(v. t. & i.) To strike, or strike down.

(a. & adv.) In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.

(a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.

(a. & adv.) Numbed, and, usually, tingling.

(a.) Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.

(n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.

(v. i.) To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup.

(v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup.

(n.) A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.

(n.) A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.

(n.) A part or piece of anything; a portion.

(n.) The European goldfinch.

(n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.

(adv.) In a stooping or inclined position.

(n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.

(n.) In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.

(n.) In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

(n.) A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.

(n.) An old name for a woman's bustle.

(v. t.) To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

(v. t.) To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

(v. t.) To entrap; to insnare.

(v. t.) To adorn with trapping; to array.

(v. t.) To catch; to grasp; to insnare.

(v. t.) To embrace; to surround.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, as with drops.

(v. t.) To ship again; to put on board of a vessel a second time; to send on a second voyage; as, to reship bonded merchandise.

(v. i.) To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.

(v. t.) To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

(v. t.) To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.

(v. t.) To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.

(v. t.) To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.

(v. i.) To weep.

(v. t.) To wrap up; to cover.

(v. t.) To contract; to shrink.

(v.) Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.

(v.) In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.

(v.) In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.

(v.) Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.

(n.) The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.

(n.) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.

(v. t.) To form a riprap in or upon.

(n.) Alt. of Catmint

(n.) Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.

(v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.

(a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.

(n.) A pinching miser; a niggard.

(n.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.

(n.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

(n.) The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

(v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.

(n.) A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

(v. t.) Alt. of Recoupe

(n.) An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London.

(n.) Same as Sannup.

(n.) A male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.

(n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.

(n.) A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.

(n.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.

(v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.

(v. i.) Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.

(v. t.) To pluck off; to crop; to gather.

(n.) Alt. of Ethiopian

(n.) A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.

(n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.

(adv.) Perhaps; peradventure.

(n.) The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.

(v. t.) To beat or flog soundly.

(v. t.) To take out of a ship or vessel; as, to unship goods.

(v. t.) To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.

(v. t.) To remove, as a mast, from its step.

(v. t.) To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask.

(v. t.) To free from any obstruction; to open.

(v. t.) To restore from a warped state; to cause to be linger warped.

(v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

(v. t.) To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes.

(v. t.) To prop up.

(n.) An upstart.

(n.) The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

(n.) The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age.

(v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.

(n.) See Note under Cyclops, 1.

(n.) A tuft or clump.

(v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.

(v. t.) To extirpate.

(n.) A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

(v. i.) To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.

(v. t.) To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.

(v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.

(v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.

(v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

(v. t.) To cause to gallop.

(v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.

(n.) General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc.

(v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

(n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.

(v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

(v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.

(v. i.) To be slatternly.

(v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.

(v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.

(v. t.) To throw or tumble over.

(n.) A thick piece of fat.

(n.) A blow.

(n.) The lobe of the ear.

(a.) To pick out.

(n.) A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.

(v. t.) See Entrap.

(v. t.) To unloose the hasp of; to unclose.

(v. t.) To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.

(v. t.) To cover by wrapping; to involve; to infold; as, to inwrap in a cloak, in smoke, etc.

(v. t.) To involve, as in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex.

(v. t.) To remove a prop or props from; to deprive of support.

(a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.

(a.) Wild; reckless.

(n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.

(n.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

(n.) Alt. of Magilph

(n.) Alt. of Megilph

(n.) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

(a.) Very excellent; most excellent; perfect.

(v. t.) To clasp; to inclose.

(v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger.

(v. t.) To snap; to project quickly.

(n.) A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.

(n.) Something serving to rouse or excite.

(v. t.) To inculpate.

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

(n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

(n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.

(n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.

(n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.

(v. t.) To stand sponsor to.

(v. i.) To make merry.

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

(v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

(v. t.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.

(n.) The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.

(n.) That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.

(v. t.) To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams.

(v. t.) To embark.

(v. t.) To break up the camp of; to dislodge from camp.

(v. t.) To overtop.

(n.) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.

(n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

(n.) The water thrush or accentor.

(v. t.) To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.

(v. i.) To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.

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

(v. t.) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.

(v. t.) To beat, or thrash.

(v. t.) To cozen, or cheat.

(v. i.) To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.

(n.) An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.

(n.) Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.

(n.) Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.

(v. i.) To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.

(n.) The European hedge sparrow.

(n.) The house sparrow. Called also phip.