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

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

(a.) Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.

(a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

(v. i.) To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

(v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

(n.) One who combats.

(imp. & p. p.) of Combine

(a.) United closely; confederated; chemically united.

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

(a.) Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.

(a.) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.

(n.) Alt. of Choliambic

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.

(n.) A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.

() A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choose

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chop

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

(a.) Stout or plump; large.

(a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

(n.) Act of cutting by strokes.

(n.) An actor or player in comedy.

(n.) A writer of comedy.

(pl. ) of Comedy

(adv.) In a suitable or becoming manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a choragus.

(n.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chord

(n.) Same as Choriambus.

(a.) Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Convey

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.

(v. t.) To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.

(v. t.) To confute; to prove the fallacy of.

(v. t.) To prove guilty; to convict.

(a.) pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.

(imp. & p. p.) of Convoke

(v. t.) To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.

(imp. & p. p.) of Convoy

(v. t.) To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.

(v. t.) To agitate greatly; to shake violently.

(n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

(n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

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

(n.) A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

(n.) A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

(n.) An eating house.

(n.) The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

(n.) Calm impudence; self-possession.

(n.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

(pl. ) of Chorus

(imp. & p. p.) of Chorus

(n.) See Choltry.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chouse

(a.) Relating to the comitia, or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws.

(pl. ) of Comity

(a.) Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.

(v. i.) To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

(v. i.) To begin to be, or to act as.

(v. i.) To take a degree at a university.

(v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

(a.) Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cooper

(v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

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

(n.) A salt of chromic acid.

(a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

(n.) Same as Chromatism.

(n.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

(n.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.

(n.) A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

(imp. & p. p.) of Copper

(n.) Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

(n.) The red, or corn, poppy.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.

(n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

(a.) Joined; associated; coupled.

(a.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

(v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

(n.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court.

(n.) Land held in copyhold.

(n.) One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

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

(n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

(n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.

(a.) Shaped like a crow's beak.

(a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.

(n.) The coracoid bone or process.

(n.) A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.

(a.) Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuck

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuck

(n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chuckle

(adv.) Clownishly; surlily.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chum

(imp. & p. p.) of Church

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

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

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

(n.) One sharing with another in anything.

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

(n.) A prostitute.

(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 twisted cord; a tassel.

(n.) A cordwainer.

(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.

(n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.

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

(a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.

(a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churn

(n.) The act of one who churns.

(n.) The quantity of butter made at one operation.

(n.) Remorse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Commove

(a.) Pertaining to a commune.

(imp. & p. p.) of Commune

(n.) See Corrundum.

(n.) A fish; the goldsinny.

(n.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.

(n.) A crib for storing corn.

(a.) Chylifactive.

(n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

(n.) The act of taking food.

(n.) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.

(n.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

(n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corner

(p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles.

(p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.

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

(n.) One who blows a cornet.

(n.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.

(a.) Having a cornice.

(n.) A little horn.

(a.) Producing horns; forming horn.

(imp. & p. p.) of Commute

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

(n.) The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.

(pl. ) of Cicerone

(n.) One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

(n.) The chick-pea.

(pl. ) of Cicisbeo

(n.) A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

(n.) A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc.

(v. t.) To tame.

(n.) A maker of cider.

(n.) A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.

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

(n.) A cornemuse.

(a.) Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

(a.) Cuckolded.

(n.) A floret in an aggregate flower.

(v. t.) A system or structure of many parts united.

(imp. & p. p.) of Compare

(n.) One who compares.

(a.) Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

(a.) Alt. of Ciliiform

(n.) A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

(n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

(n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

(n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

(n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

(a.) Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

(n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

(n.) The clitellus of earthworms.

(n.) The base of the crown of a tooth.

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

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

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.

(n.) The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cipher

(n.) One who ciphers.

(a.) Circinate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circle

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Perfect; complete.

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

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

(n.) A circlet.

(n.) See Coranach.

(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.) Alt. of Coronated

(a.) Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

(n.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.

(n.) The corporal, or communion cloth.

(pl. ) of Circus

(a.) Same as Cirrose.

