(n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.

(a.) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

(a.) Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.

(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

(v. t.) To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

(v. t.) To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

(p. a.) Affrighted.

(n.) Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror.

(n.) The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread.

(n.) A writer of annals.

(n.) Something done before another act.

(n.) A foretaste.

(n.) An outer port, gate, or door.

(v. t.) To prevent.

(v. t.) To displace by anteversion.

(a.) Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.

(a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

(n.) An antithetic or contrasted statement.

(n.) One who is destitute of feeling.

(a.) Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

(n.) An aperient medicine or food.

(a.) Aspiring.

(n.) One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.

(n.) A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

(n.) One who keeps an apiary.

(a.) Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.

(adv.) Alt. of Pursuantly

(a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

(n.) One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.

(a.) Growing or becoming white.

(a.) Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.

(a.) Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.

(a.) Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun.

(n.) An heir apparent.

(n.) Same as Alkahest.

(a.) Desiring; eagerly desirous.

(n.) A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

(n.) A papist.

(n.) The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

(n.) A maker of cider.

(n.) A loft for corn; a granary.

(n.) A floret in an aggregate flower.

(n.) A circlet.

(n.) A sitting, as of a court or other body.

(n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

(n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

(n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

(n.) The thorax of an insect.

(n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

(n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

(v. t. & i.) To print together.

(v. t. & i.) To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another.

(n.) The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.

(a.) Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken.

(n.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

(n.) One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.

(a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

(n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.

(n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it.

(n.) A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.

(a.) Tending to excite; exciting.

(n.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

(n.) Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.

(n.) Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.

(n.) Full; crowded; thronged.

(n.) Often or commonly reported.

(a.) To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.

(a.) To make full; to fill.

(a.) Practicing; professional.

(n.) One who has the power of choosing; an elector.

(a.) Encircling like a fringe; bordering.

(a.) Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

(a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

(n.) A substance liable to become sour.

(n.) One who composes elegies.

(a.) Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.

(n.) A small flower; a floret.

(n.) The post to which a gate or door is hinged.

(n.) The quoin post of a lock gate.

(n.) See Coltsfoot.

(n.) A witch; a hag.

(n.) A wife; a helpmate.

(v. t.) To compute or rate too high.

(v. t.) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

(a.) Composed in a melodious and singing style.

(n.) A kind of helmet.

(n.) One who works with the burin.

(n.) A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.

(n.) A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.

(n.) A thicket; a cluster of bushes.

(n.) An ambuscade.

(n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea.

(n.) A supporter or partisan of chartism.

(n.) A little castle.

(n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.

(n.) That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.

(n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

(n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

(v. t.) To join together.

(v. t.) Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.

(v. t.) Not liable, or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.

(v. t.) Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.

(v. t.) Consistent; logical.

(n.) That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.

(n.) A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.

(n.) A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.

(n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

(n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

(n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut.

(n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England).

(n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

(n.) An old joke or story.

(a.) Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.

(n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.

(n.) The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

(a.) First or foremost; chief; principal.

(n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

(a.) Withdraw; separate.

(a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

(a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.

(a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.

(n.) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

(n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

(n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

(n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.

(n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

(a.) Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.

(a.) Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

(a.) Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.

(a.) Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.

(a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.

(a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

(a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.

(a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.

(a.) To epitomize; to abridge.

(a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.

(a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

(v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.

(a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.

(a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

(a.) An abstract term.

(a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

(n.) The cocoanut.

(n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.

(n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.

(n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

(n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

(n.) To betroth; to affiance.

(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

(v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

(a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.

(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.

(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

(v. i.) To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.

(v. t.) To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.

(v. t.) To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.

(n.) The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.

(n.) Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.

(n.) The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.

(v. t.) To make sad.

(a.) Same as Jessant.

(v. t.) To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.

(n.) A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

(a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

(n.) Downcast or melancholy look.

(n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

(n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

(n.) A little dragon.

(n.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.

(n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

(n.) A single cut with a knife.

(n.) Alt. of Diplomate

(a.) Of or pertaining to Smyrna.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Smyrna.

(a.) Directing.

(n.) The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.

(a.) Absolute.

(n.) Alt. of Driblet

(n.) A droll.

(a.) Alt. of Stalworth

(n.) One who commits a solecism.

(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, solidism.

(n.) A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.

(n.) One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.

(n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.

(n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

(n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

(adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.

(a.) Ungirded; loosely dressed.

(v. t.) To divest of a clout.

(v. i.) To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.

(n.) A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.

(v. t.) To discount. See Discount.

(v. t.) To digest, or reduce to form, a second time.

(a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

(a.) Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.

(n.) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

(n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.

(a.) Tending to reduce.

(n.) A reducent agent.

(a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.

(a.) Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

(n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

(a.) Having a resemblance of sounds.

(a.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

(n.) A patch; an addition; a piece put on.

() Alt. of Anapaestic

(n.) Alt. of Anchorite

(n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

(n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.

(n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.

(a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

(a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.

(a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.

(a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

(v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

(n.) A woman's ornament; habiliment.

(n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

(n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

(n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

(n.) A small banner.

(n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

(n.) Same as Bioplast.

(a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

(n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

(n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

(n.) An attempt; an assault.

