(p. p.) of Choose

(n.) A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

(n.) See Chopine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.

(n.) A native of Afghanistan.

(n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.

(n.) A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.

(n.) One of the Ascii.

(a.) Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.

(n.) Alt. of Purline

(a.) Apodal.

(n.) See Acton.

(n.) An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.

(n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

(n.) See Halcyon.

(a.) Made of alder.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Appius.

(n.) Young fish; fry.

(n.) An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.

(n.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

(p. p.) Selected from a number; picked out; choice.

(n.) One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.

(n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

(n.) A cop of thread.

(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.

(v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.

(v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.

(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

(v.) Profane; polluted.

(v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

(n.) The people; the community.

(n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

(n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

(n.) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.

(n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

(n.) The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.

(v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.

(v. i.) To participate.

(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.

(v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

(n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

(n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.

(n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.

(n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.

(n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.

(n.) A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

(n.) An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

(v. & n.) Crown.

(n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.

(n.) A citron tree.

(n.) A citron melon.

() p. p. of Carve.

() of Seethe

(n.) See Seizin.

(n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

(n.) The exercise of the power of choice; choice.

(n.) A wishing; a wish.

(n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845.

(n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.

(v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.

(v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.

(v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.

(v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.

(v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.

(v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.

(v. t.) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.

(v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

(n.) The middle point of the nasofrontal suture.

(p. p.) of Freeze

(a.) Made of elder.

(n.) A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

() a. & p. p. from Throw, v.

(n.) Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it.

(pl. ) of Flyman

(n.) The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.

(pl. ) of Foeman

(n.) An enemy in war.

(n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.

(n.) A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.

(p. p.) of Help

(n.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.

(n.) A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.

(n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.

(n.) A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.

(n.) A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.

(v. t.) To disdain.

(n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.

(n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

(n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.

(n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.

(n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

(n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

(n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

(n.) To dress or clothe.

(v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

(pl. ) of Seaman

(n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid.

(pl. ) of Seaman

(n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.

(n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

(n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.

(n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.

(n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.

(n.) A river fish; the chub.

(n.) Alt. of Codling

(n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

(n.) A basket.

(n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

(n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

(n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

(n.) A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth.

(n.) See Coehorn.

(v. t.) To join; to conjoin.

(n.) A very pure form of gelatin.

(n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

(n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

(n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

(n.) A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.

(n.) Chlorine used in bleaching.

(n.) A triangle having three acute angles.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white crystalline powder; -- called also oxaluramide.

(v. t.) To win a way out of.

(n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.

(n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.

(n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

(n.) A genus of whales.

(n.) See Draconin.

(n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.

(n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.

(n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.

(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

(n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

(n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

(n.) A variety of carrier pigeon.

(n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

(p. p.) of Drive

(p. p.) of Drive. Also adj.

() In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.

(n.) A thread; especially, a warp thread.

(n.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

(n.) A sultan.

(a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

(a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.

(a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand.

(a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.

(a.) Real; earnest; downright.

(a.) Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.

(a.) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

(n.) A kind of woolen cloth.

(n.) An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.

(n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.

(a.) To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.

(v. i.) To grow or become red; to blush.

(n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

(n.) An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.

(v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

(v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.

(v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.

(v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

(n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

(n.) A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.

(pl. ) of Ragman

(n.) A man who collects, or deals in, rags.

(n.) A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull.

(adv.) In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

(adv.) Behind a ship; in the rear.

(n.) A grape, or a bunch of grapes.

(n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.

(a.) Pertaining to the Andes.

(n.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become big; to enlarge.

(n.) A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.

(n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bigging

(n.) A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.

(n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

(n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

(n.) Bioplasm.

(v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

(v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.

(v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.

(v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.

(v. t.) To overtake.

(v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

(v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.

(v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

(n.) Attainment.

(a.) Made of bark.

(v. t.) To whip with a birch or rod.

(a.) Birchen; as, birken groves.

(a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

(a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.

(a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

(a.) Mentally dull; stupid.

(n.) A tract of barren land.

(n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.

(v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate.

(v. t.) To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

(a.) Purblind; blinding.

(n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.

(n.) A farmyard.

(p. p.) of Bite

(adv. or prep.) Between.

(a.) Flaxen-colored.

(a.) Reddish brown.

() p. p. of Bite.

(a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

(a.) Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.

(n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

(n.) A staff or cudgel.

(n.) See Baton.

(n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

(a.) Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

(n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

(n.) A diviner by spirits.

(n.) A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

(n.) Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.

(n.) Alt. of Alman

(n.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.

(a.) Acting by turns; alternate.

(a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.

(n.) Alum.

(a.) Pertaining to the ship Argo.

(n.) One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

(n.) A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.

(n.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis

(p. p.) of Arise

(n.) Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

(n.) A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

(n.) Same as Rabbi.

(n.) A Ramist.

(v. t.) To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

() Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notae.

() A sentiment; an opinion.

() Sense; mind.

() An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions.

() Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it.

(n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.