(a.) See Cirrose.

(n.) One of the Cirripedia.

(n.) The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.

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

(n.) The manners of a cit or citizen.

(a.) Aping, or having, the manners of a city.

(n.) The principle of civil government.

(v. t.) To compensate.

(v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Compete

(imp. & p. p.) of Compile

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

(v. t.) To compress; to shut up.

(v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

(v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.

(v. t.) To lament; to bewail.

(a.) Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

(a.) Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.

(a.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

(v. t.) To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.

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

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

(n.) An accomplice.

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

(n.) Alt. of Complin

(n.) A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion.

(a.) Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.

(v. i. & t.) To compete with; to rival.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corrode

(imp. & p. p.) of Comply

(imp. & p. p.) of Compose

(a.) Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.

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

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

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

(n.) The thorax of an insect.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corset

(pl. ) of Cortex

(a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

(n.) In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

(v. t.) To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.

(v. t.) To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

(v. t.) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

(v. t.) To compose; to constitute.

(v. t.) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.

(v. i.) To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.

(v. t.) Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.

(n.) That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.

(n.) A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

(n.) The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

(n.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

(n.) A curvet.

(a.) Corymbose.

(n.) A ballet dancer.

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

(v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.

(v. t.) To embrace sexually.

(n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

(n.) One who coshers.

(n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

(n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.

(a.) Alt. of Cosmetical

(n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

(a.) Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

(a.) Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.

(a.) Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.

(a.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.

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

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

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

(v. t.) To comprehend; to include.

(n. & v.) See Control.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Compute

(n.) One who computes.

(n.) A fellow rogue.

(a.) Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.

(a.) Costing nothing.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create

(a.) Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

(n.) A creatress.

(n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

(n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

(n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

(n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

(a.) Frequent; numerous.

(n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.

(n.) That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.

(n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.

(n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.

(v. t.) To give credence to; to believe.

(pl. ) of Credendum

(a.) Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Credit

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

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

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

(n.) Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chap

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

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

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

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

(n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.

(n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

(n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.

(v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

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

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

(n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

(n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.

(n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

(a.) Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.

(n.) An impost.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Char

(v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

(v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charge

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charm

(a.) Abounding with charms.

(a.) Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.

(n.) Alt. of Charnico

(a.) Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.

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

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

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

(v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

(v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coach

(pl. ) of Coachman

(n.) A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

(n.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.

(n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.

(a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

(a.) Acting in concurrence; united in action.

(n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chat

(n.) A little castle.

(v. t.) To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.

(v. t.) To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

(n.) Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.

(n.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

(v. t.) To join together.

(a.) The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.

(n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.

(n.) See Chawdron.

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

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

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

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

(n. pl.) The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.

(n.) Entrails.

(n.) A conservatory.

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To hesitate.

(n.) To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

(n.) To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.

(n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheat

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Check

(n.) A countersign; a watchword.

(n.) One who is orders to keep within certain limits.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coast

(a.) Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.

(n.) A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.

(n.) Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.

(a.) Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Console

(n.) One who gives consolation.

(n.) A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

(n.) The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.

(n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.

(v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cobble

(n.) A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

(v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

(v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.

(v. t.) To plot; to plan; to combine for.

(v. t.) To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheer

(a.) Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

(adv.) In a cheery manner.

(n.) A joint or coadjutant bishop.

(n.) Cobblestone.

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

(pl. ) of Coccyx

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

(n.) See Book scorpion, under Book.

(a.) Wearing a cockade.

(n.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus.

(v. t.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.

(a.) Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.

(n.) A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.

(n.) Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.

(n.) The European starling.

(v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

(v. t. ) To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Cocker

(n.) A young cock.

(n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cockle

(pl. ) of Cockney

(pl. ) of Cherub

(a.) Alt. of Cherubical

(n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.

(a.) Cherubic; angelic.

(n.) A cherub.

(pl. ) of Chessman

(n.) A piece used in the game of chess.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) An old joke or story.

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

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

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

(n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

(n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.

(n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.

(n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

(n.) Peppergrass.

