(n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

(n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

(a.) Alt. of Anent

(a.) Narrow; strait.

(n.) Alt. of Annicut

(adv.) Alt. of Anights

(n.) A furious onset or attack.

(adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

(adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.

(adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

(a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.

(a.) Thorough or downright, in a good sense.

(n.) Same as Afrit.

(n.) A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

(adv.) In front; face to face.

(prep.) In front of.

(n.) An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.

(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

(v. t.) To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

(p. p.) Anointed.

(a.) Alt. of Arrected

(v. t.) To direct.

(v. t.) To impute.

(v. t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

(v. t.) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

(v. t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.

(v. t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.

(v. i.) To tarry; to rest.

(v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.

(v. t.) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.

(v. t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral.

(v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.

(n.) One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.

(n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

(n.) One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.

(n.) An artful person; a schemer.

() The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

() The way or means by which one ascends.

() An eminence, hill, or high place.

() The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.

(v. t.) To affright; to terrify.

(v. t.) To heap up.

(adv.) Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.

(adv. & a.) Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.

(prep.) In a slanting direction over; athwart.

(n.) A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

(n.) The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.

(n.) Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air.

(n.) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.

(n.) Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.

(n.) Prospect; outlook.

(n.) The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth.

(n.) The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect.

(n.) To behold; to look at.

(n.) One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.

(n.) One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.

(v. t.) See Agast, v. t.

(a & p. p.) Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

(n.) A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.

(n.) A round white staylace.

(v. t.) To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong.

(a.) Helping; helpful; supplying aid.

(n.) A purse or purse net.

(n.) Same as Aglet.

(n.) Alt. of Aigrette

(n.) See Alan.

(conj.) Even though; although; notwithstanding.

(v. t.) To go through with; to perform.

(n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.

(n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.

(n.) A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

(v. t.) To preserve dry with sugar.

(n.) The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.

(v. t.) To share.

(n.) A copier.

(v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

(v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

(v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

(v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.

(v. t.) To confound.

(v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent.

(v. t.) To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

(v. i.) To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.

(a.) Sitting; inactive; quiet.

(n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.

(n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.

(v. t.) To inclose in corsets.

(n.) Alt. of Corvette

(imp. & p. p.) of Seek

(n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.

(n.) See Pundit.

(n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

(n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.

(n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.

(n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.

(n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.

(n.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.

(n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.

(n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.

(v. t.) To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.

(v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.

(v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.

(n.) A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.

(n. & adv.) See Naught.

(n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.

(n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.

(v. t.) To stimulate.

(n.) See Afrit.

(n.) A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.

(n.) One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.

(n.) A believer in egoism.

(v. t.) To boil out; to produce by boiling.

(n.) A kind of sour cherry.

(n.) A kite of the genus Elanus.

(a.) Cut off; set apart.

(a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.

(a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.

(n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

(n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.

(a.) To remove; to set apart.

(a.) To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.

(n.) A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

(n.) Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.

(n.) To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.

(a.) Oldest; longest in duration.

(a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.

() They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.

(n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.

(v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.

(v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

(n.) Exhortation.

(n. & v.) Thrist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thrust

(v. t.) To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.

(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.

(v. i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

(v. i.) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

(v. i.) To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.

(n.) A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.

(n.) An attack; an assault.

(n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.

(n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

(a.) Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

(a.) Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.

(n.) A current of water; a stream.

(n.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

(n.) The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.

(a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

(a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

(a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.

(prep.) Across; athwart.

(n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

(v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.

(v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.

(v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.

(v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.

(n.) The condition of being high; elevated position.

(n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.

(n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.

(n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.

(n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.

(n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

(n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.

(v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

(v. t.) To cherish with heat; to foster.

(v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.

(n.) A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.

(n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.

(n.) A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.

(n.) That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.

(n.) The upper part of a retort.

(n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.

(n.) A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.

(n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

(n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.

(v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.

(v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

(v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

(n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.

(n.) A small bush.

(n.) A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.

(n.) A part of a garden devoted to shrubs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buy

(n. & v.) See Chant.

(a.) Alt. of Coarctate

(n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.

(n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.

(n.) Pert; saucy.

(n.) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.

(n.) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.

(n.) A measure for bread.

(n.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

(n.) A kind of meat pie.

(n.) A codifier; a maker of codes.

(p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.

(p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.

(n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

(n.) Any band or body of warriors.

(n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.

() An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.

(n.) A small collar or neckband.

(n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

(n.) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.

(n.) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.

(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.

(n.) A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.

(n.) One of the testicles of a hart or stag.

(n.) A little smile.

(n.) Cloth.

() of Dream

(a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

(a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.

(a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

(a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.

(a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.

(v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.

(v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.

(v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.

(v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.

(v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.

(v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.

(n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.

() p. p. of Drench to drown.

() p. p., of Drench to drown.

(superl.) of Dry, a.

(a.) Skillful; clever; crafty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.

(n.) A sonant letter.

(n.) A short poem, -- usually amatory.

(n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.

(v. i.) To compose sonnets.

(n.) A kind of beverage; sherbet.

(v. t.) To be sensible of; to feel

(v. t.) In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

(v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

(v. t.) To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.

(v. t.) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i.

(v. i.) To feel resentment.

(v. i.) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

(v. t..) To reduce.

(n.) A central or retired work within any other work.

(n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.

(n.) A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.

(v. t.) To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.

(n.) An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.]

(n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.

(n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

(n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.

(v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket.

(n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

(n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

(v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.

(v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.

(v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.

(v. t.) To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.

(v.) The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.

(v. t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

(v. t.) To maintain; to defend.

(v. t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

(v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

(v. i.) To lend aid; to help.

(v. i.) To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.

(v. t.) To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]

(v. t.) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo.

(v. i.) To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.

(n.) A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

(v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.

(v. i.) To escape.

(n.) A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.

