(n.) See Orach.

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

(adv. & a.) On a level.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.

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

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

(n.) The collective body of Christians.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The language spoken in France.

(n.) Collectively, the people of France.

(a.) Next in order after the seventh.

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

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

(n.) The interval of an octave.

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

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

(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.

(n.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae.

(n.) An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

(n.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

(n.) A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

(v. t.) To beat or whip; to drub.

(v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

(v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

(n.) A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

(n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.

(n.) See Cheetah.

(n.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.

(n.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

(n.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

(n.) Slush.

(a.) Like a dove; harmless; innocent.

(n.) Taste; tincture; smack.

(v. i.) To smack.

(n.) The smew.

(v. t.) To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.

(v. t.) To smooth.

(v. t.) To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

(n.) A smutch; a dirty stain.

(v. t.) See Smutch.

(superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

(superl.) Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.

(superl.) Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.

(superl.) Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.

(superl.) Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.

(superl.) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.

(adv.) Smoothly.

(n.) The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.

(n.) That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.

(a.) To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.

(a.) To free from obstruction; to make easy.

(a.) To free from harshness; to make flowing.

(a.) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.

(a.) To give a smooth or calm appearance to.

(a.) To ease; to regulate.

(v. i.) To flatter; to use blandishment.

(v. t.) To kiss closely.

(v. t.) To smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face.

(n.) A dark soil or stain; a smutch.

(n.) A stain; a dirty spot.

(v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.

(v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

(v. t.) To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

(v. t.) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

(n.) A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

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

(n.) Alt. of Sneathe

(v. t.) To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.

(v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

(v. i.) To cease, as the flowing of blood.

(n.) That which stanches or checks.

(n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

(v. t.) Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.

(v. t.) Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.

(v. t.) Close; secret; private.

(v. t.) To prop; to make stanch, or strong.

(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.

(n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

(n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.

(n.) The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

(a.) Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.

(n.) The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

(prep. & adv.) Beneath.

(v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

(v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

(v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

(v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.

(v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

(v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.

(v. i.) To adhere; to be attached.

(v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

(n.) An attachment.

(a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

(a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

(a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

(a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

(a.) To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

(a.) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

(a.) Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

(v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

(v. t.) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

(v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

(v. i.) To use evasion.

(n.) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

(n.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

(n.) Alt. of Quaich

(n.) A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.

(a.) Squat; flat.

(n.) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.

(v. i.) To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.

(v. t.) To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.

(v. t.) To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

(v. i.) To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.

(v. t.) A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.

(v. t.) A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.

(v. t.) The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.

(v. t.) To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.

(v. t.) To attack by ambush; to waylay.

(v. i.) To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.

(v. i.) To stir; to wince.

(n.) Same as Quitch grass.

(n.) Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.

(a.) Dissolute; lewd; debauched.

(a.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, an asp.

(a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

(v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

(v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

(v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside.

(v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

(v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.

(n.) A looking aside or askance.

(v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale.

(v. t.) To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

(v. t.) To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

(v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

(v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

(n.) Evidence; declaration.

(n.) Bloom; a blossoming.

(a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

(a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

(n.) A blossoming; a bloom.

(adv.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

(a.) Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

(a.) Like a babe; a childish; babyish.

(n.) The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

(v. t.) To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.

(a.) Somewhat rude.

(n.) A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

(n.) A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.

(n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.

(n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.

(n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.

(n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.

(v. t.) To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

(v. t.) To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.

(v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

(v. t.) To drench or souse with water.

(a.) Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

(n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

(n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

(n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

(n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

(n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

(n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

(a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

(v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

(v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

(v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

(v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

(v. t.) To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

(n.) Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.

(n.) A shockdog.

(interj.) See Shoo.

(v. t.) To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.

(v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

(v. i.) To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

(n.) A spit.

(n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

(n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

(n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

(n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.

(n.) A spire rising from a tower.

(n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.

(n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.

(n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

(n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

(n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.

(n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.

(n.) To open for the first time, as stores.

(n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.

(n.) To cause to begin or break out.

(n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.

(n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

(n.) A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.

(n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.

(n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.

(imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.

(n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.

(v. t.) To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

(v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

(v. t.) To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

(v. i.) To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

(v. i.) To burn or be burnt.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

(n.) The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.

(n.) Collectively, the people of Scotland.

(v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

(n.) A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.

(v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

(n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.

(n.) A rushing onward.

(a.) Like a home or a home circle.

(v. t.) To make ready; -- often used reflexively.

(v.) Goods; furniture.

(n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.

(n.) That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

(v.) See Grudge.

(n.) Alt. of Guelf

(a.) Swart; swarthy.

(n.) An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.

(n.) Sward; short grass.

(n.) See Swath.

(n.) A swath.

(n.) A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.

(n.) See Ganja.

(n.) A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.

(n.) An owl.

(n.) Same as Drought.

(a.) Like, or characterized of, a dude.

(v. t.) Timorous; fearful; cowardly.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.

(a.) Somewhat coy or reserved.

(v. t.) See Craunch.

(n.) A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.

(v. t.) To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.

