(v. i.) To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

(v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

(v. i.) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

(v. i.) To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.

(v. i.) To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.

(n.) Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.

(n.) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

(a.) Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

(n.) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.

(n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

(v. t.) To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Anjou in France.

(n.) A native of Anjou.

(a.) Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

(a.) Alt. of Angulated

(v. t.) To make angular.

(a.) Angulous.

(a.) Anhelous; panting.

(a.) Face to face, or front to front; facing.

(n.) A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

(n.) A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

(v. t.) To look after.

(n.) A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds.

(n.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.

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

(v. t.) To record in annals.

(n.) To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

(v. i.) To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon.

(n.) A bird one year old, or that has once molted.

(v. t.) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

(v. t.) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

(n.) One of the Annulata.

(a.) Alt. of Annulated

(a.) Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Annulosa.

(n.) A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.

(a.) Pertaining to the Anseres.

(v. t. & i.) To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.

(n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

(n.) Anticipation.

(v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.

(v. t.) To precede in time.

(v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time.

(n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.

(pl. ) of Antenna

(v. t.) To put before; to prefer.

(v.) The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

(v. t.) To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.

(n.) A salt of arsenic acid.

(n.) A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.

(n.) A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.

(n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

(n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

(n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

(n.) A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

(n.) Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

(v. t.) To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.

(v. t.) To fortify or preserve by an antidote.

(n.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

(v. t.) To make resemble.

(n.) One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.

(n.) The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed.

(n.) One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

(n.) A kind of autotype.

(n.) A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.

(n.) A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.

(v. t.) To make Aryan (a language, or in language).

(n.) That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

(n.) A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

(a.) Forward or upward in direction.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ashantee.

(v. t.) To heap up.

(a.) In heaps; full of heaps.

(adv.) In any place.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

(n.) The act of opening.

(n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.

(n.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

(v. t.) To make rough or uneven.

(v. t.) To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

(n.) A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.

(n.) A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.

(n.) An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Aspirated

(v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved.

(v. i.) To grieve; to lament.

(n.) Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.

(a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.

(n.) A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.

(v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.

(v. i.) To make aphorisms.

(a.) Alt. of Agminated

(n.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

(n.) A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.

(n.) A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

(n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.

(n.) The small white European heron. See Egret.

(n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc.

(n.) A tuft like that of the egret.

(n.) A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

(n.) A needle-shaped peak.

(n.) An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.

(n.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape.

(n.) One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

(n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.

(v. i.) To apostatize.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Puseyism.

(n.) One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.

(n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

(n.) See Aposteme.

(a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.

(n.) See Albicore.

(n.) A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny.

(n.) The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

(n.) A dependency; a dependent territory.

(n.) That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment.

(n.) a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

(n.) A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

(n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned. See Lutidine.

(n.) Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

(v. t.) To convert into pyrites.

(n.) A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.

(n.) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.

(n.) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor.

(n.) See Appanage.

(n.) A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.

(n.) The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

(n.) Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.

(n.) Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.

(n.) Tendency; appetency.

(n.) The thing desired.

(v. t.) To make hungry; to whet the appetite of.

(n.) The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

(n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush."

(n.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

(a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever.

(n.) The upland plover.

(v. t.) To make papal.

(v. i.) To conform to popery.

(n.) Alt. of Peperino

(v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.

(v. t.) To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.

(v. t.) To confute; to prove the fallacy of.

(v. t.) To prove guilty; to convict.

(v. t.) To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.

(v. t.) To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.

(v. t.) To agitate greatly; to shake violently.

(n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

(n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

(v. i.) To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

(v. i.) To begin to be, or to act as.

(v. i.) To take a degree at a university.

(v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

(n.) A salt of chromic acid.

(n.) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

(n.) Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

(n.) Sexual intercourse.

(n.) A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

(v. i.) To carry on trade; to traffic.

(v. i.) To hold intercourse; to commune.

(n.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

(n.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.

(v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

(n.) The red, or corn, poppy.

(n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

(a.) Joined; associated; coupled.

(a.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

(v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

(n.) One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

(n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

(n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.

(n.) A twisted cord; a tassel.

(n.) Remorse.

(n.) Alt. of Corfute

(n.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.

(n.) A little horn.

(n.) One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

(v. t.) To tame.

(n.) A cornemuse.

(n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

(n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

(n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

(n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

(a.) Alt. of Coronated

(n.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.

(a.) Same as Cirrose.

(n.) The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.

(v. t.) To compensate.

(v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.

(v. t.) To compress; to shut up.

(a.) Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

(a.) Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.

(a.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

(v. t.) To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.

(n.) An accomplice.

(n.) Alt. of Complin

(a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize

(a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

(n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.

(n.) A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.

(n.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

(n.) A ballet dancer.

(n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

(n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.

(v. t.) To comprehend; to include.

(n.) A fellow rogue.

(a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.

(v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.

(pl. ) of Sequela

(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.

(n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.

(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.

(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.

(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.

(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.

(a.) Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

(n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

(n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

(n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

(n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

(n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.

(n.) That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.

(n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.

(n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.

(v. t.) To give credence to; to believe.

(a.) Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.

(n.) A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.

(a.) Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

(a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.

(a.) Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.

(a.) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.

(a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.

(n.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.

(a.) Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

(n.) Eglantine.

(v. t.) To excite.

(a.) Serving or tending to excite; excitative.

(n.) That which excites; an excitant.

(n.) Sickness; ailment; sorrow.

(v. t.) To give an Egyptian character or appearance to.

(a.) A cool walk; shady place.

(v. t.) To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

(n.) A salt of elaidic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.

(n.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

(a.) Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.

(n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.

(n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.

(n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.

(n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.

(n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.

(n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

(v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.

(v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.

(v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.

(v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.

(v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.

(a.) Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.

(n.) The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.

(a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.

(n.) In an American college, an optional study or course of study.

(v. t.) To heap up.

(a.) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

(a.) Full of heaps.

(n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.

(n.) A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

(n.) Alt. of Elegancy

(n.) Exigency.

(a.) That may be exacted; repairable.

(n.) Same as Papoose.

(n.) The throstle, or song thrust.

(v. t.) To render fluid.

(n.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

(n.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.

(n.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.

(n.) Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.

(a.) Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.

(n.) A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services.

(v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

(v. t.) To cut or whittle.

(n.) A small knife; a whittle.

(n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

(a.) Capable of being foiled.

(a.) Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.

() Alt. of Folk lore

(n.) An assembly of the people

(n.) a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.

(n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

(n.) A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.

(n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.

(n.) A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.

(n.) A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.

(n.) A kite of infernal breed.

(n.) A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.

(n.) A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

(n.) An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

(n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.

(n.) A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.

(v. t.) To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.

(v. i.) To behave like pagans.

(n.) Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

(n.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.

(v. t.) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

(n.) Too great a dose; an excessive dose.

(n.) See Burggrave.

(a.) Combustible.

(a.) Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.

(n.) Alt. of Burnous

(n.) A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.

(n.) Alt. of Sea-gait

(a.) Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.

(n.) A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.

(v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

(v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.

(a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

(a.) Acting in concurrence; united in action.

(n.) Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

(n.) A salt of butyric acid.

(n.) A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.

(n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.

(v. t.) To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.

(v. t.) To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

(n.) Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.

(n.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

(n.) A conservatory.

(n.) To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

(n.) To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.

(n.) A countersign; a watchword.

(n.) One who is orders to keep within certain limits.

(n.) A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

(n.) The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.

(n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.

(v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

(v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.

(v. t.) To plot; to plan; to combine for.

(v. t.) To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.

(n.) Cobblestone.

(n.) Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.

(v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

(v. t. ) To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

(a.) Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.

(n.) A tribute by the head; a capitation tax.

(v. i.) To engage in continuous thought; to think.

(v. t.) To think over; to plan.

(v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.

(v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

(n.) One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.

(a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

(a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.

(v. t.) To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.

(n.) A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

(n.) To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.

(n.) To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.

(n.) To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.

(n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.

(v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.

(v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

(n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.

(n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

(n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.

(v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

(v. i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.

(v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.

(v. t.) To unite; to connect.

(v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

(v. t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.

(v. t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.

(v. i.) To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.

(a.) Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.

(n.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.

(n.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).

(n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.

(n.) The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

(n.) Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.

(a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.

(a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

(n.) A contrite person.

(v.) In a contrite manner.

(n.) Similitude; comparison.

(n.) A Mixture of water and vinegar.

(v. t.) To outlive.

(n.) Excessive care.

(n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

(n.) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

(n.) A pedicel.

(n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

(n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

(n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.

(n.) A dish of food composed of many kinds of fish.

(v. t.) To congratulate.

(n.) A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite.

(pl. ) of Micella

(n.) A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

(a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable.

(n.) A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

(n.) Alt. of Smaltite

(n.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

(n.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

(n.) Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.

(n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.

(pl. ) of Drachma

(n.) A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

(n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

(n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

(n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.

(n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

(a.) Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.

(a.) Capable of being drawn.

(n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.

(v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.

(v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

(n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.

(v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

(n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

(n.) Anything that drifts.

(v. i.) To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel.

(v. i.) To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.

(v. t.) To clear from blame.

(v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

(n.) The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.

(n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.

(n.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.

(v. t.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

(v. i.) To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera.

(v. i.) To commit a solecism.

(v. t.) A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.

(v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.

(v. t.) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

(n.) A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.

(n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

(n.) A salt of stannic acid.

(n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

(n.) A small piece of money.

(v. t.) To make solid or firm.

(a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

(a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.

(a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.

(v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.

(v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.

(v. i.) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.

(a.) Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.

(a.) Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.

(a.) Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations.

(a.) Able to pay one's debts; solvent.

(n.) See Somite.

(n.) A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.

(adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

(adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

(adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime.

(a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

(n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.

(v. t.) To teach; to train.

(v. t.) To punish; to discipline.

(v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

(v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

(v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.

(v. t.) To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.

(v. t.) To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.

(n.) Disclosure.

(a.) That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.

(v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

(a.) Alt. of Soporous

(n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.

(n.) A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.

(v. t.) To unlock; to open.

(n.) One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.

(v. t.) To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.

(n.) The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.

(v. t.) To divide anew.

(v. t.) To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.

(v. i.) To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.

(pl. ) of Ampulla

(n.) A salt of racemic acid.

(a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.

(n.) A little raceme.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Assam.

(v. t.) To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

(v. t.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)

(a.) Capable of being amused.

(n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.

(v. t.) To make sure or safe; to assure.