(pl. ) of Batman

(n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

(n.) See Baton, and Baston.

(n.) A shield.

(n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

(n.) The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

(n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.

(v. t.) To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.

(v. t.) To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

(v. t.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.

(v. i.) To shine; to be conspicuous.

(v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

(v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land.

(v. i.) To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.

(n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.

(v. t.) To furnish or fasten with battens.

(v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

(n.) See Batten, and Baton.

(pl. ) of Batz

(n.) A baboon.

(n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

(n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn.

(n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

(n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

(n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

(n.) A high hill near the shore.

(n.) That which gives notice of danger.

(v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.

(v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

() of Beat

() of Awake

() of Awake

(v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

(n.) Alt. of Blowess

(a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.

(a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.

(a.) Exhausted; tired out.

(a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.

(a.) Tried; practiced.

() See Ax, Axman.

(v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

(n.) A sign made without words; a beck.

(n.) A baboon.

(n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

(n.) A pan for warming beds.

(n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

(n.) See Bedouin.

(n.) See Beghard.

(n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

(n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.

(n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

(n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.

(n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.

(n.) A dagger.

(n.) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.

(n.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.

(n.) A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.

(n.) A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.

(n.) See Baudekin.

(n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

(n.) Lead colic.

(pl. ) of Bagman

(n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

(v. t.) To make mean; to lower.

(v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

(v. t.) To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.

(a.) See Boln, a.

(a.) Swollen; puffed out.

(n.) A balcony.

(n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

(a.) Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

(a.) Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome.

(a.) Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.

(v. t.) To rain upon; to wet with rain.

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

(n.) Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.

(a.) Consisting of a reed or reeds.

(n.) See Byssus, n., 1.

(pl. ) of Cabman

(n.) The driver of a cab.

(n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

(n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.

(v.) To resound.

(a.) Disordered.

(n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.

(v. t.) To clothe with a caftan.

(v. t.) To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.

(v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.

(v. t.) To restrain; to prevent.

(v. i.) To belong; to pertain.

(v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain.

(n.) A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel.

(n.) See Cayman.

(n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

(a. & n.) Same as Sabian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.

(a.) Relating to the religion of Saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies.

(n.) An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.

(n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.

(v. t.) To make sad.

(v. t.) To render heavy or cohesive.

(v. t.) To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.

(v. t.) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.

(v. i.) To become, or be made, sad.

(pl. ) of Cannon

(n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

(n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

(n.) A kind of type. See Canon.

(n. & v.) See Carom.

(a.) Seen; appearing.

(a.) Decked or adorned; clad.

(a.) Accomplished; versed.

(n.) Disposal; control; license.

(n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.

(n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.

(n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.

(a.) Torn in pieces; tattered.

(n.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

(pl. ) of Bowman

(n.) A man who uses a bow; an archer.

(n.) The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

(n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

(a.) Alt. of Bicornous

(p. p.) of Bid

() p. p. of Bid.

(n.) A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.

(n.) A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.

(a.) Same as Brazen.

(v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

(n.) A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.

(n.) A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.

(n.) An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.

(n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.

(n.) A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

(n.) Random.

(v. i.) To go or stray at random.

(n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.

(n.) Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.

(n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

(n.) The inhabitants of a district.

(n.) Place; rank; station.

(n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

(n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

(n.) Same as Rib-band.

(n.) Driving reins.

(n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

(n.) A silver.

(v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

() p. p. of Ride.

(p. p.) of Ride

(v. t.) To join again; to unite after separation.

(v. t.) To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

(v. t.) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

(v. i.) To answer to a reply.

(v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

(n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.

(n.) Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.

(v. t.) To supply with rations, as a regiment.

(n.) A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867.

(v. t.) To make sick; to disease.

(v. t.) To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.

(v. t.) To impair; to weaken.

(v. i.) To become sick; to fall into disease.

(v. i.) To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.

(v. i.) To become disgusting or tedious.

(v. i.) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

(n.) Dominion; rule.

(n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

(n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

(n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

(n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.

(v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.

(n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

(n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.

(n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.

(n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.

(n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

(n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.

(n.) Destiny.

(n.) Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

(v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.

(v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.

(v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

(n.) Detention.

(a.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.

(a.) Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.

(a.) Dressed in silk.

(v. t.) To render silken or silklike.

(n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.

(a.) Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.

(n.) See Sylvanium.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike.

(n.) Any Old World monkey or ape.

(n.) An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.

(n.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

(a.) British.

(n.) A native of Great Britain.

(n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

(n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.

(n.) The south America alligator. See Alligator.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.

(n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

(v. t.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

(v. t.) Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.

(v. t.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.

(imp.) of Outrun

(p. p.) of Outrun

(v. t.) To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.

(v. t.) Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.

(v. t.) Subdued; humbled; contrite.

(v. t.) Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

(v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.

(v. t.) Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.

(v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.

(v. t.) Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.

(n.) A choliamb.

(n.) A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

(n.) A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.

(n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.

(n.) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.

(n.) A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.

