(n.) The herb dill, or dillseed.

(n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.

(n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.

(n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.

(n.) A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) See Cyst.

(n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.

(n.) See Cottise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cost

(v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

(v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

(v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

(v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

(v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.

(n.) See 1st Frith.

(v. t.) To devour.

(v. t.) To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.

(v. t.) To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

(v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.

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

(v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.

(v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

(v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.

(v. i.) To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

(n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

(n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.

(n.) Herpes; tetter.

(n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

(v. t.) To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.

(n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.

(n.) An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art.

(n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.

(n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

(n.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.

(v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

(v. t.) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.

(v. t.) The material for glaze of pottery.

(v. t.) To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.

(v. t.) To fritter; -- with away.

(n.) Same as Haft, n.

(n.) The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion.

(n.) Weight; ponderousness.

(n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled.

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(v. t.) To heave up; to raise aloft.

(v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising.

(n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

(n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.

(n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

(pl. ) of Foot

(n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.

(n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.

(n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.

(n.) The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.

(n.) Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.

(n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

(n.) The human skin.

(n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.

(n.) See Birt.

(n.) The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.

(n.) A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

(n.) The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.

(v. t.) Alt. of But

(v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

(v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]

(v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.

(n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

(n.) The common English flounder.

(v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.

(v. t.) To talk of.

(n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

(n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.

(n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

(n.) Small stones with ore.

(n.) An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

(n.) A petticoat.

(n.) The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.

(n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.

(n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.

(n.) Same as Coat of arms. See below.

(n.) A coat card. See below.

(v. t.) To cover with a coat or outer garment.

(v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

(n.) A quoit.

(v. t.) To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.

(n.) The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

(n.) A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

(n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart.

(n.) A small tool used in cleaving laths.

(v. i.) To shoot out; to sprout.

(3d sing.) Chideth.

(a.) Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.

(n.) See Matte.

(n.) An untidy woman; a slattern.

(n.) A servant girl; a drudge.

(n.) A female dog; a bitch.

(v. t.) To put out.

(n.) A blow; a stroke.

(n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

(n.) Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.

(v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.

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(v. t.) Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

(v. t.) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

(v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.

(v. t.) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

(v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

(v. t.) To taint with mildew, as grain.

(v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

(v. t.) To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

(v. i.) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

(v. i.) To give off smut; to crock.

(n.) Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.

(n.) A mean, insignificant fellow.

(v. t.) To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.

() imp. & p. p. of Reave.

(n.) A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.

(n.) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.

(n.) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.

(v. t.) To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.

(n.) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

(n.) See Bitts.

(v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.

(n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

(n.) An old woman; and old gossip.

(n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.

(n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

(n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

(v. t.) To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.

(v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.

(v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

(n.) Act of abetting; aid.

(n.) A pustule.

(n.) An annoying, worthless person.

(v. t.) To satiate; to satisfy.

(v. t.) To reckon; to ascribe; to impute.

(n.) The common guillemot.

(v. t.) To lose.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

(v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quit

(a.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

(a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.

(a.) To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.

(a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.

(a.) To carry through; to go through to the end.

(a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.

(v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

(v. i.) To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.

(v. t.) To utter inconsiderately.

(n.) A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.

() 3d sing. pres. of Abide.

(v. t.) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

(v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

(v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.

(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

(v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

(v. i.) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

(n.) A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.

(n.) An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.

(n.) A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

(n.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.

(n.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

(n.) A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

(imp.) of Beat

(p. p.) of Beat

(v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

(v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.

(v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

(v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

(v. t.) To tread, as a path.

(v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.

(v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.

(v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

(v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

(v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

(v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

(v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.

(v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.

(v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

(v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

(v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

(v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.

(n.) A stroke; a blow.

(n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

(n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

(n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

(n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.

(v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.

(v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

(a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

(n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

(n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

(n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

(n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

(n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

(v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

(v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

(v. i.) To go or row in a boat.

(n.) Same as Bafta.

(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.

(n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.

(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

(n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.