(n.) A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed.

(n.) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

(n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

(n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

(n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.

(a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

(p. pr.) Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

(n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.

(n.) See Bascinet.

(n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

(n.) Abatement; diminution.

(n.) One who treats diseases of the mind.

(n.) The fourth part; the quarter.

(n.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center.

(n.) One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.

(n.) An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.

(a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.

(n.) The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.

(n.) A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss.

(n.) Alt. of Aquatinta

(n.) A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

(n.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

(n.) Alt. of Arbalist

(n.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc.

(n.) One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees.

(n.) Am antiquary.

(n.) One who uses archaisms.

(n.) The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

(n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

(n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.

(v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

(n.) A climber of the Alps.

(n.) A chaplain.

(n.) A vicar of a church.

(a.) Altering; gradually changing.

(n.) An alterative.

(a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.

(n.) One who abdicates.

(a.) Wandering; straying from the right way.

(a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

(n.) One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.

(n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill.

(n.) Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

(n.) A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta.

(a.) Walking; moving from place to place.

(n.) Proof; evidence.

(n.) A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.

(n.) A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.

(n.) The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.

(n.) Matter for question; business in hand.

(n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.

(n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.

(v. i.) To make an argument; to argue.

() A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone.

() A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.

(n.) A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

(a.) Made of quickset.

(v. t.) To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.

(n.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.

(n.) A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.

(n.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

(n.) Any equipment for resistance.

(a.) With gaunt or slender legs. (?)

(n.) One skilled in coat armor or heraldry.

(n.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.

(n.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

(n.) A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.

(n.) One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

(a.) An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

(a.) One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.

(n.) Same as Amadavat.

(v. t.) The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.

(v. t.) Verification; establishment by evidence.

(v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

(n.) A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

(n.) One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.

(n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

(n.) The nut of the beech tree.

(n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

(n.) A priest of Bacchus.

(n.) A bacchanal; a reveler.

(a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

(n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

(n.) A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.

(n.) An omen; a prognostic.

(n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

(n.) The action of bailing a person accused.

(n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

(n.) Alt. of Benedick

(a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

(n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.

(n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).

(n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit.

(n.) A variety of pear.

(n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.

(n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.

(n.) A pastoral song.

(a.) Flowing back; returning; ebbing.

(v. t.) To foment anew.

(n.) That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.

(n.) Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step.

(n.) An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed.

(v. t.) To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.

(a.) Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

(a.) Fixed; stable; certain.

(n.) One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.

(n.) A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.

(n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.

(n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

(n.) An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

(a.) Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back.

(a.) Restricted.

(v. t.) To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

(a.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

(n.) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.

(a.) Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

(n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.

(n.) Retreat.

(n.) The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action.

(v. i.) To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.

(n.) One who leads a rural life.

(a.) Having a reddish glow; shining.

(n.) A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.

(a.) Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.

(a.) Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior.

(n.) A civilian.

(n.) One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.

(n.) A canoeman.

(n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.

(v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

(v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

(v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

(v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

(v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

(v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.

(v. t.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

(v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.

(superl.) Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.

(superl.) Differing; distinct.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beseech

() p. p. of Beseech.

(n.) Alt. of Bandlet

(p. p.) Sprinkled over; strewed.

(n.) Deadly nightshade.

(n.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

(n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

(n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

(n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

(n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.

(v. i.) A boaster.

(a.) Boastful.

(n.) One who is guilty of bigamy.

(n.) Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

(n.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.

(n.) Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.

(n.) A region or district governed.

(n.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.

(v. t.) To form into a regiment or into regiments.

(v. t.) To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back.

(v. t.) To beat soundly.

(n.) A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.

(v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.

(v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.

(v. t.) To infect again.

(v. t.) To insert again.

(n.) A little ridge.

(v. t.) To invest again or anew.

(n.) A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.

(n.) One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.

(v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.

(v. t.) To distill or infuse the spirit of.

(v. t.) To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

(v. t.) To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants.

(v. t.) To paint.

(n.) That which is lost or destroyed.

(a.) Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous.

(v. t.) To expunge.

(a.) Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

(n.) Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.

(v. t.) To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.

(v. t.) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.

(v. t.) A deponent verb.

(a.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.

(a. & n.) Depurative.

(a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.

(a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.

(n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

(n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

(a.) Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified.

(a.) Marked; variegated.

(a.) Separate in place; not conjunct; not united by growth or otherwise; -- with from.

(a.) Not identical; different; individual.

(a.) So separated as not to be confounded with any other thing; not liable to be misunderstood; not confused; well-defined; clear; as, we have a distinct or indistinct view of a prospect.

(v. t.) To distinguish.

(a.) Separated; drawn asunder.

(a.) Insane; mad.

(v. t.) To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.

(v. t.) To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.

(v. t.) To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.

(v. t.) To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.

(a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.

(n.) A sibiliant letter.

(a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

(a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.

(n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.

(n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.

(n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.

(v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

(v. t.) To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

(n.) Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

(n.) Suspicion of evil designs.

(n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.

(n.) One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.

(a.) Ending; forming an end; lowermost.

(n.) The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.

(n.) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.

(v. t.) To destroy.

(n.) A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.

