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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Anything anomalous.

(a.) Being before, or in front.

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

(a.) Artificial; imitative.

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

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

(a.) Relating to an antrum.

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

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

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

(n.) Without feet; footless.

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

(a.) Helpful.

(a.) To make pale; to blanch.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Terror; dismay.

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To invoke.

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) The right of appeal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Same as Cordelle.

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

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

(n.) A kind of confectionery or cake.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A kind of rustic saddle.

(n.) The stomach of a hawk.

(n.) See Narwhal.

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

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

(n.) Conclusion; inference.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a noun.

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

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

(n.) A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.

(a.) Same as Fetal.

(n.) A phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties; -- called also hydroxy cymene.

(a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.

(n.) A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.

(n.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.

(n.) A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal.

(n.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.

(n.) A subordinate place of worship

(n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial

(n.) Alt. of Burrhel

(n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

(n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.

(n.) a small building attached to a church

(n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

(n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

(n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

(n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

(n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

(n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.

(v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

(v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

(n.) A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

(n.) Same as Borrel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae.

(n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

(n.) A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

(n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.

(n.) A large indefinite quantity.

(n.) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a shield.

(n.) A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice

(n.) The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone.

(n.) A horse; hence, a support or frame.

(n.) One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

(n.) A senator; a counselor.

(n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.

(n.) An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen.

(n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.

(n.) One of the same age; a contemporary.

(n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.

(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.

(n.) A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.

(n.) An old name for carbonyl.

(n.) An old name for carboxyl.

(a.) Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.

(n.) Same as Mescal.

(n.) A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel.

(v. i.) To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.

(v. i.) To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.

(v. i.) Mucus from the nose; snot.

(v. i.) To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

(v. i.) To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.

(n.) Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

(n.) Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

(n.) A driveler; a fool; an idiot.

(n.) A servant; a drudge.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a State of the American Union, as distinguished from the general government.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.

(v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

(v. t.) To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like.

(v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.

(v. t.) To set free; to release.

(v. t.) To solve; to clear up.

(v. t.) To set free from guilt; to absolve.

(v. t.) To expiate; to atone for.

(v. t.) To remove; to put off.

(v. t.) To soil; to stain.

(a.) Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike.

(n.) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.

(n.) A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors.

(n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

(n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

(n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an atrium.

(a.) Full of obstructions.

(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.

(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

(n.) A jar.

(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.

(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

(a. & adv.) Twisted; distorted; awry.

(a.) Of or relating to the bivium.

(v. t.) To figure or variegate.

(n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.

(v. i.) Rich; fertile.

(a.) Shaped like an egg.

(n.) A name sometimes given to the nitro group or radical.

(n.) A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.

(n.) A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc.

(n.) The plant from which the dye is obtained.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an arc.

(n.) One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation.

(n.) The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.

(n.) As much as the arm can hold.

(a.) Same as Ramal.

(n.) Refuse matter.

(n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.

(n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.

(v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.

(v. i.) To make fertile.

(a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive.

(n.) A kind of hawk.

(n.) The whole; all that is to be.

(n.) An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

(v. t.) To curl; to adorn with curls.

(n.) Same as Beadle.

(imp.) of Befall

(v. t.) To happen to.

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

(v. t.) To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.

(v. t.) To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish.

(a.) To make foul; to soil.

(a.) To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

(v. t.) To howl at.

(n.) An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.

(v. t.) To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

(v. t.) To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

(n.) See Boultel.

(n.) A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.

(n.) A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.

(n.) Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination.

(n.) An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.

(v. t. & i.) To fill, or become full, again.

(a.) Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

(a.) Expressing sorrow.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.

(a.) Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.

(v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

(a.) Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

(n.) To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

(n.) To sell at second hand.

(n.) To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.

(v. t.) To tell again.

(n.) A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet.

(n.) A circle.

(n.) A rivulet or small brook.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rupia.

(v. t.) To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

(v. t.) Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).

(n.) A revealing; a disclosure.

(n.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.

(n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.

(n.) A hood of other material than mail;

(n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.

(v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

(v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

(v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

(v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

(v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

(v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

(v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

(v. i.) The part thus suppressed.

(a.) Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.

(n.) A yellowish or redish brown color.

