(adv.) With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.

(adv.) In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently.

(adv.) In a suitable or becoming manner.

(adv.) In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

(adv.) In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.

(adv.) Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully.

(adv.) Physically.

(adv.) Yearly; year by year.

(a.) Having the form of a ring; annular.

(n.) Contest; opposition; antagonism.

(adv.) In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.

(n.) A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.

(n.) Works of art collectively.

(n.) Artistic effect or quality.

(n.) Artistic pursuits; artistic ability.

(v. t.) To redeem.

(v. t.) To gainsay.

(n.) An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

(n.) Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.

(n.) An opposing law or rule of any kind.

(n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

(n.) Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

(n.) Opposition or resistance of matter to force.

(n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.

(n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.

(n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.

(n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.

(n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.

(n.) Simple incision.

(n.) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Rose family.

(n.) The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

(n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

(n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

(n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

(v. t.) To rouse to action; to inspirit.

(n.) A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.

(n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat.

(n.) One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

(a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.

(n.) A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.

(n.) The papacy.

(n.) Government by a pope; papal rule.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.

(n.) See Choltry.

(a.) Christlike.

(n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

(adv.) Clownishly; surlily.

(adv.) Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.

(adv.) In common; familiarly.

(n.) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.

(n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

(n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.

(v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side.

(a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

(n.) The commission or rank of a cornet.

(a.) Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

(n.) A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.

(a.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

(n.) A small bone in the foot of a horse.

(n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack.

(a.) Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.

(adv.) In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.

(n.) The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.

(n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.

(n.) Hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness.

(n.) Freedom from risk; safety.

(n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.

(n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.

(n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.

(n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.

(n.) The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.

(adv.) In a seemly manner.

(n.) A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

(n.) The state of being best.

(a.) Having the quality of a pander.

(n.) A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

(adv.) With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

(adv.) Without much extent; contractedly.

(adv.) With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.

(adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.

(adv.) Sparingly; parsimoniously.

(n.) The quality or state of being nasal.

(adv.) In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.

(n.) Government by the nobility.

(n.) Collectively, the nobility.

(n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

() The herb agrimony.

(n.) Sorrow.

(adv.) As the eighth in order.

(adv.) With elation.

(a.) Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

(a.) Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.

(a.) Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

(a.) Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.

(adv.) In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.

(n.) See Electuary.

(adv.) In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

(n.) Coast-off clothes.

(n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

(n.) A place where old clothes are sold.

(n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

(a.) Trifling; contemptible.

(n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.

(n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.

(n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.

(n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.

(n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

(a.) Frolicsome.

(adv.) In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.

(n.) Alt. of Thuggism

(adv.) In a fluent manner.

(n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

(n.) Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

(a.) Accompanied with thunder; thunderous.

(n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday.

(adv.) Transversely; obliquely.

(n.) Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.

(n.) A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

(n.) The quality or state of being paradoxical.

(n.) A rich and heavy silk stuff.

(n.) The state of being a pagan; paganism.

(n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

(n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.

(n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.

(n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.

(v. t.) To scrutinize.

(n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.

(n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part).

(n.) A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France.

(n.) A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

(n.) Hence, refuse; filth; offal.

(n.) The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.

(adv.) In a scurvy manner.

(n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

(n.) The business of a butcher.

(n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.

(n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

(adv.) In a chaste manner; with purity.

(n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.

(n.) Moral purity.

(n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.

(n.) Chasteness.

(adv.) In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

(adv.) In a cheery manner.

(a.) Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

(n.) See Chicory.

(adv.) In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincingly; conclusively.

(n.) The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

(n.) The coal trade.

(a.) Cheerful; joyous; chatty.

(n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.

(n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.

(n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.

(n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

(n.) Exploit.

(a.) Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.

(a.) Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.

(a.) Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.

(a.) Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.

(n.) A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.

(n.) An opponent; an enemy.

(n.) the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.

(n.) See Contraries.

(n.) Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.

(n.) In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

(n.) A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

(n.) That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.

(n.) Same as Nostalgia.

(n.) Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

(a.) Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution.

(v. t.) To weary out.

(a.) Advanced in years; elderly.

(a.) Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.

(n.) Alt. of Maccoboy

(n.) A kind of snuff.

(n.) The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.

(n.) See Diarchy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dinner.

(n.) A house or place for smelting.

(n.) In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.

(n.) The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

(n.) Work done by a smith; smithing.

(a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

(adv.) In a smooth manner.

(a.) Tending to smother; stifling.

(adv.) As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.

(adv.) Gloomily; dismally.

(adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

(adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.

(adv.) Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.

(adv.) Exactly; just.

(adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.

(adv.) Manifestly; openly.

(adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.

(adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.

(n.) A paltry fellow; a sneak.

(a.) Ridiculously small; petty.

(n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.

(n.) Same as Drift, 11.

(n.) The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

(n.) Filth; abomination.

(n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

(v. t.) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.

(v. t.) To take off the dress of; to unrobe.

(n.) Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

(n.) Confused attire; undress.

(n.) The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.

(n.) Something which serves to raise mirth

(n.) A puppet show; also, a puppet.

(n.) A lively or comic picture.

(v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.

(n.) A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.

(n.) Military service.

(adv.) In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.

(adv.) In a stanch manner.

(n.) One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.

(n.) A tin mine; tin works.

(adv.) In a starched or starch manner.

(a.) Having community of interests and responsibilities.

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

(v. i.) To become solid; to harden.

(n.) The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.

(n.) Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.

(n.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.

(a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.

(a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.

(a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

(a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.

(a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.

(a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.

(n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

(n.) The quality or state of being solvent.

(adv.) Alt. of Sombrely

(adv.) In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.

(n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

(n.) A person of consideration or importance.

(n.) A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.

(adv.) At stated times; regularly.

(n.) The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

(v. i.) To foretell; to predict.

(n.) A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.

(n.) Omen; portent. Having

(n.) One who practices the art of making statues.

(n.) The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.

(n.) A collection of statues; statues, collectively.

(n.) The char.

(n.) A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

(adv.) In a radial manner.

(n.) The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.

(n.) A collection of inanimate objects.

(n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

() Recovery of strength after sickness.

() A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

(n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.

(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

(n.) Age; antiquity.

(n.) Seniority.

(n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.

(n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.

(n.) Craftiness; astuteness.

(n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

(n.) That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor.

(n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.

(n.) Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

(n.) Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

(n.) An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

(n.) The science of weight or gravity.