(n.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

(n.) The act of saving.

(n.) A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl.

(n.) Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.

(n.) One versed in the Saxon language.

(n.) Elecampane.

(n.) Same as Coerulignone.

(a.) Climbing.

(n.) A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

(n.) A small pattern; a small quantity.

(v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

(n.) One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

(n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.

(v. t.) To exceed in sporting.

(v. t.) To tilt over; to overturn.

(adv.) Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

(adv.) Completely; utterly.

(v. t.) To exceed in odor.

(v. t.) To overpower by disdain; to outface.

(v. t.) To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond.

(n.) A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A villain; a criminal.

(n.) A schemer.

(n.) See Bromide.

(n.) A small brook.

(imp.) of Browbeat

(v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.

(n.) A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.

(n.) One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.

(a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

(adv.) To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.

(n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

(n.) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

(n.) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.

(n.) A beam that goes across a building.

(n.) An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

(n.) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

(v. t.) An assessment or tax.

(n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.

(n.) Alt. of Bullfice

(n.) See Bullhead, 1 (b).

(n.) See Bishop's-weed.

(n.) A painter's pencil.

(n.) A small chain.

(n.) See Bergamot.

(n.) See Burgonet.

(n.) One who practices simony.

(n.) One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler.

(n.) The fore part of the head.

(n.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.

(n.) An accuser.

(n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

() See Shinto, etc.

(n.) Same as Parrakeet.

(n.) One versed in oology.

(n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

(n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.

(n.) Ill desert.

(a.) Not devout.

(a.) Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

(n.) That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the remedy for a disease.

(a.) Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of.

(a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

(a.) Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested.

(n.) Something indigested.

(a.) Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

(a.) Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.

(a.) Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive.

(a.) Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect results, damages, or claims.

(a.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc.

(a.) Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.

(n.) One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

(a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.

(a.) Free from toil, pain, or trouble.

(a.) Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.

(a.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.

(n.) Plumage; feathers.

(n.) A little tooth, or like projection.

(n.) l. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.

(n.) Any species of Cyclorhis, a genus of tropical American birds allied to the tits.

(n.) A large, heavy fist.

(n.) A coarse, brutal fellow.

(n.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

(n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

(v. t.) To adjust by mutual adaptations.

(n.) An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.

(n.) A kind of net to catch woodcock.

(n.) The duck mole.

(n.) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.

(v. t.) Acting as guardian.

(v. t.) Same as Gardant.

(n.) A guardian.

(n.) See Gondola.

(n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

(n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.

() imp. & p. p. of Stretch.

(v. t.) To stretch; to make straight.

(a.) Noisy; loud.

(a.) Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.

(a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.

(a.) Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.

(n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

(n.) One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

(n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.

(n.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

(v. t.) To beat severely.

(n.) Alt. of Duck's-meat

(n.) One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

(a.) Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

(n.) See Shallot.

(v. t.) Lying down with head erect; squatting.

(v. t.) Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.

(a.) Like; resembling.

(a.) Seeming, rather than real; apparent.

(n.) Show; appearance; figure; semblance.

(n.) The face.

(v.) A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

(v.) A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.

(v. i.) To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.

(v. i.) To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.

(v. i.) To be in opposition; to be contradictory.

(a.) Broken in pieces; severed.

(v. t.) To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

(v. t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

(v. t.) To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.

(n.) A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.

(n.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant."

(n.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc.

(n.) A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.

(n.) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.

(n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.

(v. i.) To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.

(v. t.) To grant or promise by covenant.

(n.) The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

(n.) A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.

(n.) A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.

(v. t.) To salute mutually.

(a.) United; connected; associated.

(a.) United; conjoined; concurrent.

(a.) Same as Conjoined.

(a.) Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.

(n.) State of abutting.

(n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses

(n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.

(n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.

(n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

(n.) A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

(n.) A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.

(n.) A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.

(a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.

(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

(n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.

(n.) A short song, in one or more parts.

(n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.

(a.) Relieving; lending aid or support.

(a.) Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable.

(a.) Sufficient to support the cause.

(n.) A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.

(n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.

(a.) Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid.

(a.) That which remains; a remnant; a residue.

(a.) Remaining; residual.

(n.) A remnant.

(a.) Strengthening.

(n.) A strengthening medicine; a tonic.

(v. t.) To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

(n.) A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio.

(a.) Bragging; vainly boasting.

(a.) Farthest in the rear; last.

(n.) A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.

(v. t.) To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.

(n.) One who adheres to Romanism.

(n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

(a.) Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.

(a.) Persistently opposed.

(a.) Rising again.

(a.) Full of, or abounding in, dew.

(a.) Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.

(n.) Same as Recollect, n.

(a.) Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.

(v. t.) To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

(n.) Roseroot.

(n.) Any plant nearly related to the rose.

(a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.

(a.) Apostate; false; unfaithful.

(n.) One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.

(n.) A little circle.

(v. t.) The answer of an emperor when formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree.

(v. t.) The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.

(v. t.) A counterpart.

(n.) An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.

(a.) Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord.

(n.) One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.

(n.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.

(n.) One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.

(n.) A little plant.

(n.) A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

(n.) A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

(a.) Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle.