(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.

(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

(v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

(v. i.) Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

(v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

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(v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.

(v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

(v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.

(v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

(v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.

(v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

(n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.

(n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.

(n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.

(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

(n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

(n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

(n.) A bundle, as of oziers.

(v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

(v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

(v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.

(v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

(v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

(v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.

(v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.

(v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

(v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

(v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

(adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

(v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.

(v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

(v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

(v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

(v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.

(v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

(n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

() imp. & p. p. of Bend.

(a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

(a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

(v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.

(v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

(v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.

(v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

(v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.

(v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

(n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.

(n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.

(n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

(v. t.) To arrest.

(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.

(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.

(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.

(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.

(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.

(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.

(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.

(n.) A set or game at tennis.

(n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.

(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.

(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.

(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.

(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.

(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.

(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.

(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

(v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.

(v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.

(n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.

(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

(n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.

(v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.

(a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.

(a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.

(a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.

(a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.

(n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.

(n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.

(n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.

(n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.

(n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.

(n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.

(v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.

(v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.

(v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

(v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

(v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.

(n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

(n.) Chance; lot; destiny.

(n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.

(n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

(n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

(n.) Profit; gain; advantage; use.

(v. t.) To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

(v. t.) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

(n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

(n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

(n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

(n.) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

(n.) An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

(n.) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

(v. t.) To put boots on, esp. for riding.

(v. t.) To punish by kicking with a booted foot.

(v. i.) To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

(n.) Booty; spoil.

(n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

(n.) A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

(n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

(imp. & p. p.) Bereft.

(n.) A chink; a rift. See Rift.

(v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

(n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.

() of Rap

() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

(a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.

(a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.

(a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.

(a.) An ecstasy; a trance.

(a.) Rapidity.

(v. t.) To transport or ravish.

(v. t.) To carry away by force.

(n.) Sedge; seaweed.

() p. p. of Rive.

(n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

(v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.

(v. i.) To burst open; to split.

(v. i.) To belch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shoot

() imp. & p. p. of Shoot.

(a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.

(v. t.) A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.

(pl. ) of Shot

(n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.

(n.) A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.

(n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.

(n.) The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.

(n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.

(v. t.) To load with shot, as a gun.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shut

(v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.

(v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.

(v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

(v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.

(v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.

(a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.

(a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.

(a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.

(a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.

(n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

(n.) A door or cover; a shutter.

(n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.

(v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

(v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.

(v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

(n.) See Dit, n., 2.

(n.) An assart, or clearing.

(n.) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

(v. t.) To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.

(v. i.) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

(n.) Alt. of Saute

(n.) Alt. of Britt

(n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.

(n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.

(n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

(n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

(n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.

(n.) To browse.

(n.) See Birt.

(n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

(n.) A lantern; also, the moon.

(n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

(n.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

(v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

(v. t. & i.) To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.

(n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

(n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

(v. t.) To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

(v. i.) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.

(n.) The handle of a joiner's plane.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.

(n.) A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.

(n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.

(n.) A knoll or hill.

(n.) A grove of trees; also, a plain.

(n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

(n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.

(v. i.) To stand out, or be prominent.

(v. i.) To peep; to look narrowly.

(v. t.) To see; to spy.

(v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.

(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.

(n.) The sense of touch; feeling.

(n.) The stroke in beating time.

(n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.

(a.) Alt. of Grete

(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

(n.) The coarse part of meal.

(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

(n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.

(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.

(n.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.

(n.) A grotto.

(n.) Alt. of Grote

() imp. of Sweat.

(v. t.) Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

(v. t.) Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.

(n.) A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

() of Sweat

(n.) Guilt. See Guilt.

(n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

(n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

(n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.

(n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.

(n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.

(n.) To spade; to dig.

(v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spit

() of Spit

(n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.

(n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.

(n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.

(v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.

(v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

(n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

(n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

(n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

(n.) Guidance; direction.

(adv.) First.

(adv.) Previously; before; formerly; heretofore.

