(adv.) In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.

(n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

(n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.

(n.) A vibratory or reciprocating motion.

(n.) Same as Crossruff.

(v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

(v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

(a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

(superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.

(v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.

(v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

(v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.

(v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.

(v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

(v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

(v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.

(v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.

(v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.

(v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.

(v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.

(v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.

(v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

(v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.

(n.) An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

(n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.

(n.) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.

(n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.

(v. i.) To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.

(v. i.) To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.

(n.) Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.

(imp.) of Redraw

(v. t.) To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.

(v. i.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.

(n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.

(n.) A great wave or flood of anything.

(v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.

(n.) A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

(n.) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.

(n.) A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.

(n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.

(n.) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

(n.) A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

(n.) Fig.: A magnate or grandee.

(n.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

(v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

(v. t.) To confess; to acknowledge.

(v.) To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

(v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.

(v.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.

(v. t.) To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.

(n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

(n.) A cudgel.

(v. i.) To flow back; to ebb.

(n.) A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.

(n.) A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.

(n.) A jackdaw.

(a.) Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.

(a.) Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.

(n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.

(n.) To view or see again; to look back on.

(n.) To go over and examine critically or deliberately.

(n.) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.

(n.) To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.

(n.) To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.

(n.) To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.

(n.) To retrace; to go over again.

(v. i.) To look back; to make a review.

(n.) A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.

(n.) An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.

(n.) A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.

(n.) A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

(n.) An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

(n.) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.

(n.) A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

(n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness.

(n.) To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.

(n.) A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.

(v. t.) To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow.

(v. t.) To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.

(v. t.) To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

(v. t.) To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

(v. t.) To expend, as money.

(v. t.) To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.

(v. t.) To give in marriage.

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

(v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.

(v. t.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

(v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.

(v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.

(v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.

(n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

(n.) The act of borrowing.

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

(a.) Soft; pulpy.

(v. t.) A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw.

(n.) A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.

(a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.

(a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

(a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

(a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

(n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

(adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.

(interj.) Hollo.

(v. i.) To shout; to hollo.

(v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.

(n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.

(n.) The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.

(v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.

(v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.

(n.) A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.

(a.) To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.

(a.) To escape from; to avoid.

(n.) The willow; willow twigs.

(n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.

(superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.

(v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.

(n.) A strolling gamester.

(n.) A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.

(n.) A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee.

(n.) An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.

(a.) Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.

(n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.

(v. i.) To decrease.

(n.) A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.

(n.) A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.

(n.) An equal in power, rank, character, etc.

(n.) One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.

(n.) A person; an individual.

(n.) In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.

(n.) In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.

(n.) A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.

(v. t.) To suit with; to pair with; to match.

(v. i.) To flow in.

(n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.

(n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

(n.) The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States.

(n.) The jewfish; -- called also guasa.

(v. t.) To inflate.

(v. i.) To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea.

(v. t.) To draw up.

(v. i.) To flow or stream up.

(v. i.) To grow up.

(superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

(superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

(superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.

(superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.

(a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.

(n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.

(n.) Plowed land.

(n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.

(n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.

(n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

(superl.) Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.

(n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.

(n.) A utensil for covering the fire.

(n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

(n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.

(n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.

(n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.

(n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.

(n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.

(n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.

(n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.

(n.) A small degree; a shade.

(n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.

(n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.

(n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.

(n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.

(n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

(n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.

(n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.

(n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.

(v. i.) To flow down.

(v. t.) To eject from the maw; to disgorge.

(n.) A little of pigs.

(a.) Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.

(v. t.) To imbrue; to stain with blood.

(n.) A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

(n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.

(n.) To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.

(n.) To mark with channels or with wrinkles.

(v. t.) To recognize.

(v. t.) To acknowledge; to confess.

(v. t.) To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.

(n.) A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.

(a.) Showy; unreal; pretentious.

(n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

(n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.

(n.) To wither; to fade.

(v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.

(n.) A kind of rolling walk.

(n.) A pasture.

(n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.

(n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.

(v. t.) To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.

(v. t.) To draw aside or open; to draw back.

(v. t.) To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of.

(v. t.) To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.

(a.) Unknown.

(superl.) Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.

(n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.

(n.) A yellow pigment.

(v. t.) To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.

(v. i.) To become yellow or yellower.

(n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.

(n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.

(n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.

(v. t.) To furnish with windows.

(v. t.) To place at or in a window.

(v. t.) To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.

(n.) An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

(n.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.

(n.) To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.

(n.) To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.

(interj.) Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.

(v. t.) To pillage; to harry; to oppress.

(v. t.) To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.

(v. i.) To laugh boisterously.

(superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.

(superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.

(superl.) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.

(superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.

(superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.

(v. t.) To make mellow.

(v. i.) To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.

(v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.

(n.) A windrow.

(superl.) Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.

(superl.) Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.

(n.) Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.

(n.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.

(n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

(n.) A kind of plain, coarse fustian.

(v. t.) To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.

(n.) A rainbow; an iris.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

(v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.

(v. t.) To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin.

(v. i.) To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.

(v. i.) Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.

(n.) See Papaw.

(n.) An earth of a blackish or deep blue color.

(n.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color.

(n.) The essence; the best part.

(n.) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.

(v. t.) To fill with, or as with, marrow of fat; to glut.

(n.) Alt. of Mallows

(n. & v. i.) The same as Kotow.

(n.) An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.

(n.) The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.

(n.) A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

(n.) The place in a barn where hay is deposited.

(v. t.) To excel in bowing.

(n.) A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.

(v. t.) To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe.

(v. t.) To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force.

(n.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

(v. t.) To taint with mildew.

(v. i.) To become tainted with mildew.

(n.) Morning.

(n.) The next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood.

(n.) The day following the present; to-morrow.

(n.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.

(n.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.

(n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.

(n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.

(n.) A cousin.

(n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.