(imp. & p. p.) of Age

(a.) Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

(a.) Belonging to old age.

(a.) Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ape

(n.) Alt. of Apodal

(n.) Alt. of Apode

(n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

(n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

(n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.

(n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.

(n.) See Chord.

(v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

(v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

(v. t.) To champ; to bite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Core

(pl. ) of Seed

(n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.

(n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.

(n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.

(n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

(n.) The principle of production.

(n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

(n.) Race; generation; birth.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

(v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

(n.) A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.

(n.) An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.

(n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.

(n.) A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

(interj.) An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

(n.) Age.

(imp. & p. p.) of Eke

(n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.

(v. t.) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

(v. i.) To mind; to consider.

(n.) Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.

(n.) Careful consideration; obedient regard.

(n.) A look or expression of heading.

(p. p. & a.) Dreaded.

() imp. & p. p. of Hold.

(v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

(v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.

(v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.

(v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

(v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.

(v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.

(v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.

(v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.

(n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.

(n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.

(n.) A boundary; a limit.

(v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.

(v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.

() imp. of Find. Found.

(superl.) Foolish; silly; simple; weak.

(superl.) Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.

(superl.) Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.

(superl.) Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).

(superl.) Doted on; regarded with affection.

(superl.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.

(v. t.) To caress; to fondle.

(v. i.) To be fond; to dote.

(n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

(n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

(v. t.) To supply with food.

(imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

(imp., p. p., & a.) Satisfied; contented.

(n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

(n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

(n.) Not pungent or acrid.

(n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

(n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.

(n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

(n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

(n.) Not sensitive; not acute.

(n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

(n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.

(n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.

(n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

(n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

(v. i.) To become cold.

(p. p.) Made.

(v. t.) To lop; to snathe.

(n.) Alt. of Sneed

(n.) A fillet; a headband; a snood.

(a.) Trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure.

() imp. & p. p. of Sell.

(n.) Solary; military pay.

(v. t.) Alt. of Sonde

(n.) See Sward.

(n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

(n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

(n.) Alt. of Barde

(v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

(n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

(n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.

(n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.

(n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden.

(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.

(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.

(a.) Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta.

(a.) Alt. of Quade

(n.) A quadrat.

(n.) A quadrangle; hence, a prison.

(adv.) In bed, or on the bed.

(adv.) To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child).

(a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.

(n.) A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

(v. t.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.

(n.) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison.

(v.) Quoth; said. See Quoth.

() imp. & p. p. of Bleed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bleed

(n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.

(v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.

(n.) A prayer.

(n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

(n.) Any small globular body

(n.) A bubble in spirits.

(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.

(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

(n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.

(n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.

(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

(a.) Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Awe

(n.) Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

(n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.

(n.) In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.

(n.) Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.

(n.) Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.

(n.) Steep; abrupt; prominent.

(v. t.) To make bold or daring.

(v. i.) To be or become bold.

(v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

(v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.

(v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

(v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.

(v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

(v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

(v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.

(v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.

(v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

(n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.

(n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

(n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.

(n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

(n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.

(n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

(n.) A band.

(n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.

(a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

(a.) Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.

(a.) Undisguised.

(a.) Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.

(a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

(a.) Destitute of the natural covering.

(a.) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.

(n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.

(n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.

(n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.

(n.) Moral or political duty or obligation.

(n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.

(n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

(n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

(n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

(a.) Red.

(v. & n.) Same as Rede.

(n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

(n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).

(n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.

(n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.

(n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

(n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.

(n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.

(n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.

(n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

(n.) Same as Reeding.

(n.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rue

(n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

(n.) Fluor spar. See Kand.

(v.t) To clothe.

() imp. & p. p. of Clothe.

(n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.

(v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.

(v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

(n.) A vassal or serf; a slave.

(a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

(v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.

(v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

(v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

(v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

(v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

(v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.

(v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.

(v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

(v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.

(v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

(v. t.) A belt or strap.

(v. t.) A bond

(v. t.) Pledge; security.

(v. t.) To bind or tie with a band.

(v. t.) To mark with a band.

(v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.

(v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.

(v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.

() imp. of Bind.

(n.) A board; a table.

(n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

(n.) See Bourd.

(n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

(n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

(n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.

(imp. & p. p.) f Shoe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shoe

(imp. & p. p.) of Say

(imp. & p. p.) of Owe

(n.) See Shad.

(n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.

(n.) An embankment against inundation.

(n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hold

(v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain.

(v. t.) To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend.

(v. t.) To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office.

(v. t.) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.

(v. t.) To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.

(v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service.

(v. t.) To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for.

(v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.

(v. t.) To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge.

(v. t.) To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high.

(n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence:

(n. i.) Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.

(n. i.) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.

(n. i.) Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.

(n. i.) Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.

(n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain.

(n. i.) To derive right or title; -- generally with of.