(a.) Producing salivation.

(n.) That which produces salivation.

(n.) A salmon of small size; a samlet.

(n.) A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.

(n.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.

(n.) A carbide. See Carbide

(v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize.

(n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae.)

(n.) See Sanskrit.

(n.) The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.

(a.) See Clinquant.

(n.) A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.

(n.) See Sarcenet.

(n.) A very wicked person.

(n.) A little cloud.

(n.) One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.

(a.) Impregnating to the full; saturating.

(n.) A substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance.

(n.) An antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the stomach.

(n.) A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.

(n.) Satiety.

(n.) A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.

(n.) See Castanets.

(n.) A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.

(n.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.

(n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc.

(n.) A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.

(n.) An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.

(n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

(a.) Not adult; immature.

(n.) A member or inhabitant of a colony.

(n.) One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

(a.) See Cognizant.

(a.) Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.

(n.) Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.

(n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.

(n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.

(n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.

(n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.

(n.) The cobia.

() Alt. of Serjeantcy

(n.) A short sermon.

(n.) Wild thyme.

(a.) Subordinate.

(n.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.

(n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]

(n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

(n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.

(n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge

(n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.

(n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.

(n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.

(n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.

(n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.

(a.) Shaped like a crescent.

(a.) Increasing; growing.

(v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.

(v. t.) To adorn with crescents.

(n.) The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

(n.) The eyes.

(a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

(n.) Alt. of Baked-meat

(v. t.) To cut across or through; to intersect.

(n.) A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.

(n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.

(n.) A small cross.

(n.) A crucible.

(a.) Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.

(n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

(n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

(n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

(n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

(n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

(n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

(n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

(n.) A forked support; a crotch.

(n.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.

(n.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

(n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.

(n.) A bracket. See Bracket.

(n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.

(n.) A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.

(v. i.) To play music in measured time.

(n.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.

(n.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.

(n.) A caltrop.

(n.) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.

(n.) A coronet.

() Alt. of Debutante

(a.) Decaying; deteriorating.

(n.) A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist.

(a.) Removing; departing.

(n.) A deceased person.

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

(v. t.) To export again, as what has been imported.

(n.) Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

(n.) Alt. of Cucurbite

(n.) The space of seven nights and days; a week.

(a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.

(a.) Feeling no compunction; apathetic.

(n.) That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

(a.) Forming or producing an oil; specifically, designating a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon called ethylene.

(n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

(n.) The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

(n.) A writer of an essay, or of essays.

(a.) Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

(n.) One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics.

(a.) Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.

(n.) One who is hungry or greedy.

(a.) That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

(a.) Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.

(n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.

(a.) Bygone.

(n.) In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.

(a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.

(a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

(n.) A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.

(v. t.) An inhabitant; a dweller.

(v. t.) An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural.

(n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

(n.) A gallant.

(n.) A cover or covering; an integument.

(n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.

(n.) Harm; injury; detriment.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

(n.) One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.

(a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

(n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

(n.) See Astrict, and Astriction.

(a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.

(a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.

(n.) See Horned pout, under Horned.

(n.) An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.

(n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

(a.) Flowing in.

(a.) Exerting influence; influential.

(n.) Alt. of Hotchpotch

(n.) A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.

(n.) The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.

(a.) Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom.

(n. m.) A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.

(n.) A lapidary.

(n.) Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.

(n.) Wariness.

(n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

(a.) Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.

(a.) Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion.

(n.) A kind of velvet having cotton back.

(n.) One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar.

(a.) Lying hid; concealed; latent.

(n.) A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.

(v. t.) To disclose; to divulge.

(a.) Not secret; not close; not trusty; indiscreet.

(v. t.) To loose or take from a socket.

(v. t.) To dispirit.

(v. t.) To remove a tenant from.

(a.) Unthrifty.

(a.) Commanding.

(n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18¡ below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

(n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.

(a.) Seen or done by twilight.

(a.) Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

(n.) See Jaconet.

(a.) Seized or caught up.

(a.) Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two-foot rule.

(adv.) Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.

(a.) Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.

(a.) Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement.

(a.) Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience.

(n.) A coat of defense made of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like; also, this kind of armor taken generally; as, a coat of jazerant.

(a.) Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.

(a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.

(a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.

(n.) One who is imoitent.

(a.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

(n.) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance.

(superl.) Uttermost.

(n.) One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist.

(n.) The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist.

(a.) Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing.

(n.) One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God.

(v. t.) Acquainted.

(v. t.) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act.

(v. t.) To familiarize; to accustom.

(n.) One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

(n.) One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

(n.) One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax.

(n.) One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.

(a.) Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.

(v. t.) To turn into a forest.

(n.) One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

(a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

(n.) One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.

(n.) A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.

(n.) A large, fat variety of the namaycush found in Lake Superior; -- called also siskawet, siskiwit.

(a.) Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.

(a.) Different; distinct.

(n.) Dividend; share.

(n.) A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

(n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

(n.) An example for instruction or warning.

(n.) An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.

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

(v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

(a.) Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

(n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

(v. t.) To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.

(n.) One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.

() Digesting.

(n.) A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.

(n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

(a.) Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

(a.) Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.

(n.) A writer of a monody.