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

(n.) Alt. of Cocobolas

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Consume

(v. i.) Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility.

(a.) Made of cheveril; pliant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coddle

(n.) One who codifies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Codify

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

(n.) An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

(n.) One who uses chicanery.

(n.) See Chicory.

(n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coerce

(n.) The act or process of coercing.

(n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.

(a.) Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.

(n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.

(n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.

(v. t.) To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Coffin

(n.) A tribute by the head; a capitation tax.

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

(pl. ) of Child

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Child

(n.) The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

(v. i.) Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

(a.) Puerile; trifling; weak.

(n.) pl. of Child.

(n.) The millennium.

(n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.

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

(a.) Congenial.

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

(v. i.) To engage in continuous thought; to think.

(v. t.) To think over; to plan.

(n.) A person connected through cognation.

(n.) One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.

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

(n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

(n.) A surname.

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

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

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

(n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.

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

(pl. ) of Content

(n. pl.) See Content, n.

(n.) A joint herald.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohere

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.

(n.) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.

(n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.

(a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

(a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.

(v. t.) To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.

(n.) A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

(n.) To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.

(n.) To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.

(n.) To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.

(n.) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.

(n.) A mean, paltry fellow; a coward.

(n.) The cocoanut.

(n.) Cuckold.

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

(n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.

(n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.

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

(n.) The common rape or cole.

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

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

(n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

(v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.

(v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

(n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.

(n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

(n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chill

(a.) Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.

(n.) A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.

(n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

() A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.

(imp. & p. p.) of Collar

(n. pl.) Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.

(a.) Wearing a collar.

(a.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.

(a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.

(imp. & p. p.) of Collate

(pl. ) of Chimera

(a.) Chimerical.

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

(n.) One who collates to a benefice.

(n.) One who confers any benefit.

(v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

(v. i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.

(v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.

(v. t.) To unite; to connect.

(v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

(v. t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.

(v. t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.

(n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass.

() See Cinchona.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chink

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

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

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

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

(n.) To betroth; to affiance.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chinse

(pl. ) of Chintz

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chip

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

(n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

(n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

(n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.

(n.) Gout in the hand.

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

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

(a.) Agglutinant.

(n.) An agglutinant.

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

(n.) The coal trade.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chirp

(a.) Cheering; enlivening.

(a.) Cheerful; joyous; chatty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chisel

(v. i.) To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.

(a.) Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chivy

(n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

(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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Collude

(n.) One who conspires in a fraud.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colly

(pl. ) of Collyrium

(n.) A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

(n.) See Calumbin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

(n.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.

(n.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).

(n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.

(n.) The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

(n.) Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.

(v. t.) To make sad.

(a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.

(a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

(n.) A contrite person.

(v.) In a contrite manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cabal

(n.) The secret science of the cabalists.

(n.) A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.

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

(n.) One who cabals.

(n.) A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay.

(imp. & p. p) of Cabbage

(n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabin

(a.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.

(n.) The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.

(n.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

(n.) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

(n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Cachexy

(n.) An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.

(n.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

(n.) The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cackle

(n.) The broken noise of a goose or a hen.

(n.) Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.

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

(n.) A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.

(n.) Alt. of Cacoxenite

(pl. ) of Cactus

(n.) Alt. of Cadaster

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

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

(a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.

(n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

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

() Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.

(a.) Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray.

(pl. ) of Caesura

(pl. ) of Caesura

(a.) Of or pertaining to a caesura.

(n.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.

(n.) A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic acid.

(n.) The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cajole

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

(n.) The common gourd (plant or fruit).

(n.) The fruit of the calabash tree.

(n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.

(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.) A fragrant wood; agalloch.

(n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

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

(n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

(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.

(pl. ) of Calcar

(n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

(a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.

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

(n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

(n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

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

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

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

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

(pl. ) of Calico

(n.) Heat.

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

(n.) Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.

(n.) A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

(n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.

(n.) See Calipee.

(n.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.

(n.) The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.

(n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

(n.) The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

(a.) Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.

(a.) Calyculate.