(n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.

(n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.

(n.) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.

(n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.

(n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.

(adv.) Attentively.

(adv.) Unfruitfully; unproductively.

(n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent.

(n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.

(n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.

(v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.

(n.) Opprobrium.

(n.) A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

(n.) Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.

(n.) Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.

(adv.) In a biting manner.

(adv.) In a bitter manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.

(n.) An assembly of hearers; an audience.

(n.) An auditorium.

(n.) The quality or state of being a base.

(n.) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.

(a.) Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.

(n.) A publication issued every two weeks.

(n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base.

(n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.

(adv.) In an august manner.

(n.) The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

(a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

(n.) The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

(n.) The procreation of a bastard child.

(n.) Abeyance.

(n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

(v. t.) To make noble; to nobiliate.

(n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

(n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.

(n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

(n.) Chilliness; coldness

(n.) coldness and collapse.

(n.) The study or science of algae or seaweeds.

(n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.

(v. t.) To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

(v. i.) To become changed into an alkali.

(n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

(n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

(n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

(adv.) In a quaint manner.

(n.) The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness.

(n.) An alley.

(a.) Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.

(n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.

(v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.

(v. t.) To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

(n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

(n.) The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much?"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size.

(n.) The extent or extension of a general conception, that is, the number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also, its content or comprehension, that is, the number of its constituent qualities, attributes, or relations.

(n.) The measure of a syllable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced; as, the long or short quantity of a vowel or syllable.

(n.) The relative duration of a tone.

(n.) That which can be increased, diminished, or measured; especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are applicable.

(n.) A determinate or estimated amount; a sum or bulk; a certain portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities.

(a.) Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.

(a.) Allusive.

(a.) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.

(a.) Great; extreme; terrible.

(n.) Divination by means of salt.

(adv.) In a queasy manner.

(adv.) In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately.

(n.) The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.

(adv.) Abjectly; downcastly.

(n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.

(n.) Silver plate or vessels.

(adv.) In amazement; with confusion or astonishment.

(adv.) In a subtle; shrewdly.

(adv.) In an amenable manner.

(adv.) In an amicable manner.

(n.) A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

(n.) The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?

(n.) A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.

(n.) Quixotism; visionary schemes.

(n.) The relation of an object to number.

(n.) A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

(adv.) In a rakish manner.

(n.) Rabidness; furiousness.

(n.) Blatant quality.

(n.) Self-sufficiency.

(n.) Same as Blazon, 3.

(n.) A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.

(n.) Artistic representation or display.

(a.) Authorial.

(n.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

(n.) A panegyric.

(n.) The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

(n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.

(a.) Blind; stupid.

(n.) The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.

(n.) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).

(n.) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.

(n.) The art or process of making autotypes.

(a.) Full of blisters.

(adv.) In a blithe manner.

(n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

(adv.) Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.

(adv.) With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly.

(n.) Same as Abiogenesis.

(adv.) Meanly; servilely.

(adv.) In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.

(n.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

(a.) Full of blossoms; flowery.

(a.) Swollen; protuberant.

(a.) Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

(v. t.) To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

(v. i.) To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

(a.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.

(n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.

(a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.

(a.) Produced or occasioned by beggary.

(adv.) In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

(a. & adv.) Useful, or usefully.

(n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast.

(n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

(n.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

(adv.) In a hot or baking manner.

(adv.) In a benign manner.

(n.) Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.

(n.) See Barberry.

(n.) A bathing room.

(n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

(n.) A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.

(adv.) In a reflex manner; reflectively.

(n.) Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.

(n.) Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.

(a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

(n.) Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility.

(n.) The quality or state of being rugose.

(v. t.) To supply again.

(v. t.) To survey again or anew; to review.

(n.) A second or new survey.

(adv.) In a ruling manner; so as to rule.

(n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.

(n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

(n.) Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.

(n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.

(n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.

(n.) The science of runes.

(n.) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.

(n.) The quality or state of being rural.

(n.) A rural place.

(adv.) In a rustic manner; rustically.

(n.) Heat.

(n.) Same as Revestiary.

(n.) An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

(a.) Having the power or purpose to revise; revising.

(n.) The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.

(n.) The trade or employment of a saddler.

(adv.) In a candid manner.

(n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery.

(n.) Sordidness.

(adv.) In a sordid manner.

(a.) Fit; suitable; becoming.

(n.) Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

(a.) Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.

(adv.) In a bending manner.

(n.) The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.

(a.) Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

(a.) Characterized by bowlders.

(n.) The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).

(adv.) In a boyish manner; like a boy.

(n.) A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

(n.) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.

(a.) Characterized by bowlders.

(n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

(v. t.) To cause to revive.

(n.) Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.

(n.) An ensign or badge of royalty.

(n.) A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.

(n.) A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.

(n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."

(n.) The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.

(adv.) In a rancid manner.

(adv.) In a random manner.

(n.) The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.

(n.) The place where a register is kept.

(n.) A record; an account; a register.

(n.) The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.

(a.) Like rhubarb.

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

(n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

(n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

(n.) The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.

(n.) The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.

(a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.

(n.) The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.

(n.) Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.

(n.) Severity; rigor.

(adv.) In a rimose manner.

(n.) State of being rimose.

(adv.) Toward a distal part.

(n.) Distance.

(a.) Derisive; mocking.

(adv.) Alt. of Sikerly

(n.) A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.

(adv.) In a signal manner; eminently.

(n.) Same as Seigniory.

(adv.) In a silent manner.

(v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.

(v. i.) To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

(adv.) Like silver in appearance or in sound.

(a.) Similar.

(adv.) In a savage manner.

(n.) The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

(n.) An act of cruelty; barbarity.

(n.) Wild growth, as of plants.

(adv.) In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.

(adv.) So as to be finally saved from eternal death.

(adv.) In a savory manner.

(n.) The alewife.

(adv.) In a scabby manner.

(adv.) Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.

(adv.) With lively intelligence; intelligently.

(adv.) According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.

(n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.

(n.) Alt. of Causey

(n.) A species of bindweed or Convolvulus (C. Scammonia).

(n.) An inspissated sap obtained from the root of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic.

(a.) Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.

(n.) Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

(n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.

(n.) Embroidery.

(n.) The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.

(adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

(n.) Pedagogics; pedagogism.

(n.) The act of measuring by paces.

(n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

(n.) The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

(n.) Trifling; trickery.

(a.) Too wary; too cautious.

(n.) The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia.

