(n.) An eating house.

(n.) The office or quality of a seer.

(n.) Pretended sleep.

(n.) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.

(n.) The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

(n.) A joint or coadjutant bishop.

(n.) A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

(n.) A drop of rain.

(n.) The state of being a bard.

(n.) A spider.

(n.) A peevish, ill-natured person.

(n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

(n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.

(n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.

(n.) The black raspberry.

(n.) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.

(n.) The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.

(n.) A bookseller's shop.

(v. t.) To develop.

(v. t.) To exceed in sleeping.

(n.) A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

(n.) A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.

(n.) The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke.

(n.) See Escalop.

(n.) A bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty.

(n.) A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.

(n.) A lozenge having a rose flavor.

(n.) A kind of earring.

(n.) A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.

(n.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.

(n.) The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.

(n.) A contrivance for clapping in theaters.

(n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.

(a.) Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.

(n.) Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government.

(n.) The dawn.

(n.) The office of a dean.

(n.) The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.

(n.) The fore part of a ship.

(n.) The district or territory of a town.

(n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.

(n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.

(n.) The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.

(n.) The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.

(n.) See Corriestep.

(n.) The surf duck.

(n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

(n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

(n.) A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.

(a.) Lofty and precipitous.

(n.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

(n.) A monocarpic plant.

(n.) Alt. of Emeership

(n.) The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

(n.) A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.

(n.) A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.

(n.) Alt. of Mouldwarp

(n.) See Moldwarp.

(n.) A landscape.

(n.) Alt. of Landslide

(n.) A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.

(n.) The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

(a.) Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.

(n.) A state of gladness.

(n.) A subdivision of a group, as of animals.

(n.) The lower lip.

(n.) One of the Pedipalpi.

(v. t.) To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.

(n.) One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

(n.) The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.

(n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

(n.) The character or personality of a hero.

(n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.

(n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.

(n.) An old game at cards.

(v. t.) To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.

(n.) That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.

(n.) The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

(n.) The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp.

(n.) Favor; grace.

(v. t.) Same as Transship.

(v. t.) To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights.

(n.) Alt. of Hypocarpium

(n.) A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

(n.) The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.

(n.) The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.

(n.) Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.

(n.) Dominion; power; authority.

(n.) One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.

(n.) A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.

(v. t.) To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.

(v. t.) To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.

(n.) Authority or dignity; chief place.

(n.) A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.

(n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London.

(n.) A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

(n.) Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

(n.) The Lophiomys.

(n.) Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.

(n.) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.

(n.) A kind of high rustic shoe.

(a.) Upstart.

(n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

(n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.

(n.) The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.

(n.) The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head.

(n.) The European tree sparrow.

(n.) A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.

(n.) Fiorin.

(n.) The state of being a lion.

(n.) A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.

(n.) Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem.

(n.) A silly person.

(v. t.) To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference.

(v. t.) To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

(n.) An outer garment, or slop.

(v. t.) To step over or beyond; to transgress.

(n.) The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).

(n.) Workmanship.

(n.) A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

(n.) A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

(n.) The state or personality of a poet.

(n.) The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty.