(n.) One who combats.

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

(n.) One who affirms.

(n.) One engaged in an affray.

(adv. & a.) In a flickering state.

(n.) One who arranges.

(adv. & a.) In a flutter; agitated.

(n.) One who animates.

(n.) One who, or that which, animates; an animater.

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

(n.) A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses.

(n.) One who annuls.

(n.) One who anoints.

(n.) One who answers.

(a.) Before in time; antecedent.

(a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior.

(n.) One who arrests.

(n.) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made.

(n.) One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.

(n.) One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

(a.) Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.

(n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

(n.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators.

(n.) An implement for shaking or mixing.

(adv. & a.) In a glimmering state.

(adv. & a.) Glittering; in a glitter.

(n.) One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.

(n.) One who forms a purpose; one who intends.

(n.) A teller of apologues.

(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.

(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.

(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.

(a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.

(n.) One who makes an appeal.

(n.) One who appears.

(n.) One who appeases; a pacifier.

(n.) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime.

(n.) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.

(n.) A floor of wood; also, a plank.

(n.) The under side of a cornice; a soffit.

(v. t.) To form of planks.

(n.) A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.

(n.) One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.

(n.) One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.

(n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

(n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

(n.) A member of the House of Commons.

(n.) One who has a joint right in common ground.

(n.) One sharing with another in anything.

(n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) A cordwainer.

(n.) One who blows a cornet.

(n.) One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

(n.) One who compares.

(n.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

(n.) The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.

(n.) One who ciphers.

(a.) In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.

(a.) repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

(a.) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.

(a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.

(a.) Perfect; complete.

(a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

(a.) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.

(n.) One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

(n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

(n.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

(n.) One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.

(n.) One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.

(n.) One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.

(n.) One who coshers.

(n.) A lord; the lord of a manor.

(n.) A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.

(n.) One who computes.

(n.) One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.

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

(n.) One who credits, believes, or trusts.

(n.) One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.

(n.) One who goes out.

(n.) One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

(n.) A trifler; a fribble.

(n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

(n.) An executioner.

(n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

(n.) A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.

(n.) A copy of a book or writing.

(a.) Exemplary.

(n.) One who frizzles.

(n.) One who exhorts or incites.

(n.) The song thrush.

(n.) A plant which flowers or blossoms.

(n.) One who thrusts or stabs.

(n.) One who fodders cattle.

(n.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

(n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

(n.) A sweetheart; a beau.

(n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.

(n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.

(n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.

(n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

(n.) One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

(n.) One who overdoes.

(n.) An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.

(n.) One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.

(n.) A gas washer. See under Gas.

(n.) One who scruples.

(n.) One who scuffles.

(n.) An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.

(n.) One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.

(n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.

(n.) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.

(n.) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles.

(n.) One who scurries.

(n.) One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

(n.) One who scutches.

(n.) An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.

(n.) Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.

(n.) One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

(n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

(n.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.

(n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.

(n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

(n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.

(n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.

(n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

(v. t.) To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

(v. t.) To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.

(v. t.) To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

(v. t.) To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.

(v. i.) To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.

(v. i.) To hesitate.

(n.) One who gives consolation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

(n.) See Book scorpion, under Book.

(n.) The European starling.

(n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

(n.) One who codifies.

(n.) One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

(n.) One who uses chicanery.

(n.) One who keeps treasures in a coffer.

(n.) One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.

(n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like.

(n.) One who collates manuscripts, books, etc.

(n.) One who collates to a benefice.

(n.) One who confers any benefit.

(n.) One who conspires in a fraud.

(n.) An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.

(n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga; the beefeater.

(v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.

(v. t.) To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

(v. i.) To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

(n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian

(v. t.) To bear down; to depress.

(n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

(n.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

(a.) Of or pertaining to two planes.

(v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.

(v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.

(v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

(n.) Smoke; smother.

(n.) A harness for draught horses.

(n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.

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

(v. i.) See Smolder.

(n.) One who directs; a director.

(n.) One who smuggles.

(n.) A vessel employed in smuggling.

(n.) One who, or that which, west or steeps.

(n.) One who administers a drench.

(n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

(n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.

(n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.

(n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

(n.) One who snatches, or takes abruptly.

(n.) One who dribbles.

(n.) One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.

(n.) A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

(n.) One who disarms.

(n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

(n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.

(v. t.) To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

(v. t.) To bring harm upon; to injure.

(n.) See Sallenders.

(n.) One who solders.

(n.) One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.

(n.) One who starches.

(n.) A summoner.

(n.) One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

(n.) A singing bird.

(v. t.) To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.

(v. t.) To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.

(n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.

(n.) One who resents.

(n.) One who reserves.

(n.) One who redeems.

(n.) Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.

(a.) Alt. of Ampullary

(n.) One who assails.

(n.) One who makes, or engages in, a racket.

(n.) That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a steam radiator.

(n.) One who assents.

(n.) One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

(n.) One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter.

(v.) One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.

(v.) One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.

(v.) One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.

(n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.

(n.) An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.

(n.) An assistant; a helper.

(n.) A assister.

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

(n.) Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc.

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

(n.) The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

(n.) Same as Anatifa.

(n.) A banterer; a jester; a mocker.

(n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

(n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

(n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

(n.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.

