(v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.

(v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.

(v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

(v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

(v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.

(v. i.) To barter or truck.

(v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.

(v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.

(v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.

(v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

(n.) A change; a vicissitude.

(v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.

(n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.

(n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

(n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.

(n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.

(n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

(n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

(n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

(n.) A permit or clearance.

(n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.

(n.) An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

(n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

(v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

(v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

(v. i.) Alt. of Sipe

(n.) The hip of the dog-rose.

(imp.) of Help

(v. t.) To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."

(v. t.) To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.

(v. t.) To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.

(v. t.) To change for the better; to remedy.

(v. t.) To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?

(v. t.) To forbear; to avoid.

(v. t.) To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.

(v. i.) To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.

(v. t.) Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.

(v. t.) Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

(v. t.) A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

(v. t.) Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.

(n.) A swing.

(n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.

(v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

(v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

(v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.

(v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.

(n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

(n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

(n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

(n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

(n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.

(n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

(v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.

(v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

(v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.

(n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

(n.) First outlook or appearance.

(n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.

(n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).

(n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

(v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

(n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.

(n.) A small shred; a bit cut off.

(n.) A share; a snack.

(n.) A tailor.

(n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

(v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

(v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.

(v. t.) To let fall in drops.

(n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.

(n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.

(adv.) On or at the top.

(n.) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.

(v. t.) To taunt; to treat with quips.

(v. i.) To scoff; to use taunts.

(v. i.) See Quob.

(n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

(n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.

(n.) The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.

(v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.

(v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.

(v.) The raspberry.

() imp. of Shape. Shaped.

(n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

(n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.

(v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

(v. t.) To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

(v. i.) To come in violent contact with something; to thump.

(n.) A thump; a heavy blow.

(n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.

(n.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."

(n.) The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

(v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.

(n.) The noise made by the bittern.

() Alt. of Holpen

(n.) The griffin.

(n.) A small ditch or furrow.

(v. t.) To trench; to drain.

(v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

(v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

(v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

(v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

(v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

(v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

(v. t.) To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.

(v. i.) To strike; -- with off.

(v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.

(v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.

(v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

(n.) A blow; a stroke.

(n.) An exchange; a barter.

(n.) Hastily.

(v. t.) To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.

(n.) The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.

(n.) A disgorging.

(n.) A dolt; a dunce.

(n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.

(v. t.) To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

(v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.

(v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.

(v. t.) To express contempt or derision.

(v. i.) To knock, as at a door.

(v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.

(v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.

(v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

(v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.

(v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

(v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

(v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

(v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

(v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

(n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

(n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

(n.) See Roup.

(v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.

(n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.

(n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.

(v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.

(v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.

(n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.

(n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.

(n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.

(n.) A striking of hands to express approbation.

(n.) Noisy talk; chatter.

(n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.

(n.) Gonorrhea.

(n.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.

(n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.

(v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.

(v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

(v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.

(v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.

(n.) An embrace.

(n.) A cutting; a shearing.

(n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

(n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

(n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.

(n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.

(n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

(v. i.) To talk; to speak; to prattle.

(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at.

(v. t.) To say; to tell.

(v. t.) To find fault with; to censure.

(pl. ) of Carp

(n.) A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See Cruclan carp.

(n.) See Collop.

(n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

(v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

(v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.

(v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

(v. t.) An old kind of dance.

(v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.

(v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.

(n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

(n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

(n.) That which is dumped.

(n.) A pile of ore or rock.

(n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

(n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.

(n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

(n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.

(n.) Anything cut off or gathered.

(n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

(n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.

(n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

(n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

(n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

(v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

(v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

(v. i.) To yield harvest.

(a.) Short; brittle; as, crup cake.

(n.) See Croup, the rump of a horse.

(superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.

(superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.

(superl.) Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.

(superl.) Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.

(superl.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.

(superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.

(superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.

(superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.

(superl.) Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.

(adv.) To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.

(n.) That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.

(n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.

(n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

(n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.

(n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.

(n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.

(v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

(v. t.) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

(v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.

(v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.

(v. t.) To drive or follow with a shout.

(v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

(n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

(n.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

(a.) Neat; handsome; elegant. See Gimp.