(adv.) In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.

(a.) Mean; servile.

(adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

(adv.) Frugally; penuriously.

(n.) The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.

(n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

(n.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.

(n.) The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

(n.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

(n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.

(n.) Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies.

(n.) Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority.

(n.) A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter, garland, etc.

(n.) A sign or prodigy; a portent.

(adv.) In a brutal manner; cruelly.

(n.) That part of botany which relates to mosses.

(n.) The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

(a.) Characterized by scratches.

(a.) Like a screech; shrill and harsh.

(n.) Traffic; bargaining.

(n.) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

(n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.

(n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.

(n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.

(n.) Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.

(n.) The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy.

(adv.) In a normal manner.

(n.) Nurture; education; culture; bringing up.

(v. t.) To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.

(n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.

(n.) Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

(n.) That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.

(n.) The act of operating or working; operation.

(adv.) In a steady manner.

(v. t.) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.

(n.) The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with a cutting instrument.

(n.) Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.

(n.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.

(n.) A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.

(a.) Consisting in a title; titular.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a title.

(n.) The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant.

(n.) An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom.

(n.) The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition.

(adv.) Insincerely; deceitfully.

(adv.) In an adorable manner.

(adv.) Plainly; inelegantly.

(adv.) Unworthily.

(n.) The condition of being homogamous.

(n.) Joint nature.

(n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.

(n.) The condition of having homogonous flowers.

(n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.

(n.) Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.

(n.) Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

(n.) A sea bird, the puffin.

(n.) A fool; a dunce; a noddy.

(n.) The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.

(n.) Want of equity; injustice; wrong.

(n.) The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

(n.) The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons.

(n.) Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure.

(n.) The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said to be in homology with each other. Cf. Heterology.

(n.) The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes.

(n.) Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.

(n.) Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.

(n.) A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.

(adv.) In a greedy manner.

(n.) Green plants; verdure.

(n.) Leather workers' materials.

(n.) Agency in common; joint agency or agent.

(n.) A grogshop.

(adv.) Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.

(n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.

(n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.

(adv.) In a surly manner; sullenly.

(n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.

(v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.

(n.) In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.

(n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t.

(n.) A place where swans are bred.

(n.) Same as 4th Swash, 2.

(adv.) In a guilty manner.

(adv.) In a sweaty manner.

(n.) Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.

(n.) See Gynarchy.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.

(n.) Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.

(adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

(adv.) Closely; intimately.

(n.) Stramonium.

(n.) The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.

(n.) An appearance, or a becoming manifest.

(n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.

(n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

(n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.

(v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

(n.) Survey; superintendence.

(n.) Episcopacy.

(adv.) In a strict manner; closely; precisely.

(n.) Alt. of Epizootic

(n.) The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.

(n.) Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.

(n.) Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.

(n.) Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does.

(a.) Covered or marked with splotches.

(adv.) In a spoony manner.

(a.) Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.

(a.) Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.

(adv.) In a drowsy manner.

(n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

(n.) A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.

(n.) The employment of a knight-errant.

(a.) See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.

(adv.) In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.

(n.) The ring plover.

(n.) A short coat of coarse cloth.

(n.) Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

(n.) An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.

(n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.

(n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.

(v. i.) To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.

(v. t.) To treat with civility.

(a.) Like or becoming a cousin.

(n.) A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.

(n.) A town in the county of Warwick, England.

(adv.) Secretly; in private; insidiously.

(n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.

(n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.

(n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

(n.) Seminal state.

(n.) Fig.: A seed bed; a source.

(n.) A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.

(a.) Belonging to seed; seminal.

(a.) Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

(a.) Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.

(adv.) In the manner of a coward.

(n.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.

(n.) A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius.

(n.) The quality or state of being senile; old age.

(adv.) With craft; artfully; cunningly.

(adv.) In an absurd manner.

(n.) A snug, cozy place.

(a.) Crimson.

(adv.) In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.

(adv.) With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.

(n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.

(n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.

(adv.) In a sociable manner.

(n.) The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

(adv.) In a social manner; sociably.

(n.) Tenure by socage.

(n.) A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

(n.) Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.

(n.) A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

(n.) A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.

(n.) An establishment where cream is sold.

(v. t.) To quality.

(n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

(a.) Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.

(adv.) In a clammy manner.

(n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.

(n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.

(n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.

(n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.

(n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

(adv.) By rites, or by a particular rite.

(n.) Rivalry; competition.

(n.) Equality, as of right or rank.

(adv.) In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.

(adv.) In a robust manner.

(v. t.) To modify again or anew; to reshape.

() Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.

(n.) Alt. of Rocklay

(a.) Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission.

(adv.) In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.

(adv.) Precipitously.

(adv.) Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.

(v. t.) To occupy again.

(v. t.) To pacify again.

(n.) A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.

(a.) Turning as on an axis; rotary.

(a.) Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.

(a.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.

(n.) A rotifer.

(v. t.) To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods.

(v. t.) To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.

(v. t.) in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

(n.) The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

(n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.

(n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.

(n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.

(n.) In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.

(v. t.) To purify again.

(adv.) In a wandering manner.

(n.) A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

(n.) The state of being unwilling; nolition.

(n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

(n.) A knot; a node.

(n.) An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.

(n.) Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.

(adv.) See Salable, Salably, etc.

(v. t.) To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

(n.) Quality of being salient; hence, vigor.

(n.) Salineness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.

(a.) Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

(a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.

(n.) Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.

(a.) Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.

(n.) Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.

(v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

(v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.

(v. t.) To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.

(v. t.) To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.

(n.) The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.

(n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.

(n.) A saint or holy being.

(adv.) In a clever manner.

(v. t.) To produce blood from.

(a.) Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.

(n.) The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.

(a.) Saponaceous.

(v. t.) To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.

(adv.) According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually.

(n.) State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

(n.) See Caraway.

(adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.

(adv.) In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.

(adv.) In a bold, impudent manner.

(n.) Clownishness.

(adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

(n.) Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.

(n.) The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.

(n.) The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.

(n.) The rank or condition of a brevet officer.

(n.) An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.

(n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

(n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

(n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.

(a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.

(n.) Celebration of the nuptial feast.

(n.) The government of a castle.

(adv.) Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.

(n.) That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.

(n.) Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.

(n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.

(n.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

(n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.

(n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.

(a.) Alt. of Catenarian

(n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

(n.) The science of law; legislation.

(n.) The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.

(n.) An operation for opening the colon

(adv.) In a square form or manner.