(n.) One who banters or rallies.

(n.) One who baptizes.

(n.) One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

(n.) One who attacks.

(v. t.) To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.

(v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

(v. t.) To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.

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

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

(v. i.) One guilty of barratry.

(n.) Alt. of Attestor

(n.) One who attests.

(n.) One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

(n.) One who barters.

(n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.

(n.) A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors.

(n.) One who abhors.

(n.) One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

(n.) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

(n.) One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

(n.) An appraiser.

(n.) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.

(n.) One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.

(n.) An informer; an accuser.

(n.) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.

(v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.

(n.) Same as Questor.

(n.) One who allots.

(n.) A worker in a stone quarry.

(n.) One who quavers; a warbler.

(n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

(n.) One who abducts.

(n.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

(n.) See Tincal.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets.

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

(n.) One lying in ambush.

(n.) One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.

(n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.

(n.) A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms.

(n.) A grocer; -- formerly so called because he sold pepper.

(n.) One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald.

(n.) Alt. of Battler

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

(n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

(n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.

(n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.

(a.) Auxiliary.

(n.) An auxiliary.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.

(n.) One who avouches.

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

(n.) A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

(n.) Alt. of Bedegar

(n.) Sour beer.

(v. t.) To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.

(n.) A man of any age who has not been married.

(n.) An unmarried woman.

(n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.

(n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.

(n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.

(n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

(a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.

(n.) One who begets; a father.

(n.) One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

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

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

(n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.

(a.) Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.

(prep.) On this side of.

(n.) One who beholds; a spectator.

(n.) A lover.

(n.) A flower, but of what kind is unknown.

(n.) A backer.

(n.) One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

(n.) One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.

(n.) One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

(n.) One who badgers.

(n.) A kind of dog used in badger baiting.

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

(n.) One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower.

(n.) One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.

(v. t.) To master thoroughly.

(n.) One who bemoans.

(n.) One who balances, or uses a balance.

(n.) In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.

(n.) A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).

(n.) A crossbow.

(n.) A holy-water stoup.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

(n.) A writer of ballads.

(n.) One who bereaves.

(n.) One who votes by ballot.

(n.) One who refers.

(v. i. & t.) To flower, or cause to flower, again.

(n.) One who reforges.

(n.) See Bilander.

(n.) One who reserves; a reserver.

(n.) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.

(n.) One who resets, or sets again.

(n.) One who resigns.

(n.) One who cabals.

(n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.

(n.) One who resists.

(n.) That which decomposes, or dissolves.

(n.) That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined.

(n.) One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose.

(n.) One who resorts; a frequenter.

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

(n.) One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

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

(n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.

(n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.

(n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.

(n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.

(n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.

(n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.

(n.) One who rummages.

(n.) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager.

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

(n.) A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.

(n.) One who retorts.

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

(n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

(n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.

(n.) An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

(v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

(n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.

(n.) One who pursues the business of calendering.

(n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.

(n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.

(n.) One who returns.

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

(n.) One who revenges.

(a.) Like a sac; sacciform.

(n.) One who reverses.

(n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.

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

(n.) Reversion.

(n.) One who reviews or reexamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.

(n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

(n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.

(n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.

(a.) Having the form of a tube; tubular.

(v. t.) To uncover.

(v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).

(v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.

(v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.

(v. t.) To explore; to examine.

(v. i.) To discover or show one's self.

(n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.

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

(n.) A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.

(n.) One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

(v. t.) To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

(n.) One that bestows.

(n.) One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.

(n.) One who banishes.

(n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

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

(n.) One who borrows.

(n.) One who bewails or laments.

(v. t.) To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

(v. t.) To make wintry.

(v. t.) To fill with wonder.

(v. t.) To wonder at; to admire.

(n.) One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.

(n.) One who bickers.

(n.) A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.

(n.) One who rides a bicycle.

(n.) One who bothers.

(n.) That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

(n.) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

(n.) One who revolts.

(n.) A quarrelsome person.

(a.) Relating to the brain; cerebral.

(n.) One who refunds.

(n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.

(n.) One who rewards.

(n.) One who regards.

(n.) An officer appointed to supervise the forest.

(v. t.) To gather again.

(n.) A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

(n.) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.

(n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.

(n.) One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.

(n.) That which registers or records.

(n.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.

(n.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.

(n.) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.

(n.) A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation.

(n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.

(n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.

(n.) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.

(v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.

(v. i.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.

(n.) To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.

(n.) To enroll; to enter in a list.

(v. i.) To enroll one's name in a register.

(v. i.) To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary.

(n.) One who regrates.

(n.) One guilty of regrating.

(n.) One who ransoms or redeems.

(n.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

(n.) One who rejects.

(n.) One who rejoices.

(n.) One who relapses.

(n.) One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer.

(v. t.) To encumber.

(n.) One who legally transfers property from himself to another.

(n.) One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.

(n.) One who refines metals by separation.

(n.) One who departs.

(n.) One who depends; a dependent.

(n.) One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.

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

(v. t.) To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.

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

(n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

(n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.

(n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.

(n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.

(n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.

(n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.

(n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.

(v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.

(v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.

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

(n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.

(n.) One who deprave or corrupts.

