(interj.) An exclamation expressing delight.

(n.) See Burg.

(n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

(n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

(n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

(n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

(n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

(v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

(v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

(v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

(n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

(n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

(v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

(n.) A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.

(n.) A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.

(v. i.) Alt. of Miche

(imp.) of Draw.

(n.) A contraction of Soph ister.

(n.) A contraction of Sophomore.

(n.) Alt. of Rache

(n.) The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

(n.) Same as Bikh.

(n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.

(n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid.

(n.) The roc.

(n.) A large bird, supposed by some to be the same as the extinct Epiornis of Madagascar.

(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.

(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

(n.) A perfect recitation.

(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

(n.) The act of running with the ball.

(v.) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

(v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.

(n.) A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.

(n.) Figure; outline; show.

(n.) Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.

(n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

(n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

(n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

(a. or pron.) The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

(conj.) As well; not only; equally.

(superl.) Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.

(superl.) Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.

(superl.) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.

(superl.) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.

(superl.) Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.

(superl.) Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.

(superl.) Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.

(superl.) Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.

(superl.) Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.

(v. t.) To enrich.

(v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.

(v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

(superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

(superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

(v. t.) To prepare with haste.

(n.) A hill or mound.

(n.) A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

(a.) Alt. of Rathe

(adv.) Alt. of Rathe

(a.) Such.

(v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

(v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.

(v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.

(v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

(v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

(v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

(v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

(v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

(n.) A pustule; a pimple.

(v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.

(v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

(v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.

(v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.

(v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

(v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

(v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.

(v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.

(n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

(n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.

(n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.

(n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.

(n.) A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

(n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

(n.) A large oceanic fish (Lampris quttatus), inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. It is remarkable for its brilliant colors, which are red, green, and blue, with tints of purple and gold, covered with round silvery spots. Called also king of the herrings.

(v. i.) To ditch.

(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.

(n.) Dung, or droppings of cattle.

(n.) The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.

(v. t.) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

(v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

(v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.

(v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.

(v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.

(n.) See Arrish.

(n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.

(v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf.

(n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

(n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.

(v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.

(n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

(n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

(n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.

(v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

(v. t.) To disband.

(n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.

(v. t.) To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

(v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.

(v. t.) To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.

(v. t.) To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.

(v. t.) To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

(v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

(v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.

(n.) Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.

(n.) A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.

(n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.

(n.) A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.

(n.) Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.

(n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.

(n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.

(n.) The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.

(n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.

(n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

(n.) Any part of a curved line.

(n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

(n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

(n.) Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

(n.) Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.

(v. t.) To cover with an arch or arches.

(v. t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

(v. i.) To form into an arch; to curve.

(a.) Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

(a.) Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.

(n.) A chief.

(n.) A variant of Eddish.

(v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

(v. t.) To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.

(v. t.) To sketch; to delineate.

(v. i.) To practice etching; to make etchings.

(a. / a. pron.) Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.

(a. / a. pron.) Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.

(n.) kind of sandstone.

(a.) Neat; trim.

(v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.

(v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.

(v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

(v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.

(v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

(v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

(v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.

(v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

(v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

(v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.

(n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

(n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.

(n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

(n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

(n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

(n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

(n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.

(n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

(n.) A liquid dentifrice.

(n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

(n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

(n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

(n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

(n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

(n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

(n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

(n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

(a.) Washy; weak.

(a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

(n.) The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

(n.) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.

(n.) A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.

(n.) A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.

(n.) A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

(n.) In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

(v. t.) To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

(v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.

(v. t.) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

(v. t.) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.

(v. i.) To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.

(n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.

(n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used.

(v. t.) To cover or line with laths.

(interj.) An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.

(n.) A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.

(v. i.) To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

(v. i.) To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.

(n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.

(n.) Any itching eruption.

(n.) A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.

(n.) A constant irritating desire.

(v. t.) To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

(n.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

(prep., adv., & conj.) Since; afterwards; seeing that.

(n.) Alt. of Sithe

(3d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.

(n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

(n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."

(n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

(n.) A hollow place, as in a field.

(n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

(n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

(v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.

(v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

(v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

(n.) The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.

(a.) In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near.

(a.) Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead.

(v. t. & i.) To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near.

(prep.) Near to; not remote or distant from.

(v. t.) To vex; to tease; to trouble.

(n.) Vexation; anxiety; care.

(superl.) Not distant or remote in place or time; near.

(superl.) Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.

() the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go.

(a. & adv.) Easy or easily.

(v. t.) To lick.

(n.) The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.

(a.) Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.

(a.) Having the particular quality or character specified.

(a.) The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed.

(a.) Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

(n.) An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.

(n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.

(n.) A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.

(v. t.) To drive by inches, or small degrees.

(v. t.) To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

(v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.

(a.) Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.

(v. i.) To hie.

(superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

(superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection

(superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives.

(superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.

(superl.) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.

(superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions.

(superl.) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble.

(superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.

(superl.) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense.

(superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc.

(superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

(superl.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.

(superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.

(adv.) In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully.

(n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

(n.) People of rank or high station; as, high and low.

(n.) The highest card dealt or drawn.

(v. i.) To rise; as, the sun higheth.

(n.) A counter, used in various games.

(pl. ) of Fish

(n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

(n.) That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

(n.) A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.

(n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

(n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

(n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.

(n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

(n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

(v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

(v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

(v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.

(v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

(v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

(n.) To /hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.

(3d pers. sing. pres.) Has.

(v. t.) To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

(v. t.) To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.

(v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.

(v. t.) To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.

(n.) Desire; eager desire; longing.

(n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.

(n.) A thing desired; an object of desire.

(interj.) Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.

(interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

(n.) One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.

(n.) One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.

(n.) The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

(n.) Water or other liquid for bathing.

(n.) A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

(n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.

(n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

(n.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.

(n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

(n.) A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.

(v. t.) To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

(v. t.) To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.

(v. i.) To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.

(n.) Stillness; silence; quiet.

(a.) Silent; quiet.

(n.) Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.

(v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.

(n.) A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.

(n.) A trodden way; a footway.

(n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.

(v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).

(v. i.) To walk or go.

(n.) The leatherback.

(a.) Full of juice or succulence.

(a.) Alt. of Lothsome

(n.) The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.

(v. t.) To catch in a mesh.

(v. i.) To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.

(n.) The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

(v. i.) To express contempt.

() hath not.

(a.) Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.

(n.) A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.

(n.) A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.

(n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.

(n.) A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing.

(n.) A variant of 1st Wick.

(n.) A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick.

(n.) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.

(a.) Like.

(a.) A dead body; a corpse.

(n.) A cavity in a lode; -- called also vogle.

(n.) A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.

(n.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

(n.) A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.

(n.) Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.

(n.) One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.

(n.) A mote.

(n.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.

(n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.

(n.) Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.

(n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

(Compar. & superl. wa) Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

(Compar. & superl. wa) Many in number.

(Compar. & superl. wa) High in rank or position.

(n.) A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.

(n.) A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.

(a.) To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.

(a.) Soft; tender; delicate.

(v. t.) To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.

(v. t.) The head; the poll.

(v. t.) A crushing blow.

(v. t.) A heavy fall of rain or snow.

(n.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

(n.) The spongy interior substance of a feather.

(n.) The spinal cord; the marrow.

(n.) Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.

(v. t.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

(n.) Acquaintance; kindred.

(n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

(prep.) To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.

(prep.) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.

(prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.

(prep.) To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.

(prep.) To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.

(n.) See Meathe.

(n.) See Withe.

(prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.

(prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.

(prep.) To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.

(interj.) An exclamation of contempt.