(n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.

(v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.

(v. t.) To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.

(n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.

(n.) A bed blanket.

(n.) Same as Bunyon.

(n.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

(n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.

(n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

(n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

(n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

(n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

(n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.

(n.) A birth.

(v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.

(v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.

(v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

(n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.

(n.) The drone of a bagpipe.

(n.) A club.

(n.) A pilgrim's staff.

(n.) A wooden bar, or iron pin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.

(n.) A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

(n.) A wrapper.

(n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.

() of Sink

(p. p.) of Steal

(n.) A pen or sty for hogs.

(n.) A rude, clownish youth.

(n.) A rude, bold girl; a romp.

(a.) Rustic; rude; bold.

(v. i.) To romp rudely or indecently.

() of Hold

(n.) An adjective, or attribute.

(a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

() imp. & p. p. of Help.

(n.) An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.

(prep.) Before.

(a.) Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.

(a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of India.

(n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.

(a.) Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading.

(n.) See Dolmen.

(n.) A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds.

(n.) An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

(v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.

(v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.

(n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.

(n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.

(n.) That which is returned.

(n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.

(n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.

(n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.

(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.

(n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.

(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.

(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.

(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.

(n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.

(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

(n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.

(n.) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton.

(n.) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

(n.) Retaliation.

(v. t.) To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).

(n.) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

(n.) A venomous South African tick.

(n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.

(v. t.) To plug with a tampon.

(n.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet.

(n.) Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic.

(n.) A crystalline substance (C5H5N5O) contained in guano. It is also a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands in mammals.

(n.) An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.

(n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.

(n.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.

(n.) Same as Tarpum.

(n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.

(n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

(v. t.) A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon.

(v. t.) One who carries a flag.

(v. t.) One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.

(n.) See Guilder.

(n.) A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

(n.) See Strene.

(n.) A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.

(n.) Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.

(n.) A fit of anger; choler.

(n.) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.

(n.) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

(n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

(v. t.) To dislke.

(p. p.) of Strew

() p. p. of Strew.

(a.) Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.

(a.) Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.

(v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.

(n.) The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.

(n.) An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

(n.) A short tobacco pipe.

(n.) Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.

(n.) The act of taking possession.

(n.) The thing possessed; property.

(adv.) Seldom.

(n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

(n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

(n.) Cloth made of cotton.

(v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.

(v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.

(v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.

(v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.

(n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.

(n.) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.

(n.) A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

(n.) One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

(n.) A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.

(n.) Allied; akin.

(n.) Alt. of Acacine

(a.) Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.

(n.) A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.

(v. t.) To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.

(n.) See Supawn.

(n.) A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially T. sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.

(n.) A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.

(pl. ) of Socman

(n.) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sod

(p. p.) Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

(v. i.) To be seethed; to become sodden.

(v. t.) To soak; to make heavy with water.

(n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.

(n.) A crayon drawing.

(n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

(v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

(v. t.) To make soft or more soft.

(v. t.) To render less hard; -- said of matter.

(n.) A song or canto

(n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.

(n.) A small community or clan.

(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.

(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.

(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.

(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

(n.) The English form of the Spanish word Caon.

(n.) The roots of the Chilian plant Calceolaria arachnoidea, -- used for dyeing crimson.

(n.) Same as Rattoon, n.

(n.) A rattan cane.

(v. i.) Same as Rattoon, v. i.

(n.) One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.

(v. t.) To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.

(n.) A second lending of the same thing; a renewal of a loan.

(v. i.) To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

(v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

(v. t.) To await; to be left to.

(n.) State of remaining; stay.

(n.) That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

(n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's

(n.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.

(n.) See Ropeband.

(n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.

(n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.

(n.) Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.

(n.) Ratio; proportion.

(n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

(n.) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.

(n.) To converse; to compare opinions.

(v. t.) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.

(v. t.) To support with reasons, as a request.

(v. t.) To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.

(v. t.) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion.

(v. t.) To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.

(p. p.) Born again.

(n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme.

(v.) The state of being much known and talked of; exalted reputation derived from the extensive praise of great achievements or accomplishments; fame; celebrity; -- always in a good sense.

(v.) Report of nobleness or exploits; praise.

(v. t.) To make famous; to give renown to.

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

(n.) Alt. of Ronyon

(n.) A mangy or scabby creature.

(v. t.) To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

(v. t.) To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

(v. t.) To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

(v. t.) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

(v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

(v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

(v. t.) To coin anew or again.

(a.) Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.

(a.) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.

(a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.

(v. t.) To fight against; to oppose; to resist.

(n.) The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.

(a.) Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh.

(n.) A small mug or cup.

(n.) A measure equivalent to a gill.

(n.) A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.

(n.) See Capelin.

(n.) Alt. of Capling

(a.) Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic.

(n.) A Salian Frank.

(pl. ) of Salmon

(v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.

(v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.

(a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.

(n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.

(n.) Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.

(n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite.

() of Cleave

(a.) Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Samos.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.

(n.) An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.