(v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.

(v. t.) To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.

(adv.) Alt. of Stedfastly

(n.) Assortiment.

(v. t.) To dislodge.

(v. t.) To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.

(v. t.) To dishearten.

(v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.

(a.) Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

(v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

(v. t.) To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.

(v. t.) To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice.

(v. t.) To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

(v. i.) To fall in pieces.

(a.) Disjoined; separated.

(a.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction.

(n.) A small spark.

(a.) Looking forward.

(n.) An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

(n.) A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

(n.) The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk.

(n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.

(n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.

(n.) A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.

(n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

(a.) Serving to carry; bearing.

(n.) That which carries or conveys.

(n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

(v. t.) To clear of forests; to disforest.

(n.) A cyanide.

(n.) Alt. of Sheepcote

(a.) Delirious.

(v. t.) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

(v. t.) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.

(v. t.) To believe; to credit; to put trust in.

(v. t.) To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.

(n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.

(n.) A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

(n.) That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

(n.) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

(n.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

(n.) One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.

(n.) A member of the Democratic party.

(n.) A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.

(n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

(n.) That which is shipped.

(v. i.) To come down; to descend.

(v. i.) To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.

(v. t.) To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.

(v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.

(v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.

(v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.

(n.) One who governs alone.

(a.) Nestling, as a bird in itss nest.

(a.) Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp, as in a nest.

(n.) One who practices the style of ornamentation called niello.

(a.) A variant of Strait, a.

(superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.

(superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.

(superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.

(superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.

(superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.

(superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.

(adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.

(n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.

(v. t.) To straighten.

(n.) One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

(n.) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

(n.) Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record.

(n.) See Gantlet.

(n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.

(n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.

(n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

(Superl.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

(adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

(n.) View.

(n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

(n.) One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.

(n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

(a.) Generative; producing

(a.) acting as a generant.

(n.) That which generates.

(n.) A generatrix.

(n.) One versed in geognosy; a geologist.

(n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.

(n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.

(a.) Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

(n.) A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.

(n.) A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.

(n.) A frown (likened to a frontlet).

(n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

(n.) One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

(n.) A conjurer who can raise spirits.

(a.) Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.

(a.) Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.

(n.) One who expires or is expiring.

(n.) Same as Foumart.

(a.) A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

(a.) Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration.

(a.) Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.

(a.) Very fiery.

(n.) A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated

(n.) One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles.

(a.) Fuming.

(n.) A copy; a transcript.

(v. t.) To brighten.

(a.) Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.

(a.) Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.

(v. i.) Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

(v. i.) Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.

(n.) One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

(a.) Sending forth; emissive.

(a.) superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.

(adv.) At the greatest distance; farthest.

(n.) One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

(n.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.

(n.) A gadder

(a.) Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly.

(n.) Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.

(a.) Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins.

(n.) An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.

(n.) A medicine that excites the flow of bile.

(a.) Coming into being; nascent.

(n.) One who invents or writes fables.

(n.) A follower of Galen.

(n.) A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

(n.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.

(n.) The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.

(a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

(n.) A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.

(n.) A prostitute; a harlot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.

(v. t.) To debauch.

(v. t.) To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.

(n.) A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill.

(n.) A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.

(a.) Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.

(a.) Not ready.

(n.) Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.

(n.) Oaken timber or boarding.

(n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.

(v. t.) To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.

(n.) A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.

(n.) A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.

(n.) The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

(n.) Alt. of Lazarite

(n.) A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). P. Europaea has lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers.

(n.) That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.

(n.) A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.

(n.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.

(n.) One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast.

(n.) One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.

(n.) One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

(p. p.) Predestined.

(a.) Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.

(a.) Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.

(n.) A purgative or cathartic.

(n.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa.

(a.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board.

(n.) The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.

(v. t.) Excess.

(a.) Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

(a.) Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.

(n.) An efferent duct or stream.

(v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

(a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

(a.) Flowing out; as, effluent beams.

(n.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

(a.) Causing fracture; breaking.

(n.) A vesicatory.

(n.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress

(n.) any priestly garment.

(n.) A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.

(n.) The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.

(a.) Lying farthest to the west; westernmost.

(n.) One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).

(n.) Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

(n.) A little globule.

(a.) See Tripping, a., 2.

(n.) Alt. of Trispaston

(n.) A writer of comments.

(a.) Substantial; firm.

(v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

(a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

(a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.

(n.) A little trout; a troutling.

(n.) Alt. of Gomarite

(n.) A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals.

(n.) A designer of medals.

(n.) One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit.

(a.) Lean; thin.

(a.) Indecent.

(v. t.) To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly.

(v. t.) To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.

(v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.

(n.) The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

(v. t.) To cut away, as the side of an object, so as to leave an overhanging portion.

(v. t.) To let below the value.

(v. t.) To let or lease at second hand; to sublet.

(v. t.) To put or send under.

(v. t.) To prop or support.

(n.) Undercurrent.

(v. t.) To set between or among.

(v. t.) To misdirect; to mislead.

(a.) Indirect.

(a.) Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not th/ught of; not imagined; -- often followed by of.

(a.) Undulating.

(n.) One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

(n.) One who holds the doctrine of idealism.