(n.) One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Bordello

(a.) Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.

(n.) Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.

(n.) A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.

(n.) Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.

(n.) A place of worship; a hallowed spot.

(n.) A chapel for dissenters.

(n.) A house of worship for seamen.

(v. t.) To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.

(v. i.) To express grief; to lament.

(a.) Alt. of Biaxial

(n.) See Boultel.

(a.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.

(n.) A prostitute.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles.

(n.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.

(n.) Same as Ridgelling.

(v.) One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.

(v.) A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.

(n.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.

(n.) A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.

(v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.

(v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.

(v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.

(a.) Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle

(a.) Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.

(v. i.) Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.

(n.) A shrill sound.

(v. i.) To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.

(v. t.) To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.

(v. t.) To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.

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

(n.) Enough to fill a pan.

(n.) A carriage for conveying a mortar and its bed, on a march.

(a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.

(a.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin.

(n.) A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.

(n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

(a.) Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.

(a.) Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.

(v. t.) To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.

(v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.

(n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

(n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

(n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.

(n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.

(n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

(a.) Simian; apelike.

(a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.

(a.) Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.

(n.) A causal word or form of speech.

(n.) Caution; prudence; wariness.

(n.) Craft; deceit; falseness.

(n.) An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.

(n.) A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

(n.) Relating to a hundred.

(n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

(n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

(n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

(n.) A session of an institution of instruction.

(n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.

(n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

(n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

(n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

(n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

(a.) Brittle.

(n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

(v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

(v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

(n.) Black tourmaline.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tail.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

(n.) Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Alt. of Scotale

(a.) Of or pertaining to winter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

(a.) Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

(n.) A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.

(n.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

(n.) The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.

(v. i.) See Crawl.

(v. t.) To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.

(v. i.) To write unskillfully and inelegantly.

(n.) Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.

(n.) The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.

(a.) According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.

(a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.

(a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.

(a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.

(a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.

(a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.

(a.) Any perpendicular.

(a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.

(n.) A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.

(n.) A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday.

(a.) Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.

(n.) A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(n.) Alt. of Toluole

(n.) Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

(n.) One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, a flock.

(adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.

(adv.) To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the foot or eye).

(n.) A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale.

(n.) Same as Tercel.

(n.) A cement made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms.

(n.) A male hawk. See Tercel.

(n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

(n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.

(n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.

(n.) A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.

(n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.

(v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.

(v. t.) To adorn with tassels.

(n.) A gunwale.

(n.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.

(a.) Epic.

(v. i.) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.

(n.) A hospital.

(a.) Drupaceous.

(n.) Alt. of Drupelet

(v. i.) To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.

(v. i.) To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.

(v. i.) To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.

(a.) Fit; becoming.

(n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.

(n.) A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.

(n.) A light thin stuff of silk.

(a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.

(a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.

(a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.

(a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.

(a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.

(a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

(n.) See Cantle.

(n.) As much as will fill a cap.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.

(n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.

(n.) Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.

(n.) A book containing the rites to be observed.

(v. t. & i.) To boil, or to cause to boil, again.

(v. t. & i.) Fig.: To make or to become hot.

(a.) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.

(v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

(v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.

(v. t.) To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.

(n.) A calling back; a revocation.

(n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.

(n.) A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.

(n.) A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.

(n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

(n.) Same as Rondeau.

(n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.

(v. t.) To recall; to summon again, as persons.

(v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.

(v. t.) To suppress; to repel.

(n.) Recall, as from exile.

(n.) Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.

(a.) resembling a rose in smell or color.

(v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

(v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.

(v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

(v. t.) To draw or go back.

(n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.

(n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.

(n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.

(n.) same as Rostellum.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.

(v. t. & i.) To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.

(v. t.) To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

(n.) A name or term.

(n.) See Clevis.

(n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.

(n.) Same as Sendal.

(n.) Sandalwood.

(n.) A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper.

(n.) A kind of slipper.

(n.) An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.

(n.) A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.

(n.) A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.

(a.) Abounding in sap; sappy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.

(a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

(n.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist.

(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale.

(n.) Alt. of Carpellum

(n.) One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.

(n.) See Quarrel, an arrow.

(n.) Same as 4th Carol.

