p. p.) of Fob

(imp. & p. p.) of Heel

(imp. & p. p.) of Heft

(imp. & p. p.) of Fog

(imp. & p. p.) of Foil

(imp. & p. p.) of Fold

(imp. & p. p.) of Fool

(imp. & p. p.) of Helm

(a.) Covered with a helmet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Help

(imp. & p. p.) of Helve

(imp. & p. p.) of Hem

(imp. & p. p.) of Pelt

(imp. & p. p.) of Pain

(imp. & p. p.) of Peer

(imp. & p. p.) of Pad

(p. p. / a.) Furnished with a chape or chapes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burke

(imp. & p. p.) of Burl

(imp. & p. p.) of Burn

(p. p. & a.) See Burnt.

(p. p.) Burnished.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burr

(imp. & p. p.) of Bury

(imp. & p. p.) of Bush

(imp. & p. p.) of Busk

(a.) Wearing a busk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buss

(imp. & p. p.) of Busy

(imp. & p. p.) of But

(imp. & p. p.) of Butt

(imp. & p. p.) of Seal

(imp. & p. p.) of Chase

(imp. & p. p.) of Seam

(a.) Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sear

(imp. & p. p.) of Buzz

(imp. & p. p.) of Coal

(imp. & p. p.) of Chaw

(imp. & p. p.) of Coat

(imp. & p. p.) of Coax

(imp. & p. p.) of Cob

(imp. & p. p.) of Cock

(imp. & p. p.) of Chew

(imp. & p. p.) of Cog

(a.) Wearing a coif.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coil

(imp. & p. p.) of Coin

(imp. & p. p.) of Chime

(imp. & p. p.) of Chine

(a.) Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.

(a.) Broken in the back.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nap

(a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

(n.) A goad for driving oxen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peel

(imp. & p. p.) of Peep

(a.) Ovate.

(n.) See Oxyacid.

(n.) Same as Lyrid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mewl

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Din

(imp. & p. p.) of Douse

(imp. & p. p.) of Ding

(imp. & p. p.) of Dint

(imp. & p. p.) of Down

(imp. & p. p.) of Dip

(imp. & p. p.) of Smile

(imp. & p. p.) of Drape

(imp. & p. p.) of Smoke

(imp. & p. p.) of Snake

(imp. & p. p.) of Snare

(imp. & p. p.) of Dirk

(imp. & p. p.) of Snore

(imp. & p. p.) of Snow

(n.) See Dizzard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stale

(v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drone

(n.) A solan goose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Solve

(imp. & p. p.) of Stare

(imp. & p. p.) of State

(a.) Settled; established; fixed.

(a.) Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.

(imp. & p. p.) of Soot

(imp. & p. p.) of Sop

(a.) Filthy; foul; dirty.

(a.) Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ruby

(imp. & p. p.) of Ruck

(n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

(imp. & p. p.) of Amuse

(a.) Diverted.

(a.) Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rack

(imp. & p. p.) of Raft

(imp. & p. p.) of Rag

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Raid

(imp. & p. p.) of Rail

(imp. & p. p.) of Rain

() of Astone

(imp. & p. p.) of Raise

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bank

(n.) A byland.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bilge

(imp. & p. p.) of Bilk

(imp. & p. p.) of Bill

(a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bar

(imp. & p. p.) of Barb

(imp. & p. p.) of Bin

(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.

(p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

(p.a.) Wearing rich caparisons.

(imp. & p. p.) of Atone

(imp. & p. p.) of Bark

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Birr

(imp. & p. p.) of Bit

(imp. & p. p.) of Bask

(imp. & p. p.) of Baste

(imp. & p. p.) of Bat

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blame

(imp. & p. p.) of Blare

(imp. & p. p.) of Bathe

(imp. & p. p.) of Nail

(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.

(a.) Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.

(a.) Wing-footed, as the bat.

(n.) An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quake

(a.) United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

(imp. & p. p.) of Arch

(a.) Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ally

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abate

(imp. & p. p.) of Argue

(imp. & p. p.) of Amaze

(imp. & p. p.) of Amble

(a.) Having an aril.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quote

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ram

(imp. & p. p.) of Pant

(imp. & p. p.) of Blaze

(imp. & p. p.) of Bawl

(a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

(a.) A stupid, clownish fellow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bead

(a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.

(a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beam

(a.) Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.

(imp. & p. p.) of Avow

(a.) Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.

() of Awake

(p. p.) of Awake

(n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

(imp. & p. p.) of Beck

(imp. & p. p.) of Bed

(a.) Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

(v. i.) Alt. of Bedridden

(imp. & p. p.) of Baby

(imp. & p. p.) of Boat

(imp. & p. p.) of Back

(imp. & p. p.) of Beg

(v. t.) To gild.

(v. t.) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

(v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.

(v. t.) To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

() imp. & p. p. of Behold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bob

(a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

(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.) To laud or praise greatly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Belie

(imp. & p. p.) of Bell

(a.) Hung with a bell or bells.

(a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

(imp. & p. p.) of Body

(imp. & p. p.) of Bog

(imp. & p. p.) of Bag

(v. t.) To act the lord over.

(v. t.) To address by the title of "lord".

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bend

(imp. & p. p.) of Boll

(imp. & p. p.) of Bait

(imp. & p. p.) of Bolt

(imp. & p. p.) of Bolt

(imp. & p. p.) of Balk

(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.

(a.) Civered with reeds; reedy.

(a.) Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reef

(imp. & p. p.) of Reek

(imp. & p. p.) of Reel

(v. t.) To find again; to get or experience again.

(v. t.) To fold again.

(n.) Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.

(n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.

(n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cable

(a.) Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.

(a.) Adorned with cabling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rest

(imp. & p. p.) of Ruff

(a.) Furnished with a ruff.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cadge

(n.) Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.

(n.) Not neat or regular; uneven.

(n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.

(n.) Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.

(n.) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.

(n.) Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like.

(n.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.

(n.) Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.

(n.) Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ruin

(v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.

(v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.

(v. i.) To stay back.

(n.) Retardation; delay.

(a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

() imp. & p. p. of Retell.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rush

(a.) Abounding or covered with rushes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rust

(imp. & p. p.) of Rut

(imp. &p. p.) of Calk

(v. t.) To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Call

() of Sabre

(a.) Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Calm

(imp. & p. p.) of Calve

(imp. & p. p.) of Sack

(imp. & p. p.) of Camp

(imp. & p. p.) of Can

(a.) Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.