(a.) Not expert; inexpert.

(a.) Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.

(a.) Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of.

(a.) Unknown; undiscovered.

(a.) Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.

(n.) A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.

(v. t.) To deprive of the helmet.

(a.) Dishonest; dishonorable.

(v. t.) To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.

(v. t.) To allow to pass in; to admit.

(v. i.) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

(n.) One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States.

(n.) A member or supporter of a trades union.

(a.) Overflowing.

(v. t.) To deprive of knighthood.

(a.) Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective.

(n.) An herb of the Mint family (Sideritis), supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.

(a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.

(a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

(a.) (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.

(a.) Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

(a.) Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.

(a.) Trifling.

(a.) Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.

(a.) Irritating; producing irritation or inflammation.

(n.) That which irritates or excites.

(n.) Any agent by which irritation is produced; as, a chemical irritant; a mechanical or electrical irritant.

(n.) A poison that produces inflammation.

(v. t.) To unfold; to lay open; to explain.

(v. t.) To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock.

(n.) Want of profit; unprofitableness.

(n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

(v. i.) To start out or up.

(v. i.) To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.

(v. t.) To deposit or lay (an egg).

(a.) Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting.

(n.) One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

(v. t.) To divide along the mesial plane.

(n.) A disease affecting the feet of sheep.

(v. t.) To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

(v. t.) To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.

(v. i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.

(n.) Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.

(n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.

(n.) The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

(n.) A premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease.

(n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

(n.) A gas jet or burner.

(n.) A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.

(n.) A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.

(n.) The mast nearest the bow.

(a.) First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.

(a.) Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy.

(a.) Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.

(a.) Unready in speech.

(n.) Enticement.

(a.) Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.

(a.) Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

(a.) Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

(a.) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

(n.) That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.

(n.) That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

(n.) Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

(a.) Inciting; stimulating.

(n.) That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant.

(a.) Highest.

(n.) A telluride.

(n.) A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.

(a.) Clinging, as by hooks.

(a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.

(a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

(a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

(n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

(n.) That which adheres; an appendage.

(a.) Intoxicated; drunken.

(n.) Attendance; care.

(n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

(n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.

(n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

(n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

(n.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

(n.) A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.

(n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.

(n.) Contract; specifically, espousal.

(a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.

(v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage.

(n.) Strong; steadfast.

(n. masc.) One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.

(n.) One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.

(n.) A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

(n.) A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.

(n.) A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.

(n.) See Hagbut.

(n.) A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.

(n.) A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot.

(n.) A textualist; a textman.

(n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

(n.) A pistachio nut.

(a.) In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.

(n.) One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.

(a.) Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.

(a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.

(a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

(a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

(n.) That which is adjacent.

(n.) Help; support; also, a helper.

(n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.

(n.) A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.

(a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave.

(a.) Furthest in or toward the rear; last.

(a.) Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.

(a.) Emitting a clear sound.

(n.) A composer or singer of melodies.

(v. i.) The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.

(v. i.) The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.

(v. i.) The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.

(v. i.) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.

(v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.

(v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.

(v. i.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.

(v. i.) The final award; the last sentence.

(n.) One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.

(n.) See Mendinant.

(n.) Amendment.

(n.) Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.

(n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.

(n.) A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

(n.) A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.

(n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.

(n.) The art of reasoning; logic.

(n.) The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.

(n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.

(v. t.) To elect beforehand.

(n.) A punctator.

(n.) One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

(a.) Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.

(a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

(a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

(n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

(a.) Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.

(a.) Versed in, or speaking, many languages.

(n.) One who speaks several languages.

(n.) A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages.

(a.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

(n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

(n.) A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.

(n.) A little pillar.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.

(n.) A state of complete readiness for action.

(n.) The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).

(n.) A perennial North American herb (Spigelia Marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.

(n.) An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).

(n.) The portoise. See Portoise.

(a.) Inhaling; used for inhaling.

(n.) An apparatus also called an inhaler (which see); that which is to be inhaled.

(a.) Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct.

(a.) Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection.

(n.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

(n.) One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.

(n.) One who purposes the study of the humanities, or polite literature.

(n.) One versed in knowledge of human nature.

() of Sunburn

(n.) A burst of sunlight.

(n.) The light of the sun.

(n.) A small gondola.

(n.) See Tuck, n., 2.

(n.) A person who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips.

(n.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

(n.) To trip up.

(n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.

(n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.

(n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

(n.) One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.

(n.) The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.

(n.) A short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch.

(n.) That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage; as, a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turn-out.

(n.) The aggregate number of persons who have come out, as from their houses, for a special purpose.

(n.) Net quantity of produce yielded.

(n.) One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.

(n.) A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.

(n.) A making sure; surety.

(n.) A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.

(a.) Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.

(a.) Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.

(a.) Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

(n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.

(n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.

(n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.

(v. i.) To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

(v. i.) To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.

(v. i.) To surpass; to exceed.

(v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

(n.) An adherent to a synod.

(n.) A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.

(n.) Same as Taboret.

(n.) A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.

(n.) An embroidery frame.

(n.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

(n.) One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.

(n.) One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.

(a.) Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

(a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.

(a.) Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.

(a.) Simple; artless; foolish.