(n.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

(n.) An annular reenforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

(imp. & p. p.) of Send

(v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

(v. & n.) See Scent, v. & n.

() obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.

() imp. & p. p. of Send.

(n.) A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

(superl.) Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.

(superl.) Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.

(superl.) Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.

(superl.) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.

(superl.) Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.

(superl.) Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.

(superl.) Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.

(superl.) Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak.

(superl.) Gentle in action or motion; easy.

(superl.) Weak in character; impressible.

(superl.) Somewhat weak in intellect.

(superl.) Quiet; undisturbed; paceful; as, soft slumbers.

(superl.) Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.

(superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing.

(superl.) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.

(superl.) Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc.

(n.) A soft or foolish person; an idiot.

(adv.) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.

(interj.) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

(n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

(n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

(n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

(v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.

(v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.

(v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rend

() of Reave

() of Reave

(v. i.) To rant.

() imp. & p. p. of Rend.

(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.

(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.

(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.

(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

(v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

(v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

(v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.

(n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.

(n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.

(n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.

(n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.

(n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.

(n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

(n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.

(n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.

(n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

(n.) The lowest place, position, or part.

(n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.

(v. i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

(v. i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.

(v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

(v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.

(n.) See Roust.

(v. i.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

(n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

(v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

(v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

(n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

(n.) A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

(n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.

(n.) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.

(n.) A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

(v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

(v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

(n. sing. & pl.) Neat cattle.

(v. t.) To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.

(v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.

(n.) A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.

(v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

(v. t.) To form into a slimy mass.

(n.) See Birt.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cast

(v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.

(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.

(v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.

(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.

(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

(v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.

(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.

(v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.

(v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.

(v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.

(v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.

(v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.

(v. t.) To contrive; to plan.

(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.

(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.

(v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.

(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.

(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.

(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.

(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.

(v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.

(v. i.) To calculate; to compute.

(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.

(v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.

(v. i.) To vomit.

() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.

(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.

(n.) The thing thrown.

(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.

(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.

(n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.

(n.) The act of casting in a mold.

(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.

(n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.

(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.

(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.

(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.

(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.

(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.

(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.

(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.

(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.

(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.

(n.) A blow.

(n.) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

(n.) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.

(n.) A spear set as a prize in running.

(n.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.

(v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

(v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

(v. i.) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.

(v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

(n.) See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.

() A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.

(n.) The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

(n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.

(n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.

(n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

(n.) A corner; angle; niche.

(n.) An outer or external angle.

(n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.

(n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.

(n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

(n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.

(n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

(v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.

(v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.

(v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

(n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking.

(n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.

(n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.

(n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.

(a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.

(v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.

(v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.

(v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.

(n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.

(v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.

(n .) Attentive care; homage; worship.

(n .) A system of religious belief and worship.

(v. t.) To anoint.

(n.) Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

(n.) A single particle of earth or other matter.

(n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

(n.) The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

(n.) Figuratively, a worthless thing.

(n.) Figuratively, a low or mean condition.

(n.) Gold dust

(n.) Coined money; cash.

(v. t.) To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with dust.

(v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

(n.) A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.

(n.) A sudden violent burst of passion.

(n.) The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto.

(n.) Gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment.

(n.) Intellectual taste; fancy.

(v. t.) To taste; to have a relish for.

(imp. & p. p.) of Feel

(n. pl.) See Foot.

(n.) Fact; performance.

(n.) A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt.

(n.) A dwelling.

(v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.

(n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

(n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

() imp. & p. p. / a. from Feel.

(n.) A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.

(n.) A hat made of felt.

(n.) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

(v. t.) To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.

(n. & v.) See under Hunt.

(v. i.) To cry out or shout in contempt.

(v. i.) To make the peculiar cry of an owl.

(v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

(n.) A derisive cry or shout.

(n.) The cry of an owl.

(n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.

(n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.

(a.) Stretched tight; taut.

() of Toss

() imp. & p. p. of Toss.

(v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

(v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.

(n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.

(v. i.) To toot a horn.