(a.) Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.

(a.) Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.

(a.) Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.

(a.) Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.

(a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

(n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

(a.) White.

(a.) Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.

(a.) Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.

(imp. & p. p.) of Canoe

(imp. & p. p.) of Cant

(imp. & p. p.) of Nab

(a.) Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stave

(imp. & p. p.) of Stay

(imp. & p. p.) of Ban

(imp. & p. p.) of Bond

(a.) Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.

(imp. & p. p.) of Band

(imp. & p. p.) Beset; put in peril.

() of Bestead

() of Bestead

(imp. & p. p.) of Book

(a.) Registered.

(a.) On the way; destined.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boom

(imp. & p. p.) of Boot

(imp. & p. p.) of Boot

(a.) Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

(a.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Booze

(imp. & p. p.) of Bang

(v. t.) To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.

() of Bet

(imp. & p. p.) of Bowl

(prep.) On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.

(prep.) At a place or time not yet reached; before.

(prep.) Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.

(prep.) In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind.

(adv.) Further away; at a distance; yonder.

(a.) Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bias

(n.) A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boss

(a.) Embossed; also, bossy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brace

(a.) Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.

(v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

(n.) Regard; respect; consideration.

(n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brave

(v. t.) To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

(v. t.) Hence, to look or front toward; to face.

(v. t.) To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly.

(n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.

(n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.

(v. t.) To repeat in the same words; to reecho.

(v. t.) To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bray

(imp. & p. p.) of Ramp

(v. t.) To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.

(v. t.) To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike.

(v. t.) To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.

(v. t.) To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition.

(v. t.) To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that.

(v. i.) To look attentively; to consider; to notice.

(v. t.) A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

(v. t.) Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice.

(v. t.) That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural.

(v. t.) State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account.

(v. t.) Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.

(v. t.) Matter for consideration; account; condition.

(v. t.) Respect; relation; reference.

(v. t.) Object of sight; scene; view; aspect.

(v. t.) Supervision; inspection.

(n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.

(a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

(v. t.) To gild anew.

(imp. & p. p.) of Range

(imp. & p. p.) of Rank

(imp. & p. p.) of Rhyme

(imp. & p. p.) of Rant

(imp. & p. p.) of Rap

(imp. & p. p.) of Rap

(imp. & p. p.) of Rib

(n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.

(a.) Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.

(n.) See Ribbon.

(n.) See Rib-band.

(a.) Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.

(a.) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.

() of Rid

() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.

() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rein

(imp. & p. p.) of Ridge

(imp. & p. p.) of Rifle

(imp. & p. p.) of Rift

(imp. & p. p.) of Rig

(imp. & p. p.) of Rasp

(v. t.) To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.

(v. i.) To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rat

(imp. & p. p.) of Rim

(imp. & p. p.) of Nick

(imp. & p. p.) of Shore

(v. i.) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

(v. i.) To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.

(v. i.) To rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of.

(v. i.) To trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; -- with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour.

(v. i.) To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.

(v. i.) To impend.

(imp.) Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see Shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shove

(imp.) of Show

() of Show

(adv.) Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

(superl.) Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.

(superl.) Artful; wily; cunning; arch.

(superl.) Able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen; as, a shrewd observer; a shrewd design; a shrewd reply.

(n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

(n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

(n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

(n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

(n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.

(n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

(n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

(n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

(n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

(v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.

(v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sidle

(imp. & p. p.) of Sift

(imp. & p. p.) of Sigh

(n.) Alt. of Desmidian

(imp. & p. p.) of Sign

(imp. & p. p.) of Roil

(imp. & p. p.) of Sap

(imp. & p. p.) of Silt

(imp. & p. p.) of Scale

(adv.) Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cause

(a.) Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.

(a.) Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.

(a.) Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cease

(imp. & p. p.) of Ceil

(imp. & p. p.) of Cell

(a.) Containing a cell or cells.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scape

(imp. & p. p.) of Cense

(a.) Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Score

(imp. & p. p.) of Cess

(imp. & p. p.) of Buck

(imp. & p. p.) of Bud

(imp. & p. p.) of Budge

(a.) Ornamented with bugles.

(a.) Having a bulb; round-headed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bulge

(imp. & p. p.) of Bulk

(a.) Swollen.

(n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.

(n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.

(n.) A fragment; a portion; a shred.

(n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.

(n.) An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chafe

(imp. & p. p.) of Bum

(imp. & p. p.) of Bump

(imp. & p. p.) of Bung

(imp. & p. p.) of Bunk

(imp. & p. p.) of Buoy

(imp. & p. p.) of Nag

(imp. & p. p.) of Sin

(imp. & p. p.) of Singe

(imp. & p. p.) of Noose

(imp. & p. p.) of Open

(a.) Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tint

(imp. & p. p.) of Tip

(imp. & p. p.) of Tithe

(imp. & p. p.) of Title

(a.) Having or bearing a title.

(n.) A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Toil

(imp. & p. p.) of Toll

(n.) A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tomb

(imp. & p. p.) of Indue

(imp. & p. p.) of Tool

(imp. & p. p.) of Toot

(imp. & p. p.) of Top

(imp. & p. p.) of Gride

(imp. & p. p.) of Grind

(imp. & p. p.) of Gripe

(imp. & p. p.) of Scare

(a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Soak

(imp. & p. p.) of Grope

(imp. & p. p.) of Talk

(n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it.

(n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth.

(n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground.

(n.) Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept.

(n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope.

(n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground.

(n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

(n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels.

(n.) A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.

(n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

(n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

(n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit.

(n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.

(n.) The pit of a theater.

(v. t.) To lay, set, or run, on the ground.

(v. t.) To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.

(v. t.) To instruct in elements or first principles.

(v. t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.

(v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.

(v. i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.

() imp. & p. p. of Grind.

(n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tamp

(imp. & p. p.) of Tan

(imp. & p. p.) of Tang

(imp. & p. p.) of Tap

(imp. & p. p.) of Swage

(imp. & p. p.) of Tar

(imp. & p. p.) of Guide

(imp. & p. p.) of Sway

(a.) Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gull

(imp. & p. p.) of Task

(imp. & p. p.) of Taste

(imp. & p. p.) of Gulp

(imp. &. p.) of Gum

(imp. & p. p.) of Gush

(n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

(v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).