(v. t.) To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

(v. i.) To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate.

(v. i.) To liken; to compare.

(n.) Alt. of Radiancy

(n.) One who is assessed.

(a.) Radicated.

(v. i.) To take root; to become rooted.

(v. t.) To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.

(n.) A radicle.

(v.) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor.

(v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.

(v. i.) To correspond in sound.

(n.) A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.

(n.) Analcime.

(n.) That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.

(n.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

(n.) An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

(n.) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

(n.) A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera.

(n.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate.

(pl. ) of Anatifa

(a.) Capable of being raised.

(a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.

(v. t.) To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.

(v. t.) To bind by moral or legal obligation.

(n.) A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.

(n.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes.

(n.) An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.

(a.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

(n.) Unpublished narratives.

(n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

(a.) Receivable at a bank.

(n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

(n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

(n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

(n.) A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

(a.) Divided into two lobes or segments.

(adv.) On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.

(n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

(n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

(n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

(v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.

(v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.

(n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

(v. t.) To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.

(n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.

(n.) Same as Dioxide.

(n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

(a.) Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

(n.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

(a. & n.) See Barytone.

(a.) Resembling a bird.

(n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.

(n.) A bernicle goose.

(n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

(sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

(n.) The whole body of barons or peers.

(n.) The dignity or rank of a baron.

(n.) The land which gives title to a baron.

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

(a.) Alt. of Bisetous

(v. t.) To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.

(v. i.) To side with the Athenians.

(v. i.) To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.

(n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

(n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

(n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.

(a.) Alt. of Baritone

(a.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.

(a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

(n.) Alt. of Baritone

(n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

(n.) A person having a voice of such range.

(n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.

(n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

(n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

(n.) A binnacle.

(a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

(a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.

(a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory.

(v. t. & i.) To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.

(n.) The office of an augur.

(n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

(n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.

(n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

(a.) Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.

(n.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

(a.) Having papulae; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.

(n.) Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

(pl. ) of Ootheca

(n.) Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.

(a.) Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.

(n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

(n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.

(a.) Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.

(v. t.) To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

(v. t.) To estimate; to conjecture.

(n.) A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90¡, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc.

(n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.

(v. t.) To praise; to commend.

(a.) Having a pyxidium.

(n.) The state of being alienated or transferred to another.

(a.) Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.

(v. t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

(v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.

(n.) A stranger; an alien.

(v. t.) To appropriate.

(a.) Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

(a.) Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.

(a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

(a.) Squared; suited; correspondent.

(a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

(a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.

(a.) The quadrate bone.

(a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

(v. t. & i.) To bask in the sun.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.

(v. t.) To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

(n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.

(n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.

(n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.

(n.) A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

(a.) Inhabiting the water.

(n.) Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.

(a.) Belonging to or like an eagle.

(a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose

(a.) Able to enter into alliance.

(n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

(n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

(n.) The persons or parties allied.

(v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

(v. t.) To tie; to unite by some tie.

(a.) Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.

(v. t.) To distribute or assign; to allot.

(v. t.) To localize.

(n.) A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub.

(n.) One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.

(n.) Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.

(v. t.) To make appear archaic or antique.

(n.) The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.

(n.) The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

(n.) A prince of the imperial family of Austria.

(a.) Figurative; symbolical.

(a.) Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.

(adv.) Everywhere.

(n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine.

(n.) Same as Quadrate.

(n.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

(n.) Alt. of Archilute

(n.) A big, masculine wife.

(adv.) Arch-shaped.

(n.) One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.

(n.) The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.

(a.) Growing in Alpine regions.

(n.) The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

(a.) Alt. of Areolated

(n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.

(a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.

(n.) An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.

(v. t.) To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

(v. t.) To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.

(v. t.) To reject; to cast off.

(v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

(v. i.) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.

(a.) Having the quality of hiding.

(v. i.) To go astray; to diverge.

(n.) Asparagine.

(n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

(n.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.

(n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.

(n.) Height of degree; highest point or degree.

(n.) Height of rank or excellence; superiority.

(n.) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.

(n.) A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.

(n.) The vegetable casein of almonds.

(n.) A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.

(a.) Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

(n.) A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

(n.) Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

(v. i.) To walk; to move about.

(v. i.) To admit or accept the tenets of the Arians; to become an Arian.

(v. t.) To convert to Arianism.

(a.) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.

(a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.

(a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.

(a.) Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.

(n.) Behavior; bearing.

(v. i.) To butt, as a ram.

(a.) Alt. of Ariled

(a.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.

(a.) Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.

(a.) Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement.

(n.) One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.

(n.) A kind of viper in southern Europe.

(n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

(n.) Quietness.

(n.) Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity.

(n.) An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.

(n.) The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72¡.

(n.) A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

(n.) Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.

(n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.

(n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.

(n.) An amoret.

(n.) Alt. of Amortisement

(pl. ) of Armilla

(v. t.) To make as if dead; to destroy.

(v. t.) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

(v. t.) To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.

(a.) Removable.

(n.) An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

(n.) A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.

(a.) Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.

(n.) A collar or cape.

(v. t.) To enlarge.

(a.) Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.

(n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

(n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.

(n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.

(n.) That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite.

(v. t.) To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.

(n.) Same as Blastula.

(n.) Southern; southerly; austral.

(n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

(a.) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.

(n.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.

(n.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

(n.) Same as Bathorse.

(n.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

(n.) A female dancer in the East Indies.

(n.) A facsimile.

(n.) A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

(a.) In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

(a.) Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.

(n.) A post of security or defense.

(n.) Accident; chance; adventure.

(n.) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

(v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.

(v. t.) An obstruction to passage.

(v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.

(n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.

(n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.

(n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

(n.) A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.

(n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

(n.) A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata).

(v. t.) To unyoke.

(a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.

(a.) Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.

(n.) Act of avowing; avowal.

(n.) Upholding; defense; vindication.

(n.) A blowgun.

(n.) A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

(n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.

(n.) The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.

(n.) A father.

(n.) A companion.

(n.) See Bauxite.

(adv.) By chance; by accident.

(v. t. & i.) To befall; to chance; to happen to.

(v. t.) To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.

(n.) One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

(v. t.) To daggle.

(v. t.) To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.

(n.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

(n.) A house for bees; an apiary.

(n.) The common beet (Beta vulgaris).

(a.) Presumptuous.

(a.) Such as can be transported in a boat.

(a.) Navigable for boats, or small river craft.

(v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

(v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.

(n.) The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

(n.) Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.

(n.) Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.

(v. t.) To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.

(v. t.) To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

(a.) Capable of being begged.

(v. t.) To surround as with a girdle.

(v. t.) To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

(v. t.) To grudge; to envy the possession of.

(n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

(v. t.) To jumble together.

(n.) A sort of fine buckram.

(v. t.) To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

(n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

(n.) Playful raillery; banter.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.

(a.) Taking away or removing.

(a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

() The ablative case.

(v. t.) To send abroad.

(n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

(n.) Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

(n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.

(n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

(v. t.) To mangle; to tear asunder.

(v. t.) To mingle; to mix.

(a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.

(a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.

(a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

(v. t.) To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

(v. t.) To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.

(a.) Capable of being bent.

(adv.) Diagonally.

(n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

(n.) A favor or benefit.

(n.) An estate in lands; a fief.

(n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

(v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

(n.) A baldheaded person.

(n.) The American widgeon (Anas Americana).

(a.) Alt. of Baldpated

(n.) A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

(v. t.) To praise greatly or extravagantly.

(v. t.) To tinge or dye with a purple color.

(v. t.) To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down.

(n.) See Barnacle.

(n.) A bernicle goose.

(n.) See Ballotade.

(n.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.

(n.) Coaptation.

(n.) A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.

(v. t.) To figure again.

(n.) A retired or private place.

(v. t.) To settle again.

(v. i.) To settle again, or a second time.

(n.) Residence; abode.

(n.) One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.

(n.) The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.

(n.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

(n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.

(n.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

(n.) Alt. of Cacoxenite

(n.) Alt. of Cadaster

(n.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

(v. t. & i.) Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.

(v. t. & i.) Convinced; satisfied; sure.

(v. t. & i.) Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand.

(n.) One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.

(n.) Redelivery; repayment.

(n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

(n.) Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind.

(n.) The act of responding.

(n.) An answer or reply.

(n.) Reply to an objection in formal disputation.

(n.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.

(n.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.

(n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.

(v. t.) To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.

(v. i.) To strive anew.

(a.) Somewhat rugose.

(a.) Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless.

(pl. ) of Caesura

(n.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.

(a.) Capable of being ruined.

(v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

(v. i.) To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect.

(v. t.) To chew over again.

(v. t.) To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.

(a.) Alt. of Ruminated

(n.) Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.

(n..) A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand.

(n..) A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.

(n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

(n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

(n.) An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.

(n.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.

(n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.

(v. t.) To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

(v. t.) To recall; to bring back.

(v. t.) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.

(v. i.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.

(n.) A seeking again; a discovery.

(n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.

(v. t.) To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.

(v. i.) To become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.

(a.) Bent backward or downward.

(v. i.) To shine; to emit rays of light.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.

(n.) Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.

(n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.

(a.) Growing in sandy places.

(n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

(n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar.

(n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.

(n.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.

(n.) See Calipee.

(n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

(a.) Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.

(n.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.

(n.) See Caboose.

(v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

(v. i.) To divide into chambers.

(n.) Alt. of Camisado

(n.) A short dressing jacket for women.

(n.) A kind of straitjacket.

(n.) Alt. of Chamomile

(n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

(n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

(n.) An old spelling of Camphor.

(n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

(n.) Shorts or inferior flour.

(a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

(v. t.) To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

(v. t.) To admit as suitable to a civilized state.

(a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

(n.) One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels.

(n.) Canicula.

(v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.

(v. t.) To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.

(v. t.) To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.

(v. t.) To blow through.

(adv.) By force; of necessary; at any rate.

(n.) Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons C9H18 of the ethylene series.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricidae); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).

(v. i.) To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize.

(n.) Same as Sorance.

(a.) Separate; distinct; disjunct.

(a.) Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.

(a.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent.

(v. t.) To separate.

(v. t.) To describe.

(n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

(n.) Pain in the bones.

(n.) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.

(n.) Alt. of Bonhommie

(n.) An innkeeper.

(v. t.) To force; to compel.

(imp.) of Bestride

() of Bestride

(v. t.) To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over

(n.) A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

(v. t. & i.) To forage for booty; to plunder.

(n.) Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.

(n.) Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.

