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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To do otherwise.

(n.) See Choreus.

(n.) a trochee.

(n.) A tribrach.

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Afreet

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To happen or occur.

(v. t.) To bring to shore.

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

(n.) Arrival.

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

(v. t.) To shame.

(a.) Shining; radiant.

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

(pl. ) of Agape

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

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

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

(a.) Possible to be done; practicable.

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

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

(a.) Allied; akin.

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

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

(n. & v.) See Aggrace.

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

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

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

(n.) A cardinalate. See Cardinal.

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

(n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.

(n.) See Purpura.

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

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

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

(a.) Blood-red; bloody.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(adv.) Balanced.

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

(n.) Dress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Same as Pyrena.

(n.) Same as Alcaid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A female cook.

(n.) See Cooky.

(n.) Same as Cooly.

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

(n.) See Jowl.

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

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

(n.) A trick; sham; imposition.

(n.) A swindler.

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

(n.) See Coupe.

(n.) Same as Chromium.

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

(n.) See Courage

(n.) Alt. of Corby

(n.) Alt. of Corcule

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

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

(n.) A kind of haircloth undergarment.

(n.) A girth.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Compass; circuit; inclosure.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

(n.) A territorial division or district.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Same as Correi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To oppose.

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

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

(v. i.) To be set opposite.

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

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

(n.) A frieze.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Poured out freely; profuse.

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

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

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

(n.) Effusion; loss.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Elain

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

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

(n.) To rub; to fray.

(n.) Same as Friesic, n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A fluoride.

(v. t.) To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.

(a.) Weak; feeble.

(n.) A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.

(n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.

(n.) A thyrsus.

(v. t.) To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

(v. t.) To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.

(v. i.) To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

(v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.

(n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance.

(n.) Equality of condition between persons holding unequal portions of a fee.

(n.) Kindred; family; birth.

(a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.

(a.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored.

(n.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.

(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

(v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.

(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.

(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.

(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.

(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

(v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.

(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.

(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.

(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.

(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.

(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.

(v. t.) To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise.

(n.) A small brook.

(pl. ) of Bursa

(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.

(v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.

(v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.

(v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.

(v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.

(v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.

(v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.

(v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.

(v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.

(v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.

(v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.

(v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.

(v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.

(v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.

(v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

(v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.

(v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.

(v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.

(v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.

(v. t.) Harm.

(v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.

(v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.

(v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.

(v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.

(v. i.) To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

(n.) Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.

(n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

(v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.

(v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time

(v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.

(v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.

(v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.

(v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.

(n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.

(n.) Weight; import; value.

(n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

(n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.

(n.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

(v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

(n.) See Charge, n., 17.

(n.) A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.

(n.) A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.

(v. i.) To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left.

(a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.

(a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

(a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.

(a.) Unmarried.

(n.) A fine sieve.

(v. t.) To sift; to bolt.

(n.) An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.

(superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.

(superl.) Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.

(n.) A coat with short flaps.

(n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.

(n.) A cobblestone.

(n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.

(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.

(v. t.) To make clumsily.

(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.

(n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

(n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

(n.) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).

(n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(n.) Alt. of Chegre

(n.) See Chigoe.

(pl. ) of Chela

(n.) See Check.

(n.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

(n.) A cockleshell.

(n.) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

(n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.

(n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.

(n.) The dome of a heating furnace.

(v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.

(n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

(n.) The Lotium, or darnel.

(v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling.

(v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

(v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

(v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.

(v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.

(n.) The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

(n.) The coffee tree.

(n.) The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.

(v. i.) See Cheve, v. i.

(n.) Alt. of Chigre

(n.) A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.

(n.) A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

(n.) A small fishing boat.

(n.) A cobblestone.

(a.) To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

(a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.

(a.) To suit; to agree; to fit.

(n.) A quoin.

(n.) Alt. of Coigny

(v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

(n.) The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks.

(v. i.) To coo, as a pigeon.

(n.) The magpie.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a serpent.

(n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.

(n.) A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.

(a.) Characteristic of, or like, an ox.

(n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.

(n.) A species of hickory. See Pecan.

(a.) Appeased; pacified; tranquil.

(n.) A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

(v. i.) To complain.

(a.) Alt. of Lyrated

(pl. ) of Lytta

(n.) Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.

(v. t.) To wrap up.

(a.) Much; great.

(n.) A syringe.

(n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.

(n.) A slight indentation on any surface.

(v. i.) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.

(v. t.) To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

(n.) A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

(n.) Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing.

(n.) The missel thrush.

(n.) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

(n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

(n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.

(n.) A suffocating smoke.

(n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

(n.) That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.

(v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

(v. t.) To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

(n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

(n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

(v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.

(n.) A mixture of oats and barley.

(v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.

(v. t.) To lop; to prune.

(v. i.) To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.

(n.) A sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.

(n.) A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.

(a.) Alt. of Snithy

(n.) A short sleep; a nap.

(v. i.) To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.

(n.) See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.

(n.) The dodo.

(n.) An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinee.

(v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.

(v. t.) Rest; relaxation; ease.

(n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.

(n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.

(v. i.) To take comfort; to be cheered.

(n.) A stanza.

(n.) A station; a position; a site.

(n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.

(n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.

(n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.

(n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.

(n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.

(n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.

(n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.

(n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.

(n.) A small pit.

(n.) A district granted to an abbey.

(a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.

(a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.

(a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.

(a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.

(v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.

(a.) Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation.

(a.) Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful.

(a.) Soluble; as, a solute salt.

(a.) Not adhering; loose; -- opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule.

(v. t.) To dissolve; to resolve.

(v. t.) To absolve; as, to solute sin.

(a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

(a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections.

(v. t.) To make somber, or dark; to make shady.

(n.) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.

(n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.

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

(v. i.) To die; to perish.

(v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

(v. i.) To perish or die with cold.

(v. t.) To destroy with cold.

(v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

(v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.

(v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.

(v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

(n.) Same as Suji.

(a.) To assent to as true.

(a.) To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.

(a.) To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.

(n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.

(n.) A portrait.

(v. t.) To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet.

(n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

(n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.

(n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.

(n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

(n.) Red chalk. See under Chalk.

(pl. ) of Redia

(n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

(n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.

(n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

(n.) To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.

(n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

(n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.

(n.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.

(n.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.

(n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

(n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

(n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

(n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.

(n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

(v. t.) To interweave or twist together.

(n.) A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.

(v. t.) To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.

(n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.

(n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.

(n.) A kind of writ or real action.

(n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.

(n.) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

(n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.

(n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.

(n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.

(v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

(v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

(v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

(v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

(n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.

(n.) Measure; dimension; size.

(v.) To assess; to value; to rate.

(v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.

(v. t.) To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

(v. t.) To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.

(v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

(v. t.) To receive or adopt.

(v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

(v. i.) To undertake, as by a promise.

(v. t.) To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

(v. t.) To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.

(v. t.) To confirm; to make certain or secure.

(v. t.) To affiance; to betroth.

(v. t.) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

(n.) Estate; state.

(v. t.) To stun; to astonish; to stupefy.

(n.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

(n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow.

(n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter.

(n.) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

(n.) A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.

(a.) Andean; as, Andine flora.

(a.) Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

(v. t.) To stupefy.

(a.) Double; growing in pairs or couples.

(n.) See Barbel.

(a.) Barbarian.

(n.) A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

(v. t.) To surpass in council.

(n.) A bargeman.

(n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

(n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

(n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

(v. t.) To pierce; to attack.

(v. t.) To broach; to begin.

(n.) A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name.

(n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

(n.) A lively or mettlesome fellow.

(n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.

(v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.

(n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.

(n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

(n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.

(n.) Unglazed white porcelain.

(n.) A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

(n.) A white soup made of crayfish.

(n.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.

(n.) See Bister.

(v. t.) To commend; to commit.

(v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

(v. t.) To arrange fitly; to make accordant.

(v. t.) To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.

(n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.

(n.) Bitumen.

(n.) A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

(a.) Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

(n.) One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.

(n.) The language spoken by the Basque people.

(n.) A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques.

(v. t.) To venture; to dare.

(n.) Alt. of Aunty

(n.) A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

(n.) Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.

(n.) Same as Papula.

(n.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

(n.) The fourth month of the French republican calendar [1792-1806]. It commenced December 21, and ended January 19. See VendEmiaire.

(adv.) Alt. of Algates

(v. t.) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

(v. t.) To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

(v. t.) To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.

(a.) Nutritive; nourishing.

(v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.

(v. t.) To make fit.

(n.) A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

(v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

(v. t.) To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.

(v. t.) To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

(v. t.) To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble.

(v. imperative.) Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.

(a.) Watery; aqueous.

(a.) Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.

(n.) Arable land; plow land.

(n.) Alt. of Allis

(v. t.) To raise.

(n.) The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree.

(n.) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.

(n.) A long, arched building or gallery.

(n.) An arched or covered passageway or avenue.

(a.) Hidden; secret.

(v. i.) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.

(v. t.) To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.

(v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.

(n.) Allurement.

(n.) Gait; bearing.

(n.) Same as 2d Carte.

(n.) Alms.

(n.) Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

(n.) A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons.

(n.) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.

(n.) A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

(a.) Like the Alps; lofty.

(n.) A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

(pl. ) of Arena

(n.) Same as Areola.

(v. t.) To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.

() Same as Aby.

(a.) Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

(a.) Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece.

(n.) A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.

(a.) Sharp; shrill.

(a.) Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd.

(n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

(v. t.) To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.

(v. t.) To punish, in general; to mulct.

(a.) Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.

(a.) Belonging to the ark.

(n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.

(n.) a quince tree or shrub.

(n.) A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.

(n.) Alt. of Ampere

(n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere.

(n.) Armor.

(n.) A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.

(v. t.) To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.

(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

(v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.

(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.

(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.

(v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.

(v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.

(v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.

(n.) Boughs or branches.

(n.) Warbling of birds in trees.

(a.) Wild; untamed.

(v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.

(v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.

(v. i.) To extend or grow at random.

(n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.

(n.) A bed of shale over the seam.

(v. t.) To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.

(v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

(v. t.) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

(n.) Aspiration.

(v. t.) To show that one has observed; to take public note of; remark upon; to make comments on; to refer to; as, to notice a book.

(v. t.) To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers.

(a.) Of or belonging to the nostrils.

(a.) Fertile. See Battel, a.

(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.

(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.

(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.

(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.

(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.

(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.

(v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.

(v. t.) The game itself.

(v. t.) The wanton slaughter of game.

(n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

(n.) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

(n.) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

(n.) Same as Bawbee.

(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.

(n.) The fool's club.

(n.) A halfpenny.

(n.) A trinket. See Bauble.

(a.) Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.

(v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

(v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.

(v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

(n.) A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

(v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

(v. t.) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.

(v. i.) To take vengeance.

(n.) Vengeance; revenge.

(n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.

(n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

(n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.

(v. t.) Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

(n.) A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.

(n.) A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

(a.) Turned away or backward.

(a.) Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.

(v. t. & i.) To turn away.

(v. t.) To pluck or pull off.

(n.) A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

(n.) See Blowze.

(n.) A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.

(v. t.) To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

(adv.) For a while; for some time; for a short time.

() imp. of Become.

(imp.) of Become

(p. p.) of Become

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.

(v. i.) To come; to get.

(v. t.) To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.

(v. t.) To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

(n.) Axle or axletree.

(n.) Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

(v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

(v. i.) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.

(v. i.) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.

(v. i.) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.

(v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.

(v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

(n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

(n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

(v. t.) To cause to dote; to deceive.

(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.

(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.

(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.

(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

(prep.) In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.

(prep.) Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.

(prep.) An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.