(adv.) Alt. of Ataunto

(n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter.

(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.

(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.

(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.

(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

(n.) Bullion in the bar or mass.

(n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.

(n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

(n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

(a.) Alt. of Bipontine

(v. t.) Attentive; heedful.

(n.) Attention; heed.

(v. t.) To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

(v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.

(v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke.

(n.) Witness; testimony; attestation.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into two parts.

(v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.

(n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

(n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.

(n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

(adv.) Betwixt.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

(a.) Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.

(a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

(n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.

(n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

(n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

(n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.

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

(n.) Same as Bascinet.

(n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.

(a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.

(n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.

(v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

(n.) One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.

(v. t.) To divide into plots or parts; to apportion.

(v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

(v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

(v. i.) To come or chance (upon).

(a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.

(v. t.) To allure; to entice.

(a.) Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.

(a.) Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.

(a.) Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.

(adv.) Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.

(a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

(a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes.

(a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.

(n.) Alt. of Alpia

(n.) The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.

(n.) See Abnet.

(n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.

(v. t.) To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

(v. t.) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.

(n.) Silver, or money.

(n.) Whiteness; anything that is white.

(n.) The white color in coats of arms, intended to represent silver, or, figuratively, purity, innocence, beauty, or gentleness; -- represented in engraving by a plain white surface.

(a.) Made of silver; of a silvery color; white; shining.

(adv.) Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

(prep.) Alt. of Amid

(n.) An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.

(n.) A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks.

(n.) A petty love affair or amour.

(n.) A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea.

(n.) An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm.

(n.) Armor for the arm.

(n.) To go up; to ascend.

(n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

(n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

(v. t.) To signify; to amount to.

(n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

(n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.

(n.) The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

(interj.) Stand off, or begone.

(v. t.) To drive or scare off by some exclamation.

(interj.) See Aroint.

(n.) Alt. of Arpen

(v. t.) To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

(v. t.) To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.

(n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.

(n.) Same as Rabbet joint, below.

(n.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand.

(n.) A scraping; a shaving.

(n.) Ramenta.

(n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

(adv. & a.) Squatting.

(n.) An annotator.

(n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

(v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

(v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.

(v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.

(n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

(n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.

(n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

(n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.

(n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.

(interj.) Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

(v. t. & i.) To advance; to move forward; to elevate.

(v. t. & i.) To depart; to move away.

(v. t. & i.) To vaunt; to boast.

(n.) A vaunt; to boast.

(a.) Cast down; low-lying.

(a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

(a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

(n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

(n.) An advocate.

(n.) Alt. of Avoset

(n.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana.

(n.) Same as Avocet.

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

(n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.

(n.) A spade for digging turf.

(n.) A believer in Babism.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.

(imp.) of Begird

(p. p.) of Begird

(v. t.) To encompass; to begird.

(n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.

(n.) A vow; a promise.

(v. t.) To vow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beleave

(n.) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.

(n.) Alt. of Baguette

(v. t.) To meet.

(v. t.) To envelop in mist.

(a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

(v. t.) To pelt roundly.

(n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

(n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.

(n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

(n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

() of Bereave

() imp. & p. p. of Bereave.

(n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

(n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

(n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.

(n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

(v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

(v. t.) To restore after hunger or fatigue; to refresh.

(n.) Alt. of Byzantine

(n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

(n.) Same as Cabree.

(n.) A seal, as of a letter.

(a.) Falling.

(v. t.) To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

(v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.

(v. t.) To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.

(v. t.) To be distasteful to.

(v. i.) To make opposition.

(n.) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.

(n.) Active power or movement; spring.

(v. i.) To go; to repair; to betake one's self.

(v. i.) To fall back; to revert.

(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.

(v.) The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.

(v.) A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.

(v.) That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.

(v. i.) To leap back; to rebound.

(v. i.) To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.

(v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.

(n.) A flying back; resilience.

(n.) That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.

(n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

(n.) That which is retained.

(n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.

(n.) To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

(n.) To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

(n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.

(v. i.) To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.

(v. t.) The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

(v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.

(n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.

(n.) Same as Rundlet.

(n.) See Rennet.

(a.) Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.

(a.) Coarse; homespun; rustic.

(n.) A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

(n.) Cloth or clothing of a russet color.

(n.) A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.

(n.) An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet.

(n.) In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.

(n.) Same as Callet.

(n.) A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.

(v. i.) To rail or scold.

(n.) A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.

(n.) A close cap without visor or brim.

(n.) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law.

(n.) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets.

(n.) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.

(n.) A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.

(v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

(v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

(v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.

(v. i.) To return; to come back.

(v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

(v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

(v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

(n.) One who, or that which, reverts.

(v. t.) To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.

(v. t.) To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.

(v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.

() Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.

(n.) See Bezant.

(v. t.) To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.

(n.) Befitting associates or attendants.

(n.) A headdress for men and boys; a cap.

(n.) A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.

(n.) A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

(n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

(imp.) of Bespit

(p. p.) of Bespit

(v. t.) To daub or soil with spittle.

(v. t.) To mark with spots, or as with spots.

(n.) Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use

(n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.

(n.) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.

(n.) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.

(n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.

(n.) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.

(n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.

(n.) The second stomach of a ruminating animal.

(n.) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.

(v. i.) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.

(n.) Alt. of Bosquet

(imp. & p. p.) of Beweep

(n.) A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.

(n.) A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.

(n.) A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

(n.) A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

(n.) An instrument or weapon with two prongs.

(n.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.

(n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.

(n.) The part of a sling that contains the stone.

() imp. & p. p. of Buy.

(p. a.) Purchased; bribed.

(n.) To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

(n.) Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.

(n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

(v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.

(v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.

(n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.

(n.) A revolter.

(a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.

(a.) Exercising vicarious authority.

(a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.

(a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.

(a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

(a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.

(n.) A register.

(n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.

(n.) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.