(n.) A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

(n.) A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

(v. t.) To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

() imp. & p. p. of Bestride.

(v. t.) To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

(n.) A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

(v. t.) Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.

(v. t.) Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.

(v. t.) A treat, or drink money.

(n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

(v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

(v. t.) To explore for botanical purposes.

(a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

(a.) Obedient; docile.

(a.) See Bifid.

(a.) Having two perforations.

(n.) An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

(a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes.

(a.) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.

(v. t.) To recall; to call back.

(a.) Rolled backward or downward.

(n.) A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.

(n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

(n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.

(n.) A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.

(n.) A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

(n.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.

(v. i.) To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

(n.) A rhapsodist.

(a.) Having many small branches, or ramuli.

(n.) An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.

(n.) See Re/nforce.

(n.) One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

(n.) The killing or the murder of a king.

(v. t.) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

(v. t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.

(v. t.) To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to regulus.

(v. t.) To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.

(v. t.) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.

(v. t.) To narrate; to relate; to tell.

(v. t.) To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

(v. t.) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.

(v. i.) To recite or repeat something for practice.

(v. t.) To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine.

(n.) A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure.

(n.) Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches.

(n.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.

(n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

(n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.

(n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.

(v. t.) To impose anew.

(v. t.) To induce again.

(n.) A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin.

(n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

(n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.

(n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

(v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.

(a.) Ridiculous.

(v. t.) To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.

(v. t.) To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an insurance risk upon it.

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

(a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

(a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.

(a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

(a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.

(a.) See Ratable.

(a.) Rareripe, or early ripe.

(n.) A rareripe.

(n.) One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.

(n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.

(n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".

(n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.

(a.) Alt. of Mouldable

(v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.

(v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

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

(v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.

(v. i.) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

(v. i.) To give dispensation.

(v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.

(n.) Expense; profusion; outlay.

(v. t.) To sprinkle.

(v. t.) To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

(v. t.) To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.

(v. i.) To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.

(v. i.) To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.

(v. t.) To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

(v. t.) To crowd out; to take the place of.

(v. t.) To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

(v. t.) To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.

(v. t.) To discharge; to explode.

(v. i.) To burst with a loud report; to explode.

(v. t.) To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

(n.) The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.

(v. t.) To depreciate.

(a.) Suiting a shop; vulgar.

(v. t.) To depopulate.

(v. t.) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

(v. t.) To disallow; to disapprove of.

(v. t.) To expunge; to erase.

(v. t.) See Disponge.

(v. t.) To disburse.

(n.) Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

(v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk.

(v. t.) To disarrange.

(v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.

(v. t.) To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.

(v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

(v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

(v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.

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

(v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

(v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

(v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

(v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

(v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

(v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

(v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.

(n.) The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.

(n.) Remoteness of place; a remote place.

(n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.

(n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.

(n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing.

(n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.

(a.) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.

(v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.

(v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

(n.) Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.

(n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.

(n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.

(n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.

(n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

(n.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.

(v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely.

(v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.

(v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.

(n.) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

(n.) Discomfort; uneasiness.

(n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.

(v. t.) Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.

(v. t.) To offend; to disgust; to displease.

(v. t.) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

(v. i.) To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.

(a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.

(n.) Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

(a.) Derived; derivative.

(n.) A thing derived; a derivative.

(v. t.) To derive.

(v. t.) To deprive of title or right.

(v. t. & i.) To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

(v. t.) To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.

(v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.

(v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.

(v. i.) To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.

(n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.

(v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

(v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.

(v. t.) To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

(v. t.) To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.

(v. i.) To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.

(n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.

(n.) Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron.

(n.) A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.

(n.) An indigo-blue variety of quartz.

(n.) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort.

(v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

(v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

(v. t.) To describe.

(v. t.) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.

(adv.) On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.

(v. t.) To undervalue; to depreciate.

(n.) Disesteem; disregard.

(a.) Final; serving to complete; conclusive.

(n.) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.

(n.) A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.

(a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

(a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.

(a.) Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.

(a.) Lost to shame; dissolute.

(a.) Destitute of; lacking in.

(v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

(v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.

(n.) An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.

(n.) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.

(a.) Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

(n.) A cage for confining birds.

(n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.

(v. t.) To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

(n.) A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

(n.) A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

(n.) A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

(n.) An air hole in a casting.

(n.) A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.

(n.) A blowgun; a blowtube.

(n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.

(n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

(n.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

(n.) A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

(n.) A salt of silicic acid.

(n.) A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.

(n.) A silicle.

(n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones.

(n.) A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.

(n.) The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.

(n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

(a.) Resembling a rush; weak.

(pl. ) of Siliqua

(n. pl.) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes.

(n.) A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.

(a.) See Savable.

(n.) A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.

(n.) See Mountain soap, under Mountain.

(a.) Capable of being scaled.

(n.) Alt. of Caudicula

(n.) A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.

(a.) Capable of being caused.

(n.) A kind of sofa for two persons. A tete-/-tete.

(n.) The act or art of engraving or embossing.

(n.) That which is engraved.

(n.) Celibate state; celibacy.

(n.) One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.

(a.) Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

(v. t.) A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

(n.) Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.

(v. t.) To disentangle.

(v. t.) To exceed in value.

(v. t.) To exceed in noise.

(v. t.) To exceed or excel in writing.

() An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

() Disclosure; discovery; revelation.

() A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.

() A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.

(v. t.) To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

(v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.

(v. t.) To excel or overcome in staring; to face down.

(n.) Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

(v. t.) To tire to excess; to exhaust.

(v. t.) To become too tired.

(v. i.) To shine forth.

(v. t.) To excel in splendor.

(n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

(v. t.) To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.

(a.) Too wise; affectedly wise.

(v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.

(n.) Pungency.

(pl. ) of Scapula

(n.) Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabaeus, or family Scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabaeus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).

(n.) A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, usually by engraving designs on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved stone itelf].

(a.) Alt. of Scarious

(v. t.) To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

(n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

(n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.

(v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.

(n.) A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.

(n.) A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.

(a.) Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

(n.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.

(n.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

(n.) See centare.

(n.) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

(n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

(a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

(a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.

(a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

(a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

(a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.

(a.) Authoritative; peremptory.

(a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

(a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

(n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

(a.) Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.

(n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.

(n.) A rodent of the Squirrel family.

(n.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.

(pl. ) of Scopula

(n.) Scurvy.

(a.) Hundredfold.

(v. t.) To increase a hundredfold.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

(n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

(n.) A marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena, as the European hogfish (S. scrofa), and the California species (S. guttata).

(n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

(a.) A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.

(a.) Having a dark tint.

(n.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

(n.) Refuse water after scouring.

(n.) Alt. of Cerussite

(a.) Giving way; yielding.

(n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.

(a.) Resembling a buffalo.

(v. t.) To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.

(v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.

(v. t.) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.

(n.) The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.

(v. i.) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.

(v. i.) To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

(v. i.) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

(v. t.) To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.

(v. t.) To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.

(n.) The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.

(n.) The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.

(n.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

(v. t.) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.

(n.) A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

(n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

(n.) See Bumboat.

(v. t.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

(v. t.) To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

(v. t.) To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

(v. i.) To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

(n.) Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.

(v. i.) To wriggle.

(n.) Alt. of Bunkum

(n.) See Bung, n., 2.

(pl. ) of Chalaza

(n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

(n.) Buoyancy.

(v. t.) To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.

(a.) Feigned; pretended.

(v. t.) To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

(n.) A bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; -- called also allyl melamine.

(n.) A salt of sinapic acid.

(n.) An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.

(a.) In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

(a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

(n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.

(n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.

(v. t.) To put or place in a sinecure.

(v. t.) To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

(v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.

(v. i.) To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

(v. t.) To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

(v. t. & i.) To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.

(n.) A brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.

(n.) The time of noon; midday.

(a.) Murrhine.

(n.) Alt. of Operancy

(n.) That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

(n.) Trifles; things of no importance.

(a.) Practicable.

(n.) A lace for fastening stays.

(a.) Not lying in one plane; -- said of certain curves.

(v. i.) To give forth a play of colors, like the opal.

(n.) The shoulder blade, or scapula.

(a.) Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.

(n.) A salt of titanic acid.

(n.) See Sphene.

(a.) Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.

(v. i.) To stumble.

(v. i.) To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane.

(a.) Not devoted.

(a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

(a.) Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.

(a.) Worthy of the utmost love or respect.

(a.) Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

(v. t.) To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

(v. t.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.

(v. t.) To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

(v. t.) The killing of one human being by another.

(v. t.) One who kills another; a manslayer.

(n.) A person indicted.

(n.) One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon.

(n.) See Toilet, 3.

(a.) Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.

(v. t.) To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.

(a.) Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods.

(n.) A gate where toll is taken.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.

(n.) A homilist.

(n.) A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

(a.) Homogeneous.

(a.) Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.

(n.) The person to whom a note or bill is indorsed, or assigned by indorsement.

(n.) Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet.

(n.) A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black.

(a.) Hardened; not soft; indurated.

(a.) Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

(v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

(v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

(v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

(a.) Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.

(n. pl.) Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.

(v. t.) To allure; to lay a bait for.

(n.) An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm.

(a.) Capable of being touched; tangible.

(a.) Alt. of Gruesome

(a.) Ugly; frightful.

(v. t.) The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled.

(n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

(n.) A blockhead; a dolt.

(a.) Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.

(n.) A quaking of the sea.

(n.) A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.

(a.) Perfectly safe.

(a.) Quite certain.

(n.) A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.

(n.) Joint estate.

(n.) Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.

(v. i.) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.

(adv.) In a way of a tale or story.

(n.) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.

(a.) Tamable.

(n.) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.

(a.) Capable of growth.

(n.) Tangency.

(a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

(a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.

(a.) That may be tanned.

(a.) Resembling a swan.

(a.) Same as Grewsome.

(n.) A shell of the genus Gryphea.

(n.) A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.

(n.) A house where liquors are retailed.

(v. t.) Wardship

(n.) The cheetah.

(a.) Conjectural.

(a.) Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled.

(n.) The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

(n.) A salt of tartaric acid.

(n.) Alt. of Tartufe

(a.) Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

(a.) Easily gulled; that may be duped.

(n.) The crop of hay got in a meadow.

(n.) See Gargoyle.

(n.) A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.

(n.) A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center.

(n.) A circle which rolls on the circumference of another circle, either externally or internally.

(n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.

(n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

(v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.

(v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

(v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

(v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.

(v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.

(n.) A violent, irascible, or passionate person.

