(v. t.) To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust.

(v. t.) To betroth or espouse; to affiance.

(v. t.) To bind in faith.

(v. i.) To trust or confide.

(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

(a.) Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.

(interj.) A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."

(a.) Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

(a.) Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight.

(a.) Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.

(a.) Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.

(a.) Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music.

(a.) Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary.

(a.) Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial.

(a.) Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.

(a.) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

(n.) A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)

(n.) The chief hare.

(n.) A simpleton.

(n.) An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.

(n.) A local name of the burbot.

(n.) An abundance or plenty of anything.

(n.) An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.

(n.) An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.

(n.) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.

(n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.

(n.) A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.

(n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.

(n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off.

(n.) To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.

(v. i.) To make a copy or copies; to imitate.

(v. i.) To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.

(n.) A large town.

(n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.

(n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a city.

(n.) A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old.

(v. t.) To descry.

(v.) A flock of wild fowl.

(n.) A cry or shout.

(n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's

(n.) A manor house; a castle.

(v. t.) To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.

(v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.

(v. t.) To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.

(a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.

(a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active.

(a.) Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.

(a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.

(a.) Careful; anxious.

(v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.

(n.) A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.

(a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.

(n.) A squirrel's nest.

(n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.

(n.) A kind of sledge or sled.

(n.) A squirrel's nest. See Dray.

(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.

(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.

(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.

(n.) See Agate, n., 2.

(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.

(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.

(v. t.) To make red; to redden.

(superl.) Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.

(superl.) Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.

(v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.

(v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

(v.) A relative; a kinsman.

(v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.

(v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.

(v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.

(n.) See Alley, a marble or taw.

(n.) A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.

(v. t.) To furnish with quays.

(n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay.

(n.) A heifer.

(n.) A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

(n.) A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army.

(n.) A great number; a vast multitude; a host.

(a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.

(adv.) From a place; hence.

(adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

(adv.) Aside; off; in another direction.

(adv.) From a state or condition of being; out of existence.

(adv.) By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.

(adv.) On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.

(a.) Having awns; bearded.

(adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.

(adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.

(n.) An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

(n.) A small image of an infant; a doll.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.

(v. i.) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.

(n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

(n.) The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.

(n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

(n.) A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.

(n.) A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.

(n.) A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

(n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.

(n.) Amount; quantity; extent.

(n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

(n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

(n.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

(n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

(n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

(n.) A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.

(n.) See Cadie.

(a.) Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.

(n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship.

(v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.

(v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

(v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.

(v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

(v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

(v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.

(v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.

(v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.

(v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.

(v. i.) To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.

(v. i.) To continue in a state.

(v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.

(v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.

(v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.

(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.

(v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.

(v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.

(n.) That which serves as a prop; a support.

(n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.

(n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.

(n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.

(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

(a.) Having large or prominent bones.

(n.) A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.

(n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.

(v. t.) To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

(v. i.) To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.

(v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.

(v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

(a.) Abounding with rime; frosty.

(n.) A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.

(n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.

(v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.

(v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

(v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.

(v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

(n.) Hindrance; let; check.

(n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

(n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.

(a.) Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river.

(a.) One alone; single; as, the only man present; his only occupation.

(a.) Alone in its class; by itself; not associated with others of the same class or kind; as, an only child.

(a.) Hence, figuratively: Alone, by reason of superiority; preeminent; chief.

(a.) In one manner or degree; for one purpose alone; simply; merely; barely.

(a.) So and no otherwise; no other than; exclusively; solely; wholly.

(a.) Singly; without more; as, only-begotten.

(a.) Above all others; particularly.

(conj.) Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration.

(superl.) Very small; little; puny.

(adv.) With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound.

(superl.) Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.

(superl.) Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.

(n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.

(n.) A simpleton.

(a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).

(a.) Of or pertaining to gules; red.

(superl.) Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

(adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.

(a.) See Cozy.

(superl.) Snug; comfortable; easy; contented.