(n.) See 4th Carol.

(n.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.

(n.) A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat.

(v. t.) To defy or challenge.

(n.) A sardine.

(n.) A precious stone. See Sardius.

(n.) Same as Caravel.

(n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.

(n.) One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.

(n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.

(n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

(n.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T. picturatus of California. Called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.

(a.) Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

(a.) Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.

(n.) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties.

(n.) Alt. of Escroll

(v. i.) To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

(n.) A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.

(v. i.) To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.

(n.) A loud scream; a harsh cry.

(v. i.) See Squall.

(v. i.) To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.

(v. i.) To turn informer; to betray a secret.

(n.) A shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rows.

(n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.

(n.) An African wild cat (Felis serval) of moderate size. It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.

(n.) A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.

(n.) See Crenelle.

(n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

(n.) Same as Crenature.

(n.) Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

(n.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]

(n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the hair.

(n.) Alt. of Crinet

(n.) The iron head of a tilting spear.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.

(n.) Same as Deckle.

(n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.

(v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.

(n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.

(n.) A jocose term for money.

(v. t.) To gather together; to collect.

(v. t.) To coil together.

() Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.

(n.) As much as a cup will hold.

(n.) A European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea, formerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. Called also sea onion.

(n.) Any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill (S. mutans).

(n.) A squilla.

(n.) A mantis.

(n.) The act of espying; notice; discovery.

(n.) One who espies; a spy; a scout.

(a.) Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.

(a.) Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal.

(n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

(n.) A bur of this plant.

(n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

(v. t.) To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

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

(n.) The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain.

(n.) A perennial plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.

(a.) Feudal. See Feudal.

(n.) Same as Feria.

(a.) Of or pertaining to holidays.

(a.) Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.

(a.) Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.

(n.) A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.

(v. t.) Same as Tousle.

(a.) Full of trifling play.

(n.) An inn.

(n.) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

(n.) A wild goat (Capra Jemlaica) which inhabits the loftiest mountains of India. It has long, coarse hair, forming a thick mane on its head and neck.

(n.) A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.

(n.) As much as the lap can contain.

(n.) In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses.

(n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.

(n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.

(a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

(v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

(n.) As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a larva.

(a.) Pertaining to veins; venous.

(n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.

(a.) Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.

(a.) Allowed; permitted.

(n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.

(n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.

(n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

(a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.

(a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.

(a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.

(a.) Abounding with words; verbose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.

(n.) A noun derived from a verb.

(a.) Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

(v. t.) To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

(v. t.) To display; to reveal.

(v. t.) To remove from a roll or register, as a name.

(v. t.) To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter.

(v. t.) To disclose, as a secret.

(v. t.) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten.

(v. t.) To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle.

(v. i.) To hold discourse; to parley.

(v. i.) To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.

(v. t.) To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

(v. i.) To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.

(a.) Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.

(a.) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.

(v. t.) To annul or reverse by an act of the will.

(n.) A certain tool used by coopers.

(n.) A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.

(n.) A tool for making mortises.

(n.) A reaping hook.

(n.) Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.

(n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated.

(v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.

(v. t.) To curl up.

(v. t.) To fill up.

(adv.) Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.

(a.) Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.

(a.) Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.

(prep.) To; against.

(n.) Murexan.

(n.) The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.

(n.) A vessel for holding urine; especially, a bottle or tube for holding urine for inspection.

(n.) A place or convenience for urinating purposes.

(n.) As much as an urn will hold; enough to fill an urn.

(a.) Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.

(n.) Same as Garboard.

(v. t.) Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.

(n.) A distemper in geese, affecting the head.

(n.) A distemper in swine; garget.

(v. t.) To put in jail; to imprison.

(n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.

(n.) A finger or toe; a digit.

(n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

(n.) A constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N.

(n.) General manager; factotum.

(n.) A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.

(a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.

(a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.

(a.) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.

(n.) A pannier.

(n.) Same as Dorsal, n.

(n.) Same as Dorsal, n.

(n.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

(n.) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.

(n.) Same as Fanon.

(a.) Pertaining to a sort.

(a.) Without a node.

(n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

(n.) To envelop; to inwrap; to involve.

(v. t.) To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify.

(v. t.) To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk.