(n.) An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

(n.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

(n.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them."

(n.) The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

(n.) The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea.

(n.) A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta.

(n.) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

(n.) A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

(n.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."

(n.) An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

(n.) An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.

(n.) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.

(n.) A templet; a pattern.

(n.) An instrument used in dressing flax.

(n.) Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

(v. t.) To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.

(v. t.) To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.

(v. t.) To be equal to; equal; to match.

(a.) Having transverse bands of color.

(a.) Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.

(a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

(n.) A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

(n.) Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.

(n.) Retinue; train; suite.

(n.) A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out.

(n. pl.) The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera.

(adv.) After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.

(n.) An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.

(n.) An equivocation; a guibble.

(v. i.) To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.

(a.) Capable of being erased.

(a.) Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

(a.) Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.

(a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.

(v. t.) Espousal.

(adv.) Alt. of Erewhiles

() A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.

(a.) Capable of being erected.

(v. i.) To doubt.

(a.) Capable of being drawn out

(v. t.) To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch.

(a.) Breaking out or bursting forth.

(a.) Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.

(a.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.

(n.) A springe.

(v. i.) To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

(v. i.) To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.

(v. i.) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.

(v. i.) To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.

(v. i.) To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.

(v. i.) To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.

(n.) A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.

(n.) A utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler.

(n.) An eruptive rock.

(n.) See Spulzie.

(v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.

(v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.

(n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.

(n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.

(a.) Dull.

(a.) Dumose.

(a.) That may be seized.

(n.) A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.

(n.) A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.

(n.) A salt of selenious acid.

(n.) A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.

(a.) Of or pertaining to conation.

(n.) A joint cause.

(v. t.) To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

(v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.

(v. t.) To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.

(v. i.) To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.

(v. i.) To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.

(n.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

(n.) The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.

(n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.

(n.) A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.

(v. t.) To shut up; to inclose.

(v. t.) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.

(v. t.) To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause.

(v. t.) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.

(v. t.) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.

(v. t.) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain.

(v. t.) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument.

(v. i.) To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.

(v. i.) To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.

(a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

(a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.

(a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.

(n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.

(n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

(n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

(n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

(v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.

(v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

(v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

(v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

(v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.

(v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.

(v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

(v. i.) To undergo polymerization.

(a.) Condensed; compact; dense.

(n.) A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

(n.) One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

(v. t.) To unite.

(a.) United closely with another.

(a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical.

(n.) Alt. of Conepatl

(n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

(n.) One upon whom something is conferred.

(n.) The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

(n.) The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.

(n.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4.

(n.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

(n.) A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope.

(v. t.) To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

(n.) Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.

(n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.

(n.) The half of a lune.

(n.) A semimute person.

(n.) A small cover; a lid.

(v. t.) To sow; to spread; to propagate.

(n.) A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.

(a.) Partially nude; half naked.

(n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

(v. t.) Avarice.

(n.) A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.

(n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.

(v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

(v. i.) To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.

(n.) Same as Olibene.

(a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.

(a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.

(a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.

(a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

(a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

(a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.

(n.) Sensation; sensibility.

(n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.

(n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

(v. t.) To thrust away.

(a.) Concealed or hidden out of the way.

(a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.

(a.) That may be abused.

(a.) Tailless.

(a.) Same as Acaulescent.

(a.) Alt. of Acaulous

(n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.

(n.) One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake.

(v. t. & i.) To sober.

(n.) Sense; meaning; significance.

(n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

(n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

(n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

(n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

(n.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

(v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

(v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.

(v. t.) To utter sententiously.

(n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.

(n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.

(a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

(v. t.) To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

(v. t.) To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

(v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

(v. i.) To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.

(p. a.) Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

(p. a.) Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.

(p. a.) Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

(n.) A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

(n.) A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

(n.) A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.

(n.) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.

(n.) An inhabitant of Sodom.

(n.) One guilty of sodomy.

(n.) A song; esp. a little song or hymn.

(n.) The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.

(n.) A canto or division of a poem

(n.) A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.

(n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

(n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.

(n.) A juice used in medicine.

(n.) One to whom a release is given.

(v. t.) To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

(n.) See Releasee.

(a.) Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.

(n.) The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.

(n.) Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance.

(n.) Rat poison; white arsenic.

(n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.

(v. t.) To locate again.

(v. t.) To light anew; to rekindle.

(v. t.) To illuminate again.

(v. t.) To deny and reject; to abjure.

(n.) Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

(v. t.) To accuse again.

(v. t.) To give strength or support to; to confirm.

(n.) A seaport town in France.

(a.) Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.

(a.) Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.

(n.) One to whom a remittance is sent.

(n.) Alt. of Remoulad

(v. t.) To allege again.

(v. t.) To hinder; to delay.

(n.) Same as Oolite.

(a.) That may be removed; removable.

(a.) Capable of being rolled.

(v. t.) To assume again or anew; to resume.

(v. t.) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.

(v. t.) To reinsure.

(a.) Capable of being rent or torn.

(a.) Capable, or admitting, of being rendered.

(n.) One faithless to principle or party.

(n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.

(n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.

(n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

(a.) Abortive.

(v.) Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.

(v.) Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.

(v.) Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.

(v.) Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.

(v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

(v.) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.

(v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.

(n.) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.

(n.) A fruitless effort or issue.

(n.) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.

(a.) Producing abrasion.

(a.) Abrogated; abolished.

(v. t.) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.

(v. t.) To put an end to; to do away with.

(v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.

(v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.

(v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.

(v. i.) To make renunciation.

(v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.

(n.) Act of renouncing.

(v. t.) To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.

(a.) Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting.

(v. t.) To reverse.

(a.) Alt. of Renverse

(a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

(v. t.) To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms.

(v. t.) To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.

(v. i.) To use Latin words and idioms.

(v. i.) To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.

(v. t.) To oppose again.

(n.) A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.

(v. t. & i.) To change again, or change back.

(v. t. & i.) To charge or accuse in return.

(v. t. & i.) To attack again; to attack anew.

(v. t.) To choose again.

(a.) Roomy.

(n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.

(v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.

(v. t.) To people anew.

(v. t.) To peruse again.

(v. t.) To clothe again.

(n.) A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.

(n.) Rest; quiet.

(a.) Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal.

(a.) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal.

(n.) Repousse work.

(a.) Alt. of Rostrated

(a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.

(a.) turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.

(v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.

(v. t.) To relieve for a time, or temporarily.

(n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.

(n.) Interval of ease or relief; respite.

(n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.

(n.) Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.

(n.) Access; admittance.

(v. i.) To return; to recur.

(v. i.) To have recourse; to resort.

(n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.

(n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.

(n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.

(n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.

(n.) Roundness; a round or circle.

(v. t.) To salute again.

(v. t.) To write back; to write in reply.

(v. t.) To write over again.

(v. t.) to make royal.

(v. t.) To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.

(v. t.) To liken; to compare; to represent as like.

(v. t.) To counterfeit; to imitate.

(v. t.) To cause to imitate or be like.

(v. t.) To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.

(n.) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.

(pl. ) of Planula

(v. i.) To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.

(v. t.) To mention by name; to name.

(v. t.) To call; to entitle; to denominate.

(v. t.) To set down in express terms; to state.

(v. t.) To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.

(a.) Leaving out; omitting.

(n.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.

(a.) Alt. of Nodulous

(n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

(v. t.) To make fat; to pamper.

(a.) Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.

(n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.

(n.) A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.

(a.) Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

(a.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.

(v. t.) To castrate, as a fowl.

(adv.) Alt. of Saleably

(v. i.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.

(v. i.) A leap or caper, as in dancing.

(v. i.) To perform a capriole.

(n.) A salt of caproic acid.

(n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

(n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.

(n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.

(n.) The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.

(v. t.) To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.

(v. i.) To produce saliva, esp. in excess.

(n.) A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

(n.) See Capuchin, 3.

(n.) A carbine.

(n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.

(n.) A staircase in a spiral form.

(v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.

(n.) Alt. of Caracora

(n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

(a.) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.

(n.) The act of removing anything; clearance.

(n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.

(n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

(n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.

(n.) Clemency.

(n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.

(n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.

(n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.

(a.) Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.

(n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

(n.) A case for visiting cards.

(n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.

(a.) Having the color of blood; red.

(a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.

(a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.

(a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.

(n.) Blood color; red.

(n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.

(n.) Bloodstone.

(n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.

(v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

(n.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.

(n.) A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lying between those islands and Central America.

(n.) A Carib.

(a.) Alt. of Carinated

(n.) A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents.

(n.) The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

(n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.

(n.) The color of the gem; bright blue.

(n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue.

(a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.

(n.) Dead body; carrion.

(n.) A coin. See Carline.

(n.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.

(n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.

(n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

(n.) The price or expense of carrying.

(n.) That which carries of conveys,

(n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.

(n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.

(n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.

(n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

(n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

(n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

(n.) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

(n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.

(n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

(n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

(n.) Mass of clouds; cloudiness.

(n.) A tax on every plow or plowland.

(n.) The act of plowing.

(n.) A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.

(n.) Alt. of Caruncula

(v. t.) To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.

(v. t.) To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

(v. t.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

(p. a.) Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

(n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

(n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.

(n.) The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.

(n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.

(n.) A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

(n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.

(n.) Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.

(a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

(a.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.

(n.) A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

(n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

(n.) A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.

(n.) A lawyer's brief.

(v. t.) To abbreviate.

(a.) Capable of being bribed.

(n.) A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.

(n.) A fascine of more than ordinary length.

(v. t.) To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

(v. t.) To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.

(pl. ) of Catalysis

(n.) A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

(n.) Spurge.

(v. t.) To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.

(v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

(v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

(v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.

(v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony.

(a.) Colored.

(n. pl.) An order of birds, including the pigeons.

(a.) Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

(v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

(v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.

(v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.

(n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

(n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.

(a.) Alt. of Squamated

() Alt. of Squamous

(n.) Same as Squamula.

(n.) Same as Squilgee.

(n.) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.

(n.) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.

(v. t.) To entertain with a serenade.

(v. i.) To perform a serenade.

(n.) A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.

(n.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

(n.) The European long-eared bat (Vesperugo serotinus).

(n.) A pruning knife with a curved blade.

(pl. ) of Serpula

(a.) Capable of being served.

(a.) Capable of being preserved.

(n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

(n.) One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.

(n.) Alt. of Crenel

(n.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

(v. t.) To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

(n.) Alt. of Crepane

(n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.

(a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.

(a.) Increasing; growing.