(prep.) Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.

(prep.) In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.

(prep.) Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.

(prep.) Open for; free of access to; in the power of.

(adv.) On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.

(adv.) In advance.

(adv.) In time past; previously; already.

(adv.) Earlier; sooner than; until then.

(interj.) Go away; depart; get you gone.

(p. p.) Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).

(v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.

(v. i.) To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

(v.) and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

(v. t.) To jade or tire.

(v. t.) To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.

(v. t.) To fasten, as with a lace or cord.

(v. t.) To cover or adorn with lace.

(v. t.) To beat with a strap. See Lace.

(v. t.) To retard or make too late.

(n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

(n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

(adv.) It is likely or probably; perhaps.

(v. t.) To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

(a.) Forthwith; speedily; quickly.

(n.) See Bascule.

(n.) To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

(n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

(n.) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.

(v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

(v. t.) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

(v. t.) To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors.

(v. i.) To renounce on oath.

(adv. & a.) On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.

(adv. & a.) In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.

(v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

(v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

(v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

(v. i.) To practice deceit.

(v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

(n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

(v. t.) To love.

(v. t.) To bespatter, as with mud.

(v. t.) To mete.

(v. t.) To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

(n.) any fungus of the family Boletaceae.

(n.) A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.

(n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

(n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

(v. t.) To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.

(v. t.) To promise; to name.

(n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

(v. t.) To deprive (of), or take away (from).

(v. t.) To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

(v. t.) To berhyme.

(v. t.) To raddle or twist.

(n.) A riddle or sieve.

(n.) A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.

(v. t.) To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.

(v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.

(v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.

(v. i.) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

(v. i.) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

(v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

(n.) A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.

(a.) Past; gone by.

(n.) Something gone by or past; a past event.

(v. i.) To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.

(v. i.) To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.

(v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment.

(v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

(n.) The pronghorn antelope.

(v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

(v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.

(v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

(n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.

(n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.

(v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

(v. t.) To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

(v. t.) To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.

(v. t.) To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

(v. t.) To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

(v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion.

(v. t.) To throw together in a disorderly manner.

(v. i.) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

(v. i.) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

(v. i.) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

(v. t. & i.) That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.

(v. t. & i.) A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.

(v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.

(v. t. & i.) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.

(n.) A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger.

(a.) Perishable; frail; transitory.

(a.) Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.

(n.) An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

(v. t.) To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to scale.

(a.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

(n.) A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

(v. t.) To take back.

(v. t.) To enter upon, or take up again.

(v. t.) To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

(n.) See Kaffir.

(v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.

(v. i.) To murmur; to ripple.

(n.) A noisy report; rumor.

(n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.

(n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

(n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

(v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.

(v. t.) To take or receive again.

(v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.

(n.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.

(v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

(n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle.

(n.) A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

(v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.

(n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

(v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

(v. t.) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.

(v. t.) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.

(v. i.) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.

(v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.

(v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.

(v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.

(v. i.) To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.

(n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.

(n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

(n.) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.

(n.) A ball.

(n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan.

(n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

(a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rusa, which includes the sambur deer (Rusa Aristotelis) of India.

(v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.

(v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.

(v. t.) To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.

(n.) A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.

(n.) A salt of rutic acid.

(n.) A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.

(n.) A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.

(a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.

(v. t.) To urge again.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy.

(n.) One of the Sabine people.

(n.) See Savin.

(v. t.) See 2d Calk, v. t.

(v. t.) To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.

(n.) Same as 2d Sack, 3.

(n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.

(n.) A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.

(n.) A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.

(n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.

(n.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.

(v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.

(n.) Reproach; reviling.

(v. t.) To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.

(v. t.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

(v. t.) To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.

(n.) A review; a revision.

(n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

(v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

(v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

(v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

(v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

(v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

(n.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors.

(v. t.) To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.

(v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.

(n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.

(n.) That which gives light; a luminary.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.

(n.) A canine tooth.

(n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.

(n.) A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

(v. t.) To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

(n.) At the side of; on one side of.

(n.) Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of.

(n.) Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.

(adv.) On one side.

(adv.) More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.

(n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length.

(a.) See Bonny, a.

(n.) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

(n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.

(n.) A half boot or short boot.

(n.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

(n.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

(n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

(n.) A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.

(v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.

(n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.

(v. t.) To take or seize.

(v. t.) To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To commend or intrust to; to commit to.

(v. t.) To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.

(v. i.) To come to pass; to happen; to occur.

(adv.) Alt. of Betimes

(v.) A stream or rivulet; a burn.

(n.) A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.

(n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

(n.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

(a.) Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.

(n.) A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau.

(v. t. & i.) To keep watch over; to keep awake.

(v. i.) To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.

(v. i.) To have a special regard; to heed.

(v. t.) To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.

(v. t.) To plunder; to waste in riot.

(v. i.) To drink to excess; to revel.

(n.) Same as Bothy.

(n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

(n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

(n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

(v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

(n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.

(n.) Same as Bush, a lining.

(v. t.) Same as Bush, to line.

(n.) Alt. of Bouch

(n.) Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.

(n.) A long, flexible instrument, that is

(n.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

(v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

(v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.

(v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster.

(v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.

(v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.

(v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.

(v. t.) To bully; to scold.

(n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.

(n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

(n.) An explosion, or the noise of one.

(n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.

(n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).

(adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.

(n.) Alt. of Braize

(n.) A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.

(n.) Alt. of Braize

(n.) Charcoal powder; breeze.

(n.) Braised meat.

(v. t.) To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.

(n.) See Braise.

(v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

(v. t.) To call or bring back; to recall.

(v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.

(v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

(v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.

(v. t.) To call back to mind; to recollect.

(v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

(n.) The act of revoking.

(n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.

(n.) That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.

(n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.

(v. t.) To shelter; to protect.

(v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

(v. t.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

(v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

(v. t.) To disown.

(v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.

(n.) Refusal.

(n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

(v. t. & i.) To wake again.

(n.) A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

(a.) Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

(v. t.) To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.

(n.) A prerogative of royalty.

(v. t.) To enerta/n in a regal or sumptuous manner; to enrtertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh; as, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.

(v. i.) To feast; t/ fare sumtuously.

(v. t.) A sumptuous repast; a banquet.

(a.) Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.

(n.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam.

(n.) Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.

(n.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform regime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.

(v. t.) To give again; to give back.

(v. i.) To range about in an irregular manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

(a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

(a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.

(v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

(v. t.) To hire again.

(n.) A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec.

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

(n.) A bawd; a prostitute.

(n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

(v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

(n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.

(n.) Ravishment; rape.

(v. t.) To plunder.

(v.) A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

(n.) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.

(v. t.) To lade or load again.

(v.) The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

(v.) A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.

(v. t.) To bring back; to restore.

(v. t.) To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.

(v. t.) To recount; to narrate; to tell over.

(v. t.) To ally by connection or kindred.

(v. i.) To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.

(v. i.) To make reference; to take account.

(a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.

(a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

(n.) A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.

(v. t. & i.) To rumple; to wrinkle.

(n.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.

(n.) Harm; disgrace; shame.

(v. t.) To discipline; to correct.

(n.) To increase; to augment.

(n.) To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.

(n.) Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

(v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager.

(v. t.) To lay down.

(v. t.) To assert under oath; to depose.

(v. i.) To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness.

(v. t.) To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.

(v. t.) To let fall; to deposit.

(v. t.) To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.

(v. t.) To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.

(v. t.) To put under oath.

(v. i.) To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.

(n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.

(v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.

(v. t.) To depurate; to purify.

(v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

(v. t.) To appoint; to assign; to choose.

(n.) A person deputed; a deputy.

(n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

(n.) Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.

(n.) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

(v. t.) To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.

() of Shrive

(v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.

(v. t.) To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively.

(v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution.

() imp. of Shrive.

(v. i.) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide; hence, to make merry.

(v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

(v. t.) To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.

(v. t.) To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.

(v. t.) To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.

(v. t.) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.

(v. i.) To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.

(n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.

(n.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.

(v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

(v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.

(n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.

(v. t.) Posture of defense; guard.

(v. t.) A public walk; a promenade.

(v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

(v. t.) To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.

(v. t.) To require; to demand; to claim.

(v. t.) To miss; to regret.

(v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.

(v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.

(v. t.) Anything which is desired; an object of longing.

(v. t.) Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.

(v. t.) Grief; regret.

(n.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

(v. t.) To select; to borrow.

(n. & v.) Short for Ensilage.

(n.) A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.

(n.) A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

(pl. ) of Silva

(a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

(a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.

(a.) Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.

(a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.

(n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.

(n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

(v. t.) To make savage.

(n.) A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc.

(n.) The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.)

(n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

(n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.

(n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

(n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.

(n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.

(v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.

(v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.

(v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.

(n.) The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

(n.) A restraint; a curb; a check.

(n.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.

(n.) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.

(n.) A mooring hawser.

(v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.

(v. t.) To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.

(v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up.

(pl. ) of Scala

(n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

(n.) A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

(v. t.) To make into caudle.

(v. t.) Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

(n.) A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle.

(n.) A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.

(n.) To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.

(n.) An Indian pony.

(n.) A scroll; a writing; a schedule.

(a.) Woven with a figure; as, broche goods.

(n.) See Broach, n.

(n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.

(v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

(v. t.) To exceed in vying.

(v. t.) To exceed in woe.

(a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf.

(v. i.) To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

(v. i.) To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.

(v. t.) To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

(v. t.) To see beyond; to excel in cer/ainty of seeing; to surpass in foresight.

(n.) A bedbug.

(superl.) Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

(superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.

(superl.) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.

(adv.) Alt. of Scarcely

(v. t.) Alt. of Scath

(n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

(n.) A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.

(n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

(n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

(v. t.) To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

(v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.

(n.) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.

(a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

(a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

(a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

(a.) Boldness; impudence; "brass."

(v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.

(v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.

(v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point.

(v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.

(v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

(n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.

(n.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

(n. & v.) See Center.

(p. p.) A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.

(p. p.) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.

(p. p.) A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.

(p. p.) Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.

(p. p.) A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

(p. p.) A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.

(p. p.) Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.

(p. p.) A squinch.

(p. p.) A fragment of a floe of ice.

(p. p.) A fixed seat or shelf.

(v. t.) To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.

(v. t.) To mulct; to fine.

(n.) An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

(a.) Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

(n.) A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.

(n.) A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.

(n.) See Cerate.

(n.) Barter.

(n.) Barter; exchange; trade.

(v. t.) To barter or exchange.

(v. t.) To chase.

(v. i.) To deal for the purchase of anything; to practice barter.

(n.) The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

(n.) To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.

(n.) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.

(v. i.) To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.

(v. i.) To pasture; to feed; to nibble.

(v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.

(v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.

(v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.

(n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.

(n.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse.

(a.) Blue; cerulean.

(n.) White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.

(n.) A cosmetic containing white lead.

(n.) The native carbonate of lead.

(n.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

(n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

(n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.

(n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.

(n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

(n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.

(n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.

(n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.

(n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.

(n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.

(n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

(n.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.

(n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

(n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

(n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

(n.) A contorted expression, as of the face.

(n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.

(n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.

(n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.

(n.) To join in marriage.

(v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

(v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.

(v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.

(v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

(n.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.

(n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.

(v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.

(v. t.) To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

(v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).

(v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together.

(v. t.) To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down.

(v. i.) To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.

(v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.

(v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.

(v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

(n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.

(n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.

(n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.

(n.) The buffalo.

(v. i.) To puzzle; to be at a loss.

(pl. ) of Bulla

(n.) The bittern.

(v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.

(n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.

(n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

(v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

(v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.

(v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

(v. i.) To make a mark.