(n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.

(n.) The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.

(n.) Binding power and influence.

(n.) Something that may be grasped; means of support.

(n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

(n.) A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.

(n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.

(imp. & p. p.) of Toe

(a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.

(a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.

() imp. & p. p. of Tell.

(n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

(n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.

(n.) A clown; a country bumpkin.

(n.) A lump of mass; also, a crowd.

(n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.

(n.) A flower. See Gold.

(n.) A union of two; duality.

(a.) Rare; uncommon; unusual.

(adv.) Rarely; seldom.

(v. t.) To con, as a ship.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sell

(v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

(v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

(v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

(v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

(v. i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

(v. i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

(n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

(v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark.

(n.) A journey, or stage of a journey.

(n.) An inroad; an invasion; a raid.

(n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.

(n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.

(n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Read

(v. t.) To advise; to counsel.

(v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

(v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite.

(v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.

(v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

(v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.

(v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

(v. i.) To give advice or counsel.

(v. i.) To tell; to declare.

(v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.

(v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

(v. i.) To learn by reading.

(v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

(v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.

(v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.

(v.) Reading.

() imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

(a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

(a.) Filled with roe.

(v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.

(v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

(v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

(n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

(n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.

(n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.

() imp. & p. p. of Say.

(a.) Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid; -- used chiefly in legal style.

(n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.

(n.) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

(n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

(n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.

(n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator.

(v. i.) To play at cards; to game.

(n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

(n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

(v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

(v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

(v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

(n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.

(n.) A single particle of such stone.

(n.) The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.

(n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.

(n.) Courage; pluck; grit.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with sand.

(v. t.) To drive upon the sand.

(v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

(v. t.) To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.

(n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.

(n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

(n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.

(n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt

(n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

(v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.

(v. t.) To pelt with clods.

(v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.

() of Clothe

(n.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.

() imp. & p. p. of Breed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Breed

(n.) A bird.

(a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.

(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.

(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.

(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.

(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.

(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.

(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.

(a.) Bringing death; deadly.

(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.

(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.

(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.

(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.

(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.

(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.

(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.

(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.

(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.

(n.) See Curd.

(a.) Dead.

(v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.

(v. t.) Illustrious act; achievement; exploit.

(v. t.) Power of action; agency; efficiency.

(v. t.) Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.

(v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.

(v. t.) Performance; -- followed by of.

(v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.

(v. t.) To con (a ship).

(n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.

(n.) The coagulated part of any liquid.

(n.) The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.

(v. t.) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

(a.) Alt. of Olidous

(n.) Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.

(n.) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

(a.) Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dye

(imp. & p. p.) of Fee

(v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.

(v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.

(v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.

(v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.

(v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

(v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.

(v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.

(v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).

(v. i.) To take food; to eat.

(v. i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.

(v. i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.

(n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.

(n.) A grazing or pasture ground.

(n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.

(n.) A meal, or the act of eating.

(n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.

(n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.

(n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.

(n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.

(n.) Alt. of Teade

(n.) A fiend.

(v. t.) To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.

(v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.

(n.) A feud. See 2d Feud.

(n.) Hand.

(n.) State; condition.

(n.) A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment

(n.) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.

(n.) A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.

(n.) A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.

(n.) An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.

(n.) A covering for a horse's head.

(n.) A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.

(n.) Anything resembling a hood in form or use

(n.) The top or head of a carriage.

(n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.

(n.) A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.

(n.) The top of a pump.

(n.) A covering for a mortar.

(n.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.

(n.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.

(n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.

(v. t.) To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.

(v. t.) To cover; to hide; to blind.

() imp. of Tread.

(n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

(n.) A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.

(n.) A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.

(n.) A meadow.

(superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.

(superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.

(n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.

(adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.

(a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.

(n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.

(n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.

(n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.

(n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.

(n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.

(n.) A division of a county.

(n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.

(n.) A division of a forest.

(n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

(n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.

(n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.

(n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.

(n.) To defend; to protect.

(n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.

(n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.

(v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.

(v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

(n.) Bacon; the flesh of swine.

(n.) The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.

(n.) To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.

(n.) To fatten; to enrich.

(n.) To smear with lard or fat.

(n.) To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

(v. i.) To grow fat.

(v. t.) To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.

(n.) The act of vending or selling; a sale.

(n.) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

(v. i.) High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory.

(v. i.) A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; -- usually in the pl.

(v. i.) Music or singing in honor of any one.

(v. i.) To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol.

(n.) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

(n.) The right of pasturing animals in a forest.

(n.) Greenness; freshness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Use

(n.) Garden.

(v. & n.) See Guard.

(n.) A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.

(n.) A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.

(n.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.

(n.) One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.

(n.) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.

(v. t.) To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.

(v. t.) To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.