(n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.

(v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.

(v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spite

(imp. & p. p.) of Spoke

(n.) A sporidium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Erase

(p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

(p. pr. & a.) Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped.

(a.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Erode

(p. p. & a.) Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

(p. p. & a.) Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spread

(v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.

(v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.

(v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.

(v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.

(v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.

(v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.

(v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.

(v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.

(v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.

(v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.

(v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.

(n.) Extent; compass.

(n.) Expansion of parts.

(n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.

(n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.

(n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.

(n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

() imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dub

(n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.

(imp. & p. p.) of Duck

(imp. & p. p.) of Spume

(imp. & p. p.) of Seize

(a.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.

(a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.

(a.) Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.

(a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.

(n.) A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.

(v. t.) To make timorous; to frighten.

(a.) Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sense

(a.) Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.

(n.) An absurdity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abuse

(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle.

(n.) Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

(n.) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.

(n.) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.

(a.) Resembling a cone; conoidal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crane

(imp. & p. p.) of Soap

(imp. & p. p.) of Soar

(imp. & p. p.) of Sob

(imp. & p. p.) of Crape

(imp. & p. p.) of Crate

(imp. & p. p.) of Crave

(imp. & p. p.) of Craze

(a.) Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.

(a.) Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cap

(imp. & p. p.) of Sag

(imp. & p. p.) of Ring

(a.) Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.

(a.) Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rinse

(a.) Hoarse; raucous.

(v. t.) To load again, as a gun.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rely

(imp. & p. p.) of Riot

(imp. & p. p.) of Rip

(adv.) On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.

(adv.) Alongside; as, close aboard.

(prep.) On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.

(prep.) Across; athwart.

(v. t.) To recommit; to send back.

(n.) The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.

(imp. & p. p.) of Risk

(imp. & p. p.) of Roam

(imp. & p. p.) of Roar

(imp. & p. p.) of Razee

(imp. & p. p.) of Rob

(n.) See Roperand.

(v. t.) To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).

(v. t.) Alt. of Remould

(imp. & p. p.) of Rock

(imp. & p. p.) of Ream

(v. t.) To excite to remorse; to rebuke.

(v. i.) To feel remorse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reap

(imp. & p. p.) of Rear

(imp. & p. p.) of Roll

(n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reave

(v. i.) To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.

(v. i.) To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with.

(v. t. & i.) To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out.

(adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.

(adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.

(adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.

(adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

(adv.) In the act of brooding.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rent

(imp. & p. p.) of Romp

() imp. & p. p. of Repay.

(a.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

(imp. & p. p.) of Roof

(imp. & p. p.) of Rook

(imp. & p. p.) of Room

(imp. & p. p.) of Repay

(imp. & p. p.) of Reck

(imp. & p. p.) of Root

(a.) Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.

(a.) Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rot

(a.) Round; circular; spherical.

(a.) Hence, complete; entire.

(a.) Orbicular, or nearly so.

(n.) A rotunda.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rouge

(v. t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

(v. t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.

(v. t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

(v. i.) To reflect; to ponder.

(v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune.

(v. t.) A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

(v. t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.

(v. t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.

(v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.

(v. t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.

(v. t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.

(v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

(v. t.) That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.

(v. t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rouse

(imp. & p. p.) of Rout

(imp. & p. p.) of Rub

(v. t.) To send again; as, to resend a message.

(v. t.) To send back; as, to resend a gift.

(v. t.) To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.

(imp. & p. p.) of Noise

(imp. & p. p.) of Sail

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.

(imp. & p. p.) of Claw

(a.) Furnished with claws.

(imp. & p. p.) of Clay

(n.) A salpa.

(imp. & p. p.) of Salt

(imp. & p. p.) of Salve

(imp. & p. p.) of Card

(imp. & p. p.) of Clepe

(imp. & p. p.) of Sand

(a.) Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.

(a.) Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.

(a.) Short-sighted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Carp

(imp. & p. p.) of Close

(imp. & p. p.) of Cart

(imp. & p. p.) of Sash

(imp. & p. p.) of Carve

(imp. & p. p.) of Braze

(imp. & p. p.) of Cash

(imp. & p. p.) of Cloy

(imp. & p. p.) of Brew

(imp. & p. p.) of Bribe

(imp. & p. p.) of Sauce

(a.) Decorated or furnished with olive trees.

(imp. & p. p.) of Omen

(a.) Attended by, or containing, an omen or omens; as, happy-omened day.

(imp. & p. p.) of Comb

(n.) See Scrod, a young cod.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dump

(imp. & p. p.) of Dun

(imp. & p. p.) of Dung

(a.) Beaten; hence, blunted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Serve

(imp. & p. p.) of Darn

(imp. & p. p.) of Dart

(imp. & p. p.) of Dash

(imp. & p. p.) of Daub

(a.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dawn

(a.) Of an azure color; sky-blue.

() of Crow

(p. p.) of Crow

(p. a.) Indebted; obliged to.

(v. t.) To discard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deck

(n.) A peninsula.

(n.) A private or obscure road.

(a.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.

(n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cuff

(imp. & p. p.) of Cull

(imp. & p. p.) of Deem

(imp. & p. p.) of Cup

(imp. & p. p.) of Curb

(imp. & p. p.) of Curd

(n.) A thing made up of eight parts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dust

(a.) Subjected to a duty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Espy

(imp. & p. p.) of Etch

(imp. & p. p.) of Stake

(imp. & p. p.) of Plate

(n.) The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.

(v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.

(v. t.) To transgress; to violate; to sin against.

(v. t.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

(imp. & p. p.) of Feaze

(a.) Fruitful in children; prolific.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gut

(imp. & p. p.) of Addle

(imp. & p. p.) of Hack

(imp. & p. p.) of Fell

(adv.) Toward the haemal side; on the haemal side of; -- opposed to neurad.

(a.) Yoked in, or as in, a team.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tease

(a.) Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Felt

(imp. & p. p.) of Hag

(a.) Like a hag; lean; ugly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ted

(imp. & p. p.) of Teem

(imp. & p. p.) of Fend

(a.) Having hair.

(a.) In composition: Having (such) hair; as, red-haired.

(v. t.) To strike against; to attack; to assail.

(v. t.) To displease; to make angry; to affront.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nod

(n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.

(n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.

(a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.