(v.) Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.

(v.) Dislike; aversion.

(v. t.) To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.

(v. t.) To heat again.

(v. t.) To revive; to cheer; to cherish.

(a.) Laughing.

(v. t.) To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

(v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

(v. t.) To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

(n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

(v. t.) To jolt or shake again.

(n.) See Reglet.

(n.) A little rill.

(v. i.) To part; to divide; to separate.

(v. i.) To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination.

(v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading.

(v. i.) To pass away; to perish.

(v. i.) To quit this world; to die.

(v. t.) To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.

(v. t.) To divide in order to share; to apportion.

(v. t.) To leave; to depart from.

(n.) Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.

(n.) A going away; departure; hence, death.

(p. p.) Depicted.

(p. p.) Depicted.

(v. t.) To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.

(v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.

(v. t.) To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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

(n.) Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment.

(n.) The act of shriving.

(n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it.

(n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

(n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.

(n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

(v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.

(v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.

(v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

(v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

(n.) A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.

(n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.

(n.) A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet.

(a.) Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.

(a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.

(a.) Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.

(a.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."

(a.) Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.

(n.) That which is silent; a time of silence.

(a.) Detected.

(v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.

(v. t.) To inform against; to accuse.

(n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.

(n.) Bad small beer.

(n.) Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious.

(n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

(n.) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

(a.) A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

(v. i.) See Brite, v. i.

(a.) Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.

(a.) Transmitting light; clear; transparent.

(a.) Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty.

(a.) Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.

() imp. & p. p. of Catch.

(a.) Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.

(a.) Illustrious; glorious.

(a.) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.

(a.) Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.

(n.) Splendor; brightness.

(adv.) Brightly.

(v. t.) To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.

(n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.

(n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

(n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.

(v. i.) To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.

(n.) Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

(v. t.) To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.

(n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

(n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

(n.) A setting out, starting, or beginning.

(n.) A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.

(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.

(n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.

(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.

(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.

(n.) To unite firmly or closely.

(n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.

(n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.

(v. i.) To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.

(a.) Knowing; skillful.

(n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

(n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

(n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.

(n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

(n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

(n.) The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.

(n.) A little bud springing from a parent bud.

(n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

(n.) A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

(v. i.) A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

(v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.

(v. i.) A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

(v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

(v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

(v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

(v. i.) To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

(v. i.) To make one's way by blows or struggling.

(n.) A small ball.

(n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

(n.) A cannon ball.

(n.) The fetlock of a horse.

(n.) A writing; a written document.

(n.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

(n.) An original instrument or document.

(n.) Written characters; style of writing.

(n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.

(a.) See Natant.

(v. t.) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

(v. t.) To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.

(v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.

(n.) See Sennit .

(n.) A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia, / Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles.

(n.) A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material.

(n.) A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line.

(n.) A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching.

(n.) A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

(n.) The lapwing.

(n.) A young boar of the second year.

(n.) A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.

(n.) The pignut.

(n.) In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant.

(v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

(v. i.) To be cut, notched, or dented.

(v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

(v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.

(n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

(n.) A stamp; an impression.

(n.) A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.

(n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

(adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

(v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

(v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

(v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

(n.) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

(n.) A dressing table.

(n.) Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect.

(n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

(v. t.) To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

(v. t.) To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies.

(n.) Alt. of Indulto

(n.) A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse.

(n.) The wren.

(n.) A small, broad-headed nail.

(v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.

(p. p.) Addicted; devoted.

(v. t.) To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.

(v. t.) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

(n.) A little tag.

(n.) A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

(n.) A game played by children with nuts.

(n.) A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

(n.) A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.

(n.) A covenant.

(n.) Same as Grommet.

(v. t.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.

(v. t.) Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.

(v. t.) Inclination; will; disposition; desire.

(v. t.) Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).

(v. t.) To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.

(v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.

(v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.

(v. i.) To practice extortion.

(p. p. & a.) Extorted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sublet

(v. t.) To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.

(n.) In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.

(n.) A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion.

(n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

(n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

(n.) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.

(n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

(n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.

(n.) A glutton.

(n.) A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.

(n.) A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

(n.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

(n.) Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions

(n.) A channel for water.

(n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.

(n.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

(a.) See Taut.

() imp. & p. p. of Teach.

(n.) A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge.

(n.) One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins.

(n.) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.

(superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

(adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

(a.) A narrow pass or passage.

(a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.

(a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.

(a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.

(v. t.) To put to difficulties.

(a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

(a.) Drawn.

(a.) Close; narrow; strict.

(n.) See Splent.

(n.) See Splent coal, below.

(v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.

(v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.

(v. t.) A splint bone.

(v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

(a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

(a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.

(a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.

(a.) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.

(a.) Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.

(a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

(n.) A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

(v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.

(v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.

(v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.

(v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.

() of Spoil

(n.) See Earnest.

(a.) Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.

(a.) Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.

(a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

(n.) One who wanders about.

() p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.

(v. i.) To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.

(n.) The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.

(v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.

(v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.

(v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.

(v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.

(v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.

(v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.

(v. i.) To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.

(n.) Anything short and stiff.

(n.) A leap; a spring.

(n.) A steep ascent in a road.

(a.) Active; lively; vigorous.

(n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.

(n.) A place dug out.

(n.) A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.

(a.) Sweet to the taste; luscious.

(a.) Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.

(a.) Alt. of Sejeant

(a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.

(v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.

(n.) Same as Comfit.

(n.) A convent or monastery.

(v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

(v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.

(v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.

(a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.

(a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

(n.) A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.

(n.) The barracuda.

(n.) A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

(n.) Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.

(adv.) In a bursting condition.

(n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

(n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

(n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.

(n.) A word; a significant tone

(n.) expressions in general; speech.

(n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

(n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

(n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.

(n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.

(n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

(n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.

(n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.

(n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.

(v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.