(n.) A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters.

(n.) An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength.

(v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

(v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.

(n.) A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.

(n.) An old woman.

(n.) A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.

(v. t.) To make close.

(n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.

(n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.

(n.) A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.

(n.) A sowing or planting.

(a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

(a.) Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

(a.) Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.

(v. t.) To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.

(a.) Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.

(n.) A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin.

(n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.

(p. p.) of Break

(p. p. & a.) from Cleave, v. t.

(n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

(n.) The metal lead.

(n.) An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.

(a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.

(n.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

(n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column.

(n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

(n.) A small army.

(n.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

(n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

(n.) A perpendicular line of figures.

(n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.

(n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.

(n.) A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.

(n.) An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.

(n.) A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.

(n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.

(n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.

(n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

(v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.

(v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

(v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.

(n.) Same as Ceroon.

(n.) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.

(a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

(a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision.

(a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

(a.) To cast a gloom upon.

(a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

(v. i.) To grow or darker.

(n.) A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.

(a.) Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.

(n.) One afflicted with cretinism.

(n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.

(n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.

(v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.

(a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.

(a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

(a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

(a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

(v. t.) To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

(v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

(adv.) In a swoon.

(adv.) In twain; asunder.

(n.) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora.

(n.) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.

(n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.

(v. t.) To perceive, discern, or decide.

(v. t.) To decree; to adjudge.

(n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

(n.) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.

(n.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.

(n.) Top; summit; acme.

(n.) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

(n.) A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.

(v. t.) To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

(v. t.) To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.

(v. t.) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.

(v. t.) To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.

(v. i.) To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.

(n.) Same as Cumin.

(pl. ) of Oilman

(n.) One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.

(n.) See Olibanum.

(n.) Alt. of Durion

(n.) The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.

(v. t.) To make dusk or obscure.

(n.) Alt. of Essoign

(n.) To excuse for nonappearance in court.

(n.) Alt. of Dzeron

(n.) The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China.

(n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.

(n.) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.

(n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.

(n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

(n.) Variant of Felon.

(n.) Same as Hemin.

(n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

(n.) A pipit.

(n.) A tegument or covering.

(n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

(n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.

(n.) Same as Tectrices.

(n.) A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland.

(a.) Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism.

(a.) Hairy.

(n.) See Topsman, 2.

(n.) A man stationed in the top.

(a.) Alt. of Hoven

(n.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.

(n.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

(n.) One who deals in toys.

(n.) An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.

(n.) A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.

(n.) See Malkin.

(n.) A hare.

(n.) A dunghill.

(n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

(n.) See Malkin, and Maukin.

(n.) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.

(n.) A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.

(v. t.) Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

(v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.

(v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.

(v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.

(n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.

(n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.

(n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.

(v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.

(v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.

(v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.

(n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.

(n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.

(n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.

(n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.

(n.) Alt. of Lardoon

(n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren.

(n.) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission.

(n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.

(n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river.

(n.) An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.

() p. p. of Wash.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.

(n.) A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real.

(a.) Belonging, or relating, to Latium, a country of ancient Italy. See Latin.

(n.) Transportation; conveyance.

(n.) Latten, 1.

(n.) A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass.

(n.) Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten.

(n.) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.

(v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.

(v. t.) To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.

(v. t.) To loosen the reins of; to remove restraint from.

(a.) Not seen or discovered.

(a.) Unskilled; inexperienced.

(n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial indigo.

(v. t.) To untwist, as something spun.

(v. t.) To put in pawn; to pledge.

(v. t.) To turn in a reserve way, especially so as to open something; as, to unturn a key.

(n.) A land tortoise.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Tuscany.

(n.) A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.

(v. i.) To lean or incline upon anything.

(adv.) To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.

(a.) Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.

(v. t.) To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing.

(n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.

(v. i.) To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.

(n.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon.

(n.) An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.

(n.) A hedgehog.

(n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

(n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.

(n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.

(n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.

(a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.

(n.) The act of burning, or the state of being burned.

(n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.

(v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

(n.) Backgammon.

(n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

(v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.

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

(v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

(n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.

(n.) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.

(n.) An ancient form of cannon.

(p. p.) of Fall

(n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

(n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.

(v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

(v. t.) To cultivate as a garden.

(a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

(n.) A European cyprinoid fish; the id.

(n.) See Galloway.

(n.) Same as Garran.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.

(n.) A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

(v. t.) To turn away.

(n.) A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.

(n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.

(n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

(n.) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata.

(n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.

(n.) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.

(n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.

(n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

(n.) A siphon bottle.

(v. t.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.

(n.) A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine.

(n.) The American pinefinch (S. pinus); -- called also pine siskin. See Pinefinch.

() of Sit

(adv. & conj.) Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith.

() p. p. of Sit, for sat.

(n.) An old jaded horse.

(n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand.

(n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

(n.) A doit; a small coin.

(n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod.

(n.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster.

(n.) Slacken.

(n.) A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks.