(superl.) Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.

(a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

(n.) Alt. of Crayer

(a.) Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.

(v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.

(adv.) In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.

(a.) Misty; foggy; cloudy.

(a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

(a.) Dewy.

(superl.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.

(a.) Full of sage; seasoned with sage.

(n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

(n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

(v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.

(v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

(n.) The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

(n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.

(v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

(v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

(v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

(v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.

(v. t.) To stroke with a claw.

(n.) Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.

(superl.) Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.

(superl.) Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.

(superl.) Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.

(n.) That which is due; payment.

(n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.

(n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.

(n.) Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.

(n.) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.

(n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

(n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.

(v. t.) To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd.

(v. t.) To inspect narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe.

(v. i.) To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy.

(n.) A spy; a scout.

(n.) A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.

(n.) One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.

(a.) Of ro pertaining to the Tories.

(a.) Totty.

(n.) A sailor or fisherman; -- so called in some parts of the Pacific.

(a.) In a dry or thirsty condition.

(a.) Composed of, or like, tow.

(n.) A native house servant in India.

(a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.

(v. i.) To wane.

(a.) Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.

(a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.

(v. t.) To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature of a thing; to vary a posture or an attitude; to vary one's dress or opinions.

(v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.

(v. t.) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.

(v. t.) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See Variation, 4.

(v. i.) To alter, or be altered, in any manner; to suffer a partial change; to become different; to be modified; as, colors vary in different lights.

(v. i.) To differ, or be different; to be unlike or diverse; as, the laws of France vary from those of England.

(v. i.) To alter or change in succession; to alternate; as, one mathematical quantity varies inversely as another.

(v. i.) To deviate; to depart; to swerve; -- followed by from; as, to vary from the law, or from reason.

(v. i.) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension; as, men vary in opinion.

(n.) Alteration; change.

(a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.

(a.) Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

(a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

(a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.

(a.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.

(a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.

(a. & n.) Two; twain.

(a.) Relating to the jaws.

(a.) Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

(a.) Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

(a.) Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.

(a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.

(a.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.

(a.) Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood.

(v. t.) To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

(v. t.) A weaver's reed.

(v. t.) A guideway in a knitting machine.

(v. t.) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed; -- a term used by weavers. See Sleave, and Sleid.

(n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.

(n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.

(n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.

(a.) Half-rotten; as, doty timber.

(n.) Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.

(n.) See Stee.

(v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

(v. t.) The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

(v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

(v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.

(n.) A challenge.

(n.) A chaise.

(n.) A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.

(n.) A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.

(a.) Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.

(v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

(v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.

(v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.

(v. t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

(v. i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

(n.) Malice; ill will; spite.

(n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.

(n.) Emulation; rivalry.

(n.) Public odium; ill repute.

(n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.

(v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.

(v. t.) To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.

(v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.

(v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.

(v. t.) To hate.

(v. t.) To emulate.

(v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.

(v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.

(superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.

(n.) A youth; a novice.

(v. t.) To betray; to deceive.

(n.) A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

(n.) A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.

(n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.

(a.) Abounding with elms.

(a.) Producing fumes; fumous.

(n.) A thief.

(n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

(n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.

(n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

(n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.

(n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

(n.) A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.

(n.) The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place; aerie.

(a.) Faded.

(a.) Changeable; fickle.

(n.) Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.

(n.) A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe.

(n.) A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.

(interj.) An exclamation of grief.

(a.) Misty; dark; murky; muggy.

(superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.

(superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.

(superl.) Wicked; vicious.

(v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint

(v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.

(v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.

(v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.

(v. t.) Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.

(v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.

(v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

(v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.

(v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.

(v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.

(n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

(n.) A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.

(v. i.) To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.

(v. t.) To collect as into an eddy.

(a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

(a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.

(n.) An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.

(a.) Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

(a.) Affected with fear; affrighted.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.

(a.) Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.

(a.) Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling.

(a.) Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.

(a.) Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.

(n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.

(v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.