(n.) The anus.

(n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

(n.) An army; a number of men gathered for war.

(n.) Any great number or multitude; a throng.

(n.) One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.

(v. t.) To give entertainment to.

(v. i.) To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

(n.) A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.

(v. t.) To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love.

(v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.

(n.) Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.

(n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.

(n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.

(v. t.) To supply with food.

(n.) Urine.

(n.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.

(n.) See Lanterloo.

(v. i.) The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.

(v. i.) Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.

(v. i.) That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.

(v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

(v. t.) To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.

(v. t.) To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.

(v. t.) To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.

(v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.

(v. i.) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

(n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

(n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.

() The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.

(3d pers. sing. pres.) of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

(a.) Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance.

(a.) Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.

(a.) Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

(a.) Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize.

(a.) Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.

(a.) At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.

(a.) In conclusion; finally.

(a.) At a time next preceding the present time.

(v. i.) To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.

(v. i.) To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

(v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.

(v. t.) To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.

(n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.

(n.) The burden of a ship; a cargo.

(n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

(n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

(v. t.) To sell; to vend.

(n.) A baiting place; an inn.

(v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

(n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.

(n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.

(n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.

(n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

(n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.

(n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

(v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.

(v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.

(v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.

(v. t.) To scent, as a hound.

(v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

(v. t.) To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.

(v. i.) See Jaunt.

(v. t.) To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.

(v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.

(v. t.) To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court.

(n.) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.

(v. t.) To cast reflections on; to asperse.

(n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.

(n.) A wanton girl; a light wench.

(v. i.) See Dote.

(n.) A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.

(v. t.) To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.

(v. t.) To split; to crack.

(v. t.) To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate.

(n.) A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.

(n.) A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.

(n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

(n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

(v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.

(v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

(v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.

(v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

(n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

(n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

(v. i.) To behave foolishly.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Slit

(n.) To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.

(n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.

(n.) To cut; to sever; to divide.

(n.) A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.

(n.) A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.

(n.) A bolt or bar for fastening a door.

(n.) A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.

(v. t.) To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door.

(n.) The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind.

(2d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.

(n.) Manner; form of being or acting.

(n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

(n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.

(n.) A pair; a set; a suit.

(n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.

(v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.

(v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.

(v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

(v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

(v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

(v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

(v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

(subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.

(v. t.) To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.

() imp. of Spit.

(n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.

(v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.

(n.) A light blow with something flat.

(n.) Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.

(v. i.) To dispute.

(v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.

(v. t.) To spit; to throw out.

(n.) Spittle.

(n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.

(n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.

(a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.

(a.) Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.

(n.) A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

(n.) In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.

(n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores.

(n.) A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.

(n.) A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.

(a.) Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.

(a.) Gay; playful; frolicsome.

(n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

(n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.

(n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.

(n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.

(n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

(n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.

(v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.

(v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

(v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

(v. t.) To fix; to set firm.

(v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.

(v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

(v. i.) To rest; to lie down.

(n.) A cutting; a scion.

(n.) Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.

(n.) A stroke; a blow.

(n.) A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.

(v. t.) To make a dent upon; to indent.

(n.) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

(v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.

(n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.

(n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.

(n.) A horse.

(n.) A young bull or ox, especially one three years old.

(v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.

(v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.

(n.) The act of punting the ball.

(n.) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.

(n.) Jet.

(n.) Trubute, tax.

(v. t.) A gelding.

(n.) Gilding; tinsel.

(a.) Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.

(a.) Neat; pretty; fine; elegant.

() He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

(n.) The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.

(n.) Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.

(n.) A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.

(v. t.) To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.

(v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.

(n.) A strong, musty smell; mustiness.

(v. i.) To become moldy; to smell ill.

(n.) A little island in a river or lake. See Ait.

(n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.

(n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

(n.) A doing, making, or preparing.

(n.) An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

(n.) Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

(n.) The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

(n.) Same as Gault.

(n.) A guest.

(n.) Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.

(n.) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.

(n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.