(n.) A cloak of a peculiar fashion worn by women.

(n.) A cromlech. See Cromlech.

(p. p.) of Delve.

(n.) The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.

(a.) Same as Doric, 3.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.

(n.) The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland; hence, any rallying cry.

(n.) A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.

(n.) A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.

(n.) A handkerchief.

(n.) A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheats of nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin, albumin, and some fat.

(n.) One of a group of phosphorized principles occurring in nerve tissue, both in the brain and nerve fibers.

(n.) The spinal cord. (Sometimes abbrev. to myel.)

(n.) A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.

(n.) A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.

(n.) A sultan.

(a.) A variant of Sovereign.

(n.) Voice; speech; language.

(n.) An outcry; a loud call; a clamor.

(v. t.) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

(v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

(v. t.) To join or unite.

(v. t.) To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.

(n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.

(p. p.) of Speak

(n.) A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.

(n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.

(n.) Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.

(n.) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.

(n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.

(v. t.) To designate as by an ensign.

(v. t.) To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.

() p. p. of Steal.

(n.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

(n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma.

(p. p.) Stepped; gone; advanced.

(n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.

(n.) A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.

(p. p.) of Shake

(a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.

(a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.

(n.) Impaired, as by a shock.

(n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.

(n.) The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.

() of Shape

(v. t.) To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

() of Shave

(a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.

(n.) A native of ancient Dacia.

(a.) Alt. of Daemonic

(n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.

(n.) Rule; management.

(n.) See Demesne.

(v. t.) To manage; to conduct; to treat.

(v. t.) To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) Management; treatment.

(v. t.) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

(n.) Demesne.

(n.) Resources; means.

(v. t.) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

(v. t.) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.

(v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.

(n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

(n.) One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy.

(n.) Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.

(n.) A period of time not very long; a while; a time.

(n.) That which gives relish; seasoning.

(v. t.) To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.

(v. t.) To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.

(v. t.) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.

(v. t.) To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.

(v. t.) Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agrecable.

(v. t.) To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.

(v. t.) To imbue; to tinge or taint.

(v. t.) To copulate with; to impregnate.

(v. i.) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

(v. i.) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.

(v. i.) To give token; to savor.

(n.) Alt. of Seawant

(v. t.) To separate; to distinguish.

(v. t.) To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose.

(v. t.) To unman.

(v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

(v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.

(n.) A pumpkin.

(a.) Aeolian.

(a.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.

(n.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

(n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

(n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

(n.) Rank; a sort.

(a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.

(a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.

(a.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.

(a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.

(a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.

(a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.

(a.) To squeeze; to press closely.

(a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

(a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.

(a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.

(v. i.) To make violent efforts.

(v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.

(n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

(n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.

(n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.

(n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.

(n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.

(n.) Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.

(n.) Same as Farcy.

(a.) Rare; wonderful.

(n.) A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.

(v. t.) To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.

(a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

(a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.

(a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.

(v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

(v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

(v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

(v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.

(n.) A young eel.

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

(a.) Nearly related; closely akin.

(n.) A native or one of the people of Germany.

(n.) The German language.

(n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.

(n.) A social party at which the german is danced.

(n.) Of or pertaining to Germany.

(a.) Ten and one added; as, eleven men.

(n.) The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.

(n.) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

(n.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.

(n.) A little elf.

(n.) Division; separation.

(n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

(a.) Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.

(a.) Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

(a.) Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.

(v. t.) To remove afar off; to withdraw.

(v. t.) To convey to a distance, or beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, as goods liable to distress.

(v. t.) To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

(n.) A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

(n.) A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.

(a.) External; outward; not inherent.

(n.) A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.

(n.) Outward form or part; exterior.

(n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

(n.) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.

(n.) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.

(n.) A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.

(v. t.) The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

(v. t.) The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.

(v. t.) The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.

(v. t.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

(n.) A combination of acetic acid with glycerin.

(n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

(n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

(n.) A gadsman.

(n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.

(n.) Alt. of Galbanum

(n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

(n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

(n.) See Germ.

() of Get

(n.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

(n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

(v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.

(n.) A snare; a trapan.

(n.) a deceiver; a cheat.

(v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.

(n.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.

(a.) Gilded.

(p. p.) of Strow

() p. p. of Strow.

(n.) A sheep.

(n.) The flesh of a sheep.

(n.) A loose woman; a prostitute.

(a.) Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.

(a.) Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.

(n.) A male gyrfalcon.

(n.) A widgeon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Papua.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.

(a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.

(n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.

(v. i.) To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination.

(n.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.

(n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

(n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.

(n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.

(pl. ) of Layman

(n. sing. & pl.) An animal, in general.

(n. sing. & pl.) A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.

(a.) Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.

(n. sing. & pl.) Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.

(a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.

(a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.

(a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.

(a.) Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.

(n.) An original form; primitive word; root.

(n.) Original or fundamental signification.

(n.) A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.

(n.) A little fort; a fortlet.

(a.) Examination; inquiry.

(n.) A freckle.