(n.) A fair-leader.

(n.) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.

(n.) Same as Laplander. Cf. Lapps.

(v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.

(v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.

(v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.

(v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.

(v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.

(v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.

(v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.

(v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.

(v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

(v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.

(v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.

(v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.

(v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.

(v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

(v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.

(v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.

(v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.

(v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.

(v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.

(v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.

(n.) Jasper.

(v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

(v. i.) To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

(v. t.) To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.

(n.) The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

(n.) A coarse round farm basket.

(n.) A beehive.

(n.) A basket. See Skep.

(n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

(n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

(n.) A charge of sirup in the pans.

(n.) A beehive; a skep.

(v. i.) To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.

(v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.

(v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.

(v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.

(v. t.) To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.

(n.) A light leap or bound.

(n.) The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(n.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

(n.) A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.

(v. t.) To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.

(n.) With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.

(n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

(n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.

(v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.

(v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.

(v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.

(n.) A hamlet.

(v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.

(v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.

(v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.

(n.) A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.

(v. t.) To sup or swallow.

(v. t.) To breathe out.

(v. t.) To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.

(v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

(v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.

(v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.

(v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.

(v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.

(v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.

(v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.

(v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.

(v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.

(v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.

(n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

(n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.

(n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

(n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.

(n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.

(n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.

(n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.

(n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

(n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.

(n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.

(n.) A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

(n.) The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.

(n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

(n.) A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.

(n.) A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.

(n.) A sharp and rigid point.

(v. t.) To furnish with a cusp or cusps.

(n.) Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

(n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.

(n.) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.

(superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.

(superl.) Dejected; depressed; sunk.

(n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.

(n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.

(n.) Pay; reward.

(n.) Any large seagoing vessel.

(n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.

(n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

(v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.

(v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.

(v. t.) Hence, to send away; to get rid of.

(v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

(v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.

(v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

(v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.

(v. i.) To embark on a ship.

(v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

(n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.

(a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

(n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.

(n.) Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.

(n.) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

(n.) The game of trapball.

(n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

(n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.

(n.) A wagon, or other vehicle.

(n.) A kind of movable stepladder.

(v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.

(v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

(v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.

(v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

(a.) Smart; spruce; trim; nice.

(n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.

(v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.

(v. i.) To advance; to travel.

(n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.

(n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.

(v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.

(n.) The common American eider.

(n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

() imp. of Weep, for wept.

(v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.

(v. i.) To lament; to complain.

(v. t.) To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.

(v. t.) To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.

(v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.

(v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

(v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.

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

(v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

(strong imp.) Leaped.

(v. i.) Alt. of Whop

(v. i.) To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over.

(n. i.) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.

(n. i.) To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.

(n. i.) To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.

(n. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.

(v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling.

(v. t.) Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.

(v. t.) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.

(v. t.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.

(v. t.) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

(v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.

(n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.

(n.) A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.

(n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.

(n.) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.

(n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.

(n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

(n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.

(n.) A troop of men; a host.

(n.) A flock of widgeons.

(n.) A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.

(n.) The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.

(n.) A pond of water for salt works.

(n.) A puddle or dirty pool.

(v. & n.) See Yaup.

(v. i.) To boast.

(v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.

(n.) A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

(n.) The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.

(n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

(n.) Same as Gutta.

(n.) Any small pendent ornament.

(n.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something

(n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.

(n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.

(n.) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.

(n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.

(n.) A drop press or drop hammer.

(n.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.

(n.) Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.

(n.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.

(n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

(n.) To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.

(n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.

(n.) To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.

(imp.) Helped.

(n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

(n.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

(n.) A grain sieve.

(n.) To play on the harp.

(n.) To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.

(v. t.) To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

(n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

(n.) A whisk, or small broom.

(n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.

(v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.

(v. t.) To rumple.

(n.) A low shoe with a thin sole.

(n.) An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.

(v. t.) To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.

(v. t.) To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.

(v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.

(v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump.

(n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.

(n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.

(v. i.) To make a pompons display; to conduct.

(v. t.) To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.

(v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders.

(v. t.) To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.

(v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.

(v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.

(v. t.) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to.

(v. t.) To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent.