(a.) See Honeyed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hood

(a.) Covered with a hood.

(a.) Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.

(a.) Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.

(a.) Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

(a.) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.

(a.) Furnished with hoofs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hook

(a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

(a.) Provided with a hook or hooks.

(a.) Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.

(a.) Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hoop

(imp. & p. p.) of Hoot

(imp. & p. p.) of Hop

(a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.

(a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.

(p. a.) Impregnated with hops.

(imp. & p. p.) of Toss

(imp. & p. p.) of Tour

(imp. & p. p.) of Touze

(prep.) Alt. of Towards

(adv.) Alt. of Towards

(prep.) Approaching; coming near.

(prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

(prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.

(a.) Having towns; containing many towns.

(n.) Award.

(a.) Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.

(a.) Rough; rugged; bristling.

(a.) Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.

(imp. & p. p.) of Horse

(v. t.) To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.

(v. t.) To clasp with the arms; to embrace.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trace

(n.) A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

(n.) A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trade

(imp. & p. p.) of House

(imp. & p. p.) of Jig

(imp. & p. p.) of Jilt

(imp. & p. p.) of Job

() Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.

(adv.) Merrily; cheerfully.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jog

(imp. & p. p.) of Maul

(n.) A kind of small black cherry.

(n.) The jaw; the head or skull.

(v. t.) To knock on the head.

(a.) Fed; fattened.

(a.) Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick-meated.

(a.) Become wild.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lap

(a.) Made wan, or pale.

(imp. & p. p.) of Want

(imp. & p. p.) of War

(imp. & p. p.) of Ward

(a.) Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lapse

(a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses.

(a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vary

(imp. & p. p.) of Warm

(imp. & p. p.) of Lard

(imp. & p. p.) of Warn

(imp. & p. p.) of Warp

(imp. & p. p.) of Lark

(imp. & p. p.) of Vat

(a.) Like or belonging to the Gull family (Laridae).

(a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wash

(a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lash

(n.) The fore part; van.

(imp. & p. p.) of Veer

(imp. & p. p.) of Last

(imp. & p. p.) of Veil

(a.) Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vein

(a.) Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble.

(a.) Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf.

(imp. & p. p.) of Waste

(imp. & p. p.) of Lath

(imp. & p. p.) of Vend

(imp. & p. p.) of Vent

(imp. & p. p.) of Laud

(a.) Not read or perused; as, an unread book.

(a.) Not versed in literature; illiterate.

(a.) Not parted or divided, as the hair.

(a.) Not spilt, or made to flow, as blood or tears.

(n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.

(n.) Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.

(n.) See Isle, n., 2.

(v. t.) To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.

(v. t.) To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.

(a.) Not performed; not dispatched.

(v. t.) To pay.

(v. i.) To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.

(a.) Not told; not related; not revealed; as, untold secrets.

(a.) Not numbered or counted; as, untold money.

(a.) Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment.

(a.) Not habituated; unaccustomed.

(a.) Alt. of Unweldy

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

(v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

(v. t.) To disentangle.

(v. i.) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

(a.) Furnished with tusks.

(a.) Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda.

(n.) One of the Isopoda.

(imp. & p. p.) of Twine

(v. t.) To bind up.

(imp. & p. p.) of Issue

(imp. & p. p.) of Itch

(imp. & p. p.) of Item

(n.) See Izard.

(n.) The letter z; -- formerly so called. J () J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.

(a.) Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge.

() imp. & p. p. of Uphold.

(v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

(v. t.) To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.

(v. t.) To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jag

(a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jam

(n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.

(n.) The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

(a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.

(a.) Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.

(v. t.) To lead upward.

(v. t.) To send, cast, or throw up.

(adv.) Alt. of Upwards

(a.) Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

(n.) The upper part; the top.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jar

(n.) Any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of Crustacea, and Stomapoda.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jeer

(n.) A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jerk

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei.

(a.) Dressed; habited; clad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Endue

(v. t.) To infold. See Infold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gash

(v. t.) To gild; to make splendent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fan

(imp. & p. p.) of Gasp

(v. t.) To gird; to encompass.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sip

(a.) Devilish; excessive; extreme.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cool

(imp. & p. p.) of Cord

(a.) Bound or fastened with cords.

(a.) Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.

(a.) Made of cords.

(a.) Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface.

(a.) Bound about, or wound, with cords.

(v. t.) To empty out; to remove.

(v. t.) Void; empty; vacant.

(v. t.) Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skate

(a.) Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skew

(imp. & p. p.) of Dial

(imp. & p. p.) of Dock

(a.) Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dodge

(imp. & p. p.) of Doff

(imp. & p. p.) of Dog

(imp. & p. p.) of Slake

(imp. & p. p.) of Slate

(imp. & p. p.) of Slave

(a.) Sullen; morose.

(a.) Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work.

(a.) Somewhat drunk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slice

(imp. & p. p.) of Diet

(imp. & p. p.) of Slime

() of Dig

(imp. & p. p.) of Don

(imp. & p. p.) of Doom

(adv.) Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slope

(imp. & p. p.) of Dot

(v. i.) One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slow

(a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dim

(a.) Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gauge

(imp. & p. p.) of Sort

() a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted.

(a.) Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dish

(imp. & p. p.) of Sour

(imp. & p. p.) of Souse

(imp. & p. p.) of Space

(imp. & p. p.) of Spade

(imp. & p. p.) of Stew

(imp. & p. p.) of Spare

(v. t.) To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten.

(n.) The number nine or a group of nine.

(n.) The shoulder.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spay

(n.) Alt. of Spayade

(imp. & p. p.) of Ensue

(a.) Having or wearing a stole.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spew

(imp. & p. p.) of Spice

(a.) Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stone

(imp. & p. p.) of Spike

(a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stope

(a.) Alt. of Sexifid

(imp. & p. p.) of Curl

(a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).

(v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

(v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.

(v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies.

(v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Curse

(a.) Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shade

(imp. & p. p.) of Curve

(imp. & p. p.) of Cusp

(n.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

(imp.) of Shall

(imp. & p. p.) of Opine

(imp. & p. p.) of Defy

(imp. & p. p.) of Shame

(imp. & p. p.) of Cycle

(imp.) of Shape

(p. p.) of Shape

(a.) Having the form of a cyme.

(imp. & p. p.) of Share

(a.) Inclosed in a cyst.

(n.) One of the Cystidea.