(v. t.) To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.

(n.) A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.

(n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.

(n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.

(v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

(v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

(n.) Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(n.) The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.

(n.) See Gherkin.

(n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.

(n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.

(n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle.

(n.) A division consisting of three signs.

(n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.

(n.) A kind of triangular lyre or harp.

(n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.

(n.) Any one of the Trigynia.

(n.) Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima.

(a.) Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.

(v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

(v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.

(n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.

(n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.

(n.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.

(n.) Same as Gliadin.

(n.) Sometimes synonymous with Gelatin.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.

(n.) Same as Glycocoll.

(n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

(n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.

(n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.

(n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.

(n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.

(n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

(n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

(n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.

(n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.

(n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.

(n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.

(n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

(n.) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

(a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.

(a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

(a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

(adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.

(n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

(n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

(n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.

(n.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.

(n.) The index of the hour circle of a globe.

(n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.

(n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

(a.) Lonely; solitary; desolate.

(a.) Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

(a.) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

(a.) Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.

(a.) Obstinate; intractable.

(a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.

(a.) Made of gold; consisting of gold.

(a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.

(a.) Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions.

(n.) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

(n.) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.

(v. t.) To make sullen or sluggish.

(n.) Alt. of Golding

(n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.

(v. t.) To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.

(v. t.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort.

(n.) The plane tree.

(n.) A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material.

(a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

(a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.

(n.) A median line or point.

(n.) A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; /, in s/am, etc.

(a.) Internal.

(a.) To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

(n.) The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Hyrcania, an ancient country or province of Asia, southeast of the Caspian (which was also called the Hyrcanian) Sea.

(pl. ) of Iceman

(n.) A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

(n.) One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.

(a.) Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.

(a.) Not equal; not of equal length.

(a.) Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.

(a.) Ungainly; clumsy; awkward; also, troublesome; inconvenient.

(v. t.) To strip of a gown; to unfrock.

(n.) The bitter principle of the holly.

(n.) A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.

(n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.

(n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.

(n.) A single, unvaried.

(n.) Sounding alone.

(n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.

(v. t.) To disjoin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians; Ionic.

(n.) A native or citizen of Ionia.

(v. t.) To store in a barn.

(a.) A figure or polygon whose angles are equal.

(v. t.) To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

(v. i.) To become mad; to act as if mad.

(n.) Alt. of Jorden

(n.) A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists.

(n.) A chamber pot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet).

(a.) Of or pertaining to Judea.

(n.) A native of Judea; a Jew.

(v. t.) To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility.

(v. t.) To render fit.

(pl. ) of Madman

(n.) A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Magi.

(n.) One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.

(n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

(n.) A female servant.

(n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.

(n.) A machine for washing linen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.

(a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.

(a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

(a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.

(v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

(pl. ) of Yeoman

(n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.

(n.) A servant; a retainer.

(n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.

(n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.

(p. p.) Yielded.

(a.) Made of hemp; as, a hempen cord.

(a.) Like hemp.

(a.) Neat; fit; comfortable.

(v. t.) To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.

(adv.) In this.

(adv.) On or upon this; hereupon.

(n.) A warehouse.

(a.) Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions.

(v. t.) To cover or invest with flesh.

(v. i.) To develop flesh.

(n.) A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.

(n.) See Ticking.

(p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.

(p. p.) of Hide

(n.) A consecrated place; esp., a temple.

(n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

(n.) Any species of Tellina.

(n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.

(a.) Wanting half its due qualities.

(n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

(n.) A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

(n.) The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.

(n.) An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.

(n.) A native of the Fiji islands.

(v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

(v. i.) To take place; to occur.

(n.) A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.

(v. t.) To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

(v. t.) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.

(v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

(v. i.) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.

(n.) A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.

(n.) A tester; a sixpence.

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

(n.) A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.

(n.) A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.

(n.) One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race.

(n.) A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family.

(n.) In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.

(v. t.) To hearten; to encourage; to incite.

(v. t.) To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

(v. i.) To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Thebes.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man.

(n.) A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

(n.) A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.

(v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

(v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.

(v. i.) To join one's self.

(n.) Hircic acid. See Hircic.

(n.) A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

(n.) Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidae, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.

(pl. ) of Hodman

(n.) A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

(pl. ) of Tinman

(n.) A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

(a.) Made or consisting of tin.

(n.) Same as Yaupon.

(a. & n.) See Sabian.

(n.) An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment.

(p. p.) of Melt

(n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

(n.) A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

(n.) See Sequin.

(n.) See Sequin.

(n.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon.

(n.) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.

(prep.) In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.

(prep.) In the limits or compass of; not further in length than; as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one's income.

(prep.) Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or the like.

(adv.) In the inner part; inwardly; internally.

(adv.) In the house; in doors; as, the master is within.

(n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs.

(n.) The weever.

(n.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.

(n.) Fine bran or flour.

(n.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.

(n.) A tribe.

(n.) Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.

(n.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.

(n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.

(n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.