(a.) Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.

(a.) Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.

(n.) An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.

(n.) An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.

(v. t.) To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

(v. i.) To conduct matters; to manage affairs.

(n.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

(a.) Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly.

(a.) Having knowledge or insight; intelligent.

(n.) A medical certificate that a student is ill.

(v. t.) To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.

(a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.

(a.) Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.

(a.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.

(a.) A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.

(v. t.) To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.

(a.) Arranged; furnished; provided.

(a.) Instructed; taught; enlightened.

(v. t.) To put in order; to form; to prepare.

(v. t.) To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline.

(v. t.) To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury.

(n.) The person insured.

(a.) Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.

(a.) Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.

(a.) Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.

(n.) One of the air cells of algals.

(n.) An aerial navigator; a balloonist.

(n.) A balloon.

(n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.

(n.) A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.

(v. i.) To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact.

(n.) A binary compound of hydrogen; a hydride.

(n.) A hygienist.

(n.) A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

(a.) Not gilded; hence, not rewarded with gold.

(n.) To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.

(n.) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally.

(n.) To cause or permit to share.

(n.) Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.

(n.) Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.

(n.) Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.

(a.) Not bereft; not taken away.

(v. t.) To take a bonnet from; to take off one's bonnet; to uncover; as, to unbonnet one's head.

(n.) Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.

(n.) Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.

(n.) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.

(v. t.) To disclose, or lay open; to unbosom.

(n.) An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.

(v. t.) To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.

(n.) The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.

(n.) Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.

(v. t.) To portray; to draw.

(a.) Relating to a fact that occurs after another.

(n.) A fact that occurs after another.

(n.) A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked

(n.) plenty; high living.

(n.) A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.

(n.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity.

(n.) One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.

(n.) A puffball.

(n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.

(n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.

(n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.

(a.) Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.

(n.) A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

(n.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.

(n.) A negotiator; a factor.

(v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.

(v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.

(v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

(v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.

(n.) Tedious continuance or delay.

(v.) Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

(v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.

(v.) That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.

(v. i.) To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.

(v.) That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

(v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

(v.) A position affording a fine view; a lookout.

(v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.

(n.) A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer.

(a.) Properly or firmly set.

(a.) Well put together; having symmetry of parts.

(n.) A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.

(v. t.) To oblige; to confer a favor on.

(v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit.

(v. t.) To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

(v. t.) To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.

(n.) One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.

(n.) A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.

(n.) Massicot.

(n.) Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.

(n.) One given to luxury.

(n.) Same as Lutanist.

(a.) Muddy; turbid; thick.

(n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.

(n.) The martin.

(n.) A person that plays on the lute.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip.

(n.) An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (P. officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidae. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.

(n.) A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

(a.) Luminous.

(a.) Lucid; clear; transparent.

(a.) Clear; evident; luminous.

(a.) Bright; shining in beauty.

(n.) A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.

(n.) A short cloak formerly worn by knights.

(n.) A short cloak or mantle worn by women.

(n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.

(a.) Having teeth of moderate size.

(a.) Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.

(a.) Detected; convicted; -- with of.

(a.) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto.

(a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse.

(v. t.) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, -- usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.

(v. t.) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

(n.) Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.

(n.) Commandment.

(n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.

(n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.

(n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.

(v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.

(n.) Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.

(v. t.) To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

(n.) Any plant of the Lily family or order.

(a.) Accursed; abominable.

(v.) The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.

(v.) A lodging place; a room.

(v.) An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

(v.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.

(a.) Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.

(n.) A malapert person.

(n.) Impairment.

(n.) Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography.

(n.) The art of composing or writing; authorship.

(imp.) of Overgo

(v. t.) To heat to excess; to superheat.

(n.) Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.

(n.) A small pistol.

(v. t.) To erect beforehand.

(n.) A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts.

(a.) Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.

(n.) One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.

(adv.) Out of that or this.

(adv.) On the outside; out of doors.

(n.) A small flame.

(n.) A little heart.

(n.) A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

(a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.

(a.) Having a short, thick body; stout.

(n.) A close or thick hedge.

(n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.

(n.) A player on the flute; a flutist.

(n.) One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

(n.) An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds.

(n.) A helper; an assistant.

(n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.

(n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

(a.) Helping; helpful; assisting.

(n.) An assistant.

(n.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

(n.) A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

(n.) knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.

(a.) Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.

(a.) Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.

(n.) A flippant person.

(n.) A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground

(n.) The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.

(n.) The peanut. See Peanut.

(n.) Same as Trawl, n., 2.

(n.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidae, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.

(n. pl.) Small shot which scatter like hailstones.

(n.) A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

(n.) The nut of the hazel.

(n.) The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.

(n.) Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.

(n.) An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

(n.) A writer of news.

(n.) A writer of a novel or novels.

(n.) A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.

(n.) Same as Alkanet, 2.

(n.) An advocate of nativism.

(n.) One who deals in numbers.

(a.) Ordaining; decreeing.

(n.) One who ordains.

(n.) One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism.

(n.) A substance which produces nausea.

(a.) Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.

(n.) One who plays on the organ.

(n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.

(a.) Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.

(n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.

(n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

(v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.

(n.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing.