(v. t.) Alt. of Dod

() imp. & p. p. of Slide.

(imp.) of Slide

() of Slide

(imp. & p. p.) of Die

() imp. of Find.

(n.) Trick; jest; sport.

(n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.

(n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.

(n.) To sport or keep festival.

(v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.

() imp. & p. p. of Speed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Speed

(v. i.) To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey

(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.

(n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shed

(v. t.) To separate; to divide.

(v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.

(v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.

(v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.

(v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

(v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

(v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.

(v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.

(n.) A parting; a separation; a division.

(n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.

(n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.

(n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.

(n.) Paint used on the face.

(v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

(n.) The European pike.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gee

(n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

(v. t.) To castrate; to emasculate.

(v. t.) To deprive of anything essential.

(v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.

(imp.) of Tread

() of Tread

(n.) An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

(n.) A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

(n.) The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.

(n.) An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

(n.) A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.

(v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.

(v. t.) To place in a fund, as money.

(v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

(a.) Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction.

(n.) A sour substance.

(n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.

(v. i.) Alt. of Fyrdung

(imp. & p. p.) of Eye

(a.) Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition; as sharp-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed.

(n.) A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae.

(v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

(v. t.) To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.

(v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.

(v. t.) To make red with drinking.

(n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

(n.) A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.

(v.) To strike; to smite.

(v.) To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.

(v. i.) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.

(v. t.) To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

(v. t.) To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

(v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass.

(v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest.

(v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.

(superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.

(superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.

(superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.

(superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.

(superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.

(superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.

(n.) Urine. See Lant.

(n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

(n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

(n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

(n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people.

(n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands.

(n.) The ground or floor.

(n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

(n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

(n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

(n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

(v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

(v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

(v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

(n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.

(v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.

(n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.

(n.) A staff of authority.

(n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.

(n.) A spot; a blemish; a mole.

(v.) Alt. of Mould

(v. t.) Alt. of Mould

(n.) Alt. of Mould

(v. t.) Alt. of Mould

(v. i.) Alt. of Mould

(n.) Alt. of Mould

(v. t.) Alt. of Mould

(imp. & p. p.) of Lay

(n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.

(n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead

(n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.

(n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.

(n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.

(n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.

(v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.

(v. t.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.

(v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.

(v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.

(v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.

(v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.

(v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.

(v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).

(v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.

(v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.

(v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.

(n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.

(n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.

(n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.

(n.) An open way in an ice field.

(n.) A lode.

(n.) The course of a rope from end to end.

(n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.

(n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.

(n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.

(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

(n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.

(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.

(n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.

(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.

(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.

(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

(v. t.) To wield.

(n.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.

(n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

(v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.

(v. t.) Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.

(n.) The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.

(n.) Alt. of Leede

() p. p. of Wene.

(v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.

(imp. & p. p.) of Vie

(v. i.) To turn round.

(v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.

(n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

(n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.

(n.) A stem; a trunk.

(n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

(n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.

(n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.

(n.) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.

(n.) A stud bolt.

(n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

(v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.

(v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.

(superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.

(superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.

(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.

(v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.

() imp. & p. p. of Tread.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sue

(v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.

(v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.

(n.) Alt. of Goolde

(v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.

(v. t.) Money; riches; wealth.

(v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

(v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ice

(a.) Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water.

(a.) Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake.

(v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.

(v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.

(v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.

(v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

(v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.

(v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.

(n.) That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.

(n.) Merit or desert; worth.

(n.) A gift; also, a bride.

(v. t.) To reward; to repay.

(v. t.) To deserve; to merit.

(n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

(n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.

(n.) A female servant.

(n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).

(n.) See 1st & 2d Yard.

(a.) Furious; mad; angry; fierce.

(a.) Yonder.

(v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.

(v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.

(n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.

(n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.

(n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.

(n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

(n.) Power of respiration; breath.

(n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.

(n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.

(n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.

(n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

(n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.

(n.) The dotterel.

(v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.

(v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.

(v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.

(v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.

(v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

(a.) Haired.

(n.) A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.

(n.) A crowd of low people; a rabble.

(n.) One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.

(v. i.) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

(v. i.) To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.

(v. i.) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

(v. t.) To form or put into a herd.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hie

(imp. & p. p.) of Tie

(imp. & p. p.) of Tell

(v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.

(v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.

(v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.

(v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.

(v. i.) To await; to expect.

(a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.

(a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.

(n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

(n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand

(n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

(n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

(n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.

(n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

(n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.

(n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

(n.) Side; part; direction, either right or left.

(n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.

(n.) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.

(n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.

(n.) Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature.

(n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.

(n.) Rate; price.

(n.) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once

(n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer.

(n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.

(n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.

(v. t.) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.

(v. t.) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.

(v. t.) To manage; as, I hand my oar.