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

(n.) One who fishes for shrimps.

(n.) One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

(n.) One who deranges.

(n.) One who shuffles.

(n.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup.

(n.) One who descries.

(n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

(n.) One who deserves.

(n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.

(n.) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

(n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.

(n.) One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.

(a.) Bearing signs.

(n.) One who details.

(n.) One who detains.

(n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.

(n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

(n.) One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.

(n.) One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.

(n.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.

(n.) One who causes.

(n.) 1. One who scambles.

(n.) A bold intruder upon the hospitality of others; a mealtime visitor.

(n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.

(n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.

(n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.

(n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.

(a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.

(a.) High-spirited.

(a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.

(n.) One who enters a caveat.

(n.) A spit; a broach.

(n.) One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.

(n.) One who cavils.

(n.) A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.

(n.) One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.

(n.) A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.

(n.) A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.

(n.) A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.

(n.) One who rides out on horseback.

(n.) A servant on horseback attending a carriage.

(v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.

(n.) The writer of a preface.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.

(n.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.

(n.) Alt. of Scapulary

(n.) A person or thing that cements.

(n.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.

(n.) One who censures.

(n.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.

(n.) One who absolves.

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

(adv.) Knowingly; willfully.

(n.) Alt. of Scimitar

(n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.

(n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.

(n.) One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

(n.) One who buffets; a boxer.

(n.) One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.

(n.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

(n.) A maker or seller of candles.

(n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.

(n.) One who loads; an oppressor.

(n.) One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.

(n.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.

(n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.

(n.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.

(n.) One who simpers.

(a.) Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.

(a.) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.

(a.) Existing by itself; single; individual.

(a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.

(a.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.

(a.) Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.

(a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.

(a.) Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.

(a.) Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.

(n.) An individual instance; a particular.

(n.) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

(a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.

(a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.

(a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.

(a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.

(n.) One who detes//

(a.) Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.

(n.) A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.

(prep.) In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town.

(n.) One who indicts.

(n.) One who indicts.

(prep.) In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together.

(prep.) In concert; with mutual cooperation; as, the allies made war upon France together.

(n.) Alt. of Indorsor

(n.) The person who indorses.

(n.) The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

(n.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current.

(n.) One who indulges.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic.

(n.) A registrar or recorder; a notary.

(n.) The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.

(n.) The sun, as the orb of day.

(n.) An animal which produces tallow.

(n.) A proprietor of a talook.

(n.) The ant-bear.

(n.) One who grovels; an abject wretch.

(n.) One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.

(n.) One who grumbles.

(n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.

(n.) One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.

(n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

(n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.

(n.) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.

(n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

(n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.

(v. t.) To estrange; to alienate.

(n.) One who uses strap.

(n.) A person or thing of uncommon size.

(n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.

(n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.

(n.) A searcher for stream tin.

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

(n.) One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

(n.) A guard to keep off splashes from anything.

(v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.

(n.) A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.

(n.) The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

(n.) Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.

(n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like.

(n.) Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.

(n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.

(n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

(v. i.) To become split into long pieces.

(n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

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

(v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.

(n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.

(n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

(n.) A libertine; a wencher.

(n.) A longitudinal sleeper.

(n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

(n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

(n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

(n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

(n.) One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.

(n.) A young plant.

(n.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.

(n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.

(n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.

(n.) The grampus.

(n.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.

(n.) A species of antelope; the sprinkbok.

(n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

(n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

(n.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

(n.) One who feigns dumbness.

(n.) One whose occupation is to make spurs.

(n.) One who eschews.

(n.) One who selects.

(n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

(n.) One who lives in a cottage.

(n.) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.

(a.) Of the same color; of uniform color.

(n.) One who condoles.

(n.) Alt. of Countourhouse

(a.) Of or pertaining to a condyle.

(v. i.) To confederate.

(n.) One who confides.

(n.) A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

(n.) One who, or that which, limits or restrains.

(n.) One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.

(n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.

(n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.

(n.) One who confutes or disproves.

(n.) A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.

(n.) A seamster.

(n.) One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.

(n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.

(n.) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.

(n.) One bound by a common oath with others.

(n.) One who connives.

(n.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

(n.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.

(n.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

(n.) One who snuffles; one who uses cant.

(n.) One who clamors.

(n.) One who releases, or sets free.

(n.) One by whom a release is given.

(n.) See Releasor.

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

(n.) One who remarks.

(n.) One who ravishes (in any sense).

(n.) A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00.

(n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.

(n.) A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.

(n.) A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.

(n.) One who drives much; a coach driver.

(n.) A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.

(v. t.) To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates.

(v. t.) To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind; to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with gratitude, affection, respect, or any other emotion.

(v. t.) To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and impersonally.

(v. t.) To mention.

(v. t.) To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered to you, etc.

(v. i.) To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember better than others.

(n.) One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.

(n.) One who remits.

(n.) One who pardons.

(n.) One who makes remittance.

(n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit.

(n.) One who makes a remittance; a remitter.

(n.) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.

(n.) One who realizes.

(v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.

(v. i.) To appear again.

(v. t. & i.) To murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs.

(n.) One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.

(n.) One who renders.

(n.) A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.

(n.) One who romances.

(n.) One who rebels; a rebel.

(n.) One who abridges.