(a.) Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.

(a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.

(n.) Something needed or wanted.

(n.) Outfit; necessary luggage.

(a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.

(adv.) Out of which.

(a.) Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.

(n.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.

(n.) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.

(n.) A whirlpool.

(a.) Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.

(a.) Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.

(n.) A weasel.

(a.) An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.

(a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3.

(n.) One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

(a.) Visiting.

(n.) A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.

(n.) A master of the use of language; a talker.

(n.) A person skilled in languages.

(n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.

(v. t.) To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.

(n.) A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.

(n.) Libation.

(n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.

(n.) A libeler.

(a.) Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.

(n.) A person engaged in a lawsuit.

(n.) One who writes a volume; an author.

(n.) A votary.

(n.) The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.

(n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

(n.) A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.

(n.) A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

(n.) Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.

(n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.

(n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach.

(a.) Yawning; gaping.

(a.) Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.

(a.) Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.

(a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

(a.) Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.

(v. t.) To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body.

(v. t.) To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation.

(n.) The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.

(n.) One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.

(v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species.

(v. t.) To surpass in bleating.

(imp. & p. p.) of Outbuild

(n.) A bursting forth.

(a.) Over the rest in authority; above all others; highest.

(a.) Excessively neat.

(v. t.) To exceed in cheating.

(n.) An outer or exterior court.

(v. t.) To give too important or difficult a part to.

(v. t.) To post over; to pass over swiftly, as by post.

(v. t.) To exceed in feasting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overshoot

(v. t.) To mount above.

(a.) From Overshoot, v. t.

(n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genera Synthliboramphus and Brachyramphus, inhabiting the North Pacific. They are closely related to the murres.

(v. i.) To exist previously; to exist before something else.

(n.) One who pushes a principle or measure to extremes; an extremist; a radical; an ultra.

(v. i.) To cast about; to consider; to ponder.

(n.) A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

(n.) A chemist.

(n.) A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.

(n.) A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum).

(n.) Alt. of Paraquito

(adv.) Alt. of Paravant

(adv.) In front; publicly.

(adv.) Beforehand; first.

(a.) Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.

(a.) Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.

(n.) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

(n.) One who is addicted to pleonasm.

(a.) Passing through; permeating.

(n.) One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.

(n.) One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.

(n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.

(n.) A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.

(n.) A thin, light fabric of wool.

(n.) A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

(a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.

(n.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

(adv.) For the most part.

(a.) Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.

(v. t.) To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment.

(n.) The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like.

(n.) A machine formerly used for bending a crossbow by winding it up.

(n.) In sword and saber exercises, a circular swing of the weapon.

(n.) A trifle; a trinket; a token.

(a.) Raised; high.

(n.) A small or low mountain.

(n.) The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.

(n.) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

(n.) Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.

(n.) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.

(n.) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.

(n.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.

(n.) An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.

(a.) Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.

(adv.) Nearly; almost; much.

(n.) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

(a.) Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous.

(p. a.) Alt. of Misbegotten

(v. t. & i.) To count erroneously.

(n.) An erroneous counting.

(v. t.) To covet wrongfully.

(imp. & p. p.) of Misdeal

(a.) Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably.

(v. t. & i.) To be suspicious of; to have suspicion.

(n.) Suspicion.

(n.) Irresolution; hesitation.

(v. t.) To graft wrongly.

(v. t.) To deceive or lead astray with a false light.

(v. t.) To paint ill, or wrongly.

(n.) A fern of the genus Hemionitis.

(v. t.) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.

(v. t.) To print wrong.

(n.) A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints.

() of Misspell

(imp. & p. p.) of Misspend

() imp. & p. p. of Misspend.

(n.) One who practices nepotism.

(v. t.) To treat amiss; to abuse.

(v. t.) To mistrust.

(n.) Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

(v. t.) To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.

(v. t.) To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.

(a.) Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive.

(n.) The act of supporting or defending.

(n.) That which supports or defends; stronghold; place or means of defense; munition; assistance.

(n.) A record; the evidences or writings whereby a man is enabled to defend the title to his estate; title deeds and papers.

(n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.

(n.) One who writes a parody; one who parodies.

(n.) Same as Parrakeet.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

(n.) Alt. of Ploughfoot

(n.) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

(n.) A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.

(n.) A small plume.

(a.) Fit for drink.

(a.) Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.

(a.) Fig.: Pointed; keen; satirical.

(a.) Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.

(a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.

(n.) Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.

(n.) A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.

(n.) A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.

(n.) Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance.

(a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

(a.) Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.

(a.) Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth.

(n.) A pregnant woman.

(a.) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

(v. t.) To limit previously.

(v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.

(a.) Serving to reward; rewarding.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.

(n.) The ruffed grouse.

(n.) A polemic.

(n.) A writing; a book.

(n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.

(v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

(n.) One thousand watts.

(v. t.) To rent for too much.

(n.) Glimmering or imperfect light.

(n. sing. & pl.) A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.

(n.) A place where hens roost.

(v. t.) To furnish (a vessel) with too long or too heavy a mast or masts.

(n.) Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.

(a.) Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.

(a.) Doing penance.

(n.) One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.

(n.) One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

(n.) One under the direction of a confessor.