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

(v. t.) To hang.

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

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

(n.) The publishing of banns.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

() Alt. of Pygargus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Fuel.

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

(v. i.) Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

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

(n.) An ambling nag.

(n.) The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

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

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

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

(n.) That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

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

(n.) See Bovate.

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

(v. i.) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.

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

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

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

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

(n. & a.) from Dine, a.

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

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

(n.) A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.

(n.) Alt. of Redlegs

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

() a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.

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

() a. & n. from Rage, v. i.

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

(a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.

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

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

(a.) That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Quahaug

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

(n.) The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.

(n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom.

(n.) Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

(n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.

(n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.

(prep.) With the exception of; excepting.

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

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

(n.) A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

(n.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

(adv.) Wrongly.

(n.) The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.

(n.) Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.

(n.) The bleating of a sheep.

(n.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

(v. t.) To drug abundantly or excessively.

(v. t.) To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

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

(a.) Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.

(n.) A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

(v. i.) To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

(v. i.) To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.

(v. i.) To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.

(v. i.) To be suitable for; to be due to.

(v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.

(v. t.) To be deserved by.

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

(n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

(n.) The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

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

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

(a.) Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.

(a.) Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen.

(n.) The act of one who rules; ruled lines.

(n.) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.

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

(n.) A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.

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

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

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

(n.) The clearing of bones from fish or meat.

(n.) The manuring of land with bones.

(n.) A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.

(n.) A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.

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

(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

(n.) A hole made by boring.

(n.) The chips or fragments made by boring.

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

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

(n.) The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

(n.) In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

(n.) A crooked leg.

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

(n.) The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

(n.) Material used in making boxes or casings.

(n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.

(n.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.

(n.) The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.

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

(n.) Residence; habitation.

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

(n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding.

(a.) Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk.

(a.) Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.

(a.) Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.

(n.) The act or state of one who rides.

(n.) A festival procession.

(n.) Same as Ride, n., 3.

(n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Attaching one's self to a party.

(n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.

(n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.

(n.) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.

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

(a.) Preserving; rescuing.

(a.) Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.

(a.) Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.

(a.) Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.

(participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.

(n.) Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.

(n.) Exception; reservation.

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

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

(n.) That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The Malayan sun bear.

(n.) A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea.

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

(n.) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.

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

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

(a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

(n.) A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy.

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

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

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

(a.) Apt to take; alluring; attracting.

(a.) Infectious; contageous.

(n.) The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.

(n.) Agitation; excitement; distress of mind.

(n.) Malign influence; infection.

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

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

(n.) The common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock.

(a.) Strong.

(n.) A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.

(n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.

(n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

(n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.

(n.) The line or cord of a bow.

(n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.

(n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

(n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

(n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.

(n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

(n.) Same as Stringcourse.

(n.) The points made in a game.

(imp.) of String

(p. p.) of String

(v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

(v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

(v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

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

(v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

() imp. of Spring.

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

(a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

(a.) Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.

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

(imp.) of Spring

() of Spring

(p. p.) of Spring

() imp. of Spring. Sprung.

() imp. & p. p. of Spring.

(a.) Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.

(n.) An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia.

(v. i.) To concur; to agree.

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

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

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

(n.) A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.

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

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

(a.) Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic.

(a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.

(a.) Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.

(a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.

(prep.) More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).

(n.) That which rises; a tumor; a boil.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of putting on a robe.

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

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

(n.) The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.

(n.) The act of one who roves or wanders.

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

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

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

(n.) A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

(n.) An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.

(n.) An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.

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

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

(n.) The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

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

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

(n.) Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

(a.) Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.

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

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

(adv.) In a state of swinging.

(n.) A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.

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

(a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

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

(n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.

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

(prep.) In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.

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

(n.) The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.

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

(n.) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

(n.) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.

(n.) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.

(n.) Coming into ear, as corn.

(n.) A plowing of land.

(n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(p]. pr. & vb. n.) of Hone

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The celebrating of May Day.

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

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

(n.) The act or process of waning, or decreasing.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of grafting or mending.

(n.) The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.

(v. t.) To hang up.

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

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

(n.) Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Act of covering or treating with size.

(n.) A weak glue used in various trades; size.

(n.) The act of sorting with respect to size.

(n.) The act of bringing anything to a certain size.

(n.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.

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

(a.) That dives or is used or diving.

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

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

(n.) An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

(n.) Gambling with dice.

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

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

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

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

(a.) That dotes; silly; excessively fond.

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

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

(v. t.) To encircle.

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

(n.) The act or occupation of one who sews.

(n.) That which is sewed with the needle.

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

() p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.

(n.) A coward; a dastard; -- a term of utmost opprobrium.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The process denoted by the verb fry.

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

(a.) Producing fumes, or vapors.

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

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

(a.) That aches; continuously painful. See Ache.

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

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

(n.) A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

(n.) A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.

(n.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.

(n.) A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.

(n.) The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat.

(n.) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl.

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

(a.) Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.

(n.) Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.

(n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.

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

(n.) Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.

(n.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5.

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

(n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

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

(superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

(superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.

(superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.

(superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.

(superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.

(superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.

(superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.

(superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.

(superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.

(superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.

(superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.

(superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.

(superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.

(superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.

(superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.

(superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.

(superl.) Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.

(superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.

(superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.

(superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.

() imp. & p. p. of String.

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

(v. t.) To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.

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

(n.) The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

(n.) A watch; a watching.

(n.) Same as Wale, n., 4.

(v. t.) Yeast; barm.

(n.) Going to law; litigation.

(n.) Expeditation.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, lays.

(n.) The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

(n.) The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.

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

(n.) Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.

(n.) In America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus.

(n.) A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor.

(v. t.) To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.

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

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

(n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

(n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

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

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

(n.) That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

(n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

(n.) A gift; a benefaction.

(n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.

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

(a.) Operating in any way.

(a.) Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room.

(v. t.) To remove (something hanging or swinging) from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.

(v. t.) To cause to cease to be a king.

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

(n.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat.

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

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

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

(n.) One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.

(v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump.

(v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

(v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

(v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

(v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

(v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out.

(v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.

(v. i.) To grow; to prosper.

(v. t.) To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.

(v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.

(v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

(v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

(v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

(v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.

(v. t.) To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.

(v. i.) A leap; a bound; a jump.

(v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.

(v. i.) Elastic power or force.

(v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.

(v. i.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.

(v. i.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.

(v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source;

(v. i.) A race; lineage.

(v. i.) A youth; a springal.

(v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.

(v. i.) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

(v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.

(v. i.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.

(v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

(v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment.

(n.) A flogging.

(n.) Tidings.

(n.) A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head.

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

(n.) A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.

(n.) Tiles, collectively.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

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

(n.) The act of imposing a fin/.

(n.) The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.

(n.) That which is used to refine; especially, a preparation of isinglass, gelatin, etc., for clarifying beer.

(n.) The act of disharging firearms.

(n.) The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.

(n.) The application of fire, or of a cautery.

(n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.

(n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of making fixed.

(n.) That which is fixed; a fixture.

(n.) Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.

(n.) A fishgig.

(n.) A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.

(n.) A gadding, flirting girl.

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

(n.) Possession; goods; estate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.

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

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

(n.) Something that has short turns or angles.

(n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.

(n.) See Boyau.

(a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.

(v. t.) To form with short turns.

(v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.

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

(v.) Knowledge.

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

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

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

(n.) The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles.

(n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.

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

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

(n.) The act of heaping up.

(n.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

(n.) A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.

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

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

(a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.

(a.) Wasting; consuming.

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

(a.) Supplying or covering with ink.

(n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

(n.) A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

(n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.

(v. t.) To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

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

(a.) Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.

(n.) A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos.

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

(n.) The act of making tubes.

(n.) A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

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

(n.) Alt. of Goring cloth

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

() a. & n. from Tune, v.

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

(n.) Ingathering; harvesting.

(n.) The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

(n.) Lands recovered from the sea.

(v. t.) To remove the bung from; as, to unbung a cask.

(v. t.) To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.

(a.) Whimpering; whining; childish.

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

(a.) Inspecting closely or impertinently.

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

(n.) One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.

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

(n.) See Lute, a cement.

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

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

(n.) The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

(a.) Affectionate.

(a.) Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.

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

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

(n.) An East Indian monkey (Semnopithecus femoralis).

(n.) Instructive discourse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lose

(a.) Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening.

(v. t.) Causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business.

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

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

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

(n.) The tarsius, or spectral lemur.

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

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

(p. a.) Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.

(n.) The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

(n.) The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.

(n.) Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.

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

(n.) Dung of birds.

(n.) A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

(imp.) of Thring

(v. t. & i.) To press, crowd, or throng.

(n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

(n.) A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

(v. i.) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.

(v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

(v. t.) To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.

(a.) Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.

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

(n.) The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.

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

(a.) Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.

(n.) A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.

(n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.

(n.) The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.

(n.) That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything.

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

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

() a. & n. from Vote, v.

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

(v. i.) Being alive; having life; as, a living creature.

(v. i.) Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle.

(v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.

(v. i.) Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening.

(v. i.) Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.

(n.) The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.

(n.) Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.

(n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.

(n.) Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.

(n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

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

() a. & n. from Wade, v.

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

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

(n.) The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.

(n.) Composition, or structure.

(n.) a poem.

(n.) That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.

(n.) External appearance; from.

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

(n.) The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.

(n.) A pavement.

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

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

(n.) The orang-outang.

(v. t.) To surpass in begging.

(n.) The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.

(n.) A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.

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

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

(n.) The act of loading.

(n.) That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as, the lading of a ship.

(n.) The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

(n.) A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.

(n.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.

(n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.

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

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

(n.) The slow lemur. See Lemur.

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

(v. t.) The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.

(v. t.) That which is pared off.

(n.) Dwelling.

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

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

(v. i.) The act or business of making mines or of working them.

(a.) Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.

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

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

(a.) Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.

(a.) Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal.

(n.) The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.

(n.) Land from which grass is cut; meadow land.

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

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

(n.) A little one; -- used as a term of endearment.

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

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

(n.) The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.

(n.) A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).

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

(a.) Drudging; servile.

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

(n.) The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.

(n.) A small dog fondled in the lap.

(n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.

(n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.

(v.) Playing on a musical pipe.

(v.) Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.

(v.) Emitting a high, shrill sound.

(v.) Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.

(n.) A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.

(n.) Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.

(n.) The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.

(n.) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.