(n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

(n. pl.) Drawers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Camber

(n.) See Caboose.

(n.) See Chaceleon.

(v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

(v. i.) To divide into chambers.

(n.) Alt. of Camisado

(n.) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

(n.) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.

(n.) A short dressing jacket for women.

(n.) A kind of straitjacket.

(a.) Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined.

(n.) Alt. of Chamomile

(n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

(n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.

(n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.

(n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

(v. i.) To serve in a campaign.

(n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

(n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

(n.) An old spelling of Camphor.

(n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

(n.) Shorts or inferior flour.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Cancel

(n.) One skilled in the civil law.

(n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.

(n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.

(n.) A civilian.

(v. t.) To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

(v. t.) To admit as suitable to a civilized state.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clack

(v. t.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.

(v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

(a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

(a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

(a.) Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Claim

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

(adv.) In a candid manner.

(p. pr & vb. n.) of Candy

(n.) Canicula.

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Canker

(a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.

(a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.

(n.) A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.

(n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.

(a.) Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.

(n.) A small can or drinking vessel.

(a.) Furnished with cannon.

(n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canoe

(n.) The act or art of using a canoe.

(n.) A canoeman.

(n.) One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.

(n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.

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

(v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.

(v. t.) To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.

(v. t.) To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.

(pl. ) of Canopy

(a.) Melodious; musical.

(n.) Candlestick.

(n.) The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.

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

(n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.

(a.) A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Caucus

(a.) Having a tail; having a termination like a tail.

(pl. ) of Caudex

(pl. ) of Caudex

(n.) Alt. of Caudicula

(n.) A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.

(a.) Capable of being caused.

(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.) One who causes.

(n.) Having a cause.

(n.) A kind of sofa for two persons. A tete-/-tete.

(n.) Alt. of Causey

(a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.

(n.) Alt. of Cavaliero

(n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.

(n.) One who enters a caveat.

(a.) Containing caverns.

(a.) Living in a cavern.

(n.) Alt. of Cavezon

(a.) Having hollow horns.

() of Cavil

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavil

(n.) One who cavils.

(a.) Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious.

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

(pl. ) of Cavity

(imp. & p. p.) of Cavort

(n.) Same as Coerulignone.

(n.) The act or art of engraving or embossing.

(n.) That which is engraved.

(n.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.

(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.) Celibate state; celibacy.

(n.) One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.

(a.) Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

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

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Cement

(a.) Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.

(n.) A person or thing that cements.

(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.

(n.) Meal-taking; dining or supping.

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

(n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

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

(n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

(imp. & p. p.) of Censure

(n.) One who censures.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Centre

() of Centre

(n.) See centare.

(n.) Sentinel.

(n.) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

(n.) See Centring.

(n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

(n.) The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.

(pl. ) of Centrum

(a.) Hundredfold.

(v. t.) To increase a hundredfold.

(adv.) Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior.

(n.) A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

(n.) The head.

(n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

(n.) Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.

(n.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

(n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

(n.) One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.

(n.) One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain.

(n.) A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

(n.) The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

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

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

(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.

(a.) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

(n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

(a.) Sky-colored; blue; azure.

(n.) Alt. of Cerussite

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.

(pl. ) of Cervix

(pl. ) of Cervix

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

(a.) Giving way; yielding.

(v. t.) An assessment or tax.

(n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.

(n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.

(n.) One of the Cetacea.

(n.) A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

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

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica).

(n.) A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.

(n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

(n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaff

(n.) Traffic; bargaining.

(n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chain

(n.) A small chain.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chair

(pl. ) of Chairman

(n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

(n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.

(pl. ) of Chalaza

(pl. ) of Chalaza

(a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza.

(n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.

(a.) Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chalk

(n.) Same as Gambrel.

(n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Champ

(v. t.) To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chance

(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 fore part of a horse's head.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Change

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chant

(n.) A blockhead; a dolt.

(n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt.

(n.) A large, heavy fist.

(n.) A coarse, brutal fellow.

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

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

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

(n.) The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.

(n.) The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

(n.) The cobia.