(v. t.) To indue or imbue (a body) with soul.

(n.) That which is entailed.

(n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

(n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

(n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

(n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

(n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.

(n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

(n.) The stipule of a leaflet.

(v. t.) To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.

(v. t.) To cause to fail.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.

(a.) Curt; brief; laconic.

(n.) A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.

(p. pr.) Alt. of Curvant

(v. t.) To tread down.

(v. t.) To make foul; to defile.

(n.) The chief police officer of a large city.

(n.) A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.

(n.) A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

(n.) A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.

(a.) Alt. of Daedalian

(n.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.

(n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.

(n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.

(n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.

(n.) A scarecrow.

(n.) A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.

(n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.

(n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.

(n.) A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.

(n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

(a.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.

(a.) An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.

(a.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

(n.) Same as Dentil.

(n.) A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

(a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

(a.) Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.

(v. t.) To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions.

(n.) Alt. of Spinelle

(n.) Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

(v. t.) See Inwall.

(a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

(a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.

(a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.

(a.) Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.

(n.) Alt. of Puntel

(n.) See Pontee.

(n.) A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden.

(v. t.) To make up in fardels.

(n.) A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

(v. i.) To labor; to travail.

(v. i.) To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

(v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

(v. i.) To pass; to go; to move.

(v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.

(v. t.) To force to journey.

(n.) The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

(n.) An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

(n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

(n.) Labor; parturition; travail.

(a.) Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages.

(a.) Relating to fauna.

(a.) Same as Genian.

(a.) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.

(a.) Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition.

(a.) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.

(a.) Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature.

(a. & n.) Gentle.

(n.) Alt. of Gerbille

(a.) Changeable; capricious.

(n.) Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time.

(n.) Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune.

(v. t.) To encircle or embrace.

(v. i.) To boil with anger; to effervesce.

(v. t.) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.

(n.) A hinny.

(v. t.) To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fungi.

(v. t.) A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.

(v. t.) A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.

(n.) Emery.

(n.) A glazier's diamond.

(a.) Furious; raging; tormenting.

(v. i.) To drop or distill.

(n.) A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

(a.) Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable.

(v. t.) A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

(v. t.) A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.

(v. t.) That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.

(v. t.) The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.

(v. t.) To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.

(v. t.) To variegate with colors as if with enamel.

(v. t.) To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.

(v. t.) To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

(v. i.) To practice the art of enameling.

(a.) Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve.

(v. t.) To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.

(a.) See Fecal.

(n.) A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

(v. i.) To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

(n.) One of the Mongols.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.

(v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

(n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.

(n.) Alt. of Gimbals

(n.) Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.

(n.) A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.

(n.) See Jingal.

(a.) Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.

(a.) Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort.

(n.) The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.

(n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador.

(n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.

(n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.

(a.) Alt. of Vandalic

(n.) Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidae. The common mussel (Mytilus edulis; see Illust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Unio, and related fresh-water genera; -- called also river mussel. See Naiad, and Unio.

(a.) Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

(a.) Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands.

(n.) A weanling.

(n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.

(n.) See Vermeil.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.

(a.) Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.

(n.) See Ferrule.

(a.) Universal.

(n.) See Methylal.

(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.

(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.

(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.

(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.

(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.

(a.) Dependent in form; conventional.

(a.) Sound; normal.

(n.) A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.

(n.) Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.

(a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.

(a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.

(n.) A substance dug from the earth.

(n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.

(n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.

(n.) Seventy pounds of lead.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.

(n.) See Varvel.

(n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.

(n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.

(n.) Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.

(n.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.

(n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.

(v. t.) To put into a vessel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.

(a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.

(a.) A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

(n.) See Styrolene.

(n.) A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.

(a.) Threefold.

(n.) Same as Tripoli.

(n.) Propyl.

(a.) Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume.

(n.) A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

(n.) Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.

(a.) Involving or comprising action; active.

(a.) Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

(a.) In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.

(n.) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.

(n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

(n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.

(n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.

(v. t.) To defame.

(n.) The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.

(n.) Alt. of Wilfulness

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.

(n.) See 2d Media.

(v. t.) To remove the dullness of; to clear.

(v. t.) To restore from folly, or from being a fool.