(n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

(n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

(n.) A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.

(n.) The cavally or jurel.

(n.) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).

(n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

(n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.

(a.) Expressing desire or wish.

(v. t.) A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

(a.) Cribriform.

(a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

(n.) A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.

(n.) The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

(n.) The title of the wife of the dauphin.

(n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.

(a.) Alt. of Crispated

(a.) Crested.

(n.) A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.

(n.) A spindle or axle of a wheel.

(v. t.) To whiten.

(n.) The art of criticism.

(n.) A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason."

(n.) A critic; one who criticises.

(v.) To criticise or pass judgment upon.

(n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

(a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.

(n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.

(n.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

(n.) Alt. of Croisado

(a.) Gilded.

(v. t.) To gild.

(v. t.) To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.

(v. i.) To take recreation.

(v. i.) To emerge again.

(v. t. & i.) To engage a second time or again.

(n.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

(a.) Tormented.

(a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.

(v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.

(n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.

(n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

(n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.

(n.) A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.

(v. t.) To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

(v. t.) To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.

(v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.

(a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

(a.) Marked by promptness and decision.

(n.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

(n.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

(n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

(n.) The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

(v. t.) To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.

(n.) The season proper for sowing.

(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.

(v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.

(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.

(v.) The wane of the moon.

(n.) See Culrage.

(a.) Easily deceived; gullible.

(p. a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

(v. t.) To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.

(v. t.) To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.

(v. t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron.

(a.) That deduces; inferential.

(a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.

(a.) Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.

(a.) Alt. of Cultrated

(a.) Having small bristles or setae.

(n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

(n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

(n.) A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.

(v. t.) To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

(a.) Full of heaps.

(a.) Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.

(n.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

(v. t.) To poison with curare.

(v. t.) Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

(n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

(a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.

(v. i.) To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.

(v. i.) To move about like an eel; to squirm.

(n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.

(pl. ) of Squilla

(a.) Continuing; not completed; implying duration.

(a.) Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods.

(n.) Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.

(n.) A tax on things stacked.

(n.) A building in which dyeing is carried on.

(n.) An estafet.

(n.) The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.

(n.) Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

(n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.

(v. t.) To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person.

(v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.

(n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond.

(n.) Alt. of Estivation

(v. t.) To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

(v. t.) To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.

(v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

(n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

(v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.

(v. t.) To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.

(a.) Stagnant.

(n.) A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

(n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

(v. t.) To make eternal or endless.

(v. t.) To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits.

(v. t.) To convert into ether.

(v. t.) To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.

(n.) Ethylidene.

(n.) The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

(n.) A glance of the eye; an amorous look.

(v.) Capable of being tasted; tastable.

(v.) Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory.

(n.) Anything that can be tasted.

(a.) United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

(a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

(n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

(n.) Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.

(n.) Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity.

(n.) Habit of body or of action.

(n.) Habitude.

(a.) Fit to be felled.

(n.) See Felsite.

(v. t.) To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.

(a.) Feminine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

(a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.

(n.) A woman.

(n.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

(v. t.) To make womanish or effeminate.

(n.) A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.

(v. i.) To put money to usury; to lend on interest.

(n.) A single unvaried tone or sound.

(n.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.

(n.) Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.

(n.) The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.

(n.) A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

(n.) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc.

(n.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.

(n.) A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Turin.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin.

(a.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.

(n.) Same as Testudo, 2.

(n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.

(n.) a tortoise-shell cat.

(a.) Wreathed; twisted; winding.

(a.) Same as Torose.

(v. t.) To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness.

(n.) Turn; contour; figure.

(n.) Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

(v. t.) To adopt (a person who is his own master).

(n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

(n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

(n.) Christ, considered as an intercessor.

(n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.

(v. i.) To act as advocate.

(v. t.) To make infamous; to defame.

(v. t.) See Enfeeble.

(a.) Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.

(a.) Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite.

(a.) Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.

(a.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.

(a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.

(n.) That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness.

(n.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.

(n.) An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.

(n.) The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.

(n.) An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

(n.) A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.

(n.) A servant who called out the hours.

(n.) An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial.

(a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.

(n.) A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

(pl. ) of Trachea

(n.) An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

(n.) The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

(n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

(n.) A bagnio, or bathing house.

(n.) A brothel; a bagnio.

(n.) A heated room for drying green ware.

(n.) A treatise; a tract; an essay.

(a.) Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.

(n.) A Tractarian.

(a.) Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

(v. t.) To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.

(v. t.) To hinder; to destroy; as, to infringe efficacy; to infringe delight or power.

(v. i.) To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend.

(v. i.) To encroach; to trespass; -- followed by on or upon; as, to infringe upon the rights of another.

(v. t.) To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

(a.) Having the power of infusion; inspiring; influencing.

(a.) Alt. of Ingenit

(v. t.) To make lean; to cause to waste away.

(v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.

(v. t.) To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

(a.) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

(a.) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).

(v. i.) To ripen; to become mature; specif/cally, to suppurate.

(n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.

(a.) Matutinal.

(n.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.

(pl. ) of Maxilla

(v. t.) To increase to the highest degree.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661.

(n.) Mazarine blue.

(n.) The usual time of eating a meal.

(n.) Alt. of Meanwhile

(adv.) Alt. of Meanwhile

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Mecca.

(v. i.) To emit vapor; to evaporate.

(v. t.) To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.

(v. i.) To pass off in vapor.

(a.) Full of vapor; vaporous.

(a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.

(a.) Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.

(n.) A stonecutter.

(v. t.) To stone.

(n.) That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.

(n.) A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.

(n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.

(n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.

(n.) The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

(n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.

(n.) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.

(a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.

(a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.

(n.) Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.

(v. t.) A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

(v. t.) Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.

(v. t.) A privy.

(a.) Lapsible.

(a.) Liable to lapse.

(n.) A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.

(n.) A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum.

(a.) Liberality; generosity; bounty.

(a.) A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed.

(n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet.

(n.) A prediction; a vaticination.

(n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.

(a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

(v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

(v. i.) Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.

(v. i.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.

(a.) Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life.

(n.) A vegetable.

(n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.

(n.) The fieldfare.

(v. t.) To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.

(v. t.) To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech.

(v. t.) To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.

(v. i.) To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.

(v. i.) To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.

(n.) Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence.

(n.) Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.

(n.) Extent; size; amplitude; scope.

(n.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.

(n.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

(a.) Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable.

(n.) Something to be sold, or offered for sale.

(n.) The act or practice of poisoning.

(v. t.) To poison; to infect with poison.

(a.) Poisoned.

(a.) Poisonous.

(v. t.) To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders.

(n.) Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.

(a.) Venial; pardonable.

(v. i.) Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.

(v. i.) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.

(a.) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.

(n.) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.

(v. i.) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.

(a.) Full of venules, or small veins.

(a.) Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

(n.) A wash or lotion.

(n.) The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.

(v. t. & i.) To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.

(v. i.) To cease from being ruffled or agitated.

(v. t.) To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,

(v. t.) To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.

(v. t.) To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.

(a.) Insecure.

(v. t.) To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.

(v. i.) To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered.

(v. t.) To remove from, or as from, a shelf.

(v. t.) To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge.

(n.) A Mohammedan.

(v. i. & t.) To conform, or cause to conform, to the religion of Islam.

(v. t.) To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb.

(v. t.) To divest of the title or privilege of an esquire.

(a.) Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.

(n.) A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year.

(v. t.) To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle.

(v. t.) To unbitch; to unharness.

(v. t.) To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.

(v. t.) To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone.

(a.) Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

(a.) Hindered; obstructed.

(v. t.) To impede.

(v. t.) To people; to give a population to.

(a.) Done by express direction; not involuntary; communded.

(v. t.) To deprive of a tongue, or of voice.

(v. t.) To pierce; to penetrate.

(n.) The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.

(n.) The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.

(n.) An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.

(n.) A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean summer temperature.

(a.) Leading to, producing, or relating to, an issue; capable of being made an issue at law.

(a.) Lawful or suitable to be issued; as, a writ issuable on these grounds.

(n.) The act of issuing, or giving out; as, the issuance of an order; the issuance of rations, and the like.

(n.) The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

(v. t.) To teach; to instruct.

(a.) Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy.

(a.) Closely resembling; being a counterpart.

(a.) Capable of being iterated or repeated.

(n.) Iteration.

(n.) An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves, from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance. In its action it resembles atropine.

(n.) A Jacobin.

(n.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.

(n.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

(v. t.) To throw or cast, as a dart; to throw out; to emit.

(n.) A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the people of Japan.

(v. t.) To pledge.

(v. t.) To plunge.

(a.) Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.

(n.) An ocher-yellow mineral occurring on minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.

(n.) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the faeces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood.

(v. t.) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Java.

(n.) A pole for supporting a scaffold.

(v. t.) To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.

(n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

(n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.

(v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.

(v. t.) To assure by promise.

(n.) One of the plates on the under side of the tail of a serpent.

(n.) A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.

(n.) One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.

(a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.

(v. t. & i.) To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.

(a.) Blackened as if burned.

(a.) Alt. of Vaginated

(n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.

(v. t. & i.) To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

(a.) Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce.

(n.) Acridity; pungency joined with heat.

(n.) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

(n.) See Gantlet.

(n.) Same as Indorsee.

(v. t.) To make a drudge or slave of.

(n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.

(v. i.) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

(v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.

(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.

(a.) Weakened; weak; without strength of force.

(v. t.) To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

(a.) Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

(v. t.) To make fierce.

(n.) A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

(n.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

(v. t.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.

(n.) See Gasoline.

(n.) A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.

(v. t.) To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

(n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.

(n.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.

(v. t.) To choose; to elect; to coopt.

(v. i.) To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

(n.) A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

(v. t.) To make a devil of.

(v. t.) To devolve.

(adv. & conj.) Alt. of Sithens

(n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

(a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

(n.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.

(n.) A picture representing a scene at sea.

(n.) The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

(n.) All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks.

(v. t. & i.) To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.

(n.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.

(n.) A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

(n.) A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.

(n.) A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.

(v. i.) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.

(v. t.) To express as in dialogue.

(v. t.) To invest with a divine character; to deify.

(a.) Indicating division or distribution.

(a.) Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference.

(n.) The interval of the fifth.

(n.) A composition of five ingredients.

(n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

(n.) An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.

(n.) A person divorced.

(a.) Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.

(n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

(n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

(n.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

(n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

(n.) See under Intercolumniation.

(n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.

(n.) Teaching; instruction.

(n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.