(v. t.) To bear the expense of; to defray.

(v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.

(v. i.) To rub.

(v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.

(n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.

(v. t.) True; real; actual; veritable.

(adv.) In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.

(v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.

(adv.) Asquint; askance; obliquely.

(n.) Troy weight.

(a.) Fashionable.

(superl.) Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

(adv.) In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

(n.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.

(v. t.) To worship; to glorify; to praise.

(n.) The wren; -- called also tiddy.

(superl.) Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather.

(superl.) Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.

(n.) A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.

(n.) A child's pinafore.

(v. t.) To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.

(v. i.) To make things tidy.

(n.) Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.

(n.) Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.

(n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

(v. t.) To mimic.

(a.) Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste.

(a.) Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.

(a.) Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution.

(n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

(n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.

(n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

(n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

(n.) A small horse.

(n.) Twenty-five pounds sterling.

(n.) A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.

(n.) A small glass of beer.

(a.) Like pile or wool.

(a.) Vast.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.

(a.) Covered with gore or clotted blood.

(a.) Bloody; murderous.

(interj.) Hey; ho.

(superl.) White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.

(superl.) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

(superl.) Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

(n.) A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.

(n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.

(a.) Internal; interior; secret.

(adv.) Internally; within; in the heart.

(n.) An aerie.

(a.) Aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.

(a.) Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.

(a.) Abounding with pines.

(v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.

(v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.

(v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.

(v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.

(v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.

(v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.

(v. i.) To have weight or influence.

(v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

(n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.

(n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.

(n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.

(n.) Rule; dominion; control.

(n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.

(n. & v.) See Pry.

(v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.

(v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

(v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.

(n.) A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.

(n.) A retinue of servants; a household.

(a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.

(a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.

(a.) A large or considerable number.

(a.) Affected with kibes.

(n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.

(n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.

(interj.) See Marry.

(n.) Marrow.

(a.) Crazy; mentally unsound.

(n.) Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.

(a.) Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous.

(a.) Containing lime; as, a limy soil.

(a.) Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.

(n.) A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.

(n.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.

(n.) That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.

(a.) Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.

(obj.) The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed.

(v. t.) To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.

(a.) Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving.

(n.) A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.

(n.) The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy.

(n.) The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy.

(n.) A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

(n.) Resembling oak; strong.

(a.) Having the form or the use of an oar; as, the swan's oary feet.

(v. t.) To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.

(v. t.) To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.

(v. t.) To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.

(v. i.) To give obedience.

(n.) The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines.

(n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.

(n.) The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.

(n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.

(n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.

(v. t.) To raise, as a siege.

(v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.

(v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.

(v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money.

(v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.

(v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.

(v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.

(n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

(n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

(v. t.) To make ugly.

(superl.) Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

(superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

(superl.) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

(a.) Pertaining to a lake.

(a.) Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.

(n.) A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.

(n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.

(n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.

(n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.

(n.) A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman.

(n.) A wife; -- not now in approved usage.

(n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.

(a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.

() The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.

(n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

(n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.

(n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.

(n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.

(n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.

(n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.

(n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.

(n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.

(v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.

(v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.

(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.

(v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.

(v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.

(v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.

(v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.

(n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.

(n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.

(n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.

(n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.

(n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.

(n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.

(n.) Performance on an instrument of music.

(n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.

(n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.

(v. t.) To reveal; to disclose.

(a.) Abounding with mines; like a mine.

(n.) The seventh month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

(a.) Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

(n.) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.

(a.) Having, or abounding with, mites.

(n.) Sport; frolic.

(v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.

(n.) The menhaden.

(a.) For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance.

(a.) A body of men, usually twelve, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest.

(a.) A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.

(a.) Confined; cramped.

(a.) Dull; tedious; uninteresting.

(n.) Piety.

(n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.

(n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.

(v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.

(v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.

(v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.

(n.) Alt. of Pixie

(a.) Pale; wanting color; dim.

(a.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

(a.) Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.