(v. t.) To seize; to lay hands on.

(v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.

(v. t.) To furl; -- said of a sail.

(v. i.) To cooperate.

(v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.

(v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.

(v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.

(v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.

(v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.

(v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.

(v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

(v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.

(v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.

(v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.

(n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

(superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

(superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

(superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

(superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

(superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

(superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

(superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

(superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

(superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

(superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

(superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

(superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

(adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

(adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

(adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

(adv.) So as to raise difficulties.

(adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

(adv.) Close or near.

(v. t.) To harden; to make hard.

(n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

(n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.

(n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.

(n.) The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.

(n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.

(n.) The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.

(n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.

(n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.

(n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.

(n.) A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.

(n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.

(n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.

(n.) Power; armed force.

(n.) A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.

(n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.

(n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.

(n.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.

(n.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.

(n.) A domestic; a servant.

(n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.

(a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

(v. t.) To kindle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hoe

(v. t.) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

(v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.

(v. t.) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.

(v. i.) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

(n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.

(n.) Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

(n.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

(n.) Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

(n.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.

(n.) A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

(n.) A wood; a forest.

(n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.

(n.) See Weld.

(n.) A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.

(v. t.) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

(v. t.) To ponder.

(n.) A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.

(a.) Having a kell or covering; webbed.

(n.) A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

(n.) A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.

(n.) A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.

(v. t.) To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.

(a.) Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many-hued.

(superl.) Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.

(superl.) Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions.

(superl.) Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto.

(superl.) Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for.

(superl.) Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed especially by at.

(superl.) Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit.

(superl.) Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.

(superl.) Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.

(superl.) Not lacking or deficient; full; complete.

(superl.) Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc.

(n.) That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.

(n.) Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc.

(n.) Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property.

(adv.) Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible.

(v. t.) To make good; to turn to good.

(v. t.) To manure; to improve.

(n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

(n.) Gold; wealth.

(a.) Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.

(a.) Unheard.

(a.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.

(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.

(n.) A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.

(n.) A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.

(prep.) See Amidst.

(prep.) In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.

(n.) A horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pi

(superl.) Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.

(superl.) Clamorous; boisterous.

(superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.

(superl.) Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.

(adv.) With loudness; loudly.

(n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.

(n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.

(n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.

(v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

(v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.

(v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

(n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.

(n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.

(n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.

(n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.

(n.) A husband.

(n.) Ordure; dung.

(n.) A demand.

(n.) The linden. See Linden.

(n.) Land.

(n.) Oil cake; penock.

(v. i.) To hang; to depend.

(v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.

(v. t.) To pen; to confine.

() imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

(a.) Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.

(n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.

(n.) The antlers of a deer.

(n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.

(n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

(a.) Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.

(v. t.) To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.

(v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.

(v. t.) To behead; to decapitate.

(v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.

(v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.

(v. t.) To set on the head; as, to head a cask.

(v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

(v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?

(v. i.) To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.

() imp. & p. p. of Flee.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flee

(n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

(n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

(n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.

(n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.

(n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

(v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.

(adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.

(a.) Vile.

(v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

(v. t.) To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food.

(v. t.) To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence.

(v. t.) To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig.

(n.) People; a nation; a man.

(superl.) Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.

(superl.) Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.

(superl.) Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.

(superl.) Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.

(a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

(a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.

(a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.

(a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

(a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

(a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.

(n.) An empty space; a vacuum.

(a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.

(a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.

(a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.

(v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lie

(n.) A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national.

(v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

(v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.

(v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.

(v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.

(v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.

(v.) Weight or violence of blows.

(v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.

(v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.

(v. t.) To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.

(v. t.) To magnetize.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pay

(v. t.) To shut; to close.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lay.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies.

(n.) A leopard; a panther.

() of Plead

() imp. & p. p. of Plead

(v. i.) To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.

(v. i.) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

(v. t.) To walk on slowly or heavily.

(a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

(v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

(n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.

(n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.

(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.

(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.

(superl.) Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

(n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.

(n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.

(n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.

(n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.

(n.) Signal; order; command; direction.

(n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.

(n.) Verbal contention; dispute.

(n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.

(v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.

(v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.

(v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.

(v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.

(v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.

(v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.

(v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.

(v.) Courage; spirit.

(v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.

(n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.

(n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.

(n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.

(n.) To have in mind; to purpose.

(n.) To put in mind; to remind.

(v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.

(n.) A narrow lane or alley.

(v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.

(v. i.) A branch; a twig.

(v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.

(v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.

(v. i.) The penis.

(v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.

(n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.

(n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

(v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.

(n.) See Yawd.

(n.) See Mun.

(n.) See Oxide.

(n.) Fluor spar; -- so called by Cornish miners.

(superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

(superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.

(superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.

(superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.

(superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.

(a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition.

(a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.

(a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.

(v. t.) To beget.