(n.) One who, or that which, chokes.

(n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.

(n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

(n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.

(n.) One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

(n.) A long, curling wave.

(v. t.) To cumber.

(n.) Encumbrance.

(n.) The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

(n.) One who angles.

(n.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

(n.) To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

(n.) To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.

(n.) To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.

(n.) To be or act in return or response to.

(n.) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.

(n.) To render account to or for.

(n.) To atone; to be punished for.

(n.) To be opposite to; to face.

(n.) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

(n.) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.

(v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.

(v. i.) To make a satisfactory response or return.

(v. i.) To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.

(v. i.) To be or act in return.

(v. i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.

(v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition.

(v. i.) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.

(v. i.) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.

(n.) A reply to a change; a defense.

(n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.

(n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.

(n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.

(n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.

(n.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.

(adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.

(n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.

(n.) A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).

(n.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

(n.) Alt. of Ashler

(n.) Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.

(n.) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick.

(n.) One who agrees.

(a.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

(n.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.

(n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.

(n.) Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.

(n.) One who, or that which, pushes.

(v. t. & i.) To impair; to grow worse.

(n.) One who puts or plates.

(n.) Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.

(v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

(v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

(v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

(v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

(v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.

(v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

(n.) Appearance.

(n.) Sour ale; vinegar made of ale.

(a.) Gay; cheerful; sprightly.

(n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

(n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

(n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.

(n.) Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

(n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.

(n.) The box tortoise.

(n.) One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

(n.) An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.

(n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

(n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.

(n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

(n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

(v. t.) To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

(n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

(n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

(n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.

(n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

(n.) Direction; quarter.

(n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.

(v. t.) To drive into a corner.

(v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

(v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

(n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

(n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.

(n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.

(n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.

(n.) See Center.

(n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

(n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.

(n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.

(n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.

(n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.

(a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.

(v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.

(v. t.) To write in occult characters.

(v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.

(v. t.) To decipher.

(v. t.) To designate by characters.

(n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.

(n.) A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.

(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.

(n.) An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.

(n.) One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

(n.) One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

(n.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.

(n.) One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.

(v. t.) To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.

(v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to pet.

(n.) A tailor who botches his work.

(n.) A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.

(n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

(n.) One who fishes with a seine.

(v. t.) To play the pander for.

(v. i.) To act the part of a pander.

(n.) See Pannier, 3.

(n.) Dandruff or scurf on the head.

(n.) Anger or vexation; rage.

(v. i.) To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.

(n.) One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.

(a. & pron.) One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.

(a. & pron.) Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.

(conj. Either) precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.

(n.) One who, or that which, elates.

(n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

(n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.

(n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.

(n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

(n.) One who pants.

(n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

(n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

(n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

(n.) Grain pulverized; meal; flour.

(n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.

(n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

(n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

(n.) Menstrual discharges.

(v. i.) To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

(v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition.

(v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

(v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation.

(v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

(n.) One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.

(n.) One who makes grooves or flutings.

(n.) One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

(n.) A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.

(n.) That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

(v.t.) To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

(n.) A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

(n.) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.

(n.) Same as Fetor.

(n.) A young cow.

(n