(adv.) In a serene manner; clearly.

(adv.) With unruffled temper; coolly; calmly.

(n.) The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.

(n.) Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure.

(adv.) In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.

(n.) The quality or state of being serous.

(n.) A thin watery animal fluid, as synovial fluid and pericardial fluid.

(n.) Base timidity; cowardliness.

(adv.) As a gift.

(n.) See Deaconship.

(n.) One who carries the cross before an archbishop.

(n.) Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

(a.) The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

(v. t.) To embody again.

(adv.) In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.

(a.) Lying down; recumbent.

(a.) Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.

(n.) A passionate desire; love.

(n.) Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness

(n.) The state or quality of being oily or fat; fatness.

(a. & adv.) Becoming a squire; like a squire.

(n.) Dycrasia.

() A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc.

(n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

(n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.

(n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.

(n.) The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world.

(n.) Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.

(n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.

(n.) A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.

(a.) Tending to add; making some addition.

(n.) Pain in a gland.

(adv.) In a tawdry manner.

(n.) Government by a woman.

(a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.

(n.) Ability; aptitude.

(n.) Same as Taxonomy.

(n.) That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

(n.) The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.

(n.) That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.

(n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.

(n.) The checkerberry.

(a.) Fellowlike.

(n.) A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.

(n.) Womanliness; femininity.

(n.) The state of being feracious or fruitful.

(n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.

(n.) Same as Homotaxis.

(n.) A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.

(adv.) Honorably; becomingly; decently.

(adv.) In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly.

(n.) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

(a.) A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.

(a.) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.

(a.) Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.

(a.) Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree.

(a.) Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

(n.) The quality or state of being torose.

(adv.) In a torpid manner.

(adv.) In a hopeful manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

(n.) The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge.

(adv.) In a touchy manner.

(a.) Same as Toward, a., 2.

(adv.) In an adroit manner.

(n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

(n.) Adulteration; corruption.

(n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

(n.) Faithlessness in religion.

(n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.

(n.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.

(n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.

(n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.

(a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory.

(n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

(a.) Like an infant.

(n.) A body of children.

(n.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.

(n.) Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.

(n.) Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.

(n.) Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.

(n.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.

(n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.

(adv.) In an infirm manner.

(n.) The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.

(adv.) In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.

(adv.) In a horrid manner.

(adv.) In a toying manner.

(n.) An inn; a lodging house.

(n.) A tractrix.

(a.) Infusorial.

(n.) One of the Infusoria; -- usually in the pl.

(n.) Divination by the movements of mice.

(n.) Same as Myopathia.

(adv.) In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely.

(adv.) With caution; deliberately.

(adv.) Early; soon.

(n.) The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.

(n.) Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

(n.) A jocose act or saying; jocoseness.

(adv.) Alt. of Meagrely

(adv.) Poorly; thinly.

(n.) The quality or state of being vapid; vapidness.

(n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.

(n.) A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation.

(v. t.) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

(v. i.) To become stone or stony.

(adv.) In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.

(adv.) Unintentionally; accidentally.

(adv.) In a variable manner.

(n.) Alt. of Wardenship

(n.) The rabble; the crowd; the mob.

(n.) The body of vassals.

(n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.

(n.) An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor.

(n.) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.

(n.) Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant.

(n.) Security; warrant; guaranty.

(v. t.) To warrant; to guarantee.

(n.) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

(adv.) In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.

(n.) The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.

(n.) Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.

(n.) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed.

(n.) The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official.

(n.) The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.

(adv.) Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period.

(n.) The quality or state of being venous.

(n.) A condition in which the circulation is retarded, and the entire mass of blood is less oxygenated than it normally is.

(adv.) In a laudable manner.

(n.) The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.

(a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing.

(n.) A place for washing.

(n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.

(n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.

(n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.

(n.) The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.

(adv.) In a lavish manner.

(adv.) In a verbal manner; orally.

(adv.) Word for word; verbatim.

(n.) The quality or state of being verdant.

(adv.) In an unreal manner; ideally.

(n.) The quality or state of being in peril; absence of safety; insecurity.

(a.) Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent.

(adv.) In an unseemly manner.

(n.) Inequality; disparity; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, number, etc.

(n.) Lack of comparison, correspondence, or suitableness; incongruity.

(n.) Indivisibility into equal parts; oddness.

(n.) Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt.

(a.) Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.

(adv.) Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably.

(adv.) In an unwary manner.

(a.) Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.

(adv.) In an unwise manner; foolishly.

(a.) Having the qualities, or showing the characteristics, of an imp.

(adv.) In the manner of an imp.

(a.) Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.

(a.) Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.

(n.) The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease.

(n.) The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal.

(n.) The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

(n.) Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions.

(adv.) In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably.

(a.) Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of.

(n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.

(n.) A boasting; a bragging.

(n.) Jangling.

(n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826.

(n.) The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud.

(adv.) In a jaunty manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement.

(n.) Polite wit; facetiousness.

(adv.) In an urgent manner.

(n.) The diagnosis of diseases by inspection of urine.

(adv.) In a useful manner.

(adv.) In a vacant manner; inanely.

(n.) The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.

(n.) The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.

(n.) A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.

(n.) Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.

(v. t.) To jeopardize.

(n.) Alt. of Acridness

(n.) A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants.

(n.) Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners.

(n.) Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

(n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

(n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

(n.) An exception.

(a.) Like a garden.

(n.) A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

(adv.) In a fallible manner.

(a.) Like or containing garlic.

(n.) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.

(n.) Engines, in general; instruments of war.

(n.) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.

(adv.) In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.

(a.) A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.

(n.) One who is surety with another.

(n.) A hard blow.

(n.) Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry.

(a.) Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse.

(n.) A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics.

(n.) A votary.

(n.) See Crossroad.

(a.) Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.

(adv.) In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously.

(adv.) Sincerely; solemnly; earnestly.

(n.) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.

(n.) The plant which bears the fruit.

(adv.) In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.

(adv.) By the agency or influence of God.

(v. t.) To render divine; to deify.

(a.) The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.

(a.) The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.

(a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

(a.) A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.

(a.) Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.

(a.) The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.

(a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

(n.) teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.

(n.) Willingness to be taught; tractableness.

(a.) Like a doctor or learned man.

(n.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.

(n.) Pertness; sauciness.

(adv.) In a sleepy manner; drowsily.

(a.) Cinning; sly.

(adv.) In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.

(v. t.) Slippery.