(v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

(v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

(v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.

(v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

(v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?

(v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.

(v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

(a.) Accepted.

(n.) A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.

(n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.

(n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.

(n.) Alt. of Septette

(n.) The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.

(a.) Creative; formative.

(v. i.) To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.

(v. i.) To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, cruel, or the like; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.

(v. t.) To slacken; to abate.

(v. t.) To soften; to dissolve.

(v. t.) To mollify ; to cause to be less harsh or severe.

(n.) Stay; stop; delay.

(n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

() imp. & p. p. of Reach.

() imp. & p. p. of Reck.

(v. i.) To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.

(n.) In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.

(n.) A quick and sharp refort; a repartee.

(v. t.) To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.

() of Reach

(v. t.) To melt again.

(n.) See Herb Robert, under Herb.

(a.) Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

(a.) Violent; rough; rude.

(a.) Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.

(n.) A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies.

(n.) A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

(n.) The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard.

(n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

(n.) Damewort.

(n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.

(n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.

(n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.

(v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

(v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.

(v. t.) Gnawing.

(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.

(n.) One of the Rodentia.

(a.) Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.

(a.) Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.

(a.) Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected.

(a.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off.

(n.) An abrupt place.

(v. t.) To tear off or asunder.

(v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.

(v. i.) To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.

(v. t.) To throw again.

(v. t.) To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.

(v. t.) To compute, or cast up, a second time.

(n.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.

(v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk.

(a.) Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.

(n.) The act of taking food.

(n.) That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment.

(v. t. & i.) To supply food to; to feast; to take food.

(v. t.) To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

(v. t.) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

(v. t.) To repay or refund (an excess received).

(n.) The act of repeating; repetition.

(n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

(n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

(a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.

(a.) Same as Reptant.

(v. i.) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.

(v. i.) To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.

(v. i.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.

(v. t.) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

(v. t.) To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.

(v. t.) To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.

(v. i.) To hit another's ball with one's own.

(v. t.) To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.

(v. t.) To refer.

(v. t.) To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress.

(v. t.) To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported.

(v. t.) To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.

(v. t.) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

(v. t.) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.

(v. t.) To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

(v. t.) To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.

(v. t.) To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.

(v. i.) To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

(v. i.) To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.

(v. i.) To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.

(v. t.) That which is reported.

(v. t.) An account or statement of the results of examination or inquiry made by request or direction; relation.

(v. t.) A story or statement circulating by common talk; a rumor; hence, fame; repute; reputation.

(v. t.) Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon.

(v. t.) An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like.

(v. t.) An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports.

(v. t.) A sketch, or a fully written account, of a speech, debate, or the proceedings of a public meeting, legislative body, etc.

(v. t.) Rapport; relation; connection; reference.

() imp. of Reach.

() imp. of Reck, to care.

(v. t.) To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc.

(v. t.) To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.

(v. t.) To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

(v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

(n.) A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediaeval fortifications.

(n.) The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given to similar wines made in the United States.

(n.) A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century.

(n.) Alt. of Salleting

(n.) The parr.

(n.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

(n.) A dependent; one under the protection of another.

(n.) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

(n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.

(n.) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

(n.) A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.

(n.) A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.

(n.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.

(n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

(n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

(n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.

(v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

(v. t.) To make into a closet for a secret interview.

(a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

(a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.

(a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.

(v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To withhold from being present.

(n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

(n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.

(n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.

(n.) The face of a coal working.

(n.) The front of a furnace.

(n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.

(n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.

(v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

(n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.

(n.) A kind of burial case.

(n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed

(n.) The body.

(n.) The tomb.

(n.) A book of selections.

(n.) A gasket. See Gasket.

(v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

(n.) A torus.

(n.) A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

(n.) A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.

(v. t.) To confer rank upon by brevet.

(a.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.

(imp. & p. p.) of Catch

(n.) Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.

(v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

(v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

(n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.

(n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.

(n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

(n.) See Scout.

(n.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.

(n.) The last six lines of a sonnet.

(n.) A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.

(n.) A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.

(n.) See Cruet.

(n.) A very fine, hairlike feather.

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

(a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner.

(a. & adv.) In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.

(n.) The coronet of a horse.

(n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

(v. t.) To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

(n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.

(n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

(a.) Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.

(a.) Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.

(a.) Comely; shapely; well-formed.

(a.) Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.

(v. t.) To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

(v. t.) To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.

(v. t.) To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.

(n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.

(n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

(v. t.) To cut short; to curtail.

(v. t.) Broken glass for remelting.

(n.) A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

(v. t.) To lead forth or out.

(v. t.) To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.

(v. t.) To reduce; to diminish.

(n.) Delight; pleasure.

(n.) A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.

(n.) A pipe to let off water.

(n.) In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

(n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

(n.) A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.

(n.) A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

(n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off.

(n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.

(n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.

(n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Offset

(v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.

(v. t.) To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.

(v. i.) To make an offset.

(a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

(n.) Fig.: Looking askance.

(v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.

(v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.

(v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

(v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.

(v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.

(n.) The act or habit of squinting.

(n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

(n.) Same as Hagioscope.

(n.) See Durance, 3.

(v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.

(v. i.) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.

(v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.

(n.) An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.

(n.) A small, quick stream; a jet.

(n.) Spirit.

(n.) A ruler; a governor; a prince.

(n.) A dynasty; a government.

(n.) A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.

(n.) Anything resembling a gusset in a garment

(n.) A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.

(n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.

(n.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.

(v. t.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

(p. p.) Takes away.

(a.) Gyrating.

(imp. & p. p.) of Teach

(n.) A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim.

() A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain't, he hain't, we hain't.

(n.) That which is cut off.

(n.) A portion ofthe printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.

(a.) Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities.

(a.) Guilty; -- the opposite of innocent.

(n.) A criminal.

(n.) A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom.

(a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.

(a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.