(n.) Alt. of Cockcrowing

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

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

(a.) Perfectly safe.

(a.) Quite certain.

(n.) A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.

(n.) Joint estate.

(n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

(v. i.) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.

(n.) A salad made of sliced cabbage.

(n.) A downfall; an humiliation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Commix

(n.) The pineal gland.

(n.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

(a.) Of or pertaining to conation.

(n.) A joint cause.

(imp. & p. p.) of Concave

(a.) Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.

(imp. & p. p.) of Concede

(v. t.) To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

(v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.

(v. t.) To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.

(v. i.) To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.

(v. i.) To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.

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

(n.) Alt. of Cotillion

(n.) A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.

(n.) A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.

(a.) Set or covered with cottages.

(n.) One who lives in a cottage.

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

(a.) Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.

(n.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

(pl. ) of Concetto

(n.) Affected wit; a conceit.

(n.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

(n.) A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.

(n.) The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.

(n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.

(n.) A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.

(v. t.) To shut up; to inclose.

(v. t.) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.

(v. t.) To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause.

(v. t.) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.

(v. t.) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.

(v. t.) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain.

(v. t.) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument.

(v. i.) To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.

(v. i.) To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.

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

(a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

(a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.

(a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.

(n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.

(n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

(n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

(n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

(v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.

(v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

(v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

(a.) Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Couch

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

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

(n.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

(n.) Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.

(v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

(v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.

(v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.

(v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

(v. i.) To undergo polymerization.

(a.) Condensed; compact; dense.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cough

(n.) A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

(n.) One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

(a.) Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana.

(n.) The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.

(v. t.) To unite.

(a.) United closely with another.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Count

(imp. & p. p.) of Condole

(n.) One who condoles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Condone

(imp. & p. p.) of Conduce

(n.) Alt. of Countourhouse

() Same as prefix Counter-.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a condyle.

(n.) Alt. of Conepatl

(n.) The skunk.

(p.a.) Fated or decreed with something else.

(v. i.) To confederate.

(n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

(n.) One upon whom something is conferred.

(imp. & p. p.) of Confide

(n.) One who confides.

(imp. & p. p.) of Confine

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Confix

(v. t.) To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.

(v. t.) To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

(v. t.) To mistake for another; to identify falsely.

(v. t.) To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.

(v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; to waste.

(a.) Broken in pieces; severed.

(n.) Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.

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

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

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

(pl. ) of County

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Couple

(n.) The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

(n.) A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.

(n.) A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Course

(n.) The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court

(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.

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

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

(n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cover

(n.) A small cover; a lid.

(n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.

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

(n.) A coverlet.

(adv.) Secretly; in private; insidiously.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Covet

(imp. & p. p.) of Confuse

(imp. & p. p.) of Confute

(n.) One who confutes or disproves.

(v. t.) Avarice.

(v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.

(v. t.) Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.

(a.) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.

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

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cower

(imp. & p. p.) of Cowhide

(n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

(n.) A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.

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

(n.) Alt. of Coxalgy

(n.) See Cockswain.

(n.) Same as Coistril.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cozen

(n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.

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

(v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

(v. i.) To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.

(n.) The act or art of catching crabs.

(n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.

(n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.

(a.) Somewhat sour or cross.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crack

(v. t.) To salute mutually.

(a.) Same as Conoidal.

(n.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.

(a.) Cone-shaped; conical.

(n.) Same as Olibene.

(a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

(v. t.) A hard brittle cake or biscuit.

(a.) United; connected; associated.

(a.) Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cradle

(n.) The act of using a cradle.

(n.) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.

(n.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.

(adv.) With craft; artfully; cunningly.

(pl. ) of Cragsman

(n.) One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

(a.) United; conjoined; concurrent.

(a.) Same as Conjoined.

(imp. & p. p.) of Conjure

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

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Connive

(n.) One who connives.

(imp. & p. p.) of Connote

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

(a.) Nearly, but not exactly, conical.

(a.) Alt. of Conoidical

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cram

(a.) Crimson.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cramp

(pl. ) of Cranium

(a.) Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall.