(n.) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

(n.) One who recants.

(n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

(n.) One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

(n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.

(n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.

(n.) One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.

(n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.

(n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.

(n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.

(n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.

(n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

(n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.

(v. t.) To center again; to restore to the center.

(n.) One who gives renown.

(n.) Same as Rheometer.

(n.) One who repacks.

(n.) One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.

(n.) Any one of several species of California sciaenoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina, / Johnius, saturna).

(n.) One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.

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

(n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.

(n.) A repeating firearm.

(n.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.

(n.) A person who votes more than once at an election.

(n.) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.

(n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

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

(n.) One who repents.

(n.) One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.

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

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

(n.) One who reports.

(n.) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.

(n.) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.

(n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

(n.) One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

(n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.

(n.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.

(n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

(n.) One who recoups.

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

(n.) One who repugns.

(n.) One who repulses, or drives back.

(n.) One who requires.

(n.) One who requites.

(n.) Realgar.

(n.) One who seizes again.

(n.) The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law.

(n.) One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.

(n.) One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.

(n.) A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar.

(a.) Alt. of Capsulary

(n.) One who carries the keys of any place.

(n.) One who carries a club; a club bearer.

(n.) One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.

(n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.

(n.) One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.

(n.) That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.

(v. t.) An inclosed place.

(v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;

(v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.

(v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

(n.) One who carouses; a reveler.

(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

(n.) One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.

(n.) One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.

(n.) One who absents one's self.

(n.) One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.

(n.) That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.

(a.) Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

(n.) One who convenes or meets with others.

(n.) One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.

(n.) One who squalls; a screamer.

(v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.

(v. t.) To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.

(v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.

(v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter.

(n.) The act of squandering; waste.

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

(n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.

(n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.

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

(n.) The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.

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

(n.) The European swift.

(n.) The harlequin duck.

(n.) The American golden plover.

(n.) One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.

(n.) A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural.

(n.) A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.

(n.) A preacher; a sermonizer.

(n.) One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.

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

(n.) In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface.

(n.) See Kreutzer.

(n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

(n.) A female descendant; a woman.

(n.) A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.

(n.) A term of address indicating parental interest.

(n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks.

(n.) A wooden tool used in graining leather.

(adv.) On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather!

(n.) A person or animal whose ears are cropped.

(n.) A person who accepts; a taker.

(n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality.

(n.) An acceptor.

(n.) One who accepts

(n.) one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

(n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

(n.) One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

(n.) Any plant of the order Cruciferae.

(n.) One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages.

(a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.

(n.) A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.

(n.) One who decants liquors.

(n.) One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

(n.) The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

(n.) Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life.

(n.) One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.

(n.) A member of any body of ten men in authority.

(v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

(v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.

(v. t.) To stamp; to detect; to discover.

(n.) One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.

(n.) One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.

(n.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

(n.) He who declines or rejects.

(n.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.

(n.) One who beats with a cudgel.

(n.) A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process.

(n.) A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

(n.) The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris).

(n.) Any species of the genus Elaeagus. See Eleagnus. The small silvery berries of the common species (Elaeagnus hortensis) are called Trebizond dates, and are made into cakes by the Arabs.

(n.) A smelling organ; a nose.

(n.) One who squints.

(n.) One who subjects another to duress

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

(n.) A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained.

(v. t.) To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier.

(n.) One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.

(n.) An attendant bearing a staff.

(n.) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.

(n.) One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.

(n.) One who foresees or foreknows.

(n.) One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

(n.) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.

(n.) One who keeps a tavern.

(n.) A plant that exudes gum or resin.

(n.) A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

(n.) Alt. of Feldspath

(n.) One who is assessed and pays a tax.

(n.) A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin.

(n.) One who drives a team.

(n.) One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.

(n.) One of the Homoptera.

(n.) A bullfighter.

(n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.

(n.) One who totters.

(n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer.

(n.) One who advances; a promoter.

(n.) A second branch of a buck's antler.

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

(a.) Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

(a.) Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.

(a.) Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.

(a.) Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.

(a.) Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.

(a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

(a.) Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.

(n.) A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.

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

(v. t. & i.) To filter or sift in.

(n.) The line or surface in which are situated all the points which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged.

(n.) The person or thing that inflames.

(n.) One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.

(n.) A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.

(v.) One who informs, animates, or inspires.

(v.) One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news.

(v.) One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute.

(n.) The keeper of a hostel or inn.

(n.) A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge.

(v. t.) See Engender.

(a.) Alt. of Maxillary

(n.) One who or operates a machine; a machinist.

(n.) One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.

(n.) One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

(a.) Variolous.

(n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

(n.) Alt. of Larcenist

(n.) One in charge of the larder.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.

(a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.

(n.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Delphinium), having showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is D. Consolida. The flower of the bee larkspur (D. elatum) has two petals bearded with yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee.

(n.) The keeper of a warren.

(n.) One who lauds.

(n.) An arbitrator.

(v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

(n.) One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.

(n.) A strumpet; a prostitute.

(n.) One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

(n.) One who waylays another.

(n.) One who makes a way; a precursor.

(n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

(n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.

(n.) An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.

(n.) One who lavishes.

(n.) Alt. of Verderor

(n.) An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.