(a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.

(a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

(a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.

(n.) See Toque, 1.

(n.) A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.

(n.) An infant in arms.

(n.) A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.

(n.) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.

(a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.

(n.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

(n.) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

(n.) Coming; any important arrival; approach.

(v. i.) To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

(n.) A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.

(n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

(n.) Same as Infante.

(a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

(a.) Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

(v. t.) To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general.

(v. t.) Infected. Cf. Enfect.

(v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.

(v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.

(v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.

(v. t.) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

(a.) Felt inwardly; heartfelt.

(v. t.) Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

(v. t.) To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass; as, fleas infest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates.

(n.) A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.

(n.) An owl. See Howlet.

(v. t.) To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

(v. t.) To encircle to gird; to engirt.

(a.) Surrounded; encircled.

(v. t.) To glut.

(n.) See Mawmet.

(n.) A minute bloodsucking fly.

(n.) A very diminutive person.

(n.) A small yelping cur.

(n.) A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

(v. t.) To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.

(n.) A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman.

(n.) Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet.

(n.) In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack.

(n.) A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.

(n.) A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering.

(v. t.) To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.

(n.) latching.

(a.) Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.

(n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.

(n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.

(a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

(v. i.) To pain velvet.

(v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.

(n.) Alt. of Waught

(n.) A large draught of any liquid.

(a.) Beautiful.

(n.) Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.

(v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.

(v. i.) To be torn up by the roots.

(v. t.) To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.

(v. t.) Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.

(v. t.) To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

(a.) Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off.

(v. t.) To open, or throw open.

(a.) Not soft; hard; coarse; rough.

(adv.) Not softly.

(a.) Not sweet.

(n.) To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth.

(n.) To obtain a share of; to partake of.

(n.) To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.

(v. i.) To give a part or share.

(v. i.) To hold a conference or consultation.

(v. t.) Not to suit; to be unfit for.

(v. t.) To bring out of a tent.

() of Impen

(a.) Not known; unknown.

(a.) Not knowing; unwitting.

(v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague.

(n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

(n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

(n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

(n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.

(a.) Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed.

(n.) An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.

(a.) Lying at length; as, the jacent posture.

(n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

(n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.

(n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

(n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.

(v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.

(v. t.) To thrash; to beat.

(a.) Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes.

(n.) A cast; a throw.

(n.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.

(n.) An upset, as from a carriage.

(n.) A taunt; a reproach.

(v. t.) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.

(v. t.) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.

(v. t.) To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

(n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

(a.) Highest; topmost; uppermost.

(a.) A Pent up; confined.

(n.) Uprising.

() imp. of Uprise. Uprose.

(v. t.) To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.

(n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

() An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language.

(v. t.) To waft upward.

(n.) An earthnut.

(v. t.) To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc.

(v. t.) To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify.

(v. t.) To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.

(v. i.) To signify; to purport; to be of moment.

(n.) Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.

(n.) That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.

(n.) Importance; weight; consequence.

(n.) That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.

(n.) The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.

(a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

(v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

(v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.

(v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.

(v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.

(v. t.) To dispose or incline.

(v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.

(v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.

(v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.

(v. t.) To assign; to appoint.

(n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

(a.) Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge.

(a.) Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness.

(n.) The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort; as, he has done his utmost; try your utmost.

(a.) Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.

(a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

(a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.

(a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

(a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

(n.) A small Spanish horse; a genet.

(p. p.) Acquitted; set free; rid of.

(v. t.) To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.

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

(v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.

(v. t.) To clear one's self.

(v. t.) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.

(n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans.

(n.) The throat.

(n.) A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.

(n.) A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite.

(n.) See Poke.

(a.) Contaminated with illegality.

(n.) A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.

(n.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.

(n.) A turret; a watchtower.

(n.) That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.

(n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

(n.) The European golden-eye.

(n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

(n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.

(n.) Any ring or washer of packing.

() of Engird

(v. t.) To engird.

(n.) A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.

(v. t.) To devastate.

(v. t.) To divest; to undress.

(v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.

(v. i.) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.

(v. t.) Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.

(v. t.) Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture.

(v. t.) Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout wishes for one's welfare.

(n.) A devotee.

(n.) A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion.

(v. t.) To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.

(n.) A skeleton. See Scelet.

(a.) Devastated; laid waste.

(v. t.) To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.

(v. t.) To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.

(v. i.) To turn aside; to digress.

(v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

(v. t.) Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.

(v. t.) See Devest.

(a.) Serving to instruct; teaching.

(n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.

(n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.

(n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.

(n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.

(n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.

(v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.

(v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.

(v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.

(v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.

(n.) A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.

(n.) Docket. See Docket.

(a.) Sorrowful.

(n.) A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen.

(v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

(v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

(v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

(v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

(v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

(v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

(v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

(v. t.) To ripen; to mature.

(v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

(v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

(v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

(v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

(v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

(n.) A dotard.

(n.) Alt. of Dowset

(n.) A custard.

(n.) A dowcet, or deep's testicle.

(v. t.) To swallow or gulp down.

(v. t.) To glut.

(n.) A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

(a.) Eloquent.

() imp. & p. p. of Seek.

(v. t.) To encourage.

(v. t.) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

(v. t.) To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.

(v. t.) To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.

(v. i.) To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.

(v. i.) To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.

(v. t.) To infold, as in a mist.

(a.) Anointed.

(p. a.) Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.

(v. t.) To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.

(n.) A stiletto.

(n.) See Stylet, 2.

(n.) A woodpecker.

(n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.

(n.) Alt. of Sextetto

(v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

(v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.

(v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.

(v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.

(v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.

(v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.

(v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.

(n.) A cuirass.

(n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

(n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.

(v. i.) To fail; to become deficient.

(v. t.) To injure; to damage.

(n.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

(n.) A prank; a frolic.

(n.) To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.

(n.) To leap and frisk; to frolic.