(n.) One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake.

(pl. ) of Cranny

(imp. & p. p.) of Cranny

(n.) The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crash

(n.) The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.

(imp. & p. p.) of Craven

(n.) Alt. of Crayfish

(n.) Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crawl

(n.) See Crawfish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crayon

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creak

(n.) A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cream

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crease

(n.) A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.

(imp. & p. p.) of Canter

(n.) A song; esp. a little song or hymn.

(n.) The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.

(n.) A canto or division of a poem

(n.) A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.

(imp. & p. p.) of Canton

(a.) Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.

(a.) Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

(a.) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

(a.) Of or belonging to a cantor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.

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

(v. t.) To quality.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clam

(n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

(adv.) In a clammy manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Clamor

(n.) One who clamors.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamp

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caper

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clang

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clank

(a.) Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.

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

(pl. ) of Clansman

(n.) One belonging to the same clan with another.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clap

(n.) See Capybara.

(n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.

(n.) A contrivance for clapping in theaters.

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

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

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

(a.) Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.

(a.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.

(n. pl.) See Capitulum.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clash

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clasp

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

(v. t.) To castrate, as a fowl.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Class

(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.

(pl. ) of Classman

(n.) A member of a class; a classmate.

(n.) A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.

(v. i.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.

(v. i.) A leap or caper, as in dancing.

(v. i.) To perform a capriole.

(a.) Having feet like those of a goat.

(n.) A salt of caproic acid.

(a.) See under Capric.

(n.) The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

(n.) A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum.

(imp. & p. p.) of Capsize

(a.) Alt. of Capsulary

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

(pl. ) of Claustrum

(n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.

(a.) Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]

(n.) The harpsichord.

(n.) The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.

(a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

(a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.

(imp. & p. p.) of Captive

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

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

(pl. ) of Clavis

(n.) A flatterer or sycophant.

(a.) Flattering; sycophantic.

(v. t.) To flatter.

(a.) Destitute of claws.

(n.) A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

(n.) A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.

(n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clean

(n.) The act of making clean.

(n.) The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Capture

(a.) Cover with, or as with, a hood.

(n.) See Capuchin, 3.

(n.) A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.

(n.) A carbine.

(a.) Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.

(n.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cleanse

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clear

(n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.

(n.) A staircase in a spiral form.

(v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.

(n.) Alt. of Caracora

(n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

(n.) Alt. of Caragheen

(n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

(n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast.

(a.) Pertaining to an acid so called.

(n.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

(n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.

(n.) The act of removing anything; clearance.

(n.) The act or process of making clear.

(n.) A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.

(n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.

(n.) The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.

(n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.

(n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.

(n.) The radical (CO)'', occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.

(n.) The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.

(n.) A carbide. See Carbide

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

(n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave

(n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

(n.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.

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

(a.) Belonging to a prison.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.

(a.) Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.

(n.) The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.

(n.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.

(n.) A case for visiting cards.

(n.) An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.

(n.) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.

(pl. ) of Cardo

(adv.) In a clever manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Click

(a.) Of or pertaining to a client.

(a.) Supplied with clients.

(a.) Climatic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climb

(imp. & p. p.) of Careen

(imp. & p. p.) of Career

(a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.

(a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.

(a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.

(a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.

(imp. & p. p.) of Caress

() p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.

(imp. & p. p.) of Clinch

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

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cling

(v. i.) Alt. of Clinic

(a.) Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

(n.) A cargo.

(n.) A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.

(a.) Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor.

(n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

(n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clink

(a.) See Clinquant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clip

(a.) Alt. of Carinated

(n. pl.) Same as Carl, 3.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.

(n.) The act of embracing.

(n.) The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.

(n.) That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.

(n.) The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.

(n.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloak

(n.) The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.

(n.) The material of which of which cloaks are made.

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

(n.) The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.

(a.) Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy.

(n.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.

(a.) Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clog

(n.) Anything which clogs.

(v. t.) An inclosed place.

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

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

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

(n.) Dead body; carrion.

() of Carol

(n.) A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.