(n.) A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine.

(v. i.) To cringe.

(n.) A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.

(v. t.) To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.

(v. t.) To send off abruptly or without ceremony.

(v. i.) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.

(v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.

(n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.

(n.) a carriage in general.

(n.) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

(n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

(n.) The operation or activity of such agent.

(n.) The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.

(n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.

(n.) Probability.

(v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.

(v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.

(v. t.) To befall; to happen to.

(a.) Happening by chance; casual.

(adv.) By chance; perchance.

(v. t.) To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.

(v. t.) To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention.

(v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.

(v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.

(v. i.) To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.

(v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.

(v. t.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.

(v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.

(v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.

(v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.

(v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.

(v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due.

(v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.

(v. t.) A public house; an alehouse.

(v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.

(v. i.) To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

(v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.

(n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.

(n.) A kind of small coat.

(n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.

(n.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

(a.) Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

(a.) Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.

(a.) Mere; not other than; being only.

(a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.

(a.) Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.

(a.) Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.

(a.) Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.

(a.) Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.

(a.) Humble; lowly; undistinguished.

(a.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.

(a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.

(a.) Homogenous.

(a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.

(a.) Something not mixed or compounded.

(a.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.

(a.) A drawloom.

(a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

(a.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

(v. i.) To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

(n.) Accusation.

(v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense

(v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.

(v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]

(a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.

(a.) Alone; having no companion.

(a.) Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.

(a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.

(a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.

(a.) Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

(a.) Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.

(a.) Simple; not wise; weak; silly.

(v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.

(v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

(v. t.) To take alone, or one by one.

(v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.

(n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single.

(n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

(n.) A handful of gleaned grain.

(n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

(n.) Nurse.

(n.) A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.

(n.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.

(a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.

(a.) Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.

(n.) That which is opaque; opacity.

(adv.) Scarcely. See Unnethe.

(n.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology.

(n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.

(v. i.) To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.

(v. t.) To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

(v. t.) To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

(n.) Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

(n.) The end, or tip, of the toe.

(a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.

(a.) Noiseless; stealthy.

(v. i.) To step or walk on tiptoe.

(n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.

(n.) See Ptisan.

(n.) A woven fabric.

(n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

(n.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

(n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

(v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.

(n.) A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.

(v. t.) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.

(v. t.) To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

(n.) A stout twilled silk used for dresses.

(v. t.) To move or conduct to or toward.

(a.) Grown to congenitally.

(a.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.

(a.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

(n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.

(n.) Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.

(n.) Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.

(v. t.) To pay reverence to by external action.

(v. t.) To cause to pay homage.

(v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

(n.) A toddling walk.

(n.) Alt. of Toffy

(prep.) Alt. of Toforn

(n.) Index; indication.

(n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.

(n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.

(n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl acetylene.

(v. t.) To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

(v. t.) To invite or ask.

(v. t.) To indict; to accuse; to censure.

(v. i.) To compose; to write, as a poem.

(v. t.) To lead in; to introduce.

(v. t.) To draw on; to overspread.

(v. t.) To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.

(v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.

(v. t.) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.

(v. t.) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

(n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

(n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.

(n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

(n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.

(n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.

(n.) Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.

(n.) A people having a distinct language.

(n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

(n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.

(n.) The lingua of an insect.

(n.) Any small sole.

(n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.

(n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

(n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.

(n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

(n.) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

(n.) The clapper of a bell.

(n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

(n.) Same as Reed, n., 5.

(v. t.) To speak; to utter.

(v. t.) To chide; to scold.

(v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

(v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

(v. i.) To talk; to prate.

(v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

(n.) An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

(pl. ) of Gree

(n. pl.) See Gree a step.

(n.) Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.

(n.) Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.

(n.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.

(n.) To supply with tackle.

(n.) To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon.

(n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.

(n.) To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.

(n.) See Grieve, an overseer.

(v. t.) To make heavy; to increase.

(n.) Alt. of Greeve

(n.) A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.

(v. t.) To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.

(v. t.) To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate.

(v. i.) To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.

(n.) The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto.

(v. t.) A lattice or grating.

(n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

(n.) A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.

(n.) See Adze.

(n.) The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

(n.) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.

(n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.

(n.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.

(n.) A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

(n.) Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.

(n.) A shaft or excavation.

(v. t.) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

(v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.

(v. t.) To cheat or overreach.

(n. sing. & pl.) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet.

(v. i.) To seek or shoot grouse.

(v. i.) To complain or grumble.

(v. i.) To shiver; to have chills.

(n.) See Groin.

(n.) Alt. of Taminy

(n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

(n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.

(n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.

(v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.

(n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.

(v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.

(v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.

(n.) The tenrec.

(n.) A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.

(v. t.) To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects.

(v. t.) To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.

(v. i.) To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.

(v. i.) To feel compunction or grief.

(n.) Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel.

(n.) Slight symptom of disease.

(a.) Done by stitching.

(n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character.

(n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.

(n.) The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed.

(v. i.) To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

(n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.

(n.) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.

(n.) The stitch by which the parts are united.

(n.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

(n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.

(n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.

(n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.

(n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.

(n.) Same as Gheber.

(v. i.) See Gurgle.

(v. i.) To swerve.

(v. i.) To climb.

(n.) To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.

(n.) A bandage; a band; a swath.

(v. i.) To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

(v. i.) To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.

(n.) Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.

(v. i.) To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

(n.) The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."

() imp. of Strike.

(n.) A streak.

(n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.

(n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.

(n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.

(n.) See Perigee.

(v. t.) To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

(v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

(v. t.) To unite in marrige.

(n.) A junction or joining made by splicing.

(n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.

(n.) A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.

(pl. ) of Stria

(imp.) of Stride

(v. t.) To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.

(v. t.) To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

(v. t.) To pass over at a step; to step over.

(v. t.) To straddle; to bestride.

(n.) The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.

(n.) Alt. of Epopoeia

(v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances.

(n.) The act of striving; earnest endeavor.

(n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.

(n.) Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.

(n.) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

(v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.

(v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.

(v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

(v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.

(v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.

(v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.

(v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

(v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

(v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.

(v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.

(v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.

(v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.

(v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.

(v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.

(v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

(v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

(v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

(n.) The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.

(n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.

(n.) Any spongelike substance.

(n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse.

(v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.

(v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.

(v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

(v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.

(v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.

(v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

(v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.

(v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.

(v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.

(v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.

(v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.

(v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

(v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.

(v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.

(v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.

(v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.

(v. i.) To steal money.

(n.) The act of striking.

(n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

(n.) A bushel; four pecks.

(n.) An old measure of four bushels.

(n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

(n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

(n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.

(n.) A puddler's stirrer.

(n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.

(n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.

(n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.

(n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.

(n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.

(n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.

(v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.

(v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.

(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.

(v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.

(v. i.) To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.

(v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.

(v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.

(v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.

(v. t.) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.

(n.) A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.

(v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

(v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.

(n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.

(n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

(n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.

(n.) To wed; to espouse.

(n.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.

(n.) The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white.

(n.) By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain.

(n.) One of the furs. See Fur (Her.)

(v. t.) To clothe with, or as with, ermine.

(n.) See Duffel.

(n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.

(n.) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.

(n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

(a.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.

(a.) The wood or timber of the spruce tree.

(a.) Prussia leather; pruce.

(n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.

(n.) Sprightly; dashing.

(v. t.) To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.

(v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.

(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.

(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.

(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.

(v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.

(n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.

(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.

(n.) A sally.

(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

(n.) An apophyge.

(n.) A sponge.

(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

(v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.

(n.) See Cottise.

(n.) A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

(v. t.) Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

(v. t.) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

(n.) A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.

(n.) A stream

(n.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a caon, which has precipitous sides.

(v. t.) To combine or unite.

(a.) To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.

(a.) It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgments to express an opinion in reference to the law on some point not necessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled in the cause.

(a.) Like; resembling.

(n.) A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.

(n.) A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.

(a.) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

(a.) Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.

(a.) A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.

(a.) See Couple-close.

(a.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

(a.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.

(v.) To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.

(v.) To join in wedlock; to marry.

(v. i.) To come together as male and female; to copulate.

(n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

(n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.

(n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

(n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

(n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

(n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

(n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

(n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

(n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

(n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

(n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

(n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

(n.) The menses.

(v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

(v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

(v. t.) To run through or over.

(v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

(v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

(n.) One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.

(n.) See Cowhage.

(n.) See Kauri.

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

(n.) Boiled rice; rice gruel.

(n.) A jail; a lockup.

(n.) Same as Kauri.

(n.) Alt. of Cowry

(n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

(adv.) Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.

(n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.

(n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.

(n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.

(n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.

(n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.

(n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.

(a.) Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.

(n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.

(n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.

(n.) Infancy, or very early life.

(n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

(n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

(n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

(n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

(n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.

(n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.

(n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

(n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

(n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

(n.) A magnesian variety of dolomite.

(v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

(v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.

(v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

(v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

(v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

(v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.

(v. i.) To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.

(v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.

(v. i.) To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request.

(v. i.) To lie snug or quiet.

(n.) A miser; a sneaking fellow.

(n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.

(pl. ) of Sepia

(v. t.) To set apart.

(n.) See Creese.

(n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.

(n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.

(v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.

(a.) Created; composed; begotten.

(n.) A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part.

(n.) The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel.

(v. t.) To cut in pieces; to cut out from.

(n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

(n.) A small water course or gutter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.

(n.) One of the Ratitae.

(v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

(v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.

(v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.

(v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

(v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

(v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

(v. t.) To scold; to rail at.

(n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.

(n.) Noisy, rapid talk.

(n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.

(n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

(n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

(n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

(n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.

(n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.

(n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

(v. i.) To live again; to revive.

(v. t.) To recall to life; to revive.

(v. t.) To love in return.

(v. t.) To rekindle; to light again.

(v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

(v. t.) To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

(v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear.

(v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.

(v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

(v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.

(n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.

(n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.

(n.) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.

(n.) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.

(v. t.) To be unlike; to differ.

(n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.

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

(n.) A torrent of water.

(n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

() imp. & p. p. of Remake.

(v. t.) To make anew.

(v. t.) To remove.

(n.) Remedy.

(n.) A bank, shore, or coast.

(n.) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

(a.) Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.

(v. t.) To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return.

(n.) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim.

(superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.

(superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.

(superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.

(superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

(superl.) Separate; abstracted.

(superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.

(superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

(superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.

(v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

(v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.

(v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

(v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

(n.) The act of removing; a removal.

(n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.

(n.) The state of being removed.

(n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

(n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

(n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

(v. t.) To give a new name to.

(a.) Born again; regenerate; renewed.

(v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

(v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.

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

(n.) Diminution.

(n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.

(n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.

(n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

(n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

(n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

(v. t.) To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.

(v. t.) To deny; to disown.

(v. i.) To deny.

(v. i.) To revoke.

(v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.

(n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.

(n.) Check; rebuff.

(v. t.) To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks.

(v. t.) Same as Abraid.

(a.) Rubbed smooth.

(v. i.) To reck.

(v.& n.) Rumble.

(v. t.) To pace again; to walk over again in a contrary direction.

(n.) A rondeau.

(n.) A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.

(n.) A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

(v. t.) To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.

(v. t.) To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.

(v. t.) To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

(v. t.) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.

(v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.

(n.) A recital.

(v. i.) To fail; to wane.

(v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.

(n.) Vexation; mortification.

(n.) Any edible sea urchin.

(v. t.) To replace.

(a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.

(v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.

(v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.

(v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

(v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.

(n.) A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.

(n.) A coin. See Ruble.

(n.) See Ruche.

(n.) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

(v. t.) To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.

(n.) Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.