(v. t.) To separate, as sisters; to disjoin.

(n.) An inhabitant of an island.

(v. t.) To separate or disunite, as what has been soldered; hence, to divide; to sunder.

(n.) One who imparts.

(v. t.) To deprive of temper, or of the proper degree of temper; to make soft.

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

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

(n.) One who removes a veil.

(v. t.) See Pester.

(n.) One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

(n.) One who twattles; a twaddler.

(n.) One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

(v. t.) To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain.

(v. t.) To gather up; to contract; to draw together.

(n.) A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.

(n.) An undertaker, or provider for funerals.

(n.) An upholsterer.

(n.) One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.

(n.) One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.

(n.) The upland sandpiper.

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

(n.) One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art.

(n.) A bootblack.

(n.) One who implores.

(n.) One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.

(n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.

(a.) Urceolate.

(n.) One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.

(n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after.

(n.) Alt. of Affeeror

(n.) One who affeers.

(n.) One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

(n.) A person who acquires.

(n.) A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

(n.) Alt. of Gannister

(n.) Same as Indorser.

(n.) One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

(v. t.) To fester.

(v. t.) To bind in fetters; to enchain.

(v. t.) To cover or deck with flowers.

(n.) One who enforces.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.

(n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

(a.) Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.

(a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.

(a.) Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.

(a.) Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.

(n.) An intimate; a companion.

(n.) An attendant demon or evil spirit.

(n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

(n.) A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

(v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.

(v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.

(v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

(v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.

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

(n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

(n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.

(n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.

(v. t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.

(v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.

(n.) Same as Gasalier.

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

(n.) One who works with another; a co/perator.

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

(n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.

(n.) One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.

(n.) One who sketches.

(n.) The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.

(n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.

(n.) A diametral plane.

(n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.

(n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.

(n.) The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.

(n.) A driveler; an idiot.

(n.) One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

(n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

(n.) See Dabchick.

(n.) One who slights.

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

(v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.

(n.) Same as Dempster.

(n.) One who digests.

(n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.

(n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.

(n.) See Digester.

(n.) An officer of the French customs.

(n.) One who gathers or collects.

(n.) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

(v. t.) To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder.

(v. t.) See Disinter.

(n.) Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

(n.) The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

(n.) An unkindness; a disobliging act.

(v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.

(v. t.) To injure the form or looks of.

(v. t.) To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

(n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.

(n.) Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

(n.) The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.

(v. t.) To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.

(v. t.) To violate the chastity of; to debauch.

(v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.

(n.) Ill humor.

(v. t.) To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.

(v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.

(v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.

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

(n.) One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

(n.) One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

(v. t.) To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.

(v. t.) To make hungry.

(n.) One who enjoins.

(v. t.) One who stickles.

(v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.

(v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.

(n.) One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.

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

(n.) A tiger beetle.

(n.) One that enlarges.

(n.) One who ennobles.

(n.) See Inquirer.

(n.) One who enriches.

(n.) One who enrolls or registers.

(n.) One who enslaves.

(v. t.) To make tender.

(v. t.) To treat with tenderness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.

(n.) One who stitches; a seamstress.

(a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.

(a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.

(a.) Affording view.

(a.) Resembling a dart; having sharp points.

(n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

(n.) A courier or runner.

(n.) An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.

(n.) Defender.

(n.) A defender.

(n.) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.

(n.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.

(n.) One who defers or puts off.

(n.) Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.

(v. t.) Same as Deflour.

(n.) One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.

(n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.

(n.) A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.

(n.) A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.

(n.) A lewd woman.

(n.) One fond of his own opinious; one who holds an opinion.

(n.) One who deforms.

(n.) One who pays off expenses.

(v. i.) Alt. of Degener

(n.) The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.

(n.) A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

(n.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.

(n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.

(n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.

(n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form

(n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.

(n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.

(n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.

(n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

(n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.

(n.) A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

(n.) A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.

(n.) One who accords, assents, or concedes.

(a.) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.

(n.) One who sheathes.

(n.) One who demands.

(v. t.) Management; treatment; conduct.

(v. t.) Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

(v. t.) Alt. of Accoutre

(n.) A seamstress.

(n.) One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.

(n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.

(n.) An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.

(n.) An inspector of leather.

(n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.

(n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.

(n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.

(n.) One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.

(n.) Alt. of Demster

(n.) One who demurs.

(n.) A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further.

(n.) One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

(n.) One who shingles.

(n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron.

(n.) A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.

(n.) One who dislikes or disrelishes.

(n.) Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

(n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.

(n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.

(n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement.

(v. t.) To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.

(v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.

(v. t.) To depose from holy orders.

(n.) One who inflicts punishment.

(n.) One of the Monandria.

(n.) A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.

(n.) A man who spins.

(n.) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.

(n.) A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.

(n.) One who strains.

(n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

(n.) One who monishes; an admonisher.

(n.) One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

(n.) One who travels; one who has traveled much.

(n.) A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

(n.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.

(n.) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

(n.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.

(n.) A traitor; a cheat.

(n.) One who fathoms.

(n.) One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

(n.) Alt. of Geologian

(n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.

(n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.

(n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything

(n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.

(n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

(n.) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

(n.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

(n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

(n.) A member of the Fronde.