(n.) A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Carouse

(n.) One who carouses; a reveler.

(pl. ) of Carpale

(imp. & p. p.) of Carpet

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

(n.) See Caraway.

(n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.

(n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

(n.) The price or expense of carrying.

(n.) That which carries of conveys,

(n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.

(n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.

(n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.

(n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

(n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

(n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carry

(n.) The act or business of transporting from one place to another.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clot

(n.) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clothe

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

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

(n.) Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.

(n.) The art of process of making cloth.

(n.) A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.

(n.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card.

(n.) Cocklebur.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloud

(n.) Mass of clouds; cloudiness.

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

(n.) A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

(n.) A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.

(n.) A little cloud.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clout

(n.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge

(n.) A cartridge box.

(n.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.

(n.) A gunner's bag for ammunition

(n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.

(n.) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper

(n.) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

(n.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.

(n.) A tax on every plow or plowland.

(n.) The act of plowing.

(n.) A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.

(n.) Alt. of Caruncula

(a.) Alt. of Caryatid

(a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid.

(n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

(n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]

(n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

(n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

(n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.

(n.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

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

(a.) Covered with growing clover.

(n.) Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.

(n.) Clownishness.

(a.) Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.

(a.) That does not cloy.

(n.) Satiety.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Club

(a.) Rude; clownish.

(a.) Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.

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

(n.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.

(v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.

(n.) The apartment in which a club meets.

(p pr. & vb. n.) of Cluck

(n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Clutch

(a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

(a.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.

(a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.

(n.) The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.

(n.) An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.

(n.) See Castanets.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Castle

(n.) The government of a castle.

(n.) That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.

(n.) A compound move of the king and castle. See Castle, v. i.

(n.) A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

(v. t.) To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

(v. t.) To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.

(n.) A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.

(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 cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

(pl. ) of Catalysis

(n.) A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

(n.) A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.

(n.) Spurge.

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

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

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

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

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

(n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catch

(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.

(a.) Infectious; contagious.

(a.) Captivating; alluring.

(n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of.

(n.) One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.

(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.

(v. t.) To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cater

(n.) A woman who caters.

(a.) Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.

(v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

(v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

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

(v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.

(v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Color

(a.) Colored.

(n.) The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.

(n.) Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation.

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

(n.) A vender of paints, etc.

(a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.

(a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.

(n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.

(n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size.

(n.) An operation for opening the colon

(imp. & p. p.) of Contuse

(a.) See Cognizant.

(n.) A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.

(n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin.

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

(a.) Having columns.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.

(a.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chock

(imp. & p. p.) of Convene

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

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

(a.) Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

(a.) Comatose.

(n.) A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

(imp. & p. p.) of Combat

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creep

(a.) Crawling, or moving close to the ground.

(a.) Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

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

(n.) See Crimson.

(a.) Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

(n.) Alt. of Crenel

(a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles.

(n. ) A Creole.

(n.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

(v. t.) To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

(n.) Alt. of Crepane

(n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

(n.) Same as Crepitation, 2.

(a.) Increasing; growing.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crest

(n.) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.

(n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

(n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

(n.) A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.

(n.) See Kreutzer.

(n.) The cavally or jurel.

(n.) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).

(n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

(n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.

(a.) Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crib

(v. t.) A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

(n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

(n.) Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.

(n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.

(n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cribble

(a.) Cribriform.

(a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

(a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.

(a.) Guilty of crime or sin.

(a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.

(a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.

(n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimp

(n.) The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crimple

(a.) Having hair; hairy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cringe

(a.) Same as Crinite, 1.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crinkle

(a.) Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cripple

(a.) Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crisp

(a.) Alt. of Crispated

(a.) Crested.

(pl. ) of Criterion

(n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

(n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.

(n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.

(n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

(n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

(n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.

(n.) The art of criticism.

(n.) A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason."

(n.) A critic; one who criticises.

(v.) To criticise or pass judgment upon.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croak

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.

(n.) A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crock

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

(n.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.

(n.) Alt. of Croisado

(n.) A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

(n.) A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crook

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croon

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crop

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross

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

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

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

(v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.