(v. t.) To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.

(v. i.) To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.

(n.) A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.

(n.) Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.

(n.) A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.

(n.) That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.

(n.) The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

(adv. & a.) Blushing; ruddy.

(v. t.) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

(v. t.) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

(v. t.) To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.

(a.) Somewhat raw.

(a.) Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.

(n.) Room; space.

(a.) Somewhat ropy.

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

(v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

(v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.

(v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

(v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

(v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

(n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

(n.) A pun.

(n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

(n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.

(n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

(n.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

(n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

(n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

(n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.

(n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

(n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

(n.) A bruise; a wound.

(n.) A hernia; a rupture.

(n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.

(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

(n.) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.

(n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.

(n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

(n.) The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.

(n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

(n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

(n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

(n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.

(n.) To close tightly; to clinch.

(v. i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.

(n.) The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.

(n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.

(n.) The power of respiration, and hence, life.

(n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause.

(n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.

(n.) Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.

(n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.

(n.) A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.

(n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.

(n.) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

(n.) The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

(n.) Breeches.

(n.) The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.

(n.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.

(v. t.) To put into, or clothe with, breeches.

(v. t.) To cover as with breeches.

(v. t.) To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

(v. t.) To whip on the breech.

(v. t.) To fasten with breeching.

(n.) One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.

(a.) Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.

(n.) The language of the Danes.

(a.) Like a daw.

(n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

(n.) The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

(n.) A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.

(v. i.) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

(v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.

(v. t.) To sign with the cross; to bless.

(v. t.) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.

(v. i.) To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

(v. i.) To grind or press with violence and noise.

(v. i.) To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

(v. t.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

(n.) A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.

(n.) A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

(n.) A knee, or piece of knee timber

(n.) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.

(v. t.) To support on crutches; to prop up.

(v. t.) To debauch.

(n.) Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

(n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.

(n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.

(n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.

(n.) One of the elytra of an insect.

(a.) Somewhat old.

(a.) Shy or distant in manner.

(n.) A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

(n.) See Eddish.

(n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

(n.) The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.

(n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

(a.) Sportive; trifling; wanton.

(a.) Resembling a toy.

(n.) See Howdah.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish.

(v. t.) To munch.

(n.) See Manche.

(n.) The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.

(v. t.) To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.

(v. i.) To be cured; to recover.

(n.) The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

(n.) A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth.

(n.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

(a.) Somewhat late.

(v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

(v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.

(v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

(v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.

(v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

(n.) The act of launching.

(n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

(n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.

(a.) Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

(a.) Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.

(v. t.) To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

(v. t.) To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing.

(v. t.) To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.

(n.) The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.

(n.) A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.

(n.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.

(n.) A gushing upward.

(v. i.) To gush upward.

(a.) Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse.

(a.) Unchaste; -- applied to a woman.

(a.) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.

(v. i.) To rush upward.

(n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.

(n.) The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.

(a.) Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

(a.) Gay to extravagance; flighty.

(v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

(v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.

(v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

(v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.

(v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.

(v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

(v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

(n.) A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural.

(n.) An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

(n.) To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

(n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

(v. i.) To make sketches, as of landscapes.

(v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

(a.) Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal.

(n.) The period of a transitory breeze.

(n.) An interval of fair weather.

(n.) The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

(a.) Sly.

(n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.

(n.) The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

(n.) A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

(n.) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

(v. i.) To droop, as the head.

(v. i.) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

(v. t.) To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.

(a.) Slow.

(n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

(n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

() imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

(n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

(n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

(v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.

(v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

(a.) Foolish; weak; imbecile.

(v. t.) To stanch.

(v. i.) A smell; an odor.

(v. i.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.

(n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

(n.) An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd.

(v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

(a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.

(adv.) In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

(adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

(adv.) In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.

(n.) A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself.

(interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

(v. t.) To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

(v. t.) To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

(v. t.) To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

(v. t.) To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.

(v. i.) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

(v. i.) A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.

(v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.

(v. i.) A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.

(v. i.) A contortion, or twist.

(v. i.) Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.

(v. i.) A furrow.

(v. t.) To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.

(v. t.) To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

(v. t.) To form land into ridges.

(v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework.

(n.) A menial attendant.

(n.) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

(n.) he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.

(n.) A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.

(n.) Talk; mention; common saying.

(n.) formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.

(n.) ny declaration of thoughts.

(v. i. & t.) To make a speech; to harangue.

(n.) Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.

(v. t.) To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

(v. t.) To inquire after; to look for; to seek.

(v. t.) To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

(v. t.) To examine; to try; to put to the test.

(v. i.) To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.

(v. t.) The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

(n.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."

(v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.

(v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.

(v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel.

(n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.

(v. t.) To admonish; to warn. See Admonish.

(a.) Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.

(a.) Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.

(a.) Mysterious; also, foolish.

(a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.

(v. t.) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

(v. t.) To arch.

(v. t.) To turn into cash; to cash.

(n.) A month.

(v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

(v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

(v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

(v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

(v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.

(v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.

(v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

(v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

(v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

(n.) The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch.