(adv.) In a slight manner.

(adv.) Slightingly; negligently.

(n.) A day of judgment. See Doomsday.

(a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.

(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.

(a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.

(a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm.

(a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.

(a.) Uncertain in effect.

(a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

(n.) See Donatory.

(n.) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

(n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.

(n.) The day of the final judgment.

(n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

(a.) Wet; sloppy, as land.

(adv.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.

(n.) Posology.

(a.) Foolish; weak.

(adv.) a slovenly manner.

(n.) Slovenliness.

(a.) Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

(a.) Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.

(a.) Sleepy.

(n.) A measure of but a single foot.

(n.) The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.

(n.) Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.

(n.) The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France.

(n.) Monogenesis.

(n.) The doctrine that the members of the human race have all a common origin.

(n.) Marriage with the one woman only.

(n.) The state or condition of being monogynous.

(n.) The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.

(v. t.) To fail of edifying; to injure.

(v. t.) To clear from a bay.

(superl.) Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.

(a.) Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.

(v. t.) To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.

(adv.) Suitable.

(n.) A large building in which tobacco is stemmed.

(n.) Dishonor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.

(n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

(adv.) In a scattered or sparse manner.

(n.) The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.

(n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.

(n.) The rank or office of an ensign.

(v. t.) To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.

(adv.) In a stingy manner.

(adv.) In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.

(adv.) Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.

(n.) The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.

(n.) That which is entire; the whole.

(adv.) In a speedy manner.

(n.) An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.

(a.) Obstinate; sullen; haughty.

(n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment.

(n.) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.

(n.) A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

(n.) The quality or state of being severe.

(n.) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.

(n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.

(n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.

(n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.

(a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

(n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.

(n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.

(n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

(n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.

(n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

(adv.) In a sexual manner or relation.

(adv.) In a shabby manner.

(adv.) In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.

(a.) Like a cushion; soft; pliable.

(n.) A hindoo hall of justice.

(adv.) Dejectedly.

(a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

(a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

(a.) Destructive; poisonous.

(n.) That which destroys.

(n.) That which blots out.

(a.) Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.

(n .) Cell production or development; cytogenesis.

(a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

(a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

(a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.

(a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.

(a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.

(a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.

(a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.

(a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.

(v. t.) To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious.

(adv.) In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.

(n.) Delirium.

(n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

(n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.

(n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.

(n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

(n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.

(n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

(a.) Delusive; fallacious.

(n.) Demagogism.

(adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.

(adv.) Odiously; detestably; excessively.

(a.) Affording shelter.

(adv.) In a humble manner.

(n.) The dominion of demons.

(adv.) In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.

(n.) Demureness; also, one who is demure.

(adv.) In the second place.

(adv.) In a secret manner.

(adv.) In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

(v. t.) To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce.

(n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.

(a.) Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.

(n.) The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

(adv.) In a stormy manner.

(n.) The business of one who spins; spinning.

(adv.) In a spiral form, manner, or direction.

(n.) One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

(n.) Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.

(n.) State of being paired with a single mate.

(n.) Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

(n.) The art of shoeing horses.

(n.) The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

(n.) The place where a smith shoes horses.

(n.) The state of being gelid.

(adv.) In a trashy manner.

(n.) The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

(n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

(n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

(a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a father.

(a.) Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.

(n.) A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.

(v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

(adv.) In a faulty manner.

(n.) False reasoning; paralogism.

(n.) A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.

(n.) That department of a government which has charge of the finances.

(n.) A repository of abundance; a storehouse.

(n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."

(n.) A treasure.

(adv.) By genius or nature; naturally.

(adv.) Gayly; cheerfully.

(n.) That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.

(n.) The worship of the earth.

(n.) A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

(n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.

(n.) A treatise on this science.

(n.) Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection.

(n.) A gooseberry.

(adv.) In an elfish manner.

(adv.) In an eligible manner.

(adv.) In a frosty manner.

(adv.) In a frothy manner.

(v. i.) To bear fruit.

(v. t.) To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

(adv.) Thriftily; prudently.

(n.) Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.

(n.) A repository for fruit.

(n.) Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.

(adv.) In an elvish manner.

(adv.) In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

(a.) The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.

(a.) Uncertainty; instability.

(n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.

(n.) See Fumitory.

(n.) Alt. of Fumidness

(adv.) In a fuming manner; angrily.

(n.) The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.

(n.) The fumes of drink.

(a. & n.) Diuretic.

(n.) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.

(n.) State of being eminent; eminence.

(n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.

(a.) Exploring; spying.

(a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

(a.) Same as Emissary, a., 2.

(n.) Furs, in general.

(n.) The business of a furrier; trade in furs.

(adv.) In a futile manner.

(n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

(n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

(adv.) In time to come.

(n.) State of being that is yet to come; future state.

(n.) Future time; time to come; the future.

(n.) Event to come; a future event.

(v. t.) To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

(n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

(n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

(n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.

(n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

(n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

(adv.) In a facing manner or position.

(n.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

(n.) Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

(a.) Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.

(n.) Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.

(n.) That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

(n.) A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

(n.) A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.

(n.) The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.

(a.) Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.

(adv.) For a moment.

(adv.) In a moment; every moment; momentarily.

(n.) That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.

(adv.) In a gibing manner; scornfully.

(n.) Three united; state of being three.

(n.) Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers.

(adv.) In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.

(adv.) Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.

(adv.) In a mutual manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.

(n.) The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor.

(n.) The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.

(n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title.

(n.) Value.

(n.) A large wig that shades the face.

(adv.) So as to be of value.

(n.) Alt. of Lancegaye

(n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

(n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house.

(adv.) In modern times.

(adv.) In a modest manner.

(n.) Moderateness; smallness; meanness.

(a.) Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity.

(n.) The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.

(n.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.

(n.) Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

(a. & adv.) Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin.

(n.) A treatise on morality; ethics.

(n.) The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual.

(n.) The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

(n.) The science of causes. Same as /tiology.

(a.) Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

(a.) Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.

(adv.) Toward, or in the direction of, the east.

(n.) The plant eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes.

(adv.) In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.

(n.) Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

(n.) Regularly of the pulse.

(n.) Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.

(adv.) In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.

(n.) Accident; chance; casualty.

(n.) Evangel.

(a.) Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.

(n.) Same as Foundry.

(adv.) Gradually; gingerly.

(adv.) In the fourth place.

(a.) Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.

(n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.

(n.) Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.

(n.) Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.