(v. t. & i.) To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one.

(a.) Having a nail, claw, or hoof attached; -- said of certain bones of the feet.

(n.) Misfortune; calamity; sickness.

(v. t.) To uncover. See Unhele.

(v. t.) To cover, as with a vail.

(v. t.) To inclose or fortify as with a wall.

(n.) An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace.

(a.) Full of ire; angry; wroth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors.

(v. t.) To remove the nails from; to unfasten by removing nails.

() Alt. of Isabel color

(a.) Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart.

(n.) The yaffle.

(n.) A shed or hovel for cattle.

(n.) A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to herbs.

(n.) A book containing the names and descriptions of plants.

(n.) A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tibia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.

(n.) A tibial bone; a tibiale.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.

(a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.

(n.) See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.

(n.) A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

(a.) Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.

(a.) Bearing the relation of a child.

(n. & v.) See Handsel.

(n.) The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.

(n.) A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth.

(n.) A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.

(n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

(n.) Butyl; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

(a.) Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.

(n.) The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.

(n.) A treasurer.

(n.) A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

(n.) The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.

(a.) Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.

(a.) Alt. of Thenar

(n.) A fan.

(n.) A kettledrum. See Tymbal.

(n.) Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.

(n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.

(n.) An attendant on an army.

(n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.

(n.) Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.

(a.) Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.

(v. t.) To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.

(n.) Same as Yockel.

(n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.

(n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.

(n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.

(n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.

(n.) A small, edible, freshwater European perch (Aspro zingel), having a round, elongated body and prominent snout.

(a.) Wise; sensible.

(adv.) With this; with that.

(adv.) Together with this; likewise; at the same time; in addition; also.

(prep.) With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands.

(n.) The wheatear.

(n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.

(a.) Alt. of Woful

(n.) A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio.

(v. t.) To apply pulvil to.

(n. & v. t.) Same as Pommel.

(a.) Pertaining to seals.

(a.) Of or relating to the voice; as, phonal structure.

(a.) First; primary; original; chief.

(n.) A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form

(n.) The knob on the hilt of a sword.

(n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.

(n.) The top (of the head).

(n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.

(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.

(n.) Same as Pontee.

() A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England.

(n.) The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.

(n.) A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.

(n.) A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs.

(n.) The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.

(v. i.) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

(v. t.) To put or keep in a kennel.

(n.) The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.

(a.) Approved; probable.

(n.) Alt. of Pindar

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.

(n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.

(n.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.

(n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.

(n.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.

(n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.

(n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.

(n.) The eucharist.

(v. t.) To administer the eucharist to.

(n.) Alt. of Inhauler

(n.) The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

(n.) As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.

(v.) Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation.

(v.) One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

(v.) A selection from one of the gospels, for use in a religious service; as, the gospel for the day.

(v.) Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel.

(v.) Anything propounded or accepted as infallibly true; as, they took his words for gospel.

(a.) Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness.

(v. t.) To instruct in the gospel.

(n. .) A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.

(n. .) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.

(n. .) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.

(n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.

(v. t.) To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.

(v. t.) To catch in a tunnel net.

(v. t.) To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.

(a.) A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.

(a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun.

(v. i.) To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.

(n.) A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.

(n.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.

(n.) An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.

(n.) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.

(n.) Share; allotment.

(n.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.

(v. t.) To symbolize.

(n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

(n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.

(v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.

(v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.

(v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.

(v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

(v. t.) To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.

(a.) Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.

(v. t.) To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails.

(v. t.) See Enroll.

(v. t.) See Entail, v. t.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents.

(a.) Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

(a.) Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.

(a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants.

(a.) Light as air; ethereal.

(v. t.) To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on.

(a.) Belonging to winter; done in winter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.

(n.) A collection of hymns; a hymn book.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style.

(n.) An uncial letter.

(v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.

(v. t.) To divest or deprive of a cowl.

(v. t.) To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly.

(v. i.) To become uncurled, or straight.

(n.) The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp.

(n.) A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.

(n.) A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

(n.) The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.

(v. i.) To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

(a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.

(n.) Apostle.

(n.) Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment.

(n.) A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.

(v. t.) To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.

(v. i.) To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.

(n.) The nose band of a horse's bridle.

