(adv. & a.) Flowing.

(n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

(adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.

(adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

() Earlier form of Acknow.

(n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

(n.) A tree of the genus Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.

(n.) The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.

(n.) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

(n.) A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back.

(v. t.) To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.

(v. i.) To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.

(v. i.) To push rudely along; to elbow one's way.

(n.) A scroll.

(n.) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

(n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.

(v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

(v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

(v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.

(v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.

(v. t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.

(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

(v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

(v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

(v. t.) To moisten with dew, or as with dew.

(prep.) Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.

(prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.

(prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.

(adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.

(adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.

(adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.

(adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.

(adv.) In some part or page following.

(v. t.) To sow again.

(n.) Alt. of Cadeworm

(a.) Wicked; malicious.

(a.) Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.

(a.) Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.

(a.) To beshrew; to curse.

(n.) A turf.

(n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.

(n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.

(n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.

(n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.

(n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.

(n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.

(n.) A small packet of tobacco.

(n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.

(n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.

(n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.

(v. t.) To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.

(v. t.) To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.

(v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.

(v. t.) To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.

(v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination.

(v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.

(v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.

(n.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.

(n.) Muscle; nerve.

(n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.

(v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.

(v. t.) To indue.

(v. t.) See Endow.

(v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

(n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

(n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

(n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.

(v. t.) To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.

(v. t.) To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.

(v. t.) To spread abroad; to disseminate.

(n.) Thrush.

(v. t.) To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re/stablish; to recreate; to rebuild.

(v. t.) Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.

(v. t.) To begin again; to recommence.

(v. t.) To repeat; to go over again.

(v. t.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

(v. i.) To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.

(v. t.) To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.

(n.) A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.

(n.) Alt. of Surrow

(v. t.) To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

(v. t.) To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.

(v. t.) To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

(v. t.) To give up; to devote.

(v. t.) To disavow; to disclaim.

(v. t.) See Emmew.

(v. t.) To make new.

(v. t.) To bend like a bow; to curve.

(v. t.) To mew or coop up.

(v. t.) Same as Strew.

(v. t.) To deprive of the authority or character of law.

(v. t.) To put beyond protection of law; to outlaw.

(v. t.) To impose a fine upon; to fine.

(n.) Any transgression or offense against the law.

(n.) A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the law.

(v. t.) See Emmew.

(v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.

(n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

(n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.

(v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.

(v. t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

(v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.

(v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.

(v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

(v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.

(v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

(v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.

(v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.

(v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.

(v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.

(v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

(v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.

(n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.

(n.) A stroke; a blow.

(n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.

(n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.

(n.) An effort; a violent sally.

(n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.

(n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).

(n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.

(n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

(n.) Moldiness.

(v. t.) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.

(v. t.) To inclose, as in a mew or cage.

(v. t.) To unbend.

(interj.) Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.

(v. i.) To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation " Pshaw!"

(n.) A minnow.

(n. & v.) See Throse.

() imp. of Throw.

(imp.) of Throw

(n.) A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica.

(n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.

(a.) Widowed.

(v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

(v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

(v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.

(v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of.

(v. t.) To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.

(n.) The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.

(v. i.) To perform the kotow.

(n.) See Minnow.

(n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.