(n.) Gesture; bearing; deportment.

(n.) A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.

(n.) A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.

(n.) An act; a deed; an exploit.

(n.) A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.

(v. t.) To form; to fashion.

(n.) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.

(n.) Alt. of Ghaut

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth.

(n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.

(v. t.) Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

(v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.

(v. t.) A bribe; anything given to corrupt.

(v. t.) Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.

(v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.

(v. t.) To endow with some power or faculty.

() of Gild

(v. t.) A female pig, when young.

() imp. & p. p. of Gild.

(p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.

(n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.

(n.) Money.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gird

() imp. of Melt.

(v. t.) Alt. of Moult

(v. t.) Alt. of Moult

(n.) Alt. of Moult

(v. i.) To watch; to observe; to take notice.

(v. i.) To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.

(v. t.) To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.

(v. t.) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.

(v. t.) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

(v. t.) To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.

(v. i.) The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.

(v. i.) Ambush.

(v. i.) One who watches; a watchman.

(v. i.) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.

(v. i.) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.

(v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

(v. i. / auxiliary) To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane.

(n.) The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.

(n.) Mustiness.

(v. t. & i.) To make musty; to become musty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Weep

(n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.

(n.) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.

(n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.

(n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.

(n.) The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.

(n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.

(a.) Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.

(adv.) Eastward.

(v. i.) To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.

(n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.

(v. t.) To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

(n.) A deed; an action; a gest.

(n.) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.

(n.) Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.

(v. i.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.

(v. i.) To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.

(v. i.) To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.

(a. & n.) Wet.

(v. i.) To know; to wit.

() imp. & p. p. of Wave.

(n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.

(n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.

(n.) A web; a thing woven.

(n.) An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.

(n.) Any outer covering; array; garb.

(n.) Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.

(n.) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

(n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.

(n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.

(n.) To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.

(n.) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.

(v. i.) To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.

(n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leave

(n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it

(n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.

(n.) A hem, border, or fringe.

(n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.

(n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.

(n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.

(n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.

(n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.

(v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.

(v. t.) To wilt.

() of Wend

(obs. imp.) of Let, to allow.

(n.) A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office.

(n.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.

(n.) The European pollock.

(imp. & p. p.) of Leave.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -- opposed to right, when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the left hand, or arm; the left ear. Also said of the corresponding side of the lower animals.

(n.) That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of one's body is turned; as, the house is on the left when you face North.

(n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right.

() imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.

(n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.

() imp. & p. p. of Weep.

() The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

(n.) A wart.

(n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.

(n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.

(n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.

(n.) Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.

(a.) Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.

(adv.) Westward.

(v. i.) To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.

(v. i.) To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.

() imp. & p. p. of Gird.

(v.) To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.

(a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

(n.) Same as Girth.

(n.) A resting place.

(n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.

(v. i.) To stutter.

(v. i.) To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

(n.) Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

(v. t.) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

(v. i.) The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.

(v. i.) Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.

(v. i.) One who trots; a child; a woman.

(n.) The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.

(n.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

(n.) Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc.

(imp.) of Go

(n.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

(n.) The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

(n.) The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.

(n.) The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

(n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.

(n.) That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.

(n.) Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.

(n.) A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.

(n.) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.

(n.) Regular order; succession.

(v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.

(v. t.) To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

(v. t.) To dress; to clothe.

(v. t.) To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

(v. i.) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.

(v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.

(n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.

(n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.

(v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.

(n.) Plain; flat; level.

(adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.

(adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.

(n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.

(n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.

() 2d pers. sing. of Will.

(v. i.) To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither.

(v. t.) To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant.

(v. t.) Hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.

(n.) A single thing or person.

(n.) The least whole number; one.

(n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

(n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

(n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

(v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

(v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.

(n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.

(v. t.) To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.

(v. t.) To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.

(v. t.) To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.

(v. t.) To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate.

(v. t.) To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand.

(v. t.) To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.

(v. t.) To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.

(v. t.) To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.

(v. t.) To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.