(n.) That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

(n.) An outwork.

(a.) Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

(a.) Of or relating to a frontier.

(v. i.) To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.

(a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.

(n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

(n.) One who expects.

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

(n.) One who makes expiation or atonement.

(n.) One who embalms.

(n.) One who or that which explodes.

(n.) One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.

(v. t.) To make better.

(n.) One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

(v. t.) To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.

(n.) One who embodies.

(n.) One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.

(v. t.) To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

(n.) An expeller.

(n.) One who embosses.

(n.) One who embraces.

(n.) One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

(a.) Shaped like a fork; furcate.

(n.) A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.

(a.) External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.

(a.) External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.

(a.) Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.

(n.) The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.

(n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.

(n.) One who extols; one who praises.

(n.) One who practices extortion.

(n.) Alt. of Fusilier

(n.) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:

(n.) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.

(n.) Purveyor; acater.

(n.) One who achieves; a winner.

(a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.

(n.) One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

(n.) A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.

(n.) One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.

(n.) Alt. of Enamelist

(adv.) Lest that.

(v. t.) To canker.

(n.) One who enchases.

(v. t.) To furnish or surround with a collar.

(v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.

(v. t.) To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.

(v. t.) To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

(v. t.) To incur the hazard of; to risk.

(v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

(v. i.) To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.

(n.) An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.

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

(n.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.

(v. t.) To decorate with a diaper pattern.

(n.) A merry, frolicsome person.

(n.) A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.

(n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

(n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.

(n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.

(n.) One who trembles.

(v. t.) One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

(v. t.) A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.

(v. t.) The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.

(n.) One who strolls; a vagrant.

(n.) Any one of the Triandria.

(a.) Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.

(n.) One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.

(n.) One who struts.

(n.) One who molests.

(a.) Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress.

(a.) Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common.

(a.) Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.

(v. t.) To appropriate; to limit.

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

(n.) One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.

(a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.

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

(n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.

(n.) That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.

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

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

(n.) One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.

(n.) Verdigris.

(n.) Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.

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

(n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

(n.) An inhabitant of a forest.

(n.) A forest tree.

(n.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

(n.) One who forgives.

(n.) One who forsakes or deserts.

(v. i.) To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.

(v. i.) To deny upon oath.

(v. i.) To swear falsely; to commit perjury.

(n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.

(n.) One who calls forth.

(n.) A harbinger.

(n.) One who educates; a teacher.

(n.) One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

(n.) One who effects.

(n.) An effecter.

(n.) One who exceeds.

(v. t.) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

(n.) One who takes exceptions.

() Alt. of Vexillary

(n.) An odometer; -- called also viatometer.

(n.) One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer.

(n.) See Lecher, n.

(n.) One who lectures; an assistant preacher.

(n.) One who stuccoes.

(n.) The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

(n.) Hence, any three-colored flag.

(n.) The jacksnipe.

(n.) One who stumbles.

(a.) Alt. of Sublunary

(n.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae.

(n.) One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

(a.) Consisting of three poetical measures.

(n.) A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.

(a.) Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.

(a.) Situated below the poles.

(n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

(n.) One of tree men united in public office or authority.

(n.) An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.

(n.) One who actuates, or puts into action.

(n.) An under tutor.

(n.) One who affords succor; a helper.

(n.) Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.

(n.) One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.

(n.) One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

(n.) One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

(n.) One who permits or allows.

(n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

(v. t.) One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor.

(n.) One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor.

(n.) A willow. See Willow, n., 2.

(a.) See Medullary.

(n.) One who inters.

(v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.

(v. t.) To strip of flowers.

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

(n.) A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

(n.) An adorer; a great admirer.

(n.) One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.

(v. t.) To drive from harbor or shelter.

(a.) Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension.

(a.) Consisting of a single lobe.

(n.) One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.

(a.) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.

(a.) Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.

(n.) One who invents.

(n.) One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.

(n.) One who invests.

(v. t.) To cause to become or appear vulgar.

(a.) Not vulgar; refined; elegant.

(n.) One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.

(v. t.) To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.

(v. t.) To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of.

(v. t.) To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.

(n.) One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.

(v. t.) To degrade from the rank of a martyr.

(v. t.) To deprive of membership, as in a church.

(n.) One who unpacks.

(v. t.) To cause to be no longer pastor; to deprive of pastorship.

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

(a.) Not proper or peculiar; improper.

(v. t.) To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.

(v. t.) To exceed in swearing.

(n.) Alt. of Jongler

(n.) One who conforms to or inculcates Judaism; specifically, pl. (Ch. Hist.), those Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshiped in the temple at Jerusalem.

(n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

(n.) One of the Hemiptera.

(n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.

(n.) One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.

(n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.

(n.) One who forbears to enjoy.

(v. i. & t.) To hear beforehand.

(n.) One who impugns.

(n.) One who, or that which, impels; an inciter.

(n.) One who admits.

(n.) One who instigates or incites.

(n.) A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.

(n.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

(n.) A beginner; one in the rudiments.

(n.) One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university.

(n.) One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.

(n.) One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

(v. t.) See Encumber.

(n.) One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.

(n.) One who ferrets.

(n.) One who works with a hammer.

(n.) One who fetters.

(n.) A dog keeper.

(n.) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

(n.) A bird. See Figpecker.