(n.) One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.

(n.) The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

(n.) A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.

(n.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.

(v. i.) To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.

(v. i.) To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.

(n.) The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.

(a.) Somewhat new; nearly new.

(n.) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

(n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

(n.) A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

(v. t.) Alt. of Eunuchate

(n.) Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.

(a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

(a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

(n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.

(n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

(n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

(a.) Foxlike.

(a.) Somewhat gluey.

(a.) Frowning; sulky; sullen.

(n.) A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike.

(n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

(n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.

(n.) A stake; a small post.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.

(n.) The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing.

(a.) Not easy; difficult; hard.

(adv.) Not easily; hardly; scarcely.

(a.) Somewhat ill.

(prep.) Within.

(v. t.) To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down.

(v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

(n.) An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front.

(n.) The earth.

(v. t.) To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

(v. t.) To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.

(v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.

(n.) Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.

(n.) A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.

(n.) An American animal allied to the weasel.

(n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

(v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

(n.) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

(n.) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.

(n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

(v. t.) To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach.

(n.) Variant of Height.

(n.) Alt. of Fetish

(n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.

(n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted.

(a.) Alt. of Fetishistic

(n.) See Teraphim.

(v. t.) To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

(v. t.) To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to terminate.

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

(n.) That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.

(n.) The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.

(n.) The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

(n.) See Finishing coat, under Finishing.

(n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

(n.) Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.

(a.) Like a hare.

(n.) Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

(n.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

(n.) To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

(n.) The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.

(n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.

(n.) That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.

(n.) hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.

(n.) A carnivorous mammal (Viverra zibetha) closely allied to the civet, from which it differs in having the spots on the body less distinct, the throat whiter, and the black rings on the tail more numerous.

(n.) A district or local division, as of a province.

(n.) Alt. of Moollah

(a.) Dull; spiritless; dejected.

(n.) One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

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

(n.) The language of the Poles.

(v. t.) To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.

(v. t.) Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.

(v. i.) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.

(n.) A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.

(n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.

(n.) Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.

(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.

(n.) Pique; offense.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.

(v. i.) See Approach.

(n.) A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders.

(n.) A pickpocket or thief.

(n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.

(n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.

(n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.

(n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

(v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.

(v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

(v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.

(v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.

(v. t.) To shift to another circuit.

(v. i.) To walk with a jerk.

(n.) A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.

(n.) A swoon.

(v. t.) See Greith.

(n.) Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc.

(v. t.) To bring within meshes, as of a net; to enmesh.

(interj.) Alt. of Hurra

(n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.

(v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza.

(v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.

(n.) A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide.

(v. i.) To rush in.

(a.) Unknown; strange.

(n.) A stranger.

(v. t.) To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.

(a.) According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.

(v. i.) To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.

(v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.

(v. t.) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

(v. t.) To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.

(v. t.) To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.

(v. t.) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.

(v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.

(v.) A religious discourse.

(n.) The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.

(n.) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).

(n.) See Keblah.

(n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.

(a.) Moory; fenny; boggy.

(a.) Growing in marshes.

(n.) The raccoon.

(a.) Somewhat low.

(n.) The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.

(n.) A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.

(n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

(n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

(n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.

(n.) A flange.

(n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

(v. t.) Same as Flence.

(n.) Sloth; idleness.

(v. t.) To feather, as an arrow.

(conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.

(adv.) However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

(n.) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.

(n.) To seize and transport away; to rap.

(v. i.) To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.

(n.) A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.

(n.) A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.

(n.) A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.

(n.) The handle of a scythe; a snead.

(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

(v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.

(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

(v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

(v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

(v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.

(v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

(n.) The act of flinching.

(v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.

(n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

(n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

(n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

(n.) An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.

(a.) Like an oaf; simple.

(a.) The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

(a.) A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.

(a.) The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.

(a.) A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.

(a.) Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.

(a.) Distance.

(v. t.) To lengthen.

(a.) Moderately wide.

(n.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

(n.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.

(n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.

(v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

(v. t.) To stuff with food.

(n.) See Perch.

(n.) Same as Acanthus.

(a.) Somewhat lame.

(n.) A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery.

(v. t.) To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.

(v. t.) To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

(v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

(v. t.) To cause perish.

(n.) One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.

(n.) An outcast; one despised by society.

(n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.

(n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.

(n.) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.

(n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.

(n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.

(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.

(a.) To diminish; to lessen.

(n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.

(n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.

(n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.

(v. t.) Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

(v. t.) A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.

(v. t.) A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.

(v. t.) Means; contrivance.

(v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.

(v. t.) The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.

(n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.

(n.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.

(v. t.) A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.

(v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.

(a.) Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.

(n.) See Mollah.

(n.) A plank.

(n. & v.) See Plow.

(n.) A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.

(n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

(n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.

(n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

(n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

(n.) Same as Charles's Wain.

(v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.

(v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

(v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

(n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.

(v. i.) To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

(n.) Alt. of Knitchet

(a.) Like or relating to a kite.

(n.) A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

(a.) Somewhat pale or wan.

(n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.