(n.) A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask.

(n.) A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

(n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.

(n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

(n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.

(v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.

(n.) A gentle trot, like that of a dog.

(n.) Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

(n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.

(n.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.

(n.) A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

(v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.

(n.) See Dabchick.

(n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

(n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.

(n.) Same as Drawbar (b).

(n.) A knapsack.

(n.) A chip; a alice.

(v. t.) To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.

(n.) Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.

(n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.

(adv.) On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

(n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

(n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

(n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.

(n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.

(n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

(n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.

(n.) Persons supported by alms; almsmen.

(n.) An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

(n.) A belt. See Baldric.

(n.) Ornamental work in beads.

(n.) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

(n.) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.

(n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

(n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

(n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

(n.) A married man, or a man newly married.

(n.) See Rietboc.

(n.) A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.

(n.) Candlestick.

(v. t.) To streak.

(n.) The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

(n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

(n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

(n.) Study; application to books.

(n.) A device for pulling off boots.

(n.) A toady.

(n.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

(n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.

(v. t. & i.) See Reembark.

(n.) A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.

(n.) A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts.

(n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

(n.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.

(n.) The ring-necked duck.

(n.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.

(n.) A rockery.

(n.) A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat.

(v. t.) To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

(v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.

(v. t.) To decorate all over.

(v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.

(n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

(v. t.) To exceed in speaking.

(v. t.) To speak openly or boldly.

(v. t.) To express more than.

(v. t.) To walk over or upon.

(a.) Too weak; too feeble.

(n.) Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.

(v. t.) To break completely; to break in pieces.

(a.) Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.

(n.) A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

(v. t.) To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

(n.) A traveler's handbag.

(n.) Alt. of Gritstone

(n.) One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.

(n.) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.

(n.) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

(n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.

(n.) A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan.

(n.) A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.

(n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

(n.) A kind of dynamite used in blasting.

(n.) See Apricot.

(n.) The pallah.

(n.) Alt. of Roorbach

(a.) A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.

(n.) Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly.

(n.) A flatterer or sycophant.

(a.) Flattering; sycophantic.

(v. t.) To flatter.

(n.) A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.

(n.) The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.

(n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

(n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.

(n.) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.

(n.) The fieldfare.

(n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.

(v. t. & i.) To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.

(n.) The first rank; the front.

(n.) The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.

(n.) Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

(v. t.) To blind by covering the eyes.

(v. t.) To cover; to hide.

(v. t.) To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.

(n.) A fish. See Hornfish.

(n.) An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

(n.) See Gimcrack.

(n.) In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.

(n.) Same as Lathing.

(n.) A water buck.

(n.) The lark.

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(a.) Sick from excess in eating or drinking.

(n.) The quillback.

(n.) An upstart.

(n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.

(n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.

(n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

(n.) See Dabchick.

(n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.

(n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

(n.) The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.

(n.) Same as Steinbock.

(v. t.) To unfrock.

(n.) The sparrow hawk.

(n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

(n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.

(n.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.

(n.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.

(n.) A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.

(n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.

(n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

(n.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

(n.) The sheldrake.

(n.) A spear or dart.

(n.) An iron crow or lever.

(n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus).

(n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

(n.) The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.

(n.) A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.

(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).

(v. t.) To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.

(n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

(n.) Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

(n.) A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage.

(n.) The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

(v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

(v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit.

(v. t.) To bewitch.

(v. t.) To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.

(n.) A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

(n.) See Trochiscus.

(n.) Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron.

(a.) Very black.

(n.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

(n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

(n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.

(v. i.) To look beforehand or forward.

(n.) A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register.

(n.) The male game fowl.

(n.) The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

(n.) Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.

(n.) A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

(n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.

(adv.) With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.

(n.) Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.

(n.) A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.

(n.) A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.

(n.) One of several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.

(n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.

(n.) A hook for catching fish.

(n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.

(n.) A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.

(n.) A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

(n.) Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

(n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow.

(n.) The long handle of a mop.

(n.) Alt. of Princox

(adv.) On the back.

(n.) An instrument for picking locks.

(n.) One who picks locks; a thief.

(n.) See Picnic.

(n.) One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached.

(n.) A glimpse or flash of the sun.

(n.) The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.

(n.) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).

(n.) The California gray whale.

(n.) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

(n.) The dowitcher.

(n.) The body louse.

(n.) A crooked back; a humped back.

(n.) A humpbacked person; a hunchback.

(n.) Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and M. osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is M. versabilis.

(n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America.

(n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.

(n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition.

(n.) The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.

(n.) See Futtock.

(n.) A footprint; a track or vestige.

(v. t.) To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.

(n.) A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.

(n.) Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

(n.) A quarry; an open cut.

(n.) A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.

(n.) A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England.

(v. i.) To err in speaking.

(v. t.) To utter wrongly.

(n.) The chicken of the peacock.

(n.) A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.

(n.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.

(n.) A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.

(n.) The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.

(v. t.) To lick over.

(n.) Mental labor.

(n.) A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

(n.) A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.

(n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

(n.) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.

(n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.

(v. t.) To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.

(n.) A fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain.

(n.) Mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting pieces, are employed to transmit motion from one part to another.

(n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

(n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.

(v. t.) To exceed in drinking.

(a.) Too rank or luxuriant.

(v. t.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.

(imp.) of Overtake

(v. i.) To talk to excess.

(v. t.) To task too heavily.

(n.) That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.

(n.) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.

(v. i. & t.) To throw out; to vomit.

(n.) Vomit.

(n.) Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.

(n.) Fig.: A simpleton.

(n.) The Australian crested goatsucker (Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.

(n.) Alt. of Woodhacker

(n.) A woodpecker.

(n.) A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.

(n.) Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.

(n.) A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

(n.) People that labor.

(n.) The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.

(n.) The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

(n.) Alt. of Wranny

(v. i.) To think wrongly.

(v. t.) To have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of.

(v. t.) To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.

(v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.

(v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

(v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

(v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.

(n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.

(n.) The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative.

(v. t.) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.

(n.) Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.

(n.) A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

(n.) A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

(n.) See Knickknack.

(n.) A book in which notes or memorandums are written.

(n.) A book in which notes of hand are registered.

(n.) Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.

(n.) The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

(n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer.

(n.) A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.

(n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

(n.) The barrel of a wooden pump.