(n.) Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute.

(n.) A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.

(v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

(v. i.) To recoil.

(n.) Alt. of Reculement

(v. t.) To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

(v. t.) To recover; to regain; to repossess.

(v. t.) To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.

(v. t.) To be a cure for; to remedy.

(n.) Cure; remedy; recovery.

(v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

(v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

(v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

(v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

(v. t.) To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.

(n.) See Nomad, n.

(n.) The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.

(n.) The back part of the head or neck.

(n.) A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

(a.) Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

(a.) Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects.

(n.) A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

(n.) See under Tenant.

(n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.

(n.) Wine with a mixture of honey and species.

(n.) A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

(n.) A helmet. See Sallet.

(n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

(n.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

(n.) See Letters clause / close, under Letter.

(a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

(a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.

(a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

(n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.

(n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.

(v. t.) To season with salt; to salt.

(n.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.

(pl. ) of Salpa

(n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.

(v. t.) To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.

(v. t.) Hence, to give a sign of good will; to compliment by an act or ceremony, as a kiss, a bow, etc.

(v. t.) To honor, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by dipping colors, by cheers, etc.

(v. t.) To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.

(v.) The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.

(v.) A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc.

(v.) A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, dipping the colors or the topsails, etc.

(v. i. ) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.

(v. i. ) To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.

(v. i. ) To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.

(v. t.) To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.

(v. t.) To part or open naturally; to divide.

(v. i.) To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.

(a.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

(n.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

(a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.

(n.) Example; pattern.

(n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.

(v. t.) To make or show something similar to; to match.

(v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.

(n.) A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.

(n.) A fast of forty days on bread and water.

(n.) A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.

(n.) A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

(v. i.) A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

(v. i.) To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.

(v. t.) To weed, or clear of weeds, with a hoe.

(n.) A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.

(v. t.) To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.

(v. t.) To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.

(v. i.) To wear clothes.

(a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

(a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

(a.) Sown; propagated by seed.

(n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.

(pl. ) of Cnida

(n.) Alt. of Breeze fly

(n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.

(n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.

(n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

(n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

(v. i.) To blow gently.

(n.) A hired mourner at a funeral.

(n.) A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.

(n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.

(n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.

(n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.

(v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

(n.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes.

(n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.

(n.) An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

(n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.

(a.) Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

(n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

(n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

(n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

(n.) A sufficient number to choose among.

(n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

(n.) The best part; that which is preferable.

(superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

(a.) Alt. of Dumous

(v. t.) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.

(n.) A scale.

(n.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.

(n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure.

(n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.

(n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so

(n.) A square piece or fragment.

(n.) A pane of glass.

(n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

(n.) One hundred superficial feet.

(n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.

(n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.

(n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.

(n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.

(n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

(n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.

(n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

(n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

(n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.

(n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.

(a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.

(a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.

(a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.

(a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.

(a.) Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.

(a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.

(a.) Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.

(a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

(n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.

(n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.

(n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

(n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.

(n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.

(n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.

(n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.

(n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.

(v. i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.

(v. i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

(v. i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.

(n.) A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.

(a.) Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky.

(a.) Calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul.

(n.) Serenity; clearness; calmness.

(n.) Evening air; night chill.

(v. t.) To make serene.

(n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin.

(a.) Serous.

(n.) Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S. Indicum, and S. orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne.

(v. t.) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.

(v. i.) To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.

(v. t.) To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.

(n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.

(n.) A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.

(n.) One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.

(n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

(n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

(n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.

(a.) Alt. of Dappled

(v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.

(n.) A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.

(v. i.) To grow dark; to show indistinctly.

(n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.

(v. t. & i.) To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.

(a.) Alt. of Setous

(n.) A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.

(n.) A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.

(v. i.) To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.

(n.) A seat of any kind.

(n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.

(n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.

(n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.

(n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.

(n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.

(n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.

(n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.

(n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.

(n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.

(n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.

(n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

(n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.

(n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.

(v. i.) To choose; to wish for; to desire.

(v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.

(v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.

(v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.

(v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.

(v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.

(v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.

(a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.

(a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.

(a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.

(a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.

(n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

(v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

(v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

(n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.

(n.) A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.

(v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

(v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

(n.) A dawdler.

(v. t.) To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.

(v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.

(v. i.) To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.

(v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

(n.) A light of dazzling brilliancy.

(v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.

(v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.

(v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.

(v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.

(v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

(n.) A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

(n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.

(n.) A crusader.

(n.) Same as Deary.

(v. i.) To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

(v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.

(v. i.) To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

(a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.

(v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.

(v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.

(v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.

(v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.

(n.) To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically.

(n.) The rudd.

(n.) Same as Redfish (d).

(n.) The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass.

(v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.

(v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.

(v. t.) Subject of discussion.

(a.) Weak.

(n.) A crock; a jar.

(a.) Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent.

(v. i.) See Cruddle.

(n.) See Cruse, a small bottle.

(v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

(v. i.) To wander hither and thither on land.

(n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.

(n.) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel.

(n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

(n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

(n.) To withdraw.

(n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.

(v. t.) To cut off; to separate.

(v. t.) To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.

(v. i.) To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.

(n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡.

(n.) A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.

(n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.

(n.) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.

(v. t.) To give a nickname to.

(v. t.) To decorate; to beautify.

(n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.

(n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.

(v. i.) To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.

(v. t.) To embrace closely; to fondle.

(n.) A close embrace.

(n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.

(n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.

(v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.

(v. t.) To ordain by fate.

(v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.

(n.) One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

(v. t.) To lead forth.

(v. t.) To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole.

(v. t.) To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of.

(n.) A setula.

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

(n.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.

(n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

(n.) A sucker or acetabulum.

(n.) Alt. of Curari

(n.) One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

(n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.

(a.) Alt. of Oleous

(n.) A square; a measure; a rule.

(n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

(n.) A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire.

(n.) A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.

(n.) A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.

(v. t.) To attend as a squire.

(v. t.) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.

(n.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

(v. i.) Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.

(v. i.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.

(v. i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.

(v. t.) To fix; to establish.

(v. i.) A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.

(v. t.) To put or keep in a stable.

(v. i.) To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.

(n.) Space.

(n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.

(n.) One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

(n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

(n.) Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

(n.) A person of high rank.

(n.) A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.

(n.) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

(n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.

(n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc.

(v. t.) To establish.

(v. t.) Tom settle as a fortune.

(v. t.) To endow with an estate.

(n.) Commotion.

(a.) Eternal.

(a.) See Etern.

(n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.

(n.) Ethylene; olefiant gas.

(n.) Any compound of ethyl of a binary type; as, potassium ethide.

(n.) Acetylene.

(n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.

(n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.

(n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.

(n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.

(n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.

(n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.

(n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.

(n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.

(v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.

(v. t.) To fetch.

(pl. ) of Gutta

(v. t.) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

(n.) To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

(v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.

(v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.

(n.) An insatiable thing or person.

(a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.

(n.) To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.

(a.) Fit; qualified; also, apt.

(n.) The chipmunk; also, the chickaree or red squirrel.

(n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

(n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.

(n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used.

(n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.

(v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

(superl.) Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.

(superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.

(v. t.) To make feble; to enfeeble.

(n.) A poisonous alkaloid of bitter taste extracted from the leaves and seeds of the European yew (Taxus baccata). Called also taxia.

(a.) Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity.

(a.) Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners.

(n.) See Felly.

(v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.

(n.) The haddock.

(n.) One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.

(n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.

(n.) An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt.

(v. i.) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.

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

(n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

(n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

(a.) Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

(a.) Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

(a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

(v. t.) To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.

(v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

(n.) The act or process of haggling.

(n. & v.) See Tath.

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

(v. t.) To greet; to salute.

(n.) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.

(n.) A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).

(n. & interj.) A tittering laugh; a titter.

(v. i.) To titter; to laugh derisively.

(pl. ) of Feria

(a.) Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.

(n.) A wild beast; a beast of prey.

(n.) Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.

(a.) Hurtful; injurious.

(v. i.) To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.

(v. t.) To throw down; to overturn.

(a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

(n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

(n.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.

(n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.

(n.) Alt. of Hoopoo

(v. t.) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

(v. t.) Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.

(n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(n.) Alt. of Toupet

(v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.

(v.) The act of towing.

(v.) The price paid for towing.

(n.) The chewink.

(v. i.) To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.

(n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.

(n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.

(n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

(n.) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

(v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

(v. t.) To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk.

(v. t.) To consider; to deliberate.

(v. t.) To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends.

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

(v. t.) To defame; to make infamous.

(n.) A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house.

(v. t.) To arrange in a file or rank; to place in order.

(n.) A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.

(n.) The consecrated wafer; the host.

(v. t.) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

(v. t.) To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.

(v. t.) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.

(v. t.) To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate.

(n.) Infusion.

(n.) Entrance; ingress.

(n.) The aperture in a mold for pouring in the metal; the gate.

(adv.) See Parde.

(a.) Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.

(a.) Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless.

(superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.

(superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.

(superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.

(v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.

(v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.

(v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.

(v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

(v. i.) To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.

(v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.

(v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.

(n.) A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.

(n.) That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.

(n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.

(n.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms.

(a.) Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous.

(v. t.) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

(v. t.) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.

(v. i.) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.

(n.) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like.

(v. t.) To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render maudlin.

(prep.) In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.

(v. t.) To defy.

(a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

(a.) Intermediate; intervening.

(a.) The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion

(a.) the waist.

(n.) A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.

(a.) Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.

(a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.

(a.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

(v. t.) To make lean.

(n.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.

(n.) A leper.

(n.) A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.

(n.) A sweet liquor; mead.

(n.) A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.

(a.) Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.

(n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.

(n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.

(n.) See Wormil.

(v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.

(v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.

(v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.

(v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

(v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.

(v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

(n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

(n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Gull family (Laridae).

(pl. ) of Larva

(v. i.) To advance.

(n.) A young girl; a lass.

(a.) Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.

(a.) Having a veil; veiled.

(n.) Velvet.

(n.) The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.

(n.) A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction.

(a.) Poisonous; venomous.

(n.) The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm.

(n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

(n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

(n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.

(n.) Barbel of a fish.

(n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.

(n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

(v. t.) To bind with twigs.

(v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

(v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

(a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.

(n.) A lance.

(n.) A balance.

(n.) See Lant, the fish.

(n.) A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.

(a.) Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.

(a.) Developing too early; premature.

(v. t. & i.) To disrobe; to undress; to take off the robes.

(a.) Not rude; polished.

(a.) Excessively rude.

(n.) A icicle.

(v. t.) To pave.

(v. t.) To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

(v. t.) To take the tiles from; to uncover by removing the tiles.

(n.) An unseasonable time.

(a.) Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is untrue.

(a.) Not faithful; inconstant; false; disloyal.

(adv.) Untruly.

(v. t.) To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

(v. t.) To reverse or annul by vote, as a former vote.

(a.) Unaware; not foreseeing; being off one's guard.

(a.) Happening unexpectedly; unforeseen.

(a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.

(n.) The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.

(n.) The turtledove.

(n.) Any one of the numerous species of Testudinata, especially a sea turtle, or chelonian.

(n.) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

(v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.

(n.) A struggle; a scuffle.

(n.) Tutelage.

(n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.

(n.) A European shad; -- called also twaite shad. See Shad.

(n.) A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.

(n.) Alt. of Tweeze

(n.) A surgeon's case of instruments.

(a.) One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.

(n.) The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.

(n.) A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.

(v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

(v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

(v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

(n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

(n.) A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.

(v. t.) To loose or free from a yoke.

(v. t.) To part; to disjoin; to disconnect.

(n.) A cayman. See Yacare.