(v. t.) To observe duty, as a festival, etc. ; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast.

(v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach.

(v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.

(v. i.) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.

(v. i.) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.

(v. i.) To be in session; as, school keeps to-day.

(n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.

(n.) The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep.

(n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse.

(n.) That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle.

(n.) That which is kept in charge; a charge.

(n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place.

(n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.

(n.) Any large blackish seaweed.

(n.) Alt. of Kempty

(n.) See 2d Poppy.

(v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.

(n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.

(v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.

(v. t.) To strike in the stern, as by collision.

(n.) One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.

(v. i.) To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.

(n.) A little hillock; a knoll.

(v. t.) To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.

(v. t.) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.

(v. & n.) Same as Swap.

(n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

(n.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.

(n.) A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.

(n.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.

(n.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape.

(n.) The exterior part of a coffee berry.

(n.) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.

(v. t.) To reduce to pulp.

(v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument.

(v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

(v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.

(v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.

(v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.

(v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.

(v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.

(v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.

(v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.

(v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.

(v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.

(v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

(v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.

(v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.

(v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.

(v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.

(v. t.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.

(v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.

(v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.

(v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.

(v. t.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)

(v. t.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.

(v. t.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.

(v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.

(n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.

(n.) A mass or aggregation of things.

(n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

(v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

(v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

(v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.

(n.) See 1st Loop.

(n.) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

(n.) A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.

(n.) A small, narrow opening; a loophole.

(n.) A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.

(n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.

(n.) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.

(v. t.) To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.

(n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

(a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.

(a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.

(v. i.) To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.

(n.) A halt; the act of limping.

(n.) Same as Palpus.

(v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.

(v.) Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.

(v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.

(v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

(v.) A disease in the lips of horses.

(n.) To beat with a flap; to strike.

(n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

(v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

(v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

(a.) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.

(a.) To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.

(a.) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

(a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.

(v. t.) To set, as the foot.

(v. t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

(v. i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.

(v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.

(v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.

(v. i.) A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.

(v. i.) A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

(v. i.) Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.

(v. i.) Proceeding; measure; action; an act.

(v. i.) Walk; passage.

(v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.

(v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.

(v. i.) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.

(v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

(v. i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.

(v. i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

(n.) To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.

(n.) To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.

(n.) To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.

(n.) To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.

(n.) To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

(v. i.) To fall in drops.

(v. i.) To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.

(v. i.) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

(v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.

(v. i.) To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.

(v. i.) To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.

(v. i.) To fall short of a mark.

(v. i.) To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.

(n.) A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

(v. t.) To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.

(n.) The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

(a.) Low.

(n.) A neap tide.

(v. t.) Alt. of Whop

(v. t.) To beat or strike.

(n.) Alt. of Whop

(n.) A blow, or quick, smart stroke.

(v. t.) Same as Whap.

(n.) Same as Whap.

(n.) A kind of loose jacket for men.

(n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.

(v. i.) To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.

(v. i.) To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.

(v. i.) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.

(v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.

(v. t.) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

(v. t.) To join by a butt weld.

(v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

(v. t.) To bore with a jumper.

(n.) The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.

(n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture.

(n.) The space traversed by a leap.

(n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

(n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

(a.) Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.

(adv.) Exactly; pat.

(n.) A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.

(n.) A thin plate or lamina.

(n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.

(n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.

(n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.

(n.) A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.

(n.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California.

(v. i.) To cry out like a child; to yelp.

(n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(v. i.) To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.

(v. i.) To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.

(v. i.) To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.

(v. i.) To be sullen or sulky.

(v. t.) To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.

(v. t.) To work over with the mouth; to mumble; as, to mump food.

(v. t.) To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.

(v. t.) To care; to desire.

(v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.

(v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor.

(v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.

(v. t.) To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.

(v. t.) To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.

(v. t.) To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.

(v. t.) To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book.

(n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.

(v. t.) To bite; to bite off; to break short.

(v. t.) To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.

(v. i.) To make a sound of snapping.

(n.) A sharp blow or slap.

(n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.

(v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.

(v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.

(v. t.) To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

(v. t.) To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.

(v. t.) To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.

(n.) A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.