(n.) Companionship; acquaintance.

(n.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.

(n.) A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.

(n.) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

(n.) Jesuitism; subtle argument.

(n.) A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.

(n.) A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.

(a.) Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.

(adv.) In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.

(a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough.

(n.) The state of being vibrant; resonance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.

(interj.) Alas! Welaway!

(n.) The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.

(n.) That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western.

(adv.) Toward the west; westward.

(n.) The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.

(n.) A conformity to, and resting upon, the letter of the law.

(n.) A legatee.

(n.) A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.

(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

(v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.

(v. t.) To regard as a fool, or as foolish.

(v. t.) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.

(adv.) In a sturdy manner.

(adv.) So as to resemble glass.

(a.) Subitaneous; sudden; hasty.

(a.) Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.

(adv.) In a gloomy manner.

(n.) A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

(adv.) In a glossy manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being triune; trinity.

(n.) Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.

(adv.) In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.

(adv.) In an active signification; as, a word used actively.

(n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.

(adv.) Actively.

(adv.) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

(n.) The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.

(n.) Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.

(n.) Cunning; skill; craft.

(n.) Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.

(n.) The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.

(n.) Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.

(n.) Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.

(a.) Sweating; perspiring.

(n.) A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.

(n.) Suddenness; a sudden.

(adv.) Like a truant; in idleness.

(n.) Deceit; fraud.

(n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.

(a.) Worthless or deceptive in character.

(adv.) In a trusty manner.

(a.) Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.

(n.) The dominions of a sultan.

(n.) Alt. of Wilfulness

(v. t.) To buy at less than the real value or worth; to buy cheaper than.

(v. i.) To cry aloud.

(v. t.) To lay beneath; to put under.

(v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.

(n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).

(v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.

(n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.

(n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.

(v. t.) To pay inadequately.

(v. t.) To say by way of derogation or contradiction.

(n.) The lower region of the sky.

(n.) The quality or state of being ideal.

(n.) The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.

(n.) The conceptive faculty.

(n.) The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

(v. t.) To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.

(v. t.) To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

(v. i.) To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.

(n.) The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

(n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

(n.) An identical equation.

(n.) The science which treats of the origin of ideas.

(n.) The science of ideas.

(n.) A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation.

(a.) Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.

(a.) Unsuitable; unprofitable.

(adv.) In an ungainly manner.

(n.) The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.

(n.) Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.

(n.) Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.

(n.) An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.

(n.) The quality or state of being unique; uniqueness.

(a.) Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.

(adv.) In an united manner.

(a.) Not kindly; unkind; ungracious.

(a.) Unnatural; contrary to nature.

(a.) Unfavorable; annoying; malignant.

(adv.) In the inner parts; internally.

(adv.) Toward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly.

(adv.) In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secret/y; as, he inwardly repines.

(adv.) Intimately; thoroughly.

(n.) Want of goodness.

(n.) Tendency to imitation.

(n.) The state or quality of being immane; barbarity.

(a.) Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.

(a.) Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means.

(a.) Not such as to inspire liking; unattractive; disagreeable.

(adv.) In an unlikely manner.

(a.) Not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant.

(v. t.) To retract or withdraw a notice of.

(a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

(a.) Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

(a.) Of the nature of plaster.

(adv.) In a joking way; sportively.

(adv.) In a jovial manner; merrily; gayly.

(n.) Joviality.

(n.) A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

(n.) The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture.

(n.) A table made of mahogany wood.

(a.) Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.

(adv.) In a maidenlike manner.

(a.) Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.

(n.) The position or rank of a yeoman.

(n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.

(n.) The yeomanry cavalry.

(n.) A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.

(adv.) In a forcible manner.

(n.) The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

(n.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

(n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

(n.) Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.

(adv.) In an impure manner.

(n.) The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.

(n.) That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.

(n.) Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.

(n.) A sty, or pen, for swine.

(n.) Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.

(n.) A kind of country-dance or round.

(adv.) In a hidden manner.

(adv.) In an incised manner.

(a.) Having the quality of cutting; incisor; incisive.

(n.) A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.

(n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.

(n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.

(n.) The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

(n.) The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.

(adv.) Joyously; festively; mirthfully.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.

(n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

(n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

(n.) That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.

(n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.

(n.) The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

(n.) Tenancy.

(n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

(adv.) In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.

(a.) Tenderness.

(n.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

(a.) Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.

(a.) Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

(n.) Fetidness.

(adv.) In a feudal manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness.

(n.) Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.

(n.) Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.

(n.) Adherence to the marriage contract.

(n.) Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.

(n.) A machine for forming threads.

(adv.) In a filial manner.

(adv.) In a filthy manner; foully.

(n.) The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.

(n.) The relation of end or purpose to its means.

(n.) Quality of being earthy; earthiness.

(adv.) In a finite manner or degree.

(a.) Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.

(a.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.

(a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.

(a.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.

(n.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.

(n.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.

(n.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

(n.) Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.

(n.) The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness.

(n.) Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.

(n.) A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage.

(a.) Contained in the text; textual.

(a.) Serving as a text; authoritative.

(n.) One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman.

(n.) One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the text.

(n.) A house for hatching fish, etc.

(n.) Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

(n.) A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

(n.) Fixedness.

(n.) A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

(n.) That department of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul.

(adv.) In a flabby manner.

(n.) The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

(n.) The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life."

(n.) Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.

(n.) Rashness; temerity.

(n.) Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

(adv.) With a harsh, grating sound or voice.

(n.) The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

(a.) After the manner of a tinker.

(a.) Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.

(adv.) In a showy and cheap manner.

(adv.) In a mellow manner.

(n.) The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.

(a.) Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.

(a.) Having sharp turns.

(n.) A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.

(n.) Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.

(adv.) According to wish; conformably to desire.

(n.) Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.

(n.) Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.

(n.) Animal chemistry; zoochemistry.

(n.) The worship of animals.

(a.) Like a wittol; cuckoldly.

(a.) Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.

(n.) The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.

(n.) Love of animals.

(adv.) Alt. of Wofully

(n.) Premature decay.

(adv.) In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy.

(adv.) In a polite manner; with politeness.

(adv.) In a pretty manner.

(n.) The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.

(n.) The state or habit of having more than one mate.

(n.) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.

(n.) The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Polygonum.

(n.) The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives.

(n.) Talkativeness.

(n.) Same as Polypidom.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Polypodium.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.

(n.) Priggism.

(n.) A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.

(a.) Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc.

(a.) Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.

(adv.) In a princely manner.