(n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.

(v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

(v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.

(n.) See Pontoon.

(n.) See Keelson.

(n.) A man who makes or sells pies.

(n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.

(n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.

(v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

(n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.

(n.) A pen, or sty, for pigs.

(n.) A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.

(n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

(n.) A feather; a quill.

(n.) A wing, literal or figurative.

(n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.

(n.) A fetter for the arm.

(n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.

(v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.

(v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.

(v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.

(v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.

(n.) The groin.

(n.) Same as Hoiden.

(n.) One who navigates a hoy.

(n.) A large salmon (Salmo, / Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

(v. t.) See Enjoin.

(n.) Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.

(a.) Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

(n.) Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush.

(pl. ) of Tubman

(n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.

(n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.

(n.) Anything very ugly or horrid.

(n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu.

(a.) Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.

(n.) The female of the gorcock.

(n.) Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.

(pl. ) of Tupman

(n.) A man who breeds, or deals in tups.

() p. p. of Get.

(n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

(n.) A kind of headdress worn by women.

(n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

(v. t.) To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

(v. t.) To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse.

(v. t.) To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case.

(v. i.) To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control.

(n.) A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.

(a.) Made of turf; covered with turf.

(n.) Same as Turio.

(n.) A vision seen in sleep; a dream.

(n.) Alt. of Gradine

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.

(a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.

(a.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.

(n.) See Syphon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac.

(n.) A native of Syria.

(p. p.) of Grave

(v. t.) Carved.

(v. t.) To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.

(v. t.) To relinquish; to abandon.

(v. t.) To commit to the care of; to consign.

(v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.

(v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.

(v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.

(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

(v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.

(v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money.

(v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

(v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.

(v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.

(v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known.

(v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.

(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.

(v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.

(v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

(n.) A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

(v. t. & i.) To yoke or harness, as oxen to a vehicle.

(a.) Not born; no yet brought into life; being still to appear; future.

(n.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.

(v. t.) To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.

(n.) A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.

(n.) A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins.

(n.) See Mouflon.

(n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.

(n.) The puffball.

(n.) A sort of apple.

(n.) Poultry.

(n.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.

(n.) A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.

(n.) An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane.

(p. p. / a.) Proved.

(n.) Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry.

(n.) A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine.

(v. t.) To drug.

(pl. ) of Potman

(n.) A pot companion.

(n.) A servant in a public house; a potboy.

(n.) A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.

(n.) A popgun.

(n.) A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.

(n.) A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.

(n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows.

(adv.) To-morrow.

(n.) A mixture composed of different materials

(n.) A mixture of metals resembling brass.

(n.) A mixture of different sorts of grain, as wheat and rye.

(n.) A vessel made of maslin, 1 (a).

(a.) Composed of different sorts; as, maslin bread, which is made of rye mixed with a little wheat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.

(n.) See Linden.

(n.) A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

(n.) A bird. See Martin.

(n.) Any one of several fur-bearing carnivores of the genus Mustela, closely allied to the sable. Among the more important species are the European beech, or stone, marten (Mustela foina); the pine marten (M. martes); and the American marten, or sable (M. Americana), which some zoologists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.

(n.) The fur of the marten, used for hats, muffs, etc.

(a.) Stupid; blockish.

(n.) A blockhead.

(a.) A large chestnut.

(a.) A chestnut color; maroon.

(a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon.

(n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.

(v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.

(a.) Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.

(n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.

(n.) An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.

(n.) The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).

(v. t.) To furnish with a margin.

(v. t.) To enter in the margin of a page.

(a.) Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII.

(n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

(n.) Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.

(n.) The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.

(n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.

(n.) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.

(n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland.

(n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx).

(n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa.

(n.) A lamp.

(n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

(n.) A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.

(n.) Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.

(n.) A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. aesalon).

(n.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.

(pl. ) of Merman

(n.) The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.

(n.) Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

(v. t.) To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.

(v. t.) To free from restraint; to set at liberty..

(v. t.) To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.

(v. i.) To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.

(n.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).

(n.) A limpet.

(n.) A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.

(n.) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.

(n.) The capital city of England.

(v. i.) To entertain malice.

(n.) Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

(n.) A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.

(n.) A scarecrow.

(n.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

(a.) Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

(a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.

(a.) Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.

(a.) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.

(a.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

(n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.

(n.) Jettison. See Jettison, 1.

(n.) A metal counter used in playing cards.

(n.) A man who carries logs.

(n.) A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

(n.) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.

(n.) Ricinolein.

(n.) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.

(n.) The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense.

(n.) The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.

(n.) The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.

(n.) Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight.

(v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.

(n.) A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.

(a.) Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.

(p. p.) of Throw

(n.) Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.

(n.) A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.

(n.) A small or imperfect ear of maize.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa.

(n.) A native of Nubia.

(n.) A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.

(n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

(n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.

(n.) Family; lineage.

(n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.

(n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.

(n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.

(v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.

(v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.

(v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.

(n.) Native sodium carbonate.

(v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.