(v. t.) Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

(v. t.) Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.

(v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

(v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.

(v. t.) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.

(v. t.) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.

(v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.

(v. t.) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.

(v. i.) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.

(v. i.) To agree in pitch and tone.

(imp.) of Shave

(p. p.) of Shave

(a.) Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dab

(n.) See Shard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dam

(imp. & p. p.) of Delve

(v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.

(v. t.) To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.

(v. t.) To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.

(v. t.) To call into court; to summon.

(v. i.) To make a demand; to inquire.

(v. t.) The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.

(v. t.) Earnest inquiry; question; query.

(v. t.) A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.

(v. t.) That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.

(v. t.) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.

(v. t.) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.

(v. t.) A thing or amount claimed to be due.

(imp. & p. p.) of Damn

(a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

(a.) Hateful; detestable; abominable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Damp

(imp. & p. p.) of Dance

(a.) Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.

(n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.

(n.) Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.

(n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends.

(n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.

(n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.

(n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.

(n.) A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.

(n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.

(n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.

(n.) To ward off; to keep off or out.

(n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!

(imp. & p. p.) of Seat

(a.) Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.

(a.) Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

(a.) Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.

(n.) One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.

(n.) One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.

(n.) Aid; assistance; help.

(n.) An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

(a.) The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.

(a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

(n.) The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

(n.) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

(a.) To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

(a.) To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage.

(a.) Specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dent

(v. t.) Indented; impressed with little hollows.

(imp. & p. p.) of Deny

(imp. & p. p.) of Nip

(n.) Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.

(imp. & p. p.) of Store

(a.) Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.

(a.) Furnished with spines; spiny.

(v. i.) To be in pain or sorrow.

(v. i.) Stunned.

(n.) A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm.

(n.) Astonishment; amazement.

(n.) Hour; time; season.

(n.) A brief space of time; a moment.

(n.) A vessel for holding small beer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stove

(imp. & p. p.) of Envy

(v. t.) To wind about; to encircle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spire

(a.) Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stow

(imp. & p. p.) of Pup

(imp. & p. p.) of Nill

(a.) See Moneyed.

() of Nim

(p. a.) Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.

(n.) See Farrand, n.

(imp. & p. p.) of Farce

(imp. & p. p.) of Farm

(imp. & p. p.) of Fash

(imp. & p. p.) of Gear

(imp. & p. p.) of Geld

(imp. & p. p.) of Fast

(imp. & p. p.) of Gem

(imp. & p. p.) of Fat

(imp. & p. p.) of Fawn

(imp. & p. p.) of Elide

(v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

(v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.

(v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.

(v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elope

(v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

(v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed.

(v. i.) To pay out or disburse money.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elude

(a.) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.

(a.) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.

(n.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fudge

(a.) Shining; glittering; dazzling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Full

(a.) Fulvous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fund

(a.) Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

(a.) Invested in public funds; as, funded money.

(v. t.) To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

(v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.

(v. t.) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.

(v. t.) To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.

(v. t.) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.

(v. t.) To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.

(v. t.) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fur

(imp. & p. p.) of Fuss

(imp. & p. p.) of Gad

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidae) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake.

(n.) One of the Gadidae.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exude

(imp. & p. p.) of Gaff

(imp. & p. p.) of Gag

(n.) The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

(n.) See /iliad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fable

(imp. & p. p.) of Gain

(a.) Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gall

(a.) Eloquent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fag

(imp. & p. p.) of Fail

(imp. & p. p.) of Fear

(n.) A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.

(n.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, "Ic haebbe mete to etanne" (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone.

(a.) Trembling; quaking.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gib

(n.) Strand; beach.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gift

(imp. & p. p.) of Gild

(n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gin

() of Gird

(imp. & p. p.) of Moult

(imp. & p. p.) of Wail

(imp. & p. p.) of Wig

(a.) Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wait

(imp. & p. p.) of Value

(a.) Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend.

(a.) Having a valve or valve; valvate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vamp

(imp. & p. p.) of Lance

(imp. & p. p.) of Waive

(imp. & p. p.) of Land

(imp. & p. p.) of Walk

(imp. & p. p.) of Wall

(a.) Having an estate in land.

(a.) Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mould

(imp. & p. p.) of Moil

(imp. & p. p.) of Verge

(imp. & p. p.) of Wean

(imp. & p. p.) of Wear

(imp. & p. p.) of Weave

(imp. & p. p.) of Lead

(imp. & p. p.) of Web

(a.) Provided with a web.

(a.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.

(a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.

(a.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.

(imp.) of Wed

(p. p.) of Wed

(a.) Joined in wedlock; married.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wedge

(imp. & p. p.) of Verse

(a.) Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced.

(a.) Turned.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leaf

(a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Weed

(imp. & p. p.) of Leak

(imp. & p. p.) of Earn

(imp. & p. p.) of Forge

(n.) A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fork

(a.) Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.

(a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Form

(imp. & p. p.) of Echo

(a.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.

(a.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.

(a.) Very old.

(imp. & p. p.) of Evade

(imp. & p. p.) of Foul

(a.) Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color.

(imp. & p. p.) of Even

(imp. & p. p.) of Eddy

(imp. & p. p.) of Evoke

(imp. & p. p.) of Edit

(imp. & p. p.) of Educe

(imp. & p. p.) of Fowl

(a.) Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.

(v. t.) To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.

(v. i.) To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.

(v. i.) To be more or greater; to be paramount.

(imp. & p. p.) of Frame

(imp. & p. p.) of Fray

(imp. & p. p.) of Lean

(a.) Having jesses on, as a hawk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jest

(imp. & p. p.) of Vest

(imp. & p. p.) of Leap

(a.) Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.

(a.) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lease

(imp. & p. p.) of Veto

(imp. & p. p.) of Leave

(a.) Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vial

(imp. & p. p.) of Weld

(imp. & p. p.) of Well

(imp. & p. p.) of Leer

(imp. & p. p.) of Welt

(imp. & p. p.) of Wend

() of Wet

(imp. & p. p.) of View

(imp. & p. p.) of Whala

(imp. & p. p.) of Girt

(a.) Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stupe

(a.) Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

(a.) Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.

(imp. & p. p.) of Style

(v. t.) To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.

(v. t.) To understand or supply in an ellipsis.

(imp. & p. p.) of Glare

(imp. & p. p.) of Glide

(imp. & p. p.) of Globe

(n.) Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

(n.) A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.