(v. t.) To cause to curvet.

(n.) The ringdove or wood pigeon.

(n.) A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

(n.) A young swan.

() A contraction of shall not.

(v. t.) To taste.

(v. t.) To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.

(v. t.) To cast down.

(v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

(a.) Dejected.

(v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

(v. t.) To approach; to make up to.

(v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.

(v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.

(n.) Address; greeting.

(n.) One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.

(n.) An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.

(n.) Alt. of Dakoity

(v. t.) To deprive of reason; to make mad.

(a.) Demented; dementate.

(a.) Cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line.

(a.) A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points.

(a.) A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.

(a.) Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.

(a.) Withdraw from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.

(a.) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.

(a.) Separate; distinct.

(a.) Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.

(a.) A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.

(a.) The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.

(v. t.) To keep secret.

(n.) A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.

(n.) A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

(n.) A fool; an idiot, a coward.

(n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.

(n.) A spinny.

(n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

(n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.

(n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.

(n.) The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.

(n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.

(n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.

(n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.

(n.) One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.

(n.) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.

(n.) Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.

(n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.

(n.) Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural.

(n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.

(n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.

(n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

(n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.

(v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.

(v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.

(a.) A variant of Straight.

(superl.) Narrow; not broad.

(superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

(superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

(superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

(superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

(n.) A believer in monism.

(p. p.) Farfetched.

(n.) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.

(n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

(n.) The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.

(a.) Bearing; carrying.

(a.) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

(v. t.) To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.

(v. t.) To wait for; to await.

(v. t.) To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.

(v. t.) To wait; to stay.

(n.) Expectation.

(a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

(n.) An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

(n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

(n.) A sworn appraiser.

(v. t.) To experience.

(v. t.) Alt. of Explate

(v. t.) To carry away; to remove.

(v. t.) To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.

(n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

(n.) That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.

(v. t.) A cutting out or away.

(v. t.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.

(a.) Alt. of Exserted

(a.) Lamentable; doleful.

(a.) Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

(a.) Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.

(a.) Publicly known; conspicuous.

(a.) Extended.

(n.) Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.

(n.) Degree; measure; proportion.

(n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.

(n.) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

(n.) The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant.

(n.) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

(n.) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

(n.) Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.

(n.) A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

(n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.

(n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

(n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

(v. t.) To inclose in a cyst.

(v. t.) See Indict.

(n.) A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.

(n.) Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

(n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

(v. t.) To warn; to admonish; to advise.

(n.) A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.

(n.) Impulsive power; force; momentum.

(n.) Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.

(n.) An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.

(n.) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.

(n.) Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.

(n.) Guile; trickery.

(n.) A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

(n.) A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

(n.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.

(v. t.) To hang and expose on a gibbet.

(v. t.) To expose to infamy; to blacken.

(a.) Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.

(n.) Same as Gigot.

(v. i.) To swell out; to strut.

(n.) Alt. of Giglet

(n.) A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl.

(a.) Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton.

(v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.

(v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

(n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.

(v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.

(v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.

(n.) Spirituous liquor.

(n.) See Genet, a horse.

(v. t.) To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

(n.) Molestation.

(n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

(n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.

(n.) A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.

(n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.

(n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.

(n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

(a.) Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.

(a.) Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman.

(a.) Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy.

(n.) A verse.

(n.) An earring.

(n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

(n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.

(v. t.) To cover with trees or wood.

(imp.) of Forget

() of Forget

() of Forget

(v. t.) To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.

(v. t.) To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.

() imp. & p. p. of Forget.

(v. t.) To give up; to leave; to abandon.

(n.) A faucet.

() imp. & p. p. of Fight.

(v. t.) To vomit.

(n.) A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

(n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

(n.) Manifestation; expression; sign.

(n.) In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.

(n.) Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

(n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.

(n.) Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.

(n.) The purport; the sum and substance.

(n.) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

(n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.

(v. t.) To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.

(v. t.) To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.

(v. t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

(v. t.) To object to; to protest against.

(v. i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

(prep.) With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

(conj.) Unless; if it be not so that.

(n.) One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.

(n.) Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer.

(n.) A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.

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(a.) Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.

(v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.

(v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.

(v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.

(v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.

(v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.

(v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.

(v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

(v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

(v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.

(v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

(n.) The king parrakeet See under King.

(n.) A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

(n.) A small poniard; a stiletto.

(n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.

(n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.

(n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.

(v. t.) To reduce; to subdue.

(v. t.) To let down; to lower.

(v. t.) To put or place under.

(v. t.) To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.

(v. i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.

(v. i.) To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.

(v. i.) To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.

(n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.

(n.) A weaver's knife. See Trevat.

(v. t.) A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.

(n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

(a.) Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.

(v. i.) To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.

(v. t.) To idle away; to waste.

(n.) A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.

(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.

(n.) A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.

(n.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

(n.) See Gurglet.

(n.) The top; the highest point.

(n.) The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.

(n.) The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated.

(n.) See Muscat.

(n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.

(v. t.) To free from dust.

(n.) The text of a book.

(v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.

(v. t.) To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring.

(v. i.) To inveigh.

(v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

(v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.

(v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

(a.) Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.

(a.) Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.

(a.) Unknown; strange.

(v. t.) To undo or unravel what is knitted together.

(v. t.) To free from knots; to untie.

(v. t.) To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.

(v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

(v. t.) To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

(v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.

(v. i.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

(a.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

(n.) An inverted arch.

(v. t.) To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

(v. t.) To put on.

(v. t.) To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate.

(v. t.) To surround, accompany, or attend.

(v. t.) To confer; to give.

(v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

(v. t.) To lay out (money or capital) in business with the /iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.

(v. i.) To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.

(a.) Invincible.

(n.) A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.

(n.) Listlessness; disinclination.

(a.) Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for.

(v. t.) To eject from a nest; to unnestle.

(v. t.) To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe.

