(n.) A basket.

(n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.

(n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

(n.) A chief of head person.

(n.) The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

(n.) Same as Chief.

(n.) A cap.

(n.) A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape.

(n.) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.

(v. t.) To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.

(v. t.) To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.

(n.) A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.

(n.) The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.

(n.) A low fellow; a churl.

(a.) Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.

(a.) Naive; as, a naif remark.

(n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

(n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.

(n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.

(n.) A blow; a stroke.

(n.) A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.

(n.) A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.

(v. t.) That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.

(v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

(n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.

(n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.

(v. i. & t.) To trump.

(n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.

(n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.

(n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.

(n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.

(n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.

(n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.

(n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.

(n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.

(v. t.) To ruffle; to disorder.

(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

(v. t.) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.

(n.) Alt. of Ruffe

(n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

(n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

(n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

(n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.

(n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.

(n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.

(n.) Robbery; spoil.

(a.) Strong; powerful; fierce.

(n.) A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

(n.) A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.

(n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.

(n.) A military coat, made of buff leather.

(n.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.

(a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.

(a.) The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.

(a.) Made of buff leather.

(a.) Of the color of buff.

(v. t.) To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.

(v. t.) To strike.

(n.) A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."

(a.) Firm; sturdy.

(adv.) Forwards; with one's face to the ground.

(n.) A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

(n.) That which swallows; the gullet.

(n.) That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

(n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.

(n.) A large deposit of ore in a lode.

(n.) Dough or paste.

(n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

(a.) Same; particular; very; identical.

(n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.

(n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

(n.) Personification; embodiment.

(n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.

(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

(v. t.) To cover with a roof.

(v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.

() pret. of Carve.

(a.) Safe.

(conj. & prep.) Save; except.

(v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.

(a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.

(a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.

(a.) Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.

(a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

(a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.

(v. t.) To deafen.

(v. t.) To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.

(v. t.) To buffet.

(v. i.) To fight; to scuffle; to box.

(n.) A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.

(n.) The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.

(n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.

(n.) The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.

(n.) The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.

(n.) A hoofed animal; a beast.

(n.) See Ungula.

(v. i.) To walk as cattle.

(v. i.) To be on a tramp; to foot.

(v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.

(v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.

(v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.

(imp.) of Delve.

(n.) A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.

(n.) Same as Delftware.

(v. t.) To cast aside; to put off; to doff.

(n.) A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull.

(v. i.) To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.

(v. t.) To daunt.

() imp. of Delve.

(v. t. & i.) To puff.

(n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

(n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

(n.) Same as Gaffle, 1.

(v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

(n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.

(n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.

(n.) A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

(n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.

(n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.

(n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

(v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.

(a. & adv.) See Lief.

(n.) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .

(n.) A silly clown.

(n.) A game. See Golf.

(n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

(n.) A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia.

(n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.

(a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

(a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

(a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

(a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

(a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

(a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

(a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.

(a.) A willying machine.

(v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.

(v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.

(v. t.) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.

(v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.

(v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.

(v. i.) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.

(n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.

(n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.

(n.) Same as Tufa.

(n.) That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.

(n.) Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See Peat.

(n.) Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the.

(v. t.) To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace.

(n.) A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.

(n.) A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.

(n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.

(n.) Anything light and filled with air.

(n.) A puffball.

(n.) a kind of light pastry.

(n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.

(n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.

(n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.

(n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.

(n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.

(n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.

(n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.

(v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.

(v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.

(v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.

(v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

(a.) Puffed up; vain.

(n.) The side of a ship toward the wind.

(n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.

(n.) The roundest part of a ship's bow.

(n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.

(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

(n.) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.

(n.) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.

(v. i.) See Luff.

(n.) The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa Aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.

(n.) Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

(a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.

(a.) Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.

(adv.) In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious.

(a.) Part; side; behalf.

(a.) One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.

(v. t.) To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.

(n.) See 2d Neif.

(n.) Same as Lif.

(n.) Dear; beloved.

(n.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable.

(adv.) Willing; disposed.

(n.) A dear one; a sweetheart.

(adv.) Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.

(n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.

(v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.

(v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

(n.) A two-masted Dutch vessel.

(n.) A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.

(v. t.) To offend slightly.

(n.) The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

(n.) Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.

(n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

(n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.

(n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.

(n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.

(n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.

(n.) The whitethroat.

(v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

(n.) Alt. of Neife

(n.) Alt. of Neaf

(n.) The fist.