(imp. & p. p.) of Glove

(imp. & p. p.) of Glow

(imp. & p. p.) of Gloze

(imp. & p. p.) of Suck

(imp. & p. p.) of Gnaw

(imp. & p. p.) of Goad

(imp. & p. p.) of Suit

(imp. & p. p.) of Sum

(a.) Marked like macle (chiastolite).

(a.) Having a twin structure. See Twin, a.

(a.) See Mascled.

(imp. & p. p.) of Will

(imp. & p. p.) of Mad

(v. t.) To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

(v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.

(v. t.) To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.

(v. i.) To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed.

(v. t.) To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload.

(v. t.) To loose from the hand; to let go.

(v. t.) To take out the head of; as, to unhead a cask.

(v. t.) To decapitate; to behead.

(v. t.) To cease to hold; to unhand; to release.

(v. t.) To remove a hood or disguise from.

(a.) Having only one foot.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inure

(imp. & p. p.) of Unite

(a.) Combined; joined; made one.

(imp. & p. p.) of Image

(a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.

(a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.

(a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

(a.) Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward.

(a.) Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul.

(a.) Intimate; domestic; private.

(n.) That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.

(n.) The mental faculties; -- usually pl.

(n.) An intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance.

(a.) Alt. of Inwards

(v. t.) To form into a band or bands.

(a.) Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Iron

(imp. & p. p.) of Imbue

(a.) Not laid or placed; not fixed.

(a.) Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest.

(a.) Not laid out, as a corpse.

(v. t.) To deprive of lands.

(v. t.) To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

(v. t.) Hence, to relieve from anything onerous.

(v. t.) To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.

(v. t.) To draw the charge from; as, to unload a gun.

(v. t.) To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of.

(v. i.) To perform the act of unloading anything; as, let unload now.

(v. t.) To deprive of the rank or position of a lord.

(v. t.) Alt. of Unmould

(a.) Unclean.

(a.) Ownerless.

(a.) Not owed; as, to pay money unowed.

(v. i.) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.

(n.) Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidae.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wince

() of Wind

(imp. & p. p.) of Join

(imp. & p. p.) of Jolt

(imp. & p. p.) of Jot

(n.) A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

(n.) A frantic or frenzied woman.

(a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mail

(a.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.

(a.) Spotted; speckled.

(imp. & p. p.) of Maim

(imp. & p. p.) of Yawn

(imp. & p. p.) of Yean

(a.) Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.

(imp. & p. p.) of Yell

(imp. & p. p.) of Yelp

(imp. & p. p.) of Yerk

() of Yodle

(imp. & p. p.) of Wind

() of Wind

(imp. & p. p.) of Foot

(a.) Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot.

(a.) Having a foothold; established.

() of Forbid

(v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.

(v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.

(v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

(v. t.) To accurse; to blast.

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

(v. i.) To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.

(imp. & p. p.) of Force

(a.) Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.

(n.) An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ford

(n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

(n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.

(n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.

(n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.

(n.) Any messenger.

(v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.

(n.) A herald.

(a.) Covered with herbs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Herd

(imp. & p. p.) of Tag

(a.) Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inbreed

(v. t.) To inflame; to excite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tick

(imp. & p. p.) of Inch

(a.) Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tidy

(imp. & p. p.) of Tiff

(imp. & p. p.) of Till

(a.) Very hot; burning; boiling.

(a.) Ardent; vehement; zealous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tend

(imp. & p. p.) of Halo

(a.) Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.

(a.) Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.

(n.) A haloid substance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Halt

(imp. & p. p.) of Halve

(a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tent

(a.) Covered with tents.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fib

(a.) Having fibers; made up of fibers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hand

(a.) With hands joined; hand in hand.

(a.) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.

(imp. & p. p.) of Term

(imp. & p. p.) of Hang

(imp. & p. p.) of Fill

(imp. & p. p.) of Fin

(p. a.) Wrapped; covered; cloaked.

(a.) Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Test

(n.) The long-tailed duck.

(imp. & p. p.) of Harm

(imp. & p. p.) of Harp

(n.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.

(n.) The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.

(n.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.

(n.) Hazard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fish

(imp. & p. p.) of Hash

(imp. & p. p.) of Hasp

(imp. & p. p.) of Haste

(imp. & p. p.) of Fist

(imp. & p. p.) of Thaw

(imp. & p. p.) of Fit

(n.) Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

(a.) Covered with a hat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fizz

(imp. & p. p.) of Haul

(imp. & p. p.) of Hawk

(a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.

(n.) A game of chance played with dice.

(n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.

(n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.

(n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

(n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.

(n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.

(n.) To venture to incur, or bring on.

(v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hill

(a.) Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hinge

(a.) Furnished with hinges.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hint

(imp. & p. p.) of Hip

(a.) Alt. of Hippish

(a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.

(a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hiss

(imp. & p. p.) of Tilt

(a.) Moldy; musty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hoax

(imp. & p. p.) of Tin

(adv.) In reality; in truth; in fact; verily; truly; -- used in a variety of sense. Esp.: (a) Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so. (b) Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you? Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies.

(n.) Same as Tinean.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tinge

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hog

(a.) Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.

(a.) Covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron.

(a.) Packed in tin cases; canned; as, tinned meats.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wing

(a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

(a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.

(a.) Swift; rapid.

(a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing.

(a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

(a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.

(a.) Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Melt

(imp. & p. p.) of Wink

(imp. & p. p.) of Judge

(a.) Full of zeal; characterized by zeal.

(a.) Alt. of Menild

(imp. & p. p.) of Mend

(imp. & p. p.) of Zest

() of Zinc

(imp. & p. p.) of Wish

(imp. & p. p.) of Wisp

(imp. & p. p.) of Moon

(a.) Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Withe

(imp. & p. p.) of Moor

(imp. & p. p.) of Moot

(a.) Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.

(n.) A wise man; a sage.

(n.) One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.

(a.) Enchanting; charming.

(a.) Haunted by wizards.

(a.) Colored or stained with woad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mop

(imp. & p. p.) of Pump

(imp. & p. p.) of Pun

(imp. & p. p.) of Poll

(a.) Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off. (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. "The polled bachelor." Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.

(n.) Any species of Pholas.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prey

(imp. & p. p.) of Price

(a.) Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pride

(imp. & p. p.) of Prime

(n.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pool

(a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin.