(n.) A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.

(n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

(n.) A whim; an odd fancy.

(n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.

(n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.

(n.) The keeper and driver of an elephant.

(n.) A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.

(v. t.) To cut completely; to cut off.

(n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.

(n.) A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk.

(n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

(n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

(n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

(n.) A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air.

(n.) Same as Tidbit.

(v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

(v.) A little note or notice.

(v.) A tradesman's bill or account.

(v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.

(v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.

(n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

(v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.

(v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.

(v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

(v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.

(n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.

(n.) An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.

(n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.

(n.) A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.

(n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.

(v. t.) To exhort; to advise.

(p. p.) of Adight

(v. t.) To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress.

(n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.

(n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.

(v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

(n.) A tenet.

(n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.

(n.) A triplet.

(n.) A triplet; a group of three lines.

(n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.

(v. i.) To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts.

(n.) Uneasiness; restlessness.

(n.) A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria.

(a.) Fidgety; restless.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fight

(n.) A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

(n.) A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

(n.) A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

(n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

(n.) A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

(n.) An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

(n.) The thread of a screw.

(n.) A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

(n.) The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

(n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.

(n.) A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

(n.) The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

(v. t.) To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

(n.) One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.

(n.) A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.

(n.) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.

(n.) A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal.

(n.) A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.

(a.) Wanton; lewd; low; base.

(v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.

(n.) A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.

(n.) The lapwing; -- called also teuchit.

(n.) The lapwing; -- called also teewheep.

(n.) The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.

(n.) One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.

(a.) High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud.

(v. t.) To add or annex; to join.

(n.) A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods.

(a.) Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized.

(v. t.) To pierce, as with a dart.

(v. t.) To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted.

(n.) A performer who keeps good time.

(n.) A timeserver.

(v. t.) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

(v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.

(v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

(v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.

(n.) One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.

(n.) A whisket, or basket.

(n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.

(n.) A little moon.

(n.) A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

(n.) A long-haired pet dog.

(n.) A pompet.

(n.) A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.

(n.) A presbyter elder; a minister

(n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.

(n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

(n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.

(v. t.) To ordain as priest.

(n.) The magpie.

(n.) The lesser woodpecker.

(a.) Western; occidental.

(n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim.

(n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

(n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

(n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

(n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.

(n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

(n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.

(v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.

(v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.

(v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.

(v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

(v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

(n.) See Groundnut (d).

(n.) The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (Carya glabra, / porcina); also, the tree itself.

(n.) See Puppet.

(n.) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.

(n.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.

(n.) Wine flavored with spice or honey. See Pigment, 3.

(n.) A young hog; a pig.

(n.) A scallion; a leek or small onion.

(n.) A pinnacle.

(n.) An owl; an owlet.

(v. t.) To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

(v. t.) Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill.

(v. t.) To cast or throw; -- with on.

(v. t.) To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.

(v. t.) To fasten or bind, as with a knot; to knot together.

(n.) Alt. of Trajetry

(a.) Lighted by the sun.

(n.) Alt. of Sunsetting

(n.) A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare.

(n.) A steak; a collop.

(n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.

(n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.

(n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.

(n.) The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.

(n.) Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.

(n.) Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.

(v. i.) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

(n.) A ruff worn by women.

(n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.

(n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.

(n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.

(n.) One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.

(n.) The turbot.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.

(n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.

(n.) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.

(n.) The trigger fish.

(v. & n.) See Grant.

(v. t.) To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

(n.) A small table or flat surface.

(n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

(n.) Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

(n.) A kind of pocket memorandum book.

(n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

(n.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

(n.) A taboret.

(v. t.) Alt. of Humectate

(a.) Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost.

(n.) An Eskimo.

(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.

(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.

(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.

(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

(v. t.) To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.

(v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

(v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.

(v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

(v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

(v. i.) To leap or jump.

(v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.

(a.) Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire.

(v. i.) To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

(v. i.) To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money.

(a.) Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

(a.) Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure.

(n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim.

(v. t.) To remove or loose the belt of; to ungird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Unbend

(v. t.) To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open.

(v. i.) To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation.

(v. t.) To take off the boots from.

(v. t.) To take from, or set free from, a cart; to unload.

(v. t.) To unhorse.

() A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this).

(n.) A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.

(n.) A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.

(v. t.) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood.

(v. t.) To treat with possets; to pamper.

(n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.

(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,

(n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.

(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.

(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.

(n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.

(n.) The male of the sparrow hawk.

(n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.

(n.) One who follows the fashion.

(n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.

(n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.

(n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

(v. t.) To act beforehand; to perform previously.

(a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.

(n.) A prince; a potentate.

(n.) A staff or crutch.

(a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.

(a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.

(n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.

(v. t.) To set pr place wrongly.

(n.) A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

(v. t.) To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.

(v. t.) To suggest; to dictate.

(v. t.) To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.

(n.) A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.

(n.) Alt. of Mascotte

(n.) One who plays on a lute.

(n.) The razor-billed auk. See Auk.

(n.) The common guillemot.

(n.) The puffin.

(n.) Any rodent of the genus Arctomys. The common European marmot (A. marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.

(n.) Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.

(n.) A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.

(n.) A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.

(n.) An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods.

(n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.

(n.) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.

(n.) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.

(v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

(v. t.) To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.

(n.) A kind of bellflower, Companula Trachelium, once called Viola Mariana; but it is not a violet.

(a.) Shining; bright; resplendent.

(n.) A dog.

(n.) The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.

(n.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.

(n.) An idol; a puppet; a doll.

(n.) Market; trade.

(n.) In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.

(n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.

(n.) Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.

(n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.

(n.) A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.

(n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.

(n.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.

(n.) A small log or piece of wood.

(n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.

(n.) The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).

(n.) See Pewit.

(a.) Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.

(n.) A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.

(v. i.) To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.