(n.) A division into many members.

(n.) The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.

(n.) Physiogmony.

(n.) A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.

(a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

(a.) Precedence; superior rank.

(n.) See Celotomy.

(n.) One of the United States.

(n.) A place for pigeons; a dovecote.

(n.) The green woodpecker.

(n.) A parrot.

(n.) A target in the form of a parrot.

(n.) A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb.

(n.) Populace.

(adv.) In a probable manner; in likelihood.

(n.) The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness.

(n.) The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.

(adv.) In a porous manner.

(n.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.

(adv.) In a pining manner; droopingly.

(a.) Not guilty.

(n.) Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.

(n.) An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.

(n.) A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.

(v. t.) To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate.

(n.) The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

(n.) Mankind collectively; the human race.

(n.) The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.

(n.) Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.

(n.) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

(n.) Treachery.

(adv.) In sundry ways; variously.

(a.) Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day.

(a.) Bright like the sun; resplendent.

(a.) Beaming with good spirits; cheerful.

(n.) The quality or state of being tumid.

(n.) One of the Tunicata.

(n.) Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.

(n.) Idle talk; gossip.

(n.) Supineness.

(adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.

(adv.) In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.

(adv.) Proudly; haughtily.

(interj.) A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks.

(n.) Grandness.

(n.) A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.

(n.) The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.

(n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.

(n.) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity.

(n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.

(n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.

(n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

(n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

(n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.

(n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.

(n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.

(n.) A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.

(n.) A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.

(n.) An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.

(n.) An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.

(n.) Joint rule or sovereignity.

(n.) Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.

(n.) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.

(n.) A system of synonyms.

(n.) A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.

(n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.

(n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.

(a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

(adv.) In a greasy manner.

(adv.) In a gross or indelicate manner.

(n.) Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.

(n.) The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

(adv.) Naturally.

(n.) An act of submission or courtesy.

(a.) Abounding in hummocks.

(a.) Wanting food; starved.

(adv.) With keen appetite.

(adv.) In a hungry manner; voraciously.

(n.) Insecurity; danger.

(adv.) Without reason; madly; foolishly.

(n.) The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

(n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

(a.) Tasteless; unsavory.

(n.) Instance; urgency.

(a.) Insular.

(adv.) Like, or from, the air; in an aerial manner.

(n.) That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere.

(n. & a.) See Estuary.

(adv.) In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed.

(n.) Same as Dropsy.

(a.) Not bloody.

(a.) Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient.

(a.) Ill-fated; unlucky.

(a.) Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous.

(v. t.) To lay or place among or between.

(a.) Not comely. -- adv. In an uncomely manner.

(a.) Not subject to death; immortal.

(a.) Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels.

(n.) A breviary.

(adv.) So as to pose or puzzle.

(n.) The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.

(adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.

(n.) Muskets, collectively.

(n.) The fire of muskets.

(adv.) In a musing manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being modal.

(n.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.

(n.) The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.

(n.) The mob; the lower classes.

(adv.) With whining or complaint.

(n.) The teaching of the pulpit; preaching.

(n.) Modesty; chastity.

(adv.) With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.

(adv.) In the name of the community.

(adv.) In a prying manner.

(n.) A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.

(n.) The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.

(a.) Of or pertaining to drinking.

(n.) An apothecary.

(adv.) With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.

(a.) All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.

(a.) Propriety; correctness.

(v. t.) To invest which properties, or qualities.

(v. t.) To make a property of; to appropriate.

(n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

(n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.

(n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

(v. t.) To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

(v. i.) To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.

(v. i.) To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.

(n.) The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.

(n.) An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.

(a.) That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.

(a.) An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.

(a.) The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.

(a.) That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.

(adv.) In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

(adv.) Individually; after one's own manner.

(n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.

(adv.) In a prompt manner.

(adv.) In a prolix manner.

(v. t.) To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.

(a.) Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy.

(a.) Imperious; domineering; arbitrary.

(adv.) With the skill of a master.

(adv.) In the manner of a martyr.

(n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

(n.) Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.

(n.) One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.

(a.) Like a lubber; clumsy.

(adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly.

(n.) The quality or state of being lucid.

(adv.) In manner to excite love; amiably.

(adv.) With love; affectionately.

(adv.) By hand.

(a.) Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.

(adv.) With good manners.

(adv.) In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.

(adv.) In a manner to incur loss.

(a.) Meritorious.

(n.) Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

(n.) Husbandry; economy; frugality.

(adv.) In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.

(n.) A register of months.

(n.) A brief calendar of the lives of the saints for each day in the year, or a simple remembrance of those whose lives are not written.

(adv.) In a malign manner; with malignity.

(v. t.) Placed at the limit, as a guard.

(v. t.) Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc.

(v. t.) Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive.

(n.) That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land.

(n.) A limiter. See Limiter, 2.

(n.) The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.

(n.) The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.

(n.) A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

(n.) The quality or state of being undecided, or in continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit.

(n.) The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.

(a. & adv.) Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.

(adv.) In a paltry manner.

(v. t.) To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.

(v. t.) To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts.

(a.) Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.

(a.) Afflicted with headache.

(adv.) From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.

(adv.) With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince.

(adv.) In a flashy manner; with empty show.

(a.) Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.

(a.) Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.

(adv.) In a manner resembling that of heaven.

(adv.) By the influence or agency of heaven.

(n.) The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.

(n.) That which is stolen.

(v. t.) The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.

(a.) Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.

(a.) Serving to help or assist; helping.

(adv.) In a flimsy manner.

(n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.

(adv.) In a floral manner.

(adv.) In a florid manner.

(n.) See Opulence.

(n.) A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the number nine.

(n.) The number of nine units; nine, collectively.

(n.) The state of being marriageable.

(n.) Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.

(a.) Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.

(a.) Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.

(a.) Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.

(adv.) In a floating manner; swimmingly.

(a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.

(adv.) By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.

(n.) The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.

(n.) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.

(n.) A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope.

(a.) Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body.

(a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

(a.) Common; customary; usual.

(n.) A naval battle; esp., a mock sea fight.

(n.) A show or spectacle representing a sea fight; also, a place for such exhibitions.

(n.) The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.

(a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.

(n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.

(n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.

(n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.

(n.) The mass; the common run.

(n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.

(n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.

(n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.

(n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.

(n.) Nautical skill or experience.

(n.) Organism.

(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age.

(adv.) In an ornate manner.

(n.) Orphanhood.