(v. i.) To spring upward; to rise.

(v. i.) To gaze upward.

(v. t.) To give up or out.

(n.) A fashionable cane.

(n.) Same as Euphroe.

(v. t.) To pile, or heap, up.

(v. i.) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

(v. i.) To have an upward direction or inclination.

(n.) The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

(n.) The upper side; the part that is uppermost.

(v. i.) To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.

(v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.

(v. i.) To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.

(v. t.) To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.

(n.) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.

(n.) Discordant sound; wrangling.

(v. t.) To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

(n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

(n.) Understanding; apprehension.

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

(v. i.) To emit a harsh or discordant sound.

(v. i.) To ride hard; to jounce.

(v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge.

(v. t.) To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

(v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.

(v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

(v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

(v. i.) To practice trick or deception.

(n.) A command; injunction.

(a.) Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

(n.) Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides.

(v. t.) To polish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bear; resembling a bear.

(a.) Capable of being used.

(v. t.) Use; usage; employment.

(v. t.) Custom; practice; usage.

(v. t.) Interest paid for money; usury.

(v. t.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.

(v. t.) To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

(v. t.) To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.

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

(a.) Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.

(a.) Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.

(n.) The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

(n.) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

(v. t.) To craze.

(v. t.) To impair; to destroy.

(a.) Acritan.

(v. t.) To cover as with a dome.

(v. t.) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.

(v. t.) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

(n.) Refuse; rubbish.

(n.) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.

(v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

(v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

(v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.

(v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.

(v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.

(n.) See Gargoyle.

(v. t.) To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.

(v. t.) To warble; to sing as if gargling

(n.) A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.

(v. t.) To weaken; to enervate.

(v. t.) To set on fire.

(v. i.) To stammer.

(v.) A hand.

(v. t.) To set free.

(v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.

(v. t.) To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.

(v. t.) To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.

(v. t.) To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.

(v. t.) To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.

(v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.

(v. i.) To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.

(v. i.) To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.

(v. i.) To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.

(v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

(n.) The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.

(n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

(n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

(n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

(n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

(v. t.) To assault with an engine.

(v. t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

(v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.

(n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.

(n.) See Seepage.

(v. i.) To sip often.

(n.) See Siren, 6.

(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

(n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.

(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.

(n.) Anything fancifully conceived.

(n.) A spectacle or show.

(n.) Opinion; decision.

(v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.

(v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

(v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.

(v. t.) To imagine; to guess.

(v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.

(v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

(n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

(n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.

(n.) Property devised, or given by will.

(n.) Device. See Device.

(v. t.) To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.

(v. t.) To execrate; to curse.

(v. t.) To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc.

(a.) Devoted; addicted; devout.

(n.) A devotee.

(v. t.) To devote.

(v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.

(n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.

(v. t.) To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

(v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.

(v. t.) To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.

(v. t.) To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

(v. t.) To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.

(v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.

(v. t.) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.

(v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

(v. t.) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

(v. i.) To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.

(v. i.) To cause separation; to disunite.

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

(v. i.) To have a share; to partake.

(v. i.) To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.

(n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

(a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

(a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.

(a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

(a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.

(a.) Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies.

(a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient.

(a.) Relating to divinity or theology.

(a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

(a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

(v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.

(v. t.) To render divine; to deify.

(v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

(v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

(v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

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

(n.) The missel thrush.

(a.) Capable of being done.

(n.) The European dace.

(a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.

(a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

(n.) The office or dignity of a doge.

(v. i.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.

(v. i.) To dib or dip frequently, as in angling.

(v. t.) To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.

(v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.

(n.) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.

(n.) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.

(v. t.) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.

(n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.

(n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.

(n.) A sleigh.

(n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.

(v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.

(v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.

(n.) See Sleave, untwisted thread.

(n.) The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown.

(n.) A narrow channel of water.

(n.) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.

(n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.

(n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.

(v. t.) To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.

(n.) A cramp.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.

(n.) Damage; hurt.

(n.) Subjugation.

(n.) A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

(n.) A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridae. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.

(n.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dome in Auvergne, France, where it is found.

(v. t.) To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

(n.) A trifler; a simple fellow.

(v. i.) Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.

(v. i.) Foolish utterance; drivel.

(v. i.) Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.

(n.) Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

(n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.

(n.) A customhouse.

(a.) Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

(a.) Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.

(a.) Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.

(a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.

(adv.) Twice; doubly.

(a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.

(a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth.

(a.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.

(a.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.

(a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.

(v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.

(v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.

(v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

(v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.

(v. t.) To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.

(v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.

(v. i.) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.

(a.) Extensive; expanded.

(n.) See Slime, 4.

(n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.

(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

(v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.

(n.) Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.

(n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.

(n.) That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.

(n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.

(n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.

(n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.

(n.) Double beer; strong beer.

(n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.

(n.) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.

(n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.

(v. t.) To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

(v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken.

(v. i.) To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.

(a.) Diluted; thin; weak.

(n.) A bower; a dingle.

(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.

(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

(n.) A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.

(n.) A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).

(n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

(n.) The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.

(n.) Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.

(n.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.

(n.) A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose and obtained from certain lichens and fungi. Called also trehalose.

(superl.) Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.

(v. t.) To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued.

(v. t.) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.

(v. t.) To make bloody.

(v. t.) Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

(v. t.) To fashion.

(n.) Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

(n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

(n.) Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium.

(v. i.) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.

(v. t.) To elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.

(v. t.) To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. See Steeve, n. (b).

(n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving.

(n.) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.

(pl. ) of Stela

(n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

(n.) One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.

(n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain.

(n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

(n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.

(n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

(v. t.) To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water.

(v. t.) To heap up in confusion.

(n.) One who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman.

(n.) A mass, or heap, confusedly mingled.

(v. t. & i.) To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.

(n.) Formerly, one of the Turkish cavalry.

(n.) An Algerian cavalryman in the French army.

(v. t.) To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

(v. t.) To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.

(v. t.) To enliven.

(superl.) Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.

(superl.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

(v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.

(v. t.) To coat with clay; to lute.

(v. t.) See Emmove.

(a.) Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.

(n.) One who is affected with ennui.

(n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.

(v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.

(v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.

(v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.

(v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.

(n.) A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.

(v. t.) To enroot; to implant.

(v. t.) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

(a.) Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes.

(v. t.) To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep.

(v. t.) To rive; to cleave.

(v. t.) To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

(v. t.) To make safe.

(a.) Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

() abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.

(n.) Coin; hard money.

(v. t.) To make sure. See Insure.

(v. t.) To betroth.

(v. t.) To tame.

(v. t.) To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.

(a.) Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.

(a.) Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.

(a.) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.

(a.) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.

(a.) Not gelded; -- said of a horse.

(a.) Internal; interior.

(n.) Entirely.

(n.) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.

(n.) Species; sort.

(n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.

(n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.

(pl. ) of Stola

(v. t.) To disperse.

(n.) A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color. It is a silicate of titanium and calcium; titanite.

(n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

(n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.

(n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.

(n.) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.

(n.) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.

(n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.

(n.) Rank; order of society; social positions.

(n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket.

(v. t.) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.

(v. t.) To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

(pl. ) of Spica

(n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.

(n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

(v. t.) To tune; to intone.

(superl.) Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

(superl.) Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe punishment.

(superl.) Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc.

(superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold.

(superl.) Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous; as, a severe test.

(n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

(n.) Sewerage, 2.

(v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

(v. t.) To destroy; to make null.

(v. t.) To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.

(v. t.) To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.

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

(n.) Dishonor.

(v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.

(v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.

(v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.

(v. t.) To congeal or thicken.

(n. & v.) See 2d & 3d Curry.

(v. i.) To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

(v. t.) Same as Defilade.

(n.) Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.

(n.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.

(v. t.) To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.

(v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.

(v. t.) To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.

(v. t.) To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.

(v. t.) To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.

(v. t.) To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.

(v. t.) To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.

(v. t.) To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument.

(v. t.) To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term.

(v. i.) To determine; to decide.

(v. t.) To disorder; to make shapeless.

(n.) A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

(n.) A knife.

(n.) Alt. of Cuttlefish

(n.) A step, stair, or staircase.

(n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

(n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.

(n.) Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.

(n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.

(n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.

(n.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.

(n.) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.

(n.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

(n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

(n.) A line or space of the staff.

(n.) A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

(a.) Alt. of Cymous

(n.) A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.

(v.) To carry; to convey.

(v.) To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.

(v.) To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.

(v.) To carry on; to conduct.

(v. i.) To dilate.

(v. t.) To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

(n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

(v. t.) To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

(v. i.) To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.

(v. i.) To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.

(v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.

(v. t.) To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.

(v. i.) To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.

(v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.

(v. t.) To delineate.

(v. t.) To mark out.

(n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

(n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.

(n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

(v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.

(v. t.) To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.

(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint.

(n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

(n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.

(v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

(v. t.) To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.

(v. t.) To damn.

(n.) A salt of sebacic acid.

(n.) A genus of cereal grasses including rye.

(v. i.) To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.

(n.) Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.

(n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.

(n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.

(v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.

(v. t.) To convey; to give.

(v. t.) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.

(v. t.) To damn; to condemn.

(a.) Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.

(a.) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.

(v. i.) To look demurely.

(n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

(n.) Alt. of Shiah

(v. t.) To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.

(v. t.) To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.

(v. t.) To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.

(v. t.) To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

(n.) A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta.

(v. i.) The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.

(v. i.) The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun.

(v. i.) A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting.

(v. t.) To bind the mouth of; to fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action.

(v. t.) To fondle with the closed mouth.

(v. i.) To bring the mouth or muzzle near.

(n.) Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.

(n.) An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.

(a.) Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits.

(n.) The Eocene formation.

(n.) A windlass.

(n.) A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.

(n.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

(n.) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.

(n. pl.) The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.

(n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.

(pl. ) of Gemma

(v. t.) A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

(a.) Threefold; triple.

(a.) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.

(a.) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.

(adv.) Trebly; triply.

(n.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

(v. t.) To make thrice as much; to make threefold.

(v. t.) To utter in a treble key; to whine.

(v. i.) To become threefold.

(superl.) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

(superl.) Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.

(superl.) A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader.

(superl.) Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse.

(superl.) Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop .

(n.) One well born; a gentleman.

(n.) A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

(n.) A dipterous larva used as fish bait.

(v. t.) To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.

(v. t.) To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.

(v. t.) To make kind and docile, as a horse.

(n.) A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.

(n.) A kind of brown loaf.

(a.) Honeycombed. See Faveolate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.

(v. t.) To beat or whip; to drive.

(a.) Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.

(v. t.) To loose; to pay.

(v. t.) To expedite; to hasten.

(a.) Alt. of Fucated

(v. t.) To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

(v. i.) To drink to excess.

(v. t.) See Embase.

(v. t.) To make up into a bale or pack.

(v. t.) To bind up; to inclose.

(v. t.) To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

(v. t.) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.

(v. t.) To emit; to give out.

(v. t.) To bring to a close; to terminate.

(v. i.) To emit the breath.

(v. i.) To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

(v. i.) To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.

(v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.

(v. t.) To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil.

(v. i.) Alt. of Fumado

(n.) Hearth money.

(v. i.) To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

(v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.

(v. i.) To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

(v. t.) To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

(v. t.) To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

(v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.

(v. t.) To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.

(v. t.) To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.

(v. t.) A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.

(v. t.) See Imbrue, Embrew.

(v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.

(n.) A seditious tumult; an outbreak.

(v. t.) To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.

(n.) A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.

(n.) One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.

(n.) Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.

(n.) The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

(v. t.) To move; to rouse; to excite.

(v. t.) To make pale.

(v. t.) To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale.