(n.) A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

(n.) A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

(n.) One who fingers; a pilferer.

(n.) One who harasses.

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

(n.) One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

(n.) One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.

(n.) Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything.

(a.) Tesseral.

(n.) A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences.

(n.) A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

(n.) One who harrows.

(n.) One who harries.

(n.) One who hastens.

(n.) That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.

(n.) One who thatches.

(a.) Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.

(n.) One who adjudges.

(n.) In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.

(n.) One who cuts and cures hay.

(n.) A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

(n.) A player at the game of hazard; a gamester.

(n.) One who hazards or ventures.

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

(v. t.) See Encumber.

(n.) A helmsman.

(n.) A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.

(n.) One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.

(n.) Same as Zamindar.

(n.) The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir.

(n.) The oldest brother of the king of France.

(n.) A Frenchman.

(n.) A zoologist.

(n.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.

(n.) A beater; a striker.

(n.) That which beats or throbs in working.

(n.) One who presides.

(n.) One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.

(n.) One who presumes; also, an arrogant person.

(n.) One who pollutes.

(n.) An artificer; a workman.

(n.) Phosphorus.

(n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer.

(n.) A polypidom.

(n.) The genus that includes the sperm whale.

(n.) A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

(n.) A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball.

(n.) A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box.

(n.) One who ponders.

(n.) Alt. of Phytomeron

(a.) Expiatory; atoning.

(a.) Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.

(n.) One who is confined in a prison.

(n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.

(n.) One who makes pictures; a painter.

(n.) One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

(n.) Same as Piecer, 2.

(n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.

(n.) One who pilfers; a petty thief.

(n.) One who pillages.

(n.) An examiner; an approver.

(n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.

(n.) A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.

(n.) See Pinkster.

(n.) Whitsuntide.

(n.) One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.

(n.) One who procures the gratification of lust for another; a pimp; a pander.

(n.) A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom.

(n.) A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.

(n.) A short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.

(n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.

(n.) A mean, trickish fellow.

(v. i.) To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.

(n.) An inhabitant.

(n.) A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.

(n.) One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.

(n.) One who derives or deduces.

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

(n.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.

(n.) One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea.

(n.) The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.

(a.) More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

(a.) Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

(a.) Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.

(a.) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to.

(a.) More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.

(a.) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

(a.) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.

(a.) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.

(n.) One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.

(n.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

(n.) A maker of tumults.

(n.) One of the four evangelists.

(n.) A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan.

(n.) A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service.

(n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.

(n.) Any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof stuff.

(n.) An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer.

(n.) One given to gossip.

(n.) One who supplies.

(n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.

(n.) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

(n.) A pilot; a steersman.

(n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.

(n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

(n.) A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.

(n.) One who surmises.

(n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.

(n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.

(n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.

(n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.

(n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.

(n.) One who survives; a survivor.

(n.) One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.

(n.) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything.

(n.) The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.

(n.) One who makes beds.

(n.) One who, or a machine which, hummels.

(n.) One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law.

(n.) One who hungers; one who longs.

(a.) Inserted in the corner of the eye; -- said of the antenn/ of certain insects.

(v. i.) To run or rove to and fro.

(v. t.) To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

(v. t.) To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

(v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

(n.) The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

(n.) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

(n.) That which is transferred.

(n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.

(n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

(n.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

(n.) A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

(n.) One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.

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

(n.) One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds.

(n.) One who insults.

(n.) One who insnares.

(n.) One who intends.

(v. t.) To loose from the anchor, as a ship.

(v. i.) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.

(n.) An instrument for removing an explode cap from a cartridge shell.

(a.) Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

(a.) Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.

(n.) That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.

(n.) The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.

(v. t.) Alt. of Uncentre

(v. t.) To decipher; as, to uncipher a letter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.

(n.) One who produces, brings forth, or generates.

(n.) One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

(n.) A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel.

(n.) One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language.

(n.) One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.

(a.) Same as Papillose.

(n.) One who has lately come.

(a.) Shaped like a bushel measure.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.

(a.) Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.

(a.) Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.

(n.) A preacher.

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

(n.) One who prattles.

(n.) One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.

(n.) One who inculcates anything with earnestness.

(n.) One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.

(n.) One who provides; a purveyor.

(n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.

(n.) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5.

(n.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6.

(n.) One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

(n.) A speaker; an orator.

(v. t.) To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.

(n.) One who dislikes.

(n.) One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.

(pron.) A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.

(adv.) Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form.

(n.) One who promises.

(n.) One who engages or undertakes; a promiser.

(n.) One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.

(n.) Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.

(n.) One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.

(n.) An informer; a makebate.

(n.) One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.

(n.) One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.

(n.) A muscle which produces pronation.

(n.) Alt. of Kidnapper

(n.) A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera).

(n.) One who postures.

(n.) The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication.

(n.) One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

(n.) A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.

(n.) The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.

(v.) A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.

(n.) One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.

(v. i.) To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.

(n.) The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendEmiaire.

(n.) A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.

(n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

(n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

(v. t.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

(n.) A mammal. See Mammalia.

(n.) A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

(n.) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.

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

(n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.

(n.) A maltman.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of London.

(n.) One who maligns.

(v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

(n.) One who loiters; an idler.