(n.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

(n.) A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.

(n.) A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.

(n.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

(a.) Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful.

(n.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

(v. t.) To convert into dolomite.

(n.) An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

(n.) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

(v. t.) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

(v. t.) To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

(v. i.) To be dominant.

(n.) The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

(n.) A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.

(n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

(a.) Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.

(n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

(a.) Capable of being dug.

(v. t.) To point out as with the finger.

(a.) Alt. of Digitated

(v. t.) To finger; as, to digitize a pen.

(n.) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.

(n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.

(n.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.

(a.) Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.

(a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.

(n.) One of a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot.

(n.) A monopodium.

(adv.) In the manner of a gate.

(n.) A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.

(n.) The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.

(n.) A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.

(n.) The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.

(n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.

(n.) The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.

(n.) Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.

(n.) Direction; regulation; management; guidance.

(n.) That by which a course is directed.

(a.) Alt. of Stellated

(a.) Capable of being sorted.

(a.) Suitable; befitting; proper.

(v. i.) Suitableness; agreement.

(v. t.) To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.

(v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains.

(v. i.) To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to make restitution.

(n.) The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

(n.) The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.

(n.) That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

(n.) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.

(n.) To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor.

(n.) To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation.

(n.) To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile.

(v. t.) To degrade.

(v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

(v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.

(v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

(n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.

(n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.

(n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication.

(n.) A masque or masquerade.

(n.) A stepmother.

(v. t.) To disable.

(v. t.) To disparage.

(n.) Dues for soundings.

(n.) A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid.

(v. t.) To dismount.

(v. t.) To deprive of house or home.

(n.) Stern.

(n.) The sternum of an arthropod somite.

(n.) The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

(v. t.) To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.

(n.) A female fortune teller.

(n.) A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.

(v. t.) To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on.

(v. t.) To grieve.

(n.) A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

(v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

(v. t.) To excite; to rouse into action; to incite.

(v. t.) To illumine.

(a.) Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

(v. t.) To make hard as marble; to harden.

(v. t.) To muffle up.

(a.) See Spathic.

(a.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.

(v. t.) To rove; to ramble.

(n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.

(n.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.

(n.) An example; a pattern or model for imitation.

(v. t.) To exemplify, to show by example.

(v. t.) To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.

(n.) The whole; all the parts taken together.

(adv.) All at once; together.

(n.) A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.

(v. t.) To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.

(n.) The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

(n.) The fodder preserved in a silo.

(v. t.) To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.

(v. t.) To place in a sphere; to envelop.

(v. t.) To form into a sphere.

(a.) Ensuing; following.

(v. t.) To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes.

(v. t.) To supply with tackle.

(v. t.) To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

(v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

(v. t.) To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.

(v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

(pl. ) of Stipula

(n.) The act of stirring; stir; commotion.

(v. t.) To entitle.

(n.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

(v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.

(v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.

(v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

(a.) Within the range of hpe; proper to be hoped for.

(n.) See Sperable.

(n.) A sperm cell.

(n.) A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

(pl. ) of Spicula

(n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

(n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.

(n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.

(n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.

(n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

(n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

(n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

(v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

(v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

(n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

(n.) The construction of a sewer or sewers.

(n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.

(n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers.

(n.) A hexagon.

(a.) Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

(v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.

(n.) Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.

(v. t.) To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.

(v. i.) To become clear, pure, or free.

(v. i.) To void excrement.

(a.) Six times as much; sixfold.

(a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.

(n.) A small or short course.

(n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.

(n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

(n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.

(n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.

(v. t.) To delineate.

(v. t.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

(n.) A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafei.

(a.) Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval.

(a.) Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or expression.

(a.) Determined; resolved.

(a.) Serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as, the definite article.

(n.) A thing defined or determined.

(v. t. & i.) To change into cutin.

(n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket

(a.) That may be shaped.

(a.) Shapely.

(n.) A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.

(n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

(n.) The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.

(n.) That which serves to direct.

(n.) Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.

(v. i.) To swear solemnly; to take an oath.

(n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

(n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

(n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

(n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.

(a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.

(v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

(v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

(a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate.

(v. t.) To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.

(a.) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.

(a.) Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor.

(a.) Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature."

(a.) Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

(a.) Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.

(a.) Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.

(a.) Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue.

(a.) Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.

(a.) Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health.

(a.) Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.

(a.) Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.

(a.) Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.

(a.) Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.

(n.) A choice dainty; a delicacy.

(n.) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

(v. t. & i.) To madden; to rave.

(a.) Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).

(a.) Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.

(a.) Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.

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

(v. t.) To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.

(v. i.) To accrue.

(v. i.) To increase; to grow.

(a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.

(a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.

(n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.

(a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

(n.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.

(n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

(n.) Semitone.

(n.) The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.

(n.) God, as the Maker of the world.

(n.) According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

(v. t.) To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.

(v. t.) To control or possess by a demon.

(n.) Demurrage.

(n.) A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

(v. t.) To deny.

(n.) Alt. of Shikari

(a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.

(v. t.) To mark off; to denote.

(a.) Serving to denote.

(v. t.) To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

(v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

(v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.

(n.) One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

(v. t.) To deprive of leaves.

(v. t.) To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

(v. t.) To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.

(v. i.) To go from a place of rest.

(n.) Dwelling apart; separation.

(n.) An ornamental tooling like lace.

(n.) A small tooth or projecting point.

(v. t.) To denude.

(v. i. & n.) See Dispense.

(a.) Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

(n.) A small crustacean with one median eye.

(a.) Nidorous.

(v. i.) To make a nest, as a bird.

(n.) An amido compound with only one amido group.

(n.) A basic compound containing one amido group; as, methyl amine is a monamine.

(v. t.) To entice. See Inveigle.

(n.) Alt. of Envelop

(n.) A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.

(a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.

(v. t.) To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

(v. t.) To form into, or incorporate with, a volume.

(a.) Capable of being breathed; respirable.

(n.) The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.

(n.) One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheae of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

(n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.

(n.) Same as Aeolipile.

(n.) Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.

(n.) One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.

(v. i.) To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

(v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.

(v. t.) To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.

(n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.

(n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.

(n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.

(v. t.) To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.

(v. t.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.

(v. t.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

(v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.

(n.) The act of straggling.

(a.) Conveying admonition; admonitory.

(n.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous.

(v. t.) Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.

(a.) Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.

(a.) Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.

(a.) Capable of being farmed.

(n.) Alt. of Gauntry

(n.) A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale.

(a.) Alt. of Fasciated

(n.) A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

(n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

(v. i.) To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

(v. t.) To change; to convert.

(n.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.

(n.) Same as Gelatin.

(a.) Capable of being gelded.

(a.) Liable to taxation.

(n.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

(n.) See Trou-de-loup.

(a.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.

(v. t.) To double.

(n.) One of a body of heavy cavalry.

(n.) An armed policeman in France.

(a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

(adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.

(a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.

(a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.

(a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.

(a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

(a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.

(a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.

(a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

(a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

(a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.

(a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

(a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.

(a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

(a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.

(a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.

(a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

(a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

(a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.

(a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.

(v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.

(v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.

(v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

(v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.

(v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.

(v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

(a.) Wearied; tired; fatigued.

(v. t.) To weary; to tire; to fatigue.

(a.) Alt. of Fatimide

(n.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

(n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.

(n.) A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.

(n.) That which is very much valued.

(v. t.) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

(v. t.) Same as Paralyze.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of Geneva; people of Geneva.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

(n.) The genitive case.

(n.) Generation; procreation; birth.

(n.) A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority.

(n.) A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.

(n.) Story; discourse.

(n.) A game at cards for three.

(n.) One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

(n.) Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.

(n.) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

(a.) Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.

(n.) A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

(a.) Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

(a.) Leafy.

(n.) The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

(a.) That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

(a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.

(v. t.) To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.

(v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.

(n.) Hellebore.

(a.) Alt. of Fron'tated

(n.) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

(n.) The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

(n.) The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

(n.) Fruit sugar; levulose.

(n.) Use; fruition; enjoyment.

(a.) To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

(a.) To remove further off.

(v. i.) To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

(a.) Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.

(n.) Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

(n.) Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.

(a.) Enjoying; possessing.

(a.) Free of impediment; unimpeded.

(a.) Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.

(v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

(v. t.) To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.

(adv.) Otherwise.

(v. i.) To struggle out; -- with out.

(a.) Capable of being eluded; evadible.

(n.) The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.

(n.) The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.

(v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.

(v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

(a.) Emaciated.

(n.) Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.

(a.) Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

(a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.

(a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.

(n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

(n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.

(a.) Propped; supported by accessory organs.

(a.) Furnished with fulcrums.

(v. t.) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.

(v. i.) To be arrayed for battle.

(v. t.) To furnish with battlements.

(v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.

(v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.

(n.) A salt of fumaric acid.

(n.) An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

(n.) A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

(n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

(n.) To smoke; to perfume.

(n.) The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

(n.) The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.

(n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.

(n.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

(v. t.) To bottle.

(a.) Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

(v. t.) To copy; to transcribe.

(v. t.) To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.

(v. t.) To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t.

(v. t.) To bury with funeral rites.

(v. i.) To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.

(a.) Migratory; roving.

(n.) That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height.

(n.) An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment.

(n.) A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.

(a.) Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

(v. t.) To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection.

(v. t.) To turn to marble; to harden.

(n.) A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

(v. t.) To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.

(v. t.) To pierce; to impierce.

(n.) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.

(pl. ) of Acicula

(n.) The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

(n. pl.) A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.

(n.) One employed by another.

(v. t.) To plunge; to implunge.

(a.) Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

(v. i.) To overflow; to inundate.

(v. i.) To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.

(n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.

(n.) Ointment for the eye.

(n.) A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance.

(n.) Eye agate. See under Eye.

(v. t.) To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.

(v. t.) To puzzle.

(a.) Capable of being emulated.

(a.) Softening; milklike.

(a.) Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.

(a.) Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.

(a.) Having power to enact or establish as a law.

(n.) Enactment; resolution.

(n.) A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.

(n.) An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

(v. i.) To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.

(n.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.

(n.) The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.

(a.) Pregnant; with child.

(v. t.) To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon.

(n.) A charge.

(v. t.) Capable of being obtained or reached.

(a.) Gainful.

(a.) Prepossessing; well-favored.

(v. t.) To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

(v. t.) To clothe.

(n.) The neck of horse.

(n. pl.) Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.

(v. t.) To lay in a cradle.

(v. t. &) i. [Obs.] See Increase.

(n.) Galena; lead ore.

(n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.

(n.) An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.

(v. t.) To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure.

(v. t.) To endenizen.

(n.) Fault; failure; omission.

(a.) Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.

(v. t.) To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.

(n.) A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.

(n.) A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin.

(n.) Mintage; coinage.

(n.) Alt. of Mongoos

(v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

(a.) Frightful; causing fear.

(a.) Easily frightened; timid; timorous.

(a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.

(a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.

(a.) That may be obtained.

(n.) An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.

(v. t.) To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.

(n.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.

(n.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

(n.) Same as Strobila.

(n.) A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.

(v. i.) To play the giant.

(n.) A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.

(n.) A hydrate of alumina.

(n.) An amide containing three amido groups.

(n.) An amine containing three amido groups.

(n.) A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.

(n.) An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.

(n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

(n.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.

(n.) A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.

(n.) A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.

(v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

(v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.

(v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

(n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

(n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

(n.) Contest; contention; strife.

(n.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.

(n.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.

(a.) Strumous.

(a.) Having a struma.

(n.) A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.

(n.) A building where cotton is ginned.

(v. t.) To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.

(v. t.) Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.

(n.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.

(n.) One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed to consist.

(n.) The smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state.

(n.) A group of atoms so united and combined by chemical affinity that they form a complete, integrated whole, being the smallest portion of any particular compound that can exist in a free state; as, a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Cf. Atom.

(n.) Alt. of Molesty

(n.) A vaginula.

(n.) A salt of valeric acid.

(n.) A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.

(n.) Alt. of Valiancy

(n.) Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.

(n.) A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively.

(a.) Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.

(n.) See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

(v. t.) To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman.

(a.) Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.

(a.) Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion.

(n.) A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural.

(pl. ) of Valvula

(n.) A volatile liquid hydrocarbon, C5H6, related to ethylene and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third degree. It is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds. It has a garlic odor.

(n.) The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

(n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.

(n.) A salt of vanadic acid.

(n.) Time during which one is awake.

(a.) Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.

(n.) Alt. of Langrel

(adv. & n.) Long since; long ago.

(n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.

(n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.

(n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.

(n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.

(n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

(n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.

(n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.

(n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech.

(v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.

(n.) Anything made of wool.

(v. t.) To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.

(v. t.) To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.

(v. t.) To be affected of influented by.

(n.) A moderate degree of wetness.

(n.) That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.

(n.) That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.

(n.) A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.

(n.) Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.

(a.) Having a tendency to loosen or relax.

(a.) Having the effect of loosening or opening the intestines, and relieving from constipation; -- opposed to astringent.

(n.) A laxative medicine. See the Note under Cathartic.

(n.) The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.

(n.) Tartness; sourness, as of disposition.

(a.) Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

(n.) A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.

(n.) See Veronica, 1.

(n.) A Veronica. See Veronica, 1.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native of Verona; collectively, the people of Verona.

(a.) Capable of being turned.

(n.) A little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.

(n.) A compound derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K.

(n.) A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen.

(n.) The outside or external covering.

(n.) The past; the time before the present.

(v. i.) To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

(v. i.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.

(v. t.) To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

(v. t.) To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.

(a.) Alt. of Etiolated

(n.) One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

(n.) A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.

(a.) Without a tail or spur.

(a.) Tailless.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions.

(v. t.) To leave off wholly.

(n.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

(v. t.) To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.

(n.) A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

(a.) Alt. of Echinated

(n.) A fossil echinoid.

(v. t.) To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.

(pl. ) of Formula

(n.) A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.

(v. t.) To render misshapen.

(imp.) of Forswear

() imp. of Forswear.

(n.) A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.

(v. t.) To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

(v. t.) Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.

(v. t.) To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

(v. t.) To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

(v. t.) To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage.

(v. i.) To let blood

(a.) Capable of being evaded.

(v. t.) To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

(v. i.) To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.

(v. t.) To desolate or lay waste utterly.

(n.) A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

(n.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.

(n.) A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

(a.) That may be evaded.

(a.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.

(n.) The time of evening; evening.

(n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

(adv.) During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for.

(a.) Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.

(n.) Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.

(v. t. & i.) To vibrate.

(n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.

(a.) Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.

(a.) Belonging to the Edentata.

(n.) One of the Edentata.

(n.) One who bears witness.

(n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.

(v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

(adv.) With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

(a.) Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.

(a.) Avoidable.

(v. t.) To guard as a churchwarden does.

(a.) Capable of being educated.

(v. t.) To publish abroad.

(pl. ) of Foveola

(a.) Capable of being educed.

(a.) Tending to draw out; extractive.

(a.) Causing fear; eerie.

(v. t.) To whet or sharpen.

(a.) Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet.

(n.) A person examined.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.

(v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

(v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

(v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.

(v. t.) To blind.

(v. t.) To make fierce.

(n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

(n.) The breaking of a bone.

(n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.

(v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

(a.) Capable of being framed.

(n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

(n.) The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.

(n.) The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.

(n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.

(n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.

(n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.

(n.) To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.

(n.) To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.

(n.) To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.

(v. i.) To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.

(n.) A vertebra.

(v. t.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.

(a.) Such as can be leased.

(n.) A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.

(n.) The benefice of a vicar.

(n.) The house or residence of a vicar.

(a.) Capable of being welded.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Vienna, or people of Vienna.

(n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of Vienna.

(a.) Pleasing to the sight; sightly.

(v. t.) To make legal.

(v. t.) To interpret or apply in a legal spirit.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power.

(a.) Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution.

(n.) See Wanghee.

(n.) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

(n.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.

(n.) A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.

(a.) Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.

(v. i.) To turn to ice.

(v. t.) To convert into, or cover with, ice.

(v. t.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.

(pl. ) of Actinia

(n.) Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.

(n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber.

(v. t.) To ravish; to debauch.

(a.) Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.

(a.) Moderalely acute.

(n.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

(a.) Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.

(n.) A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also corn flag.

(a.) Pleased; joyful; cheerful.

(a.) Causing joy, pleasure, or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing.

(n.) A small gland or secreting vessel.

(n.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.

(n.) A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.

(n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

(a.) Glaucous or glaucescent.

(n.) An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

(a.) Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two.

(n.) A claymore.

(n.) A salt of suberic acid.

(n.) Any sponge of the genus Suberites and allied genera. These sponges have a fine and compact texture, and contain minute siliceous spicules.

(n.) The hypothetical ketone of suberic acid.

(n.) A colorless liquid, analogous suberone proper, having a pleasant peppermint odor. It is obtained by the distillation of calcium suberate.

(a.) Alt. of Suberous

(a.) Merry; joyous; gleeful.

(v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.

(v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.

(v. i.) To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.

(a.) Submersed.

(n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.

(a.) Alt. of Trinerved

(n.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.

(n.) Spodumene.

(n.) A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.

(n.) A noun having three cases only.

(a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

(n.) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.

(n.) Same as Nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin.

(n.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.

(n.) An aureole.

(v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

(v. i.) To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.

(n.) Anything having three valves, especially a shell.

(n.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

(n.) See Substyle.

(n.) Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.

(n.) A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.

(v. t.) To make active.

(a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

(a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles.

(a.) Severe or stinging; incisive.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

(a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.

(n.) A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.

(v. t.) To place under; to insert.

(a.) Alt. of Subulated

(v. t.) To subvert.

(n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.

(n.) The common European bittern.

(pl. ) of Succuba

(n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

(adv.) In a such a manner; so.

(n.) Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds.

(n.) Alt. of Trouveur

(v. t.) To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.

(n.) The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck.

(n.) Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.

(n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.

(n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.

(n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.

(n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.

(n.) Aid; assistance.

(n.) The right to vote; franchise.

(v. t.) To vote for; to elect.

(a.) Like a goat; goatish.

(v. t.) To cut off; to lop; to maim.

(a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family (Suidae).

(a.) Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.

(v. t.) Foulness; filth.

(n.) A salt of sulphuric acid.

(n.) A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.

(n.) Any one of a series of basic compounds which consist essentially of sulphur united with hydrocarbon radicals. In general they are oily or crystalline deliquescent substances having a peculiar odor; as, trimethyl sulphine, (CH3)3S.OH. Cf. Sulphonium.

(n.) One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

(n.) A salt of sulphurous acid.

(n.) Any one of a series of compounds analogous to the ketones, and consisting of the sulphuryl group united with two hydrocarbon radicals; as, dimethyl sulphone, (CH/)/.SO/.

(n.) A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.

(v. t.) To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

(v. t.) To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.

(v. i.) To pass from one key into another.

(v. t.) To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

(v. t.) To treat with medicine.

(n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

(n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.

(n.) A philter or love potion.

(n.) A physician.

(v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

(a.) Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.

(n.) A mediocre person.

(n.) A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties.

(v. i.) To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

(v. t.) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon; to study.

(v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to plan by revolving in the mind; as, to meditate a war.

(v.) To spot; to stain; to blur.

(a.) Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the methane series, found in petroleum; -- so called from its containing eleven carbon atoms in the molecule.

(v. t.) To reverse or recant, as a previous decision.

(v. t.) To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of.

(v. t.) To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

(v. t.) To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support; as, a doctrine underlying a theory.

(v. t.) To be subject or amenable to.

(v. i.) To lie below or under.

(n.) See Underlay, n., 1.

(n.) The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.

(v. t.) To unfold, or render single.

(a.) Same as Undulated.

(v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate.

(v. i.) To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air.

(n.) In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.

(v. t.) To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.

(v. t.) To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.

(v. i.) To form ideals.

(v. t.) Same as Enthrone.

(a.) Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.

(a.) Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.

(a.) Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.

(n.) An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.

(a.) To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known.

(a.) To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office.

(v. t.) To entitle; to give a title to.

(v. i.) To thunder.

(v. i.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.

(v. i.) To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

(v. t.) To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.

(v. t.) To thaw.

(a.) Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh.

(v. i.) To become stupid.

(n.) Same as Vesuvianite.

(a.) Shaped like a hoof.

(a.) Furnished with hoofs. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.

(n.) Any hoofed quadruped; one of the Ungulata.

(v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

(v. i.) To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

(v. t.) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.

(v. i.) Intricacy; complication.

(v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

(v. i.) The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.

(v. i.) A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.

(a.) Tightly drawn; or (perhaps) intricate.

(a.) Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs.

(a.) Incapable of falling or erring; infalliable.

(a.) Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc.

(n.) An illative particle, as for, because.

(v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

(v. t.) To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.

(a.) Uncivil; unpolished; rude.