(v. t.) To inclose; to surround. See Impale.

(v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

(v. t.) Same as Impale.

(n.) Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.

(n.) The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.

(n.) Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.

(a.) Same as Fusil, a.

(v. t.) Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

(v. t.) Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.

(v. i.) That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.

(a.) Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.

(a.) The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.

(a.) A future tense.

(n.) An agate.

(n.) Purchase; bargaining.

(n.) Provisions. Same as Cates.

(n.) Alt. of Achenium

(v. t.) To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.

(v. i.) To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

(v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.

(n.) Loud or rapid talk without meaning.

(n.) Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

(n.) An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

(n.) A lever to bend crossbows.

(n.) Agate.

(v. t.) To milk out; to drain.

(v. t.) To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

(v. t.) To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.

(v. t.) To imbibe.

(v. t.) To confine in a cage; to coop up.

(v. t.) To inclose as in a case. See Incase.

(n.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

(v. t.) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.

(v. i.) To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

(v. i.) A flock of wild geese.

(a.) Facetious; witty; humorous.

(a.) Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

(a.) Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.

(a.) Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

(a.) Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.

(a.) Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.

(adv. / interj.) Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

(n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.

(v. t.) To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.

(v. i.) To trifle; to toy.

(v. t. ) To fondle; to dandle.

(v. i.) To stammer.

(v. t.) See Indite.

(n.) A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.

(n.) A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

(n. & a.) Plenty; abundance; in abundance.

(v. i.) To play or game for money or other stake.

(v. t.) To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.

(v. t.) To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

(v. t.) To trifle or play.

(v. t.) To act or walk mincingly.

(v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

(n.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

(a.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

(n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.

(n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

(n.) A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.

(n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.

(n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.

(n.) Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.

(n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.

(v. t.) To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.

(v. t.) To strike; to lash.

(imp.) of Strive

() of Strive

(v. i.) To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

(v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.

(v. i.) To vie; to compete; to be a rival.

(n.) An effort; a striving.

(n.) Strife; contention.

(n.) See Strude.

() imp. of Stride.

(imp.) Struck.

(v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.

(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.

(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.

(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.

(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.

(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.

(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.

(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.

(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.

(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.

(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.

(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.

(v. t.) Power; influence.

(v. t.) Appetite.

(v. t.) To strike.

(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.

(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.

(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.

(v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.

(v. t.) To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.

(n.) A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.

() imp. of Strive.

(n.) A stock of breeding mares.

(pl. ) of Trica

(n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

(n. & v.) See Jingle.

(n.) A griddle.

(n.) The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.

(n.) A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

(n.) The pied wagtail.

(v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

(v. t.) To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.

(n.) A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.

(v. t.) To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.

(n.) Value.

(v. i. & t.) To depart quickly; to depart from.

(n.) Act of wiggling; a wriggle.

() Alt. of Lanated

(n.) See Vauntmure.

(v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.

(v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.

(n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.

(n.) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.

(n.) The pickerel weed.

(n.) An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks; as, book notices; theatrical notices.

(n.) A writing communicating information or warning.

(n.) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenial council held there A. D. 325.

(n.) An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.

(n.) See Web, n., 8.

(n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.

(n.) A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

(n.) An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.

(v. i.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.

(v. t.) To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.

(n.) See Estoile.

(n.) Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

(n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.

(v. t.) To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.

(v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.

(n.) A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

(n.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.

(v. i.) See Forelie.

(pl. ) of Fossa

(a.) Nourishing.

(n.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

(n.) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence:

(n.) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).

(n.) A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.

(v. t.) To overthrow or subvert.

(n.) A stable.

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

(v. t.) To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.

(a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.

(n.) Anything edible.

(v. t.) To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

(v. t.) To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.

(v. i.) To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.

(pl. ) of Fovea

(v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

(v. t.) To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.

(v. t.) To excavate.

(a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

(n.) A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.

(n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

(n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

(v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

(v. t.) To cut off.

(n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.

(n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.

(v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.

(v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.

(v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

(v. t.) To refine.

(a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

(a.) Near; neighboring; vicinal.

(n.) An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.

(n.) An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.

(n.) An ambassador or envoy.

(n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

(n.) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.

(n.) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.

(n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.

(n.) The zodiac; also, the equator.

(n.) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(n.) A thin bed or stratum of stone.

(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

(v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

(v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

(v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

(n.) A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

(n.) A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

(n.) To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

(v. t.) To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.

(v. t.) To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.

(n.) Choke damp.

(a.) Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.

(n.) See Glair.

(n.) A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.

(n.) A sword; -- used poetically and loosely.

(n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor.

(n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.

(n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

(n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.

(v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.

(v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".

(v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.

(v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.

(v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.

(v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.

(v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.

(v. t.) To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

(v. t.) To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush.

(v. t.) To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.

(v. t.) To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.

(v. t.) To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.

(v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.

(v. t.) To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.

(v. t.) To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors.

(n.) Same as Triplet.

(a.) Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

(a.) Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.

(a.) One of three; third.

(a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

(imp.) of Trist

(n.) A cattle fair.

(a.) Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.

(n.) A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

(n.) A wooden trough, forming a drain.

(a.) Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.

(a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.

(a.) In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

(a.) Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.

(a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.

(a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.

(a.) Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.

(a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.

(a.) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.

(a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

(a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

(n.) Action.

(v. t.) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.

(a.) Sharpened; sharp-pointed.

(n.) A glen. See Glen. [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.]

(superl.) Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.

(superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.

(superl.) Characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; -- said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; -- said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult of apprehension; elusive.

(superl.) Smooth and deceptive.

(n.) A trumpet; a trump.

(n.) A teat.

(v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.

(v. i.) To nurse; to suck.

(n.) A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

(n.) Trousers.

(v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

(n.) A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.

(v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

(v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.

(v. i.) To eat greedily.

(v. i.) To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.

(n.) A noise made in the throat.

(v. i.) To roll the eyes; to stare.

(a.) Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.

(v. i.) A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

(v. i.) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.

(v. i.) Colored glasses for relief from intense light.

(v. i.) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.

(v. i.) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.

(n.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.

(n.) An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.

(n.) The European goldfinch.

(n.) The yellow-hammer.

(n.) A model or measure.

(n.) The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.

(n.) To model; also, to modulate.

(n.) Same Macule.

(v. t. & i.) To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.

(v. i.) To mix; to mingle.

(v. i.) To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- / a good sense.

(v. i.) To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in.

(v. t.) To mix; to mingle.

(pl. ) of Media

(n.) An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.

(n.) A gimlet.

(n.) A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.

(n.) An auger used for boring in earth.

(v. t.) To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.

(a.) Active; nimble.

(n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.

(n.) A flag or streamer.

(v. t.) To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.

(n.) A spot.

(n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.

(v.) To blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle.

(n.) A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.

(n.) One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.

() p. p. of Undo.

(a.) Not done or performed; neglected.

(v. t.) To deprive of dukedom.

(n.) Want of ease; uneasiness.

(v. t.) To deprive of the edge; to blunt.

(n.) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

(v. t.) To form in idea; to fancy.

(v. t.) To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.

(v. t.) To remove the face or cover from; to unmask; to expose.

(v. t.) See Entice.

(a.) Inward; internal; intimate.

(n.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

(adv.) Alt. of Intirely

(v. t.) To remove from a file or record.

(v. t.) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

(v. i.) To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate.

(a.) Not free; held in bondage.

(v. t. & i.) To yield; to relax; to give way.

(v. t.) To separate, part, or open, as anything fastened with glue.

(v. t.) To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum.

(v. i.) To take fire; to begin to burn.

(n.) Same as Unheal, n.

(v. t.) To uncover.

(v. t.) To bring out from concealment; to discover.

(v. t. v. t.) To drive or remove from a hive.

(v. t. v. t.) To deprive of habitation or shelter, as a crowd.

(n.) A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.

(v. t.) To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.

(v. t.) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.

(v. t.) Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person.

(a.) Unknown.

(n.) One who is unknown.

(v. t.) To intone. Cf. Entune.

(n.) A bruise; a contusion.

(v. t.) To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.

(v. t.) To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.

(v. t.) To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

(v. t.) To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.

(a.) Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.

(n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.

(v. t.) To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.

(v. t.) To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.

(v. i.) To make an invasion.

(v. t.) To deceive; to entice; to lure.

(v. t.) To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.

(v. t.) To loose the dress of; to undress; hence, to expose; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To render vile.

(v. t.) To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion.

(v. t.) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

(v. t.) To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.

(v. i.) To give invitation.

(v. t.) To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.

(n.) A salt of iodic acid.

(n.) A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary; as, potassium iodide.

(n.) A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors.

(v. t.) To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography.

(n.) A silicate of alumina, iron, and magnesia, having a bright blue color and vitreous luster; cordierite. It is remarkable for its dichroism, and is also called dichroite.

(v. t.) See Embase.

(v. i.) To diminish in value.

(v. t.) To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

(v. t.) To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.

(v. t.) To saturate; to imbue.

(v. t.) To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood.

(a.) Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.

(v. t.) To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel.

(v. t.) To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon.

(v. t.) To unload; to remove, or to have removed, as a load or a burden; to discharge.

(a.) Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.

(a.) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.

(v. t.) To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse.

(v. t.) To //ve in a contrary manner, as a life; to live in a manner contrary to.

(v. t.) To cease to love; to hate.

(v. t.) To separate, as things cemented or luted; to take the lute or the clay from.

(a.) Not yet made or formed; as, an unmade grave.

(a.) Deprived of form, character, etc.; disunited.

(v. t.) To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.

(a.) Exempt; protected by inoculation.

(v. t.) To wall around; to surround with walls.

(v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

(n.) A wall; an inclosure.

(v. t.) To change or alter.

(v. t.) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.

(v. t.) To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.

(v. t.) To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.

(v. t.) To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.

(v. t.) To deprive of a pope.

(a.) Not pure; impure.

(pl. ) of Musca

(n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.

(n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.

(n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.

(n.) My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women.

(v. t.) To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.

(v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.

(v. i.) To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.

(v. t.) To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against.

(v. i.) To push; to crowd; to hustle.

(n.) A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference.

(v. t. & i.) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

(n.) A jolt; a shake; a hard trot.

(a.) Fringed with long, pendent hair.

(v. i.) To stammer.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

(n.) A large Turkish ship.

(a.) Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.

(n.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; -- also called ilvaite.

(n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.

(n.) The redwing.

(n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.

(n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.

(v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.

(v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.

(n.) The gadfly.

(a.) Unpunished.

(a.) Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

(a.) Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.

(a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.

(a.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.

(a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.

(v. t.) To defile; to pollute.

(v. t.) To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.

(v. t.) To take account of; to consider; to regard.

(pl. ) of Herma

(n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.

(n.) Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.

(v. t.) See Enable.

(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up.

(n.) A series of six numbers.

(pl. ) of Tibia

(v. t.) To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid.

(n.) Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.

(n.) Same as Hexylene.

(n.) A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

(n.) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.

(v. t.) To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.

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

(v. i.) To feel titillation.

(v. i.) To excite the sensation of titillation.

(a.) Ticklish; easily tickled.

(a.) Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.

(a.) Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.

(v. t.) To use with tenderness; to fondle.

(v. t.) To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines.

(v. t.) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

(v. t.) To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.

(v. t.) To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(v. i.) To hawk or peddle provisions.

(v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

(n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.

(n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

(n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

(n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

(n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

(n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

(a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

(n.) A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

(n.) That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.

(n.) That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income.

(n.) That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output.

(n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

(n.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.

(n.) One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.

(n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.

(n.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.

(n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.

(n.) Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.

(v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.

(n.) Native salt; sodium chloride.

(v. i.) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

(v. i.) To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

(v. i.) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.