(n.) An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.

(a.) Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.

(adv.) Meetly.

(n.) See Yeast.

(n.) Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.

(n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

(n.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.

(n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

(n.) The lower edge of a sail.

(v. i.) To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

(v. i.) To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.

(v. t.) To kick with the foot; to spurn.

(v. t.) To set on foot; to establish; to land.

(v. t.) To tread; as, to foot the green.

(v. t.) To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.

(v. t.) The size or strike with the talon.

(v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking.

(n.) A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.

(v. t.) To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.

(a.) Alt. of Soote

(p. p.) of Hent

(v. t.) To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.

(v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

(v. t.) To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

(v. i.) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

(n.) That which is swallowed.

(n.) Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.

(n.) Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

(n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

(n.) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.

(n.) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.

(n.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.

(n.) A block used for a fulcrum.

(n.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

(n.) A hart.

(n.) Command; precept; injunction.

(a.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

(a.) Snug; close; firm; secure.

(n.) A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.

(n.) The fist.

(n.) Alt. of Feste

(n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

(n.) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

(n.) Attention; regard, care.

(n.) Intention; design.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

(n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.

(v. i.) To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.

(v. i.) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.

(v. t.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.

(a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.

(n.) The act of limping; lameness.

(a.) To walk lamely; to limp.

(a.) To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.

(v. t.) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

(v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.

(n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.

(n.) A probe for searching a wound.

(n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.

(n.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

(v. i.) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.

(n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.

(n.) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.

(n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.

(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

(n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

(n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

(n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

(n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.

(v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

(v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.

(v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

(n.) A witness.

(v. i.) To make a testament, or will.

(n.) Alt. of Testa

(n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

(n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.

(n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

(n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

(n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.

(v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

(n.) A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.

() 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Have, contr. of havest.

(pron., a., conj., & ) As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, that which he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples.

(pron., a., conj., & ) As an adjective, that has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun.

(pron., a., conj., & ) As a relative pronoun, that is equivalent to who or which, serving to point out, and make definite, a person or thing spoken of, or alluded to, before, and may be either singular or plural.

(pron., a., conj., & ) As a conjunction, that retains much of its force as a demonstrative pronoun.

(pron., a., conj., & ) To introduce a clause employed as the object of the preceding verb, or as the subject or predicate nominative of a verb.

(n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

(n.) The talons of a bird of prey.

(n.) the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.

(v. t.) To strike with the fist.

(v. t.) To gripe with the fist.

(pron., a., conj., & ) To introduce, a reason or cause; -- equivalent to for that, in that, for the reason that, because.

(pron., a., conj., & ) To introduce a purpose; -- usually followed by may, or might, and frequently preceded by so, in order, to the end, etc.

(pron., a., conj., & ) To introduce a consequence, result, or effect; -- usually preceded by so or such, sometimes by that.

(pron., a., conj., & ) In an elliptical sentence to introduce a dependent sentence expressing a wish, or a cause of surprise, indignation, or the like.

(pron., a., conj., & ) As adverb: To such a degree; so; as, he was that frightened he could say nothing.

(a.) Haughty.

() of Have

(n.) Admission; approach; access.

(n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

(v. t.) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

(v. i.) To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.

(n.) A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.

(n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

(n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

(n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

(v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

(v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

(v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance.

(v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.

(v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

(v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.

(v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.

(n.) A thrust, as with a lance.

(n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

(n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

(n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

(interj.) Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence.

(n.) A slight coloring.

(n.) A pale or faint tinge of any color.

(n.) See 2d Milt.

(v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

(v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

(v. i.) To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

(v. i.) To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

(v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.

(v. i.) To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.

(v. i.) To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.

(n.) A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.

(n.) Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

(n.) The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.

(v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.

(v. t.) To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.

(p. p.) of Menge

(n.) Mountain.

(v.) Knew.

(e) (imp.) of Wit

(p. p.) of Wit

(v.) See 1st Mot.

(n.) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

(v. t.) To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.

(v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

(v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.