(v. t.) To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

(n.) Anything displayed for show.

(n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.

(n.) Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.

(n.) To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.

(n.) To have a vehement desire.

(v. t.) To have a thirst for.

(v. t.) To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

(v. t.) To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.

(v. t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

(v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.

(n.) Sleight.

(v. t.) To overthrow; to demolish.

(v. t.) To make even or level.

(v. t.) To throw heedlessly.

(superl.) Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; -- applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.

(superl.) Not stout or heavy; slender.

(superl.) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.

(v. t.) To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.

(n.) The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.

(adv.) Slightly.

(p. p.) of Thraste

(n.) The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

(n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.

(n.) Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.

(n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.

(n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.

(n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.

(n.) The husk or glume of oats.

(n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.

(n.) To threaten.

(n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.

(n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.

(n.) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

(n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

(n.) Thrist.

(n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.

(n.) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.

(n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

(n.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

(n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

(n.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.

(n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

(n.) The inside of a timber knee.

(n.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

(v. t.) To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.

(v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.

(n.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.

(n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.

(n.) A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

(a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.

(a.) Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.

(adv.) Nothing.

(adv.) The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.

(adv.) In no degree; not at all.

(a.) Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.

(a.) Hence, vile; base; naughty.

(a.) Nodding; having the top bent downward.

(n.) A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

(n.) A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.

(a.) Rising, as the sun.

(a.) Eastern; oriental.

(a.) Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.

(n.) The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

(n.) The countries of Asia or the East.

(n.) A pearl of great luster.

(v. t.) To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.

(v. t.) Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.

(n.) A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

(n.) A feast; an entertainment.

(v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.

(v. t.) To give entertainment to; to feast.

(v. t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

(v. t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.

(v. i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.

(v. t.) That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.

(v. t.) That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc.

(v. t.) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause.

(v. t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.

(v. t.) A word, phrase, or clause toward which an action is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb.

(a.) Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.

(a.) Wicked.

(n.) A performer on the oboe.

(n.) One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.

(adv.) While.

(n.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).

(n.) The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.

(n.) In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

(n.) Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

(a.) Green; not withered.

(n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.

(n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.

(n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.

(n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.

(n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.

(n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.

(a.) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

(n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

(n.) A levanter (the wind so called).

(a.) Eastern.

(v. i.) To run away from one's debts; to decamp.

(n.) An ingot.

(n.) A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

(n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.

(n.) A young or small lion.

(n.) A little lip.

(a.) Sipping; touching lightly.

(a.) Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.

(a.) Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid.

(a.) Represented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant.

(n.) One who makes a vow.

(n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.

(n.) A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

(n.) A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.

(a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

(a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

(a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.

(a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

(n.) Appearance; air; mien.

(n.) Manifestation; token; portent.

(a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

(a.) A writing securing to an invention.

(a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

(a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

(v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

(v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke as a witness.

(v. t.) To beseech; to supplicate; to beg for.

(v. i.) To protest.

(v. t.) To turn toward.

(a.) Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.

(v. t.) To eclipse; to hide from sight.

(n.) An American feline carnivore (Felis pardalis). It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

(n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.

(n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.

(n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.

(n.) One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.

(v. t.) To do or beyond; to exceed in acting.

(n.) A little or short ode.

(n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

(n.) A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.

(n.) That which jets out or projects from anything.

(n.) The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.

(v. t.) To let out; to emit.

(n.) The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.

(n.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the faeces. See Income.

(n.) A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.

(n.) The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.

(n.) A decree or determination; a dictum.

(n.) Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.

(n.) An accusation or protest on account of an injury.

(n.) A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing.

(a.) Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.

(n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.

(n.) An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.

(n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.

(v. i.) To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.

(v. t.) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.

(v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

(v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

(v. i.) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.

(n.) A muscle of the human body.

(n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.

(n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.

(n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.

(n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.

(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.

(n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

(v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.

(n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

(n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.

(v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.

(v. t.) To paint; to cover over.

(v. i.) To lay on plaster.

(v. i.) To paint, as the face.

(n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.

(n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.

(n.) Paint, especially for the face.

(v. t.) To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

(v. t.) To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act; to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive.

(v. t.) To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit.

(v. i.) To grant permission; to allow.

(n.) Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.

(v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.

(v.) Favorable to pliancy.

() imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.

() imp. & p. p. of Pluck.

(v. t.) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

(n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

(n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

(n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.

(n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.

(n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.

(n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

(n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.

(v. t.) To worry; to annoy.

(n.) Worry; anxiety.

(n.) Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note.

(imp.) Might.

(n.) One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.

(n.) A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.

(n.) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.

(a.) Moving.

(n.) That which moves anything.

(n.) The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare.

(n.) A beast; especially, a beast of burden.

(n.) A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks.

(n.) The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.

(n.) Something that fits badly, as a garment.

(n.) The small entrails of a calf or a hog.

(n.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe, and M. cephalus which occurs both on the European and American coasts.

(n.) Any species of the genus Mullus, or family Mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.

(n.) A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.

(n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.

(v. t.) To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.

(n.) A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper.

(n.) A bullet; a ball for firearms.

(v./.) To form into small balls.

(n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.

(n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.

(v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot.

(v. i.) To chatter like a parrot.

(n.) A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

(n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.

(n.) A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.

(n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.

(n.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.

(n.) A hole containing water.

(n.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

(n.) Same as Pouch.

(v. t.) To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

(v. t.) To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

(a.) One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.

(n.) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

(v. t.) To premise.

(n.) A pavement.

(n.) The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

(n.) Destiny; fate.

(n.) The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.

(n.) A small image in the human form; a doll.

(n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.

(n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.

(n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

(n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

(n.) Same as Palette.

(n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.

(n.) A potter's wheel.

(n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

(n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

(n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.

(n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

(n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

(n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.

(n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

(n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

(n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.

(n.) See Picket.

(n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.