(n.) A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.

(v. t.) To punish with a ferule.

(n.) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.

(n.) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.

(n.) The style of a dial.

(n.) A grass of the genus Festuca.

(v. i. & t.) To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

(n.) The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.

(a.) Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.

(v. t.) To hamstring.

(n.) A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.

(n.) A descendant of Ham, Noah's second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.

(n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

(n.) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

(n.) The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

(n.) Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.

() Alt. of Hamous

(n.) A little hook.

(a.) To repair; to prepare; to put in order.

(a.) To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.

(v. i.) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.

(n.) The act of fettling.

(n.) A kind of French hackney coach.

(v. t.) To betroth; to affiance.

(n.) A betrothed man.

(v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

(v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.

(v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.

(v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.

(v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.

(v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.

(v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.

(v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.

(v. i.) To use the hands.

(n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.

(n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.

(a.) Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.

(n.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

(n.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.

(n.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

(v. i.) To play on a fiddle.

(v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.

(v. t.) To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

(a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

(superl.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.

(superl.) Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.

(superl.) Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.

(n.) The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

(n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.

(n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.

(n.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.

(n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.

(n.) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.

(n.) A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.

(n.) Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.

(n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.

(n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement.

(n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.

(n.) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.

(n.) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

(n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

(n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

(n.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.

(n.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

(n.) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.

(n.) To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

(n.) To prefigure; to foreshow.

(n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

(n.) To embellish.

(v. t.) To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.

(v. t.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.

(a.) Terminating in a threadlike process.

(n.) Close; termination

(n.) The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition.

(n.) The last composition performed in any act of an opera.

(n.) The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.

(a.) Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

(pl. ) of Testa

(n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.

(n.) A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.

(pl. ) of Theca

(a.) Sharpened to a point; pointed.

(n.) See Caffeine. Called also theina.

(n.) Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.

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

(v. i.) To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.

(n.) A failure or abortive effort.

(v.) See Halse.

(v. t.) To enhance.

(n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.

(adv.) From that place.

(adv.) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.

(adv.) For that reason; therefore.

(adv.) Not there; elsewhere; absent.

(v. t.) To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly.

(n.) See 1st Timber.

(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.

(n.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

(v. t.) To fix firmly, as in cube; to secure or place firmly.

(superl.) Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.

(superl.) Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.

(n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.

(n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.

(v. t.) Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving.

(v. t.) Alt. of Incuss

(v. t.) To strike or stamp in.

(v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.

(v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass.

(n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.

(n.) Same as Hopple.

(n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.

(v. t.) To hamstring; to hock; to hough.

(v. t.) To mow, as stubble.

(v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.

(v. i.) To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.

(v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.

(n.) The common guillemot.

(v. i.) To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.

(v. i.) To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

(v. t.) To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.

(n.) A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.

(n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

(v. t.) The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

(v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

(v. t.) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.

(n.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax; -- called also melissene, and melissylene.

(n.) Any periwinkle.

(n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).

(n.) A hippopotamus.

(n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

(n.) To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.

(n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

(v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

(n.) See Manage.

(n.) A collection of animals; a menagerie.

(v. i.) To whirl; to eddy.

(a.) Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae.

(n.) A little zone, or girdle.

(n.) Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations.

(n.) The European goldcrest.

(n.) The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

(n.) Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; means of knowledge; express notification; announcement; warning.

(v. i.) See Wabble.

(n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

(a.) Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.

(a.) Puny; petty; unskilled.

(a.) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer.

(n.) One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.

(v.) Smooth; polished.

(v.) Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.

(v.) Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite literature.

(v. t.) To polish; to refine; to render polite.

(n.) The pewee, or pewit.

(n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.

(n.) A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

(n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.

(n.) A short clause or portion of a period.

(v. t.) To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.

(v. i.) To use proper or fine phrases.

(v. i.) To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.

(a.) The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female.

(a.) The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood.

(a.) A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family.

(a.) The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preeminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players.

(v. i.) To play the prince.

(pl. ) of Phyle

(n.) A pulley.

(n.) The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

(n.) Cider.

(n.) Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples.

(n.) A heinous offense which requires expiation.

(n.) A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.

(n.) An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot glass; -- called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet.

(n.) A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.

(n.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.

(n.) Alt. of Kelpy

(a.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.

(n.) A hundred weight; a quintal.

(n.) See Picle.

(v. t.) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.

(v. t.) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.

(v. t.) Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.

(v. t.) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.

(v. t.) A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.

(v. t.) To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.

(v. t.) To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.

(v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

(v. i.) To be squeamishly nice about one's food.

(v. i.) To urinate; -- child's word.

(v. t.) To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

(v. t.) To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.

(v. t.) Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery.

(v. i.) To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively.

(n.) See Pelage.

(v. i.) To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble.

(n.) The poplar.

(n.) Tares.

(n.) Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidae.

(a.) Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.

(a.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.

(a.) Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.

(n.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.

(n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

(n.) A small piece of inclosed ground.

(n.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.

(n.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.

(n.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.

(pl. ) of Pinna

(v. t.) To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; -- opposed to exhale.

(v. i.) To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.

(v. t.) To place in a hive; to hive.

(n.) The hip; the haunch.

(n.) A bunch or part projecting like the hip.

(v. i.) To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

(v. t.) To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.

(v. t.) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together.

(n.) A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.

(v. t.) To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

(v. t.) To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

(v. t.) To hug.

(v. t.) To form into an island; to surround.

(a.) Pertaining to man; human.

(a.) Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent.

(a.) Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine.

(v. t.) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.

(n.) A salt of humic acid.

(superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

(superl.) Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

(a.) Hornless. See Hummel.

(v. t.) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

(v. t.) To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace.

(v. t.) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.

(n.) A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.

(n.) A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

(n.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.

(v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

(v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

(v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

(v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

(v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

(n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

(a.) Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

(a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

(a.) Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.

(n.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.

(a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.

(a.) Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.

(a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.

(v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.

(v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

(v. i.) To become soft and pliant.

(n.) A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc.

(n.) A turtle.

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

(v. i.) To go out of a straight line; to deflect.

(v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.

(v. i.) To bend; to incline.

(v. i.) To climb or move upward by winding or turning.

(v. t.) To turn aside.

(n.) See Dragont.

(v. & n.) See Singe.

(v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.

(n.) A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.

(v. t.) To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from the sulphur.

(v. t.) To move as a lash; to lash.

(n.) The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.

(n.) Power; sway; influence.

(n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.

(adv.) Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly.

(adv.) Quickly. See Swithe.

(n.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.

(n.) See Grackle.

(n.) The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4.

(n.) Same as Gram the weight.

(pl. ) of Sylva

(n.) A building for storing grain; a granary.

(n.) A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.

(n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.

(n.) A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.

(n.) An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867.

(v.) To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

(v.) To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch.

(v.) To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust.

(v. i.) To lie at rest; to rest.

(v. i.) Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

(v. i.) To lie; to be supported; as, trap reposing on sand.

(v.) A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.

(v.) Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment.

(v.) A rest; a pause.

(v.) That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eye; -- opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose.

(n.) Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.

(n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences.

(v. t.) To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.

(v. t.) To bribe; to corrupt with presents.

(v. t.) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.

(v. t.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

(n.) A grove.

(n.) Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

(n.) One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling.

(a.) Admitted as a dweller; resident; internal.

(a.) Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

(a.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.

(a.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

(v. t.) To cause to exit; to call into being.

(n.) A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.

(n.) A tedious journey.

(n.) A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.

(n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.

(v. t.) To entrance.

(v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.

(v. i.) To pass; to travel.

(n.) See Trance.

(n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

(n.) In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

(n.) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.

(v. t.) To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.

(v. t.) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

(v. t.) To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.

(v. t.) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

(v. t.) To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.

(v. t.) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

(a.) Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.

(a.) Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.

(a.) Causing insanity or madness.

(a.) Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.

(n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

(v. t.) To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

(v. t.) To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.

(v. t.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.

(v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

(v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

(n.) A land tax. See Hidage.

(pl. ) of Hydra

(v. t.) To take in; to absorb.

(adv.) Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.

(a.) Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.

(a.) Adapted to the interior.

(n.) The part within; interior or internal portion; content.

(n.) The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings.

(n.) An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.

(v. t.) To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

(v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.

(v. i.) To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

(n.) The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

(n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.

(n.) The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.

(n.) The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc., placed inside the shoe for warmth or ease.

(a.) Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy.

(v. t.) To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

(v. t.) To twist about, as if boneless.

(n. pl.) The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.

(v. t.) To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.

(v. t.) To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.

(v. t.) To strip; to flay.

(v. t.) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

(pl. ) of Uncia

(n.) See Mestee.

(v. t.) To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.

(v. t.) To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait.

(n.) A small or cautious bite.

(n.) A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy.

(n.) An aromatic powder used in Italy in the manufacture of chocolate.

(n.) Parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. Mixed with water, it makes a nutritious beverage.

(n.) A little pin.

(n.) An upright pivot pin

(n.) The pivot pin of a hinge.

(n.) A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.

(n.) A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.

(n.) A kingbolt of a wagon.

(v. t.) To observe; to see to mark; to take note of; to heed; to pay attention to.

(n.) Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.

(n.) One of a series of organic bases obtained by the reduction of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones. In general they are unstable oily substances having a pungent aromatic odor.

(n.) The name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of their mucilage.

(n.) One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor.

(n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

(n.) Wharfage; quayage.

(n.) See Mussel.

(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.

(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

(a.) The mob; the populace.

(n.) An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.

(n.) A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

(n.) Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.

(v. t.) To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

(v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

(v. t.) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.

(v. t.) To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.

(v. i.) To make a dirty stir.

(a.) Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat.

(n.) A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.

(n.) The soul; the vital principle; the mind.

(n.) A cheval glass.

(v.) Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.

(v.) The object, ground, or reason of praise.

(v. & n.) Press.

(v.) To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.

(v.) To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being.

(v.) To value; to appraise.

(v.) Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.

(v. i.) To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.

(v. i.) To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.

(v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.

(n.) Pulse; pease.

(n.) A liquid measure of four pints.

(n.) A pot or tankard.

(n.) A vessel or small basket for holding fruit.

(n.) Same as Octopus.

(n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

(n.) Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.

(v. t.) The claw or talon of a bird of prey.

(v. t.) A punch or stamp.

(v. t.) Cloth worked in eyelet holes.

(v. t.) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.

(v. t.) To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.

(v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.

(n.) See Pottage.

(n.) A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

(n.) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

(v. t.) To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats.

(n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.

(n.) A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish.

(n.) A swallow.

(n.) A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.

(n.) An American butterfly (Polygonia, / Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.

(n.) A mask; a masquerade.

(n.) A lozenge voided.

(n.) See Litchi.

(n.) A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

(n.) The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.

(n.) The face of a crab.

(a.) Covered with clay; miry.

(a.) Luxated.

(v. t.) To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.

(a.) Given to luxury; voluptuous.

(n.) Same as Luster.

(n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.

(n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.

(n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.

(n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.

(n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

(n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.

(v. t.) To make lustrous.

(n.) A guillemot.

(n.) A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.

(n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.

(n.) A lune. See Lune.

(n.) A small or narrow crescent.

(n.) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve.

(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.

(n.) Wolfish; ravenous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.

(a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.

(a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.

(a.) The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.

(a.) A picture representing some marine subject.

(n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

(v. i.) To illumine.

(a.) Alt. of Lunated

(n.) A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.

(n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

(a.) Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.

(a.) Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

(n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.

(n.) A spot or fleck on the sun brighter than the surrounding surface.

(v. t.) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

(v. t.) To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.

(n.) Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.

(v.) Measurement, especially of coal.