(a.) Capable of union by growth or otherwise.

(v. t.) To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

(a.) Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.

(n.) A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs.

(a.) Alt. of Univalved

(a.) Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.

(v. t.) To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.

(n.) Titanic iron. See Menaccanite.

(n.) All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.

(a.) Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate.

(v. t.) To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore.

(a.) Alt. of Involuted

(n.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.

(n.) Silver iodide, a mineral of a yellowish color.

(a.) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.

(n.) One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind.

(v. t.) To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.

(n.) A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.

(n.) Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

(a.) Capble of being imitated or copied.

(a.) Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities.

(v. t.) See Emmantle.

(a.) Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

(a.) Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.

(v. t.) To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.

(a.) Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.

(a.) Irrelative; unconnected.

(v. t.) To divest of a mantle; to uncover.

(v. t.) To separate, as things mixed.

(v. t.) To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.

(v. t.) To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover.

(v. t.) To remove the muffling of, as a drum.

(v. t.) To loose from a muzzle; to remove a muzzle from.

(v. t.) To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature.

(n.) The contrary of nature; that which is unnatural.

(v. t.) Same as Unnest.

(a.) Unchanged.

(v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.

(a.) Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist.

(v. t.) To embody in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist.

(v. t.) To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

(v. t.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.

(v. t.) To render null and void.

(v. t.) To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.

(a.) Not polite; impolite; rude.

(v. t.) To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects.

(v. t.) To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.

(n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

(a.) Excited; heightened.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew.

(a.) Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand.

(v. t.) To wrinkle.

(v. t.) To withhold praise from; to deprive of praise.

(v. t.) To deprive of the character or authority of a prince; to divest of principality of sovereignty.

(n.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

(n.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.

(n.) A joining; a joint.

(n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.

(v. t.) To settle a jointure upon.

(n.) The third Sunday after Easter; -- so called because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, "Jubilate Deo."

(n.) A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version.

(v. i.) To exult; to rejoice.

(n.) One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew.

(n.) One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.

(n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

(n.) A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

(n.) Alt. of Magbote

(n.) A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.

(n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

(n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

(n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

(v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

(a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.

(a.) Admissible lawfully into the mail.

(n.) The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin.

(n.) Same as Yokefellow.

(n.) The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.

(n.) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.

(a.) Having the orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; -- opposed to microseme.

(a.) See Miocene.

(n.) A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.

(n.) A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.

(n.) A black variety of garnet.

(n.) A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

(n.) Any bird of the genus Turnix. Various species inhabit Asia, Africa, and Australia.

(n.) See Semitone.

(n.) A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.

(n.) A walking pace or step.

(n.) A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.

(n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

(n.) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.

(n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

(v. t.) To bathe.

(p. p.) of Forbear

() p. p. of Forbear.

(v. t.) To cut completely; to cut off.

(a.) Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.

(a.) Violent; impetuous.

(a.) Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.

(n.) A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

(v. t.) To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.

(v. t.) To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.

(a.) Capable of being forded.

(v. t.) To drive about; to drive here and there.

(v. i.) To dwindle away; to disappear.

(v. t.) To foretell.

(v. t.) To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.

(v. i.) To fortell; to presage; to augur.

(n.) Prognostication; presage.

(v. t.) To date before the true time; to antendate.

(p. p.) of Forego

(n.) A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.

(v. t.) To name or mention before.

(n.) A gantline.

(v. t.) To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood.

(a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

(a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.

(n. / interj.) Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep.

(a.) Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

(a.) Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer.

(a.) Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid.

(n.) See Race, n., 6.

(n.) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.

(a.) Embodied in, or changed into, water.

(a.) Not arable.

(v. i.) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.

(v. i.) To stammer; to falter in speaking.

(v. t.) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

(a.) Covered with gold; gilded.

(v. t.) To cover with gold; to gild.

(n.) Cassiterite.

(n.) A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

(n.) A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.

(a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.

(v. t.) To begin.

(v. t.) See Encircle.

(a.) Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries.

(n.) A cut; an incision; a gash.

(n.) The European green woodpecker or yaffle.

(a.) Capable of being told.

(a.) Telling tales; babbling.

(n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

(n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

(n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.

(n.) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.

(n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

(n.) The tattler. See Tattler.

(n.) An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs.

(n.) The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

(n.) Same as Templet.

(n.) Same as Dugong.

(a.) Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.

(a.) To equalize; to make adequate.

(a.) To equal.

(n.) Heat; fervency.

(adv.) In the manner of fess.

(a.) Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

(a.) Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

(n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.

(n.) The act of attending or waiting; attendance.

(n.) Persons in attendance; attendants.

(n.) Tendency.

(n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

(n.) A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

(a.) Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.

(n.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.

(n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

(n.) A large grass (Euchlaena luxurians) closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico and Central America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass.

(a.) Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.

(a.) Bearing a small hook at the end.

(n.) An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.

(n.) A salt of terebic acid.

(n.) A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

(n.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

(pl. ) of Terebra

(superl.) Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.

(superl.) Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.

(superl.) Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.

(superl.) Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.

(superl.) Ample; moderately large.

(a.) Alt. of Figulated

(n.) A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.

(a.) Of a definite form or figure.

(a.) Figurative; metaphorical.

(a.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.

(n.) A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.

(n.) A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.

(n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.

(n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

(n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.

(a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.

(v. t.) To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

(n.) That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

(pl. ) of Fimbria

(a.) Capable of beong found; discoverable.

(n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.

(v. i.) To make an harangue; to declaim.

(v. t.) To address by an harangue.

(a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.

(a.) Excessive; extreme; severe.

(n.) Limitation.

(v. t.) To do or perform for the third time.

(v. t.) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.

(pl. ) of Tessera

(a.) Capable of being tested or proved.

(a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will.

(n.) Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

(n.) One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

(n.) A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

(n.) An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

(n.) A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

(v. t.) To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.

(a.) Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art.

(a.) Consisting of a thallus.

(n.) An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.

(a.) Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.

(n.) A fishwoman.

(pl. ) of Fistula

(n.) One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

(n.) One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.

(n.) A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

(a.) Suitable; fit.

(n.) Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

(n.) That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.

(n.) A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/ rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana.

(n.) Harbor dues; port dues.

(v. t.) To burn.

(v. t.) To yoke to.

(n.) Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2.

(a.) Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

(v. t.) To incorporate.

(v. i.) To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.

(v. i.) To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

(v. i.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.

(v. t.) To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.

(v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.

(v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.

(v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.

(v. i.) Generation.

(v. i.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.

(v. t.) To create within.

(a.) Alt. of Increated

(v. i. & t.) To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

(v. t.) To seek or search out.

(v. t.) See Endamage.

(n.) A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

(n.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

(n.) The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.

(n.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.

(n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.

(n.) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.

(v. t.) To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

(v. t.) To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

(v. t.) To naturalize.

(n.) One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.

(n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

(n.) A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere.

(n.) A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus).

(n.) Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.

(v. t.) To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.

(v. i.) To make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.

(a.) Capable of being melted.

(n.) The sand mole.

(n.) A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.

(n.) A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.

(v. t.) To commemorate.

(n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.

(n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death.

(n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.

(v. t.) To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.

(v. t.) To commit to memory; to learn by heart.

(a.) Capable of being mended.

(n.) See Opal.

(v.) A learned or wise man.

(v.) One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

(a.) Alt. of Monotypic

(n.) An oxide containing one atom of oxygen in each molecule; as, barium monoxide.

(a.) Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.

(n.) The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.

(n.) A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence.

(n.) An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.

(n.) A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.

(n.) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters.

(n.) The cisco.

(n.) The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.

(n.) A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language.

(a.) Capable of being mooted.

(n.) Quitch grass.

(a.) Loathsome; disgusting; hateful.

(n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

(v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids.

(v. i.) Any one of the Zoophyta.

(n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.

(n.) See Swarmspore.

(n.) The urubu, or American black vulture.

(n.) The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

(n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.

(v. t.) To make smooth with pumice.

(v.) To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

(v.) To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.

(n.) A forerunning.

(a.) Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation.

(n.) The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

(n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.

(n.) Affliction; distress; grievance.

(n.) Urgency; as, the pressure of business.

(n.) Impression; stamp; character impressed.

(n.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.

(v. i.) To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do.

(v.) Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.

(v.) Delusion; illusion; trick.

(v.) Weight or influence derived from past success; expectation of future achievements founded on those already accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or reputation.

(a.) Alt. of Pretenceless

(n.) Alt. of Pretence

(n.) The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.

(n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.

(n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.

(n.) Intention; design.

(a. & n.) See Polonaise.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

(a.) Capable of being opined or thought.

(a.) Producing, or produced by, the action of light; -- formerly used specifically to designate a gas now called carbonyl chloride. See Carbonyl.

(n.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.

(n.) One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.

(n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

(n.) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.

(n.) A fossil coral.

(a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.

(a.) Any plant of the genus Primula.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.

(n.) A mineral related to ottrelite.

(n.) Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

(n.) Same as Phyllodium.

(n.) A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.

(n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief.

(a.) Of or pertaining to polytypes; obtained by polytyping; as, a polytype plate.

(v. t.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving.

(a.) Having the nostril covered with a scale.

(n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

(n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.

(a.) See Pontine.

(n.) A small piano; a pianino.

(a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

(n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

(n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

(n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.

(n.) Same as Kelp, 2.

(a.) Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

(n.) See Keratose.

(n.) An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

(n.) A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.

(a.) Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.

(n.) Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

(n.) The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.

(a.) Populous.

(v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

(v. i.) To propagate.

(a.) Valuable.

(a.) Capable of being proved.

(a.) Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.

(a.) Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption.

(n.) The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.

(n.) The compensation made or allowed to a pilot.

(n.) Guidance, as by a pilot.

(n.) An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron.

(n.) A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type.

(n.) An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.

(n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.

(n.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.

(a.) Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.

(n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

(a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.

(a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.

(n.) A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.

(n.) See Port, carriage, demeanor.

(n.) See Porteass.

(n.) A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

(n.) A curtain hanging across a doorway.

(n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.

(n.) Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.

(v. t.) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

(pl. ) of Pinnula

(a.) Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; as, inhabile matter.

(a.) Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of person.

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

(v. t.) To inhume; to bury; to inter.

(v. t.) To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

(v. t.) To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.

(v. t.) To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.

(v. i.) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

(a.) Unpracticed; untried; new.

(a.) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.

(n.) One who is, or is to be, initiated.

(a.) Indued with humanity.

(v. t.) To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.