(a. & adv.) Much.

(v. t. & i.) To surpass; to excel; to exceed.

(a.) Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic.

(n.) The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.

(v. t.) To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

(n.) The technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also, by extension, the class name of any of the series of alcohols of the methane series of which methol proper is the type. See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical, CH3, not existing alone but regarded as an essential residue of methane, and appearing as a component part of many derivatives; as, methyl alcohol, methyl ether, methyl amine, etc.

(n.) That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

(n.) Wonder.

(v. i.) To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.

(v. t.) To marvel at.

(v. t.) To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.

(v. i.) To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.

(a.) A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.

(a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.

(a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).

(n.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports.

(a.) Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral.

(a.) Alt. of Loral

(n.) A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.

(n.) A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.

(a.) Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

(n.) One of the Mammalia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

(n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.

(a.) Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensal conversation.

(a.) Occurring once in a month; monthly.

(a.) Having a general resemblance to lilies or to liliaceous plants.

(n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.

(n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.

(n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.

(n.) A small medicated bougie.

(v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.

(n.) A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel.

(n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.

(n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.

(n.) An epistle.

(n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.

(n.) The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver.

(v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bed.

(n.) Alt. of Thowl

(n.) A slave; a bondman.

(n.) Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.

(n.) A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.

(v. t.) To enslave.

(n.) A warbling; a trill.

(v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

(v. t.) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.

(v. t.) Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.

(v. t.) To hurl; to throw; to cast.

(v. i.) To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.

(v. i.) To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.

(n.) A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.

(n.) A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.

(a.) Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

(a.) Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.

(v. t.) Alt. of Nousle

(a.) Full of annoyance.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.

(n.) Archil.

(n.) See Archil.

(n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.

(n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.

(a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vines; containing vines.

(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is used for food on the continent.

(n.) A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.

(a.) That can be seen; visible.

(n.) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.

(a.) Deadly; mortal; fatal.

(a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.

(a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

(a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.

(a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.

(n.) A shoemaker's thread.

(n.) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.

(n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

(n.) The whelp of a lioness; a young lion.

(n.) Same as List, n., 6.

(a.) Of a pound weight.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.

(n.) A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.

(a.) Obovate.

(n.) A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.

(n.) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.

(n.) Alt. of Pastille

(a.) Osseous.

(v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

(v.) t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.

(v. i.) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.

(v. i.) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.

(v. i.) The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

(v. i.) Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.

(n.) A hypothetical radical (C8H15O), regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.

(n.) An umbrella.

(n.) A umbrere.

(n.) A kind of kettledrum.

(n.) An organic residue or radical derived from lactic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.

(a.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.

(a.) Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.

(a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as / (f/d), / (/ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.

(n.) A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.

(n.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.

(n.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.

(n.) A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.

(n.) Aniline.

(n.) A base obtained from coal tar.

(n.) See Kimnel.

(n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

(n.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

(n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.

(n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.

(v. t.) To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.

(v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.

(v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.

(a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]

(n.) See Pair royal, under Pair, n.

(n.) See Pimpernel.

(n.) A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer.

(n.) A little bite or bit of food.

(n.) A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.

(a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

(a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.

(a.) Fatally vulnerable; vital.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.

(a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.

(a.) Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.

(a.) Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.

(n.) A being subject to death; a human being; man.

(n.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.

(n.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b).

(n.) See Wormil.

(n.) Alt. of Worrel

(n.) An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.

(n.) See Wormil.

(a.) Much.

(n.) A fine, soft muslin; mull.

(n.) The book containing the service of the Mass for the entire year; a Mass book.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.

(n.) Mistletoe.

(n.) A turban ornamented with an imitation of gold or silver embroidery.

(a.) Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.

(a.) relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal.

(n.) Same as Bear's-foot.

(n.) Alt. of Parrel

(n.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.

(n.) A chimney-piece.

(a.) Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.

(n.) The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera.

(n.) Petroleum.

(n.) A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar.

(n.) Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which phenol proper is the type.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.

(a.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.

(n.) The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. Same as Amyl.

(v. t.) See Kittle, v. t.

(n.) A low, spreading weed (Scleranthus annuus), common in sandy soil.

(n.) A tub. See Kemelin.