(v.) Charge for, or price of, measuring.

(n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.

(n.) Any free, outer membrane.

(n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

(n.) A mantel. See Mantel.

(n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

(n.) A penstock for a water wheel.

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

(v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

(v. i.) To spread out; -- said of wings.

(v. i.) To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

(v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

(a.) To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

(n.) An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.

(n.) A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.

(n.) A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a).

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.

(n.) A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

(n.) Same as Mantling.

(n.) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.

(n.) Same as Thomsonite.

(n.) Alt. of Lorry

(v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

(v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

(n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

(n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

(n.) The kusimanse.

(a.) Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

(n.) Art of horsemanship, or of training horses.

(n.) A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses.

(pl. ) of Mamma

(n.) A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.

(n. & v.) Same as Menace.

(n.) The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

(n.) To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

(n.) Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.

(n.) To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

(n.) To treat with care; to husband.

(n.) To bring about; to contrive.

(v. i.) To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.

(n.) A sleeve.

(n.) See Lineage.

(n.) The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.

(n.) A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositae.

(n.) A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.

(n.) A kind of precious stone.

(prep.) See Mauger.

(n.) Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.

(n.) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.

(v. t.) To regard with extreme ill will.

(n.) A salt of malic acid.

(n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.

(n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.

(n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.

(pl. ) of Pelta

(a.) Alt. of Peery

(pl. ) of Palea

(n.) A mutineer.

(v. i.) To mutiny.

(n.) A hind in the year of its age.

(n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.

(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.

(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.

(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.

(n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.

(n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.

(v. t.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.

(v. i.) To be bent into a flange.

(n.) A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.

(v. t. & i.) To practice theft; to steal.

(a.) Dull; stupid.

(n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.

(n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

(v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

(n.) A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.

(v. i.) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

(v. t. & i.) To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.

(v. t. & i.) To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.

(n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

(n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

(n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

(v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

(v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

(v. t.) To spread over as with wool.

(v. t.) To add.

(v. t.) To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.

(v. t.) To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.

(v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

(v. t.) To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

(n.) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe.

(n.) Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.

(n.) The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng.

(a.) Fledged; fledge.

(v. i.) To become fledged; to fledge.

(n.) Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.

(v. t.) To call; to term.

(adv.) Three times.

(adv.) In a threefold manner or degree; repeatedly; very.

(imp.) of Thrive

(v. i.) To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.

(v. i.) To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.

(v. i.) To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

(n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.

(n.) Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.

(n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.

(v. t.) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.

(v. t.) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.

(v. i.) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.

() imp. of Thrive.

(n.) A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.

(n.) The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.

(n.) Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.

(n.) The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.

(n.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.

(n.) One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.

(n.) Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.

(n.) A wise sentence or decision of great authority.

(v. i.) To utter oracles.

(n.) The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.

(n.) The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.

(n.) The color of an orange; reddish yellow.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.

(adv.) Just now; at present.

(a.) Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.

(n.) One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

(n.) One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

(n.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

(a.) Like a novice; becoming a novice.

(a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.

(n.) Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.

() See Nouthe.

(n.) The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.

(n.) A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.

(n.) A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

(n.) A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.

(v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.

(a.) Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.

(v. i.) To walk quickly with the head bent forward; -- often with along.

(a.) Having a nice sense of smell.

(a.) Critically nice; captious.

(a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.

(a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.

(a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.

(a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.

(a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

(a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.

(a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.

(n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.

(n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.

(n.) The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

(n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence.

(n.) The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect.

(n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience.

(n.) The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being.

(n.) Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality.

(n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.

(n.) Natural affection or reverence.

(n.) Constitution or quality of mind or character.

(v. t.) To endow with natural qualities.

(n.) Dung; excrement; faeces.

(n.) Defect; imperfection; fault.

(n.) See Oroide.

(n.) A little cloud; a cloud.

(a.) Alt. of Nebuly

(v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

(v. t.) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

(v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.

(v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.

(v. t.) To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.

(v. t.) To loiter; to idle.

(n.) Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.

(n.) In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard.

(a.) Adorned; decorated; beautiful.

(a.) Finely finished, as a style of composition.

(v. t.) To adorn; to honor.

(n.) An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy.

(n.) A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever.

(v. t.) To draw over, as a covering.

(v. t.) To harden.

(a.) Alt. of Obdured

(n.) A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.

(a.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.

(a.) Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.

(a.) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.

(a.) One of the Oblati.

(n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.

(n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.

(n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

(n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

(n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

(v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.

(v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.

(v. t.) To attach, as by a bond.

(v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.

(v. t.) To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.

(v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

(n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

(n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

(adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.

(adv.) From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.

(n.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

(n.) The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

(a.) Vinous.

(v. i.) To whine.

(a.) Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.

(n.) A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.

(a.) Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous.

(n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.

(n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.

(n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.

(n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

(n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.

(n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.

(n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.

(n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

(n.) The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.

(v. t.) To face.

(v. t.) The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.

(n.) A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sight; visual.

(n.) See Lingel.

(pl. ) of Vitta

(a. & adv.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.

(n.) One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc.

(n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.

(n.) Alt. of Lintwhite

(n.) Alt. of Levynite

(n.) A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as that heard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b.

(v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

(v. t.) Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.

(a.) Light; giddy.

(pl. ) of Libra

(n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

(n.) Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.

(n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

(n.) Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

(n.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

(n.) To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

(a.) Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.

(a.) Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.

(a.) Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.

(a.) Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.

(a.) Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.

(a.) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.

(n.) That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.

(n.) A small degree or scale; miniature.

(adv.) In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it.

(n.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale.

(n.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells.

(n.) Any voluta.

(a.) Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet.

(n.) Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.

(n.) The act or practice of traveling.

(n.) Course; way.

(v. i.) To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.

(v. t.) To travel; to pass over; to traverse.

(v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.

(n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

(v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.

(v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.

(n.) A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

(n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

(v. t.) To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.

(v. t.) To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate.

(v. i.) To feel disgust or nausea.

(a.) Alt. of Lobated

(n.) A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

(n.) A place, spot, or location.

(n.) A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

(v. t.) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

(v. t.) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.

(v. i.) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

(v. t.) To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

(n.) A little hollow; a loculus.

(a.) Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.

(a.) Relating to the Oscines.

(n.) Business; occupation.

(n.) One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.

(n.) A salt of osmic acid.

(n.) A salt of osmious acid.

(n.) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.

(n.) The action produced by this tendency.

(superl.) Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.

(superl.) Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.

(superl.) Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.

(n.) A plate. See Paten.

(a.) Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross.

(n.) See Pavage.

(n.) Alt. of Pavesse

(n.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it.

(n.) A peacock.

(n.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.

(n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.

(n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.

(a.) Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.

(n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.

(n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.

(n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.

(a.) Consisting of eight; eight.

(n.) Same as Octylene.

(n.) Same as Octant, 2.

(n.) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.

(a.) Fitted to excite hatred; hateful.

(n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.

(n.) Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.

(v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

(n.) A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection.

(v. t.) To exceed in lying.

(a.) Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridae), of which the mouse is the type.

(n.) One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.

(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.

(n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

(n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.

(v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.

(v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.

(n.) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.

(n.) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species.

(adv.) Dancing.

(pl. ) of Umbra

(n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.

(n.) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement.

(v. t.) To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.

(v. t.) To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game.

(v. i.) To act as umpire or arbitrator.

(a.) Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue.

(a.) Ugly; offensive; loathsome.

(a.) Ultimate; final.

(n.) The black guillemot.

(n.) Same as Tsetse. U () the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, is a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely related to o, y (vowel), w, and v; as in two, duet, dyad, twice; top, tuft; sop, sup; auspice, aviary. See V, also O and Y.

(n.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency.

(n.) A salt of ulmic acid.

(n.) Measurement by the ell; alnage.

(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.

(n.) See Lagoon.

(n.) A lacuna.

(n.) A lad; a male sweetheart.

(a.) Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.

(n. pl.) The Fates. See Fate, 4.

(adv. / interj.) Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath.

(n.) See Pleyt.

(v. t.) To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.

(v. t.) To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.

(v. t.) To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally.

(v. i.) To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.

(v. i.) To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.

(n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

(n.) A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.

(n.) A hypothecation without transfer of possession.

(n.) Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties.

(n.) A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.

(n.) A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.

(n.) To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.

(n.) To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.

(n.) To secure performance of, as by a pledge.

(n.) To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.

(n.) To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast.

(a.) Skilled.

(a.) The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.

(n.) A salt of moric acid.

(n.) One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress.

(n.) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.

(n.) A soluble ferment, or enzyme. See Enzyme.

(n.) A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin; -- now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten casein.

(n.) A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

(n.) See Morisco.

(n.) Same as Mileage.

(n.) Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.

(a.) Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.

(a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.

(n.) See Wormil.

(n.) One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.

(n.) Militia.

(n.) A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.

(a.) Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.

(a.) Producing motion; as, motile powers.

(n.) That which moves; a mover.

(n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.

(n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.

(n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.

(a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

(v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

(v. t.) To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

(n.) A mottled appearance.

(v. t.) To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.

(v. t.) To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.

(v. t.) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.

(v. t.) To put together; to join.

(v. t.) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

(v. i.) To become mixed or blended.

(n.) A mixture.

(v. i.) To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.

(v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture.

(v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.

(n.) The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached.

(n.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.

(n.) Diminutive for Mouse.

(v. t.) To sport with roughly; to rumple.

(n.) The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)

(n.) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20').

(n.) A nautical or a geographic mile.

(n.) A coin; a half farthing.

(n.) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.

(n.) A point of time; a moment.

(n.) The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.

(n.) A fixed part of a module. See Module.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

(a.) Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.

(a.) Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

(n.) A trick by sleight of hand.

(n.) An imposture; a deception.

(n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.

(n.) The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z. jujuba, Z. vulgaris, Z. mucronata, and Z. Lotus. The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi, or lotus eaters.

(v. t.) To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

(v. i.) To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.

(n.) A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.

(n.) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

(v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.

(v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.

(v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

(v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.

(n.) A salt of xylic acid.

(n.) Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon found in crude wood spirits.

(n.) A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman.

(n.) The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.

(n.) A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.

(n.) A salt of mucic acid.

(n.) An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.

(a.) Much.

(v. t.) To misguide.

(v. t.) To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

(v. t.) To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

(v. t.) To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

(v. t.) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.

(v. i.) To dabble in mud.

(v. i.) To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

(n.) A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

(n.) The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

(v. t.) To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

(v. t.) To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.

(v. i.) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

(v. t.) Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.

(v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.

(v. t.) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.

(v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.

(v.) To name or call.

(v. i.) To fall in very fine drops, as rain.

(v.) To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter.

(n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.

(v. t.) To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

(v. t.) To abuse; to treat ill.

(n.) Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.

(v.) To chew something gently with closed lips.

(v. t.) To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.

(v. t.) To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.

(v. t.) To suppress, or utter imperfectly.

(v. i.) To make and occupy a nest; to nest.

(v. i.) To lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter.

(v. i.) To move about in one's place, like a bird when shaping the interior of her nest or a young bird getting close to the parent; as, a child nestles.

(v. t.) To house, as in a nest.

(v. t.) To cherish, as a bird her young.

(n.) Violence, or its effects.

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

(n.) The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.

(n.) A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

(n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.

(v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.

(v. i.) To rain in very fine drops.

(v. i.) To take one's self off; to go.

(n.) Mist; fine rain.

(n.) Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.

(n.) A dagger.

(n.) The roof of the mouth.

(n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

(n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.

(n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

(v. t.) To perceive by the taste.

(n.) The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.

(n.) The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.

(n.) A measure of land. See 3d Hide.