(n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.

(v.) A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

(a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

(n.) A blow or thump.

(a.) Distorted.

(n.) See Kilt, n.

(n.) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.

(n.) A salmon after spawning.

(n.) Same as Celt, one of Celtic race.

(imp. & p. p.) of Keep.

(n.) The dipper, or water ouzel.

(n.) The magpie.

(n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

(v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.

(v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.

(n.) A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.

(n.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening.

(n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.

(v. t.) To carry; to bear; to transport.

(v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.

(n.) The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.

(n.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.

(v. t.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.

(n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.

(n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.

(n.) A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.

(v. t.) To separate into tufts.

(v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.

(v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

(n.) A drop; a clot or coagulation.

(n.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.

(n.) A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn.

(n.) Taste; relish.

(n.) A quicksand; a bog.

(v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.

(v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.

(v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

(v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

(v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

(n.) The game secured in the hunt.

(n.) A pack of hounds.

(n.) An association of huntsmen.

(n.) A district of country hunted over.

(n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

(n.) A husk. See Husk, 2.

(imp. & p. p.) of Hurt

(v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

(v. t.) To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.

(v. t.) To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.

(n.) A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.

(n.) The laughing gull.

(n.) The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.

(v. i.) To shoot pouts.

(v. i.) To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.

(v. i.) To protrude.

(n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.

(n.) The European whiting pout or bib.

(n.) A size of paper. See under Paper.

(n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.

(n.) A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.

(n.) An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.

(n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.

(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.

(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.

(v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.

(v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.

(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.

(v. t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.

(v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.

(v. t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.

(v. t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.

(v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.

(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.

(adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

(a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

(n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.

(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.

(n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.

(n.) A market.

(n.) A bargain.

(v. t.) To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart.

(v. t.) To traffic.

(n.) The god Mars.

(n.) Battle; contest.

(n.) Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.

(n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite.

(n.) Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.

(n.) To list; to like.

(n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.

(n.) Pleasure.

(n.) Inclination; desire.

(n.) The match cord formerly used in firing cannon.

(n.) A puff of smoke.

(a.) Most.

(v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.

(n.) A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.

(v. t.) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

(v. t.) Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

(v. t.) Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.

(v. t.) Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.

(v. t.) Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

(v. t.) Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

(v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

(v. t.) Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.

(v. t.) Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.

(n.) The act of plundering.

(n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

(v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

() p. p. of Menge.

(n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.

(a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.

(v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.

(v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.

(v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.

(v. i.) To sing cheerfully.

(v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.

(n.) Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.

(n.) A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.

() of Pen

(v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile.

(v. i.) To throw missiles.

(v. i.) To throw out words.

(n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.

(v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

(n.) See Piste.

(n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.

(n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.

(n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.

(n.) Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.

(n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

(n.) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.

(n.) Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.

(n.) Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.

(n.) Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.

(n.) Sexual excitement in animals.

(n.) Fermentation.

(v. t.) To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.

(v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.

(v. t.) To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.

(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

(imp. & p. p.) Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.

(superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

(superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.

(superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.

(superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

(superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.

(superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.

(superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.

(superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.

(superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

(superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.

(adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.

(adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.

(n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.

(n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.

(n.) Something broad and flat in form

(n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

(n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.

(n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.

(n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.

(n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.

(n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.

(n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.

(n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.

(n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.

(n.) A homaloid space or extension.

(v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.

(v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

(v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

(v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

(v. i.) To fall form the pitch.

(p. p.) Skimmed.

(v. i.) To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.

(v. i.) To flutter; to rove on the wing.

(v. i.) To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.

(v. i.) To remove from one place or habitation to another.

(v. i.) To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

(a.) Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

(n. pl.) Neat cattle.

(n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.

(a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.

(a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.

(a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.

(a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.

(a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]

(n.) A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.

(n.) Death; decease; the date of one's death.

(n.) A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.

(n.) A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.

(pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?

(pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!

(pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!

(pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun

(pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.

(pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.

(n.) Something; thing; stuff.

(interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?

(v. t.) To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.

(v. t.) To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage.

(n.) The act of whetting.

(n.) That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Lend

() imp. & p. p. of Lend.

(n.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.

(n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.

(a.) Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

(a.) See Lento.

(n.) Flax.

(n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.

(n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.

(n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

(n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.

(v. t.) To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

(v. t.) To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.

(v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.

(v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.

(n.) A wave or current of wind.

(n.) A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.

(n.) An unpleasant flavor.

(n.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.

(n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

(v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

(v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To bear; to support.

(v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

(v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

(v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

(v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

(v. t.) To live by theft.

(n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

(n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

(n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.

(n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

(n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

(n.) A handle.

(n.) An exercising machine.

(n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

(n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

(n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

(n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

(n.) A layer of leather in the heel.

(n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

(n.) See Oast.

(v. t.) To take away; to remove.

(v. t.) To eject; to turn out.

(n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

(n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.

(n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

(v. t.) To surround with a moat.

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(n.) A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

(n.) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.

(n.) An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon.

(n.) A bond of union; a connection; a tie.

(n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.

(n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.

(v. t.) To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.

(v. t.) To unite closely; to knit together.

(v. t.) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.

(v. i.) To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.

(v. i.) To knit knots for fringe or trimming.

(v. i.) To copulate; -- said of toads.

(n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

(n.) A plantation laid out.

(n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

(n.) A great quantity or number.

(n.) A woman; a female.

(n.) A salmon in its third year.

(n.) Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.

(n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.

(n.) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.

(a.) Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.

(a.) Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.

(a.) Highest in rank; greatest.

(a.) In the greatest or highest degree.

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(n.) The spleen.

(n.) The spermatic fluid of fishes.

(n.) The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.

(v. t.) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

(n.) A plant of any kind.

(n.) Cabbages.

(n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.

() 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

(n.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

(n.) A place where money is coined by public authority.

(n.) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.

(v. t.) To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.

(v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.

() imp. & p. p. of Write.

(n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.

(n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.

(Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write

() Alt. of Wuste

(n.) Alt. of Xystus

(n.) Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

(n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

(n.) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.

(v. t.) To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.

(v. i.) To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

(n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

(n.) Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.

(n.) A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.

(n.) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

(n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

(n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

(v. i.) To build and occupy a nest.

(v. t.) To put into a nest; to form a nest for.

(n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

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(v. t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.

(n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.

(n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

(n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

(n.) A plan; a purpose.

(n.) In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

(v. i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.

(v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

(v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

(n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.

(n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.

(n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.

(n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense.

(n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.

(n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.

(n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.

(n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act.

(n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.

(n.) To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.

(n.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.

(n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

(n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.

(n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.

(n.) To leave; to quit.

(v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.

(v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.

(v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake.

(adv.) Partly; in a measure.

(n.) A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.

(n.) Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.

(n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

(a.) Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.

(a.) Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference.

(a.) Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.

(adv.) Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.

(adv.) Closely; nearly; almost.

(adv.) Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.

(v. i.) To joust.

(n.) A joust.

(v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

(n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by.

(prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.

(prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.

(prep.) Above; exceeding; more than.

(adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past.

(imp. & p. p.) of Keep

(imp. & p. p.) of Knit

(v. t.) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.

(v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.

(v. t.) To join; to cause to grow together.

(v. t.) To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love.

(v. t.) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

(v. i.) To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.

(v. i.) To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound.

(n.) Union knitting; texture.

(n.) A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.

(n.) A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.

(n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

(n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.

(n.) A protuberant joint in a plant.

(n.) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

(n.) See Node.

(n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.

(n.) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.

(n.) A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.

(n.) A chest; hence, a coffin.

(n.) A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment.

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(n.) A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.

(v. t.) To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.

(v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

(v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

(v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.

(v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

(v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

(v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.

(n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

(n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.

(a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.

(n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.

(imp.) of Wont

(p. p.) of Wont

(v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.

(v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.

(v. t.) Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.