(n.) A keloid tumor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ken

(imp. & p. p.) of Pick

(a.) Pointed; sharp.

(a.) Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.

(a.) Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.

(a.) Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the Pici.

(imp. & p. p.) of Piece

(n.) Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pig

(imp. & p. p.) of Pill

(imp. & p. p.) of Poop

(p. p. & a.) Having a poop; furnished with a poop.

(p. p. & a.) Struck on the poop.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pop

(imp. & p. p.) of Prize

(a.) Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pimp

(imp. & p. p.) of Probe

(imp. & p. p.) of Pin

(imp. & p. p.) of Ping

(imp. & p. p.) of Port

(a.) Having gates.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pink

(a.) Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.

(a.) Professional; practiced.

(v. t.) To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess.

(imp. & p. p.) of Howl

(imp. & p. p.) of Huff

(imp. & p. p.) of Hug

(imp. & p. p.) of Hull

(a.) Deprived of the hulls.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hum

(p. p.) of Inlay.

(a.) Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.

(a.) Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.

(a.) Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.

(n.) The interior part of a country.

(adv.) Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sun

(n.) A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tub

(imp. & p. p.) of Sup

(imp. & p. p.) of Tuck

(imp. & p. p.) of Tuft

(a.) Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck.

(a.) Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tug

(imp. & p. p.) of Gorge

(a.) Having a gorge or throat.

(a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.

(a.) Glutted; fed to the full.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tun

(imp. & p. p.) of Bouge

(a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.

(a.) Disturbed; confused; disordered.

(imp. & p. p.) of Turf

(a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.

(a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.

(imp. & p. p.) of Turn

(p. a.) Dressed in a gown; clad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Grace

(a.) Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable.

(v. t.) To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Surge

(imp. & p. p.) of Grade

(imp. & p. p.) of Swipe

(v. & n.) See Swoon, v. & n.

(imp. & p. p.) of Grate

(a.) Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.

(n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.

(imp.) of Grave

() of Grave

(v. t.) To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

(v. t.) To pour back.

(v. t.) To give back; to repay; to restore.

(v. t.) To supply again with funds; to reimburse.

() imp. & p. p. of Relay.

(imp. & p. p.) of Relay

(a.) Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.

(imp. & p. p.) of Graze

(imp. & p. p.) of Tack

(v. t.) See Inlard.

(a.) Having a hump, as the back.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hunt

(imp. & p. p.) of Hurl

(imp. & p. p.) of Hush

(n.) The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.

(v. t.) To make an inroad into; to invade.

(n.) The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas.

(imp. & p. p.) of Husk

(a.) Covered with a husk.

(a.) Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hutch

(n.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

(a.) Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.

(v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.

(v. t.) To strain; to make tense.

(v. t.) To intensify; to strengthen.

(v. t.) To apply with energy.

(v. t.) To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.

(v. t.) To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard.

(v. t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.

(v. t.) To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.

(v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.

(p. a.) Afraid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hymn

(v. t.) To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

(v. t.) A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care.

(v. t.) To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use.

(v. t.) To cast loose or untie, as a rope.

(v. i.) To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.

(v. i.) To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement.

(v. t.) To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.

(a.) Not begotten; unborn.

(a.) Not taught or trained; -- with to.

(a.) Not well-bred; ill-bred.

(v. t.) To release from cords; to loosen the cord or cords of; to unfasten or unbind; as, to uncord a package.

(a.) Placed in a niche.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nib

(a.) Having a nib or point.

(imp. & p. p.) of Kern

(a.) Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.

(a.) A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds."

(a.) Inscribed with a posy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pip

(imp. & p. p.) of Post

(imp. & p. p.) of Muss

(imp. & p. p.) of Mock

(imp. & p. p.) of Pulp

(imp. & p. p.) of Puff

(imp. & p. p.) of Pug

(imp. & p. p.) of Pull

(a.) Plucked; pilled; moulting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prune

(imp. & p. p.) of Pray

(imp. & p. p.) of Prate

(imp. & p. p.) of Prove

(imp. & p. p.) of Pour

(imp. & p. p.) of Pout

(n.) The lid or cover of a pot.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prose

(imp. & p. p.) of Milk

(imp. & p. p.) of Kill

(v. t.) To wind up.

(imp. & p. p.) of Kid

(imp. & p. p.) of Pot

(n.) A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish.

(n.) The kingfish. See Kingfish (a).

(n.) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).

(imp. & p. p.) of Mat

(a.) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mass

(imp. & p. p.) of Mast

(a.) Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mash

(imp. & p. p.) of Mask

(a.) Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; cincealed; hidden.

(a.) Same as Personate.

(n.) An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.

(n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.

(n.) Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lust

(imp. & p. p.) of Lurk

(imp. & p. p.) of Lunge

(a.) Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mark

(a.) Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Marl

(imp. & p. p.) of Mar

(v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

(n.) An excursion for plundering.

(a.) Pining; lean; withered.

(a.) Characterized by emaciation, as a fever.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lump

(imp. & p. p.) of Map

(imp. & p. p.) of Luff

(imp. & p. p.) of Lug

(imp. & p. p.) of Lull

(imp. & p. p.) of Mess

(n.) Alt. of Manrent

(imp. & p. p.) of Lot

(imp. & p. p.) of Mesh

(a.) Mashed; brewed.

(adv.) Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lord

(imp. & p. p.) of Loot

(imp. & p. p.) of Lop

(imp. & p. p.) of Merge

(imp. & p. p.) of Man

(imp. & p. p.) of Loose

(imp. & p. p.) of Look

(imp. & p. p.) of Loom

(imp. & p. p.) of Loop

(a.) Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

(a.) Full of holes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Long

(a.) Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.

(imp. & p. p.) of Malt

(imp. & p. p.) of Limn

(imp. & p. p.) of Limp

(imp. & p. p.) of Mall

(a.) Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Loll

(a.) Covered with, or having many, lilies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jet

(imp. & p. p.) of Log

(a.) Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pen

(imp. & p. p.) of Lodge

(a.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pair

(imp. & p. p.) of Pen

(imp. & p. p.) of Peg

(imp. & p. p.) of Pend

(a.) Having a palpus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Head

(a.) Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.

(a.) Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Heal

(imp. & p. p.) of Heap

(imp. & p. p.) of Flake

(imp. & p. p.) of Flame

(imp. & p. p.) of Flare

(imp. & p. p.) of Heat

(imp.) of Heave

(p. p.) of Heave

(a.) Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb.