(n.) An idle vagrant; a tramp.

(n.) Same as Loadstar.

(a.) Pendulous.

(v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

(v. t.) To hear again.

(n.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

(n.) One who palters.

(n.) Same as Palpiger.

(n.) That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

(n.) Alt. of Kohnur

(n.) One guilty of mutiny.

(n.) One who mutters.

(adv.) For that, or this; for it.

(n.) One who thirsts.

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

(n.) One who utters a shriek.

(n.) One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

(n.) Alt. of Thresher

(n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

(n.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.

(n.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.

(n.) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.

(n.) One who flinches or fails.

(n.) A device for assisting in threading a needle.

(n.) A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

(n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

(n.) Same as Thrasher.

(n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

(n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.

(n.) The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.

(n.) A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.

(n.) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

(a.) Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.

(n.) Headdress.

(n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

(n.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.

(n.) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.

(v. i.) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.

(n.) The act of floundering.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

(a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.

(n.) The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.

(n.) One who numbers.

(n.) One who ordains.

(a.) Alt. of Nummulary

(n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.

(n.) One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.

(n.) One who vilifies or defames.

(pron.) Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.

(n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

(n.) An inhabitant of a village.

(adv. & conj.) Whenever.

(adv. & conj.) At whatever time.

(adv.) At or in whatever place; wheresoever.

(n.) One who gathers the vintage.

(n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.

(n.) One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.

(n.) An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.

(n.) The golden-eye.

(n.) One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.

(n.) A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.

(n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

(n.) The ring ousel.

(n.) The widgeon.

(n.) The golden-eye.

(n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.

(n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).

(n.) The whistlefish.

(n.) One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.

(n.) A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.

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

(n.) One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.

(n.) One who lingers.

(v.) One who levants, or decamps.

(n.) A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean.

(n.) A lewd person.

(n.) One who listens; a hearkener.

(n.) One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.

(n.) One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

(n.) A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.

(n.) Alt. of Lodestar

(n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.

(n.) One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes.

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

(n.) One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

(n.) One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.

(n.) One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice.

(n.) One who fulfills or performs; as, an observer of his promises.

(n.) A sycophantic follower.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.

(n.) One who obtains.

(v. t. & i.) To obey (a judgment or decree).

(n.) One who obtrudes.

(n.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.

(n.) One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.

(n.) One who occupies, or has possession.

(n.) One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman.

(n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed.

(n.) One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.

(v. t.) To peer over; to rise above.

(v. t.) To surpass in laboring.

(n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.

(a.) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.

(a.) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

(a.) Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.

(n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

(n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.

(n.) One who outlives.

(n.) One who murmurs.

(a.) Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither.

(a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.

(n.) Ulterior side or part.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.

(n.) A rain gauge.

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

(n.) One who laments.

(a.) Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae.

(n.) A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland.

(n.) A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin.

(n.) The hart in its second year; a young deer.

(n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.

(n.) Love; gallantry.

(adv.) Alt. of Paramours

(n.) One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances.

(n.) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.

(n.) One who pardons.

(n.) A seller of indulgences.

(n.) Alt. of Pledgor

(n.) A plasterer.

(n.) One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.

(n.) One who permutes.

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

(n.) One who wonders.

(adv.) Beyond what has been said; further; besides; in addition; furthermore; also; likewise.

(n.) A morris dancer.

(n.) Alt. of Mosasaurian

(n.) Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.

(n.) A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.

(n.) One who mimics; a mimic.

(n.) An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.

(n.) One who makes a motion; a mover.

(n.) A handkerchief.

(n.) An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.

(n.) One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime.

(n.) A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

(n.) An officer of justice.

(n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.

(n.) A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

(n.) One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.

(n.) To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.

(v. i.) To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.

(v. i.) To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.

(n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.

(n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

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

(n.) A miser; a niggard.

(v. t.) To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse.

(v. t.) To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts.

(v. t.) To infer incorrectly.

(n.) One who mislays.

(n.) A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.

(n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

(n.) One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.

(a.) Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.

(v. t.) To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to.

(v. t.) To associate intimately with.

(v. i.) To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.

(n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.

(v. t.) To misname.

(v. t.) To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly.

(n.) Irregularity; disorder.

(n.) One who drives mules.

(n.) The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.

(n.) One who mistakes.

(v. t.) To instruct amiss.

(n.) One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

(n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.

(n.) One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.

(n.) See Plaster.

(n.) A fisherman; an angler.

(n.) An oxidizer.

(n.) A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.

(n.) One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

(n.) One who simply repeats what he has heard.

(n.) One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.

(n.) An accomplice; an associate; a partner.

(a.) Relating to a plumule.

(n.) One who pesters or harasses.

(a.) Alt. of Petiolary

(n.) A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.

(n.) One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith.

(n.) One who administers justice; a judge.

(n.) A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.

(n.) The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.

(n.) See Calendar.

(n.) One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude.

(a.) Situated in front of the molar teeth.

(n.) An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.

(v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.

(n.) One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready.

(n.) One who poisons.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.

(n.) One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.

(n.) Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.

(n.) A guide or director.

(n.) One who, oe that which, perfumes.

(n.) One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.

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

(n.) A woman who knits.

(n.) A legislator; a lawgiver.