(n.) The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.

(n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.

(n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

(n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.

(n.) The art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.

(adv.) In an oblong form.

(n.) Lightness; nimbleness.

(n.) The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.

(n.) Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk.

(n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.

(n.) A body of legions; legions, collectively.

(a.) Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

(n.) The quality or state of being vinous.

(n.) The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.

(n.) The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.

(n.) Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.

(n.) Freshness; soundness.

(n.) The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.

(n.) A favorite.

(a.) One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.

(adv.) In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally.

(n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

(n.) A state of inaction or indifference.

(v. t.) To lethargize.

(adv.) In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.

(adv.) In a linear manner; with lines.

(n.) The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.

(n.) The quality or state of being vivacious.

(n.) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor.

(n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.

(n.) The quality or state of being vivid; vividness.

(n.) The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters.

(n.) The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

(adv.) In a liquid manner; flowingly.

(a.) Pertaining to libation.

(n.) State of being literate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.

(a.) Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.

(a.) Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.

(adv.) In a lively manner.

(a.) Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.

(n.) An emetic; a vomit.

(n.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.

(n.) The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.

(n.) The state or quality of being livid.

(adv.) In a vulgar manner.

(n.) A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change.

(adv.) In a living state.

(adv.) As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

(adv.) In a maimed manner.

(n.) The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

(n.) Main support; principal dependence.

(n.) Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.

(n.) The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.

(n.) Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

(n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.

(n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

(n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.

(n.) The military rank of a major.

(n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.

(n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.

(n.) Ancestors; ancestry.

(n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.

(a.) Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative.

(a.) Appropriate to a pastor.

(n.) Opposition; impediment; obstruction.

(n.) Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.

(adv.) Openly; evidently.

(adv.) In an obtuse manner.

(n.) Obtuseness.

(adv.) In an occult manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ocelli.

(n.) Timidity.

(n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.

(n.) A marrying eight times.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the number eight.

(n.) A diseased condition of the ear.

(n.) The examination of the ear; the art of using the otoscope.

(adv.) By the eye, or by actual sight.

(n.) Measurement of distances by the odometer.

(n.) The quality or state of being peccant.

(n.) A sin; an offense.

(n.) The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

(n.) The state of being an outlaw.

(v. t.) To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time.

(v. t.) To bear sway over.

(n.) Neuralgia.

(adv.) In a placid manner.

(v. i.) To commit plagiarism.

(n.) A manstealer; a kidnaper.

(n.) One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist.

(n.) Plagiarism; literary thief.

(a.) Kidnaping.

(a.) Practicing plagiarism.

(adv.) In a plaguing manner; vexatiously; extremely.

(n.) The science or art of punishment.

(n.) One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person.

(n.) The last stage or consequence; finality.

(n.) A discourse or treatise on types.

(n.) The doctrine of types.

(n.) Existence everywhere, or in places, at the same time; omnipresence; as, the ubiquity of God is not disputed by those who admit his existence.

(n.) The doctrine, as formulated by Luther, that Christ's glorified body is omnipresent.

(a.) Laminar.

(a.) Of the value of twopence.

(adv.) As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.

(n.) A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.

(interj.) Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.

(adv.) In a labial manner; with, or by means of, the lips.

(n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize.

(n.) Excessive care or diligence.

(n.) A bombastic or labored style.

(n.) The state of a benefice when occupied.

(n.) Plethora.

(n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.

(n.) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.

(n.) The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.

(n.) The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.

(n.) The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.

(n.) The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

(n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.

(n.) Intent; meaning; moral.

(adv.) In a morbid manner.

(n.) A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.

(adv.) In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.

(adv.) To a great degree; very much.

(adv.) Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.

(n.) Foolish talk; nonsense; folly.

(adv.) In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness.

(adv.) Sourly; with sullen austerity.

(n.) Moroseness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.

(a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.

(n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.

(adv.) In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.

(adv.) In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings.

(adv.) In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous.

(n.) See Workyday.

(n.) Universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 -- 1671), a Moravian educator.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.

(a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

(a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.

(a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.

(a.) A milestone.

(n.) Disposition to threaten.

(a.) Threatening; menacing.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care.

(adv.) In a manner of a mother.

(n.) Capability of motion; contractility.

(adv.) In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.

(n.) The power of moving or producing motion.

(n.) The quality of being influenced by motives.

(adv.) In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy.

(a. & adv.) Like a minion; daintily.

(n.) The act of ministering; ministration; service.

(n.) Agency; instrumentality.

(n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.

(n.) The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.

(n.) Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.

(adv.) In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.

(a. & n.) The state of being a minor, or under age.

(a. & n.) State of being less or small.

(a. & n.) The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes.

(adv.) In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.

(a.) Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.

(adv.) At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly.

(n.) The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

(n.) Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.

(n.) Cross fertilization.

(adv.) In a moving manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being mucous or slimy; mucousness.

(v. t.) To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.

(v. t.) To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully.

(v. i.) To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.

(v. i.) To bring forth young before the proper time.

(n.) Hatre/ of marriage.

(n.) Hatred of women.

(n.) Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment.

(n.) A bellowing.

(n.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.

(n.) A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.

(a.) Alt. of Mulctuary

(adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.

(n.) Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.

(n.) Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

(n.) The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery.

(n.) Multiplicity.

(v. t.) To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

(v. t.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.

(v. t.) To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.

(v. i.) To become greater in number; to become numerous.

(v. i.) To increase in extent and influence; to spread.

(v. i.) To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.

(n.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.

(v. t.) To fill beyond satiety.

(n.) The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.

(adv.) In a plucky manner.

(n.) Servile imitation or repetition.

(n.) The business of a plumber.

(n.) A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.

(adv.) In a plural manner or sense.

(n.) A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.

(n.) See Pneumonia.

(n.) The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.

(a.) Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.

(adv.) Tolerably; moderately.

(n.) A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

(n.) Prelaty; prelacy.

(n.) See Fantasy, and Fancy.

(n.) The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

(n.) A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.

(adv.) In a polary manner; with polarity.

(n.) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.

(n.) A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.

(n.) Self-love; selfishness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.

(adv.) In a manner becoming a knight.

(n.) That branch of physics which treats of the laws of motion, or of moving bodies.

(n.) A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.

(n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

(n.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

(n.) A page; a servant.

(n.) The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."

(n.) Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.

(n.) The quality or state of being piquant.

(adv.) In a pallid manner.

(n.) See Palinode.