(a.) Accustomed; mannered.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flaw

(imp. & p. p.) of Flay

(imp. & p. p.) of Hedge

(imp. & p. p.) of Thole

() of Shine

(a.) Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.

(a.) Having large flews.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flex

(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.

(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.

(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.

(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.

(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

(a.) Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

(a.) Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

(a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

(a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

(a.) Turned so as to resemble nulls.

(n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Numb

(imp. & p. p.) of Nurl

(imp. & p. p.) of Nurse

(imp. & p. p.) of Nut

(a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.

(imp. & p. p.) of Near

(imp. & p. p.) of Obey

(imp. & p. p.) of Neck

(a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked.

(a.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail.

(n.) A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae.

(imp. & p. p.) of Need

(n.) That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.

(n.) A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.

(n.) Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.

(n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.

(v. t.) To tell or narrate, as a legend.

(a.) Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal.

(imp. & p. p.) of While

(imp. & p. p.) of Whine

(imp. & p. p.) of White

(n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

(imp. & p. p.) of Visa

(n.) A mask. See Visor.

(v. t.) To mask.

(imp. & p. p.) of Whore

(a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.

(a.) Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.

(a.) Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vise

(a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.

(a.) Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish.

() of Let

(imp. & p. p.) of Lette

(imp. & p. p.) of Link

(n.) A mask; a visor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Levy

(imp. & p. p.) of Lip

(a.) Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

(a.) Labiate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Voice

(a.) Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice.

(a.) Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed.

(a.) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

(a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.

(a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.

(a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.

(a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.

(a.) Clear; definite in terms or amount.

(n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.

(n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.

(imp. & p. p.) of Void

(a.) Emptied; evacuated.

(a.) Annulled; invalidated.

(a.) Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lisp

(imp. & p. p.) of List

(imp. & p. p.) of Lick

(a.) Covered with a lid.

(n.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.

(n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

(n.) A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.

(imp. & p. p.) of Load

(imp. & p. p.) of Loaf

(imp. & p. p.) of Loam

(imp. & p. p.) of Loan

(imp. & p. p.) of Waft

(imp. & p. p.) of Wag

(imp. & p. p.) of Lob

(imp. & p. p.) of Lift

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Maia, or family Maiadeae.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lock

(imp. & p. p.) of Paste

(imp. & p. p.) of Pat

(n.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.

(v. t.) To exhibit; to manifest.

(imp. & p. p.) of Path

(v. t.) To oppose; to hold out in opposition.

(v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.

(v. t.) To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pause

(imp. & p. p.) of Pawn

(imp. & p. p.) of Oust

(imp.) of Outbid

(p. p.) of Outbid

(v. t.) To exceed or surpass in bidding.

(v. i.) To sprout.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peak

(a.) Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.

(a.) Sickly; not robust.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peal

(imp.) of Outdo

(imp. & p. p.) of Peck

(imp. & p. p.) of Moan

(imp. & p. p.) of Mob

(a.) Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abase

(a.) Lowered; humbled.

(a.) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

(n.) A lamp or candlestick.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lam

(imp. & p. p.) of Lamb

(imp. & p. p.) of Ladle

(imp. & p. p.) of Lag

(imp. & p. p.) of Lack

(p. p.) of Kithe

(n.) A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Play

(n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.

(n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.

(n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.

(n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.

(n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.

(n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.

(n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.

(n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.

(n.) A complete musical sentence.

(v. t.) To put an end to.

(v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.

(n.) One of the Pleiades.

(imp. & p. p.) of Perk

(n.) Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidae. See Stone fly, under Stone.

(imp. & p. p.) of Park

(a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

() of Wont

(a.) Accustomed; customary; usual.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wood

(a.) Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered.

(a.) Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.

(imp. & p. p.) of Word

(imp. & p. p.) of Work

(imp. & p. p.) of Mill

(a.) Having been subjected to some process of milling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Worm

(imp. & p. p.) of Moss

(a.) Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mince

(imp. & p. p.) of Mind

(a.) Disposed; inclined; having a mind.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jug

(imp. & p. p.) of Mint

(imp. & p. p.) of Mouse

(imp. & p. p.) of Jump

(a.) Resembling wood; having the nature of wood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Yank

(a.) Resembling mucus.

(imp.) of Misdo

(imp. & p. p.) of Misle

(imp. & p. p.) of Mislead

(imp. & p. p.) of Muff

() imp. & p. p. of Mislead.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mull

(imp. & p. p.) of Miss

(imp. & p. p.) of Mist

(n.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

(n.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mumm

(imp. & p. p.) of Mump

(imp. & p. p.) of Nerve

(a.) Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.

(a.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins.

(imp. & p. p.) of Net

(imp. & p. p.) of Net

(v. t.) To wed improperly.

() of Mitre

(adv.) Toward the neural side; -- opposed to haemad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Place

(imp. & p. p.) of Pit

(imp. & p. p.) of Pack

(imp. & p. p.) of Plough

(imp. & p. p.) of Parse

(imp. & p. p.) of Part

(imp. & p. p.) of Plume

(a.) Separated; devided.

(a.) Endowed with parts or abilities.

(a.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pass

(imp. & p. p.) of Pet

(imp. & p. p.) of Pod

(a.) Having pods.

(n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.

(imp. & p. p.) of Jut

(imp. & p. p.) of Keck

(imp. & p. p.) of Kedge

(imp. & p. p.) of Keel

(a.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.

(a.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale.

(imp. & p. p.) of Poise

(a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.

(v. t.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pity

(imp. & p. p.) of Pan

(n.) Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.

(a.) Having the valence of a pentad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Knife

(imp. & p. p.) of King

(imp. & p. p.) of Kiss

(imp. & p. p.) of Pall

(imp. & p. p.) of Kilt

(a.) Having on a kilt.

(a.) Plaited after the manner of kilting.

(a.) Tucked or fastened up; -- said of petticoats, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Kink

(n.) The dunlin.

(n.) The sanderling.

(n.) An African weaver bird (Textor alector).

(n.) Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purge

(imp. & p. p.) of Pur

(imp. & p. p.) of Pique

(a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

(a.) Winged; having plumes.

(a.) Written with a pen; composed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Palm

(a.) Having or bearing a palm or palms.