(v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.

(v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.

(v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads.

(v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

(v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.

(n.) A small cross.

(n.) A crucible.

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

(n.) The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.

(n.) A row that crosses others.

(n.) A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.

(pl. ) of Crotch

(a.) Having a crotch; forked.

(a.) Cross; peevish.

(n.) A forked support; a crotch.

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

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

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

(n.) A bracket. See Bracket.

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

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

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crouch

(a.) Marked with the sign of the cross.

(n.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

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

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

(a.) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crowd

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

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

(n.) A caltrop.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crown

(n.) A coronet.

(a.) Tormented.

(a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.

(v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.

(n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.

(n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

(n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.

(n.) Any plant of the order Cruciferae.

(n.) A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.

(n.) The cross or religion of Christ.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cruise

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crumb

(imp. & p. p.) of Crumble

(n.) A purse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crumple

(imp. & p. p.) of Crunch

(a.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crusade

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crush

(a.) That crushes; overwhelming.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crust

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

(pl. ) of Crutch

(a.) Supported upon crutches.

(a.) Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.

(n.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

(n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.

(n.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

(n.) A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

(a.) Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

(n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

(n.) Alt. of Chaffwax

(pl. ) of Chimney

(n.) The act of lying down; a reclining.

(a.) Lying down; recumbent.

(n.) The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

(a.) Of the form of a cube.

(n.) Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

(a.) Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

(n.) A kind of mixed pickles.

(a.) Cuboid.

(a.) Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae).

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

(n.) Alt. of Cucurbite

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuddle

(imp. & p. p.) of Cudgel

(n.) One who beats with a cudgel.

(n.) See Culrage.

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

(a.) Easily deceived; gullible.

(pl. ) of Cullis

(a.) Pertaining to a culmen.

(a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.

(a.) Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.

(a.) Alt. of Cultrated

(a.) Of or pertaining to culture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Culture

(a.) Under culture; cultivated.

(a.) Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.

(pl. ) of Cultus

(n.) A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cumber

(a.) Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.

(a.) Giving trouble; vexatious.

(n.) A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.

(v. t.) To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

(a.) Full of heaps.

(n. pl.) The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

(n. pl.) The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.

(a.) Wedge-shaped

(a.) wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.

(a.) Cuneiform.

(a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.

(a.) Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them.

(n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.

(n.) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

(n.) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

(n.) A board or shelf for cups and dishes.

(n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.

(v. t.) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cupel

(n.) A passionate desire; love.

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

(n.) A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

(a.) Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

(a.) Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.

(pl. ) of Curacy

(n.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

(v. t.) To poison with curare.

(n.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae.

(n.) Cure; healing.

(v. t.) Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

(n.) A woman who cures.

(n.) A woman who is a guardian or custodian.

(a.) Having no curb or restraint.

(n.) The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence.

(n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.

(n.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.

(v. t.) To choose; to elect; to coopt.

(n.) One who is surety with another.

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

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

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

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

(n.) See Crossroad.

(n.) See Corriestep.

() A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curdle

(a.) Incapable of cure; incurable.

(pl. ) of Curioso

(n.) Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.

(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.

(n.) A small or short course.

(n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curry

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

(n.) A courier or runner.

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

(n.) The quality of bing curt.

(a.) Bent in a regular form; curved.

(imp. & p. p.) of Curvet

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

(a.) Ending in a point.

(a.) Ending in a point.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A lewd woman.

(pl. ) of Custos

(n.) A hindoo hall of justice.

(n.) Acuteness; cunning.

(v. t. & i.) To change into cutin.

(n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket

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

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

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

(n.) A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

(a.) Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.

(n.) A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.

(a.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.

(n.) A cyanide.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

(n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.

(a.) Pertaining to a cyclone.

(n.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

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

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

(n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

(n.) A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.

(n.) A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.

(n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

(n.) The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.

(n.) That which serves to direct.

(n.) Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.

(n.) Inflammation of the bladder.

(n .) Cell production or development; cytogenesis.

(n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.