(adv.) Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.

(n.) Halloo.

() imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

(v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

(v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.

(v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.

(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.

(v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.

(v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.

(v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

(v. t.) To cover with varnish.

(n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.

(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.

(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.

(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

(imp.) of Fly

(v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

(v. t.) To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.

(v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.

(v. t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.

(v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

(v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

(v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

(v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.

(v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.

(v. t.) To remove the contents of

(v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

(v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.

(v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.

(v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

(v. t.) To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.

(v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.

(v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

(v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.

(v. t.) To withdraw.

(v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.

(v. i.) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

(v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

(v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

(v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.

(v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

(v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

(v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.

(v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.

(v. i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

(v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.

(v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.

(v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

(n.) The act of drawing; draught.

(n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.

(n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.

(n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.

(v. t.) To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

(v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.

(v. t.) As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.

(v. t.) The jaw.

(v. t.) To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

(v. t.) To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.

(v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.

(n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.

(n.) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.

(n.) The hooded merganser.

(imp.) of Draw

(imp.) of Draw.

(n.) Snow.

(v. i.) To snow; to abound.

(n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

(n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

(n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.

(v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

(adv.) Below; in a lower part.

(adv.) In a row.

() imp. of Blow.

(v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

(v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.

(n.) Avowal.

(n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow.

(n.) A vow or determination.

(imp.) of Blow

(imp.) of Blow

(v. i.) To be fixed or set; to stay.

(v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).

(v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.

(v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.

(v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.

(v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.

(v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.

(v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

(n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.

(n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.

(n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.

(n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance.

(n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.

(n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.

(n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.

(v. i.) To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).

(n.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.

(n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.

(n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.

(n.) The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.

(v. i.) To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.

(v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.

(v. i.) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.

(v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.

(v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

(v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.

(v. i.) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.

(v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.

(v. t.) To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.

(v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.

(v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.

(v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.

(v. t.) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.

(v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.

(v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.

(v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.

(v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).

(n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.

(n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.

(n.) The spouting of a whale.

(n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.

(n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.

(n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

(n.) The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.

(n.) The forehead; as, a feverish brow.

(n.) The general air of the countenance.

(n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.

(v. t.) To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

(n.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.

(v. t.) To transport in a scow.

() imp. of Grow.

(v. t.) To subdue; to daunt.

(v. t. & i.) To awaken; to arouse.

(imp.) of Grow

(v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

(v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

(v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

(v. i.) To become attached of fixed; to adhere.

(v. t.) To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

(imp.) of Draw.

(n.) The crop of a bird.

(n.) The stomach of an animal.

(n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

(n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

(n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

(n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.

(n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.

(n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.

(n.) To rail at; to scold.

(v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.

(n.) Alt. of Clue

(n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.

(n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.

(v. t.) To boil or seethe; to cook.

(v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.

(v. t.) To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

(v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.

(v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

(v. i.) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.

(n.) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

(n.) The Manx shearwater.

(n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.

(n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

(n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

() imp. of Crow

(n.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.

(adv.) In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order.

(imp.) of Crow

(v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.

(v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

(v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.

(v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.

(v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

(v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.

(v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

(n.) The sea mew.

(v. i.) See Mew, to cry as a cat.

(n.) A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.

(adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.

(a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.

(n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

(v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.

(v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.

(v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

(adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

(adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.

(n.) Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.

() Alt. of Slawen

(imp.) of Slay

() imp. of Slay.

(v. t.) See Slue.

() imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

(superl.) Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.

(superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.

(superl.) Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.

(superl.) Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.

(superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.

(superl.) Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.

(superl.) Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.

(adv.) Slowly.

(v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.

(v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.

(n.) A moth.

(n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

(n.) An artificial bed of oysters.

(v. t.) To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

(v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

(v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

(v. t.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) A prostitute.

(v. t.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

(v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

() A form of Enough.

(v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

(v. t.) To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.

(v. i.) To vomit.

(v. i.) To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

(n.) That which is vomited; vomit.

(n.) A thicket; a small wood or grove.

(n.) The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.

(v. t. & i.) See Show.

(n.) Show.

(v. t.) To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.

(v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.

(v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.

(n.) A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.

(n.) A dirty woman; a slattern.

(n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

(a.) Brittle.

(a.) Alt. of Trewe

(n.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

(n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.

(n.) Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.

(n.) That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.

(n.) The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.

(n.) Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.

(n.) That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.

(n.) Appearance; show; aspect.

(v. t.) To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.

(v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.

(n.) See Glue.

(v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

(v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.

(v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

(v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.

(v. t.) To make hot; to flush.

(n.) White or red heat; incandscence.

(n.) Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.

(n.) Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.

(n.) Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.

(v. t.) To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.

(v. t.) To bite in agony or rage.

(v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

(v. i.) To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.

(n.) A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.

(v. i. & t.) To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

(imp.) Gnawed.

(v. i.) To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

(v. i.) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

(v. i.) Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.

(v. t.) To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

(n.) The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.

(n.) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.

(n.) See Proa.

(superl.) Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.

(a.) Benefit; profit; good; advantage.

(v. i. & n.) See 6th and 7th Mew.

(n.) Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues.

(n.) Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew.

(n.) A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

(n.) A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.

(n.) A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.

(n.) A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

(v. t.) To crack; to make flaws in.

(v. t.) To break; to violate; to make of no effect.

() imp. of Fly.

(n. & interj.) A sound like a half-formed whistle, expressing astonishment, scorn, or dislike.

(v. i.) To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.

(n.) Knee.

(imp.) of Know

(v. i.) To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.

(v. i.) To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.

(v. i.) To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.

(v. i.) To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure.

(v. i.) To have sexual commerce with.

(v. i.) To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of.

(v. i.) To be assured; to feel confident.

(imp.) of Know.

(a.) Angry; vexed; wrathful.

(n.) Alt. of Plough

(v. t.) Alt. of Plough

(v. i.) Alt. of Plough

(v. t.) See Gnaw.