(n.) A simpleton; a fool.

(n.) Alt. of Origanum

(n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

(n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

(n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.

(n.) A prayer; a supplication.

(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

(n.) The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab.

(n.) A cover for the leg, like a long gaiter.

(n.) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.

(n.) A military force; an army; military bands.

(n.) A great number; a multitude.

(n.) A group of orders inferior to a class.

(n.) A villain.

(n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

(n.) Lent.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.

(n.) Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy.

(n.) A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.

(n.) A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.

(n.) See Virgo.

(n.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

(n.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

(a.) Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.

(a.) Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold.

(a.) Not yet pregnant; impregnant.

(v. i.) To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5.

(v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

(v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.

(n.) A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.

(v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

(n.) A hurt; an injury.

(n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.

(n.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.

(v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.

(v.) That which is seen; an object of sight.

(v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.

(v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

(v. t.) To see in a vision; to dream.

(a.) To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune.

(v. i.) To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened.

(n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

(n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.

(n.) A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.

(n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

(n.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

(v. t.) To teach; to instruct.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.

(n.) A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

(v. i.) To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.

(v. i.) To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.

(v. t.) To attend to.

(n.) Alt. of Libkin

(n.) A house or lodging.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.

(n.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

(n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion.

(n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.

(n.) Alt. of Loaning

(n.) A small lake; a pond.

(n.) The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

(v. t.) To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp.

(n.) Ossein.

(v. t.) To hold; to keep; to possess.

(v. t.) To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way.

(v. i.) To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.

(v. i.) To prevail; to succeed.

(n. pl.) East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called.

(n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.

(n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

(n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.

(n.) An advocate or pleader.

(n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

(n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

(n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.

(n.) See Padrone, 2.

(v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

(a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

(n.) A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.

(n.) A stilt.

(n.) See Tarpaulin.

(n. & a.) See Ottoman.

(n.) The hen or female peafowl.

(pl. ) of Pease

(n.) A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.

(n.) The pubic bone.

(n.) Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.

(n.) The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).

(n.) One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.

(n.) The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon.

(n. pl.) A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.

(n.) The act of taking vengeance; revenge.

(n.) The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

(n.) A drum.

(n.) A panel; a tympanum.

(n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.

(a.) Being of the color called Tyrian purple.

(n.) A native of Tyre.

(n.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him.

(n.) A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.

(n.) A little lad.

(n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.

(n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.

(n.) A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.

(n.) A wild horse (Equus, / Asinus, onager) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager.

(n.) A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.

(n.) The gnu.

(v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.

(v. t.) An official warrant of remission of penalty.

(v. t.) The state of being forgiven.

(v. t.) A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

(v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.

(v. t.) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.

(v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

(v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.

(n.) A kind of weak perry.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Paros.

(n.) A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.

(n.) A warrant or assurance.

(n.) The American widgeon.

(n.) A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

(n.) A Moor.

(a.) See 3d Minion.

(v. t.) To flatter.

(a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.

(a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

(n.) A kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver, and somewhat resembling a hat.

(n.) A dark variety of smoky quartz.

(n.) A beast that has died of disease or by mischance.

(n.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin.

(n.) The mandrill.

(n.) One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.

(a.) Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.

(n.) Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

(v. t.) To make mild, or milder.

(a.) Consisting of milk.

(v. t.) To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

(v. t.) To get the better of; to worst.

(v. i.) To grow or become worse.

(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.

(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.

(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

(n.) A puppet show or puppet.

(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.

(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

(v. t.) To propose; to move.

(n.) Minimum.

(n.) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense.

(n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.

(n.) A small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.

(n.) An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.

(a.) Fine; trim; dainty.

(n.) The Chinese tree peony (Paeonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.

(a.) Relating to, or derived from, Julius Caesar.

() p. p. of Wreak.

(n.) Same as Wiver. X () X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 217, 270, 271.

(a.) Made of yarn; consisting of yarn.

(n.) A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea.

(v. t.) Not to know.

(n.) A little bagpipe.

(n.) A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

(n. & a.) See Maslin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.

(n.) See Mullein.

(n.) A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.

(n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.

(n.) Alt. of Munting

(a.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.

(n.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

(n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.

(n.) A wing; a pinion.

(n.) A pennant; a flag or streamer.

(n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.

(n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.

(n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.

(n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

(n.) A parson; the parish priest.

(n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.

(n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.

(n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.

(n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.

(n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

(v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

(n.) An edible British crab.

(n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.

(n & v.) See Caftan.

(n.) Alt. of Khamsin

(n.) Alt. of Kaoline

(n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.

(n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.

(n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.

(n.) To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.

(n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.

(v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.

(pl. ) of Pitman

(n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.

(n.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.

(n.) A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America.

(n.) A young cat.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens.

(n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.

(n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).

(pl. ) of Penman

(n.) One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

(n.) An author; a composer.

(n.) A small earthen boiler.

(n.) An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.

(n.) A name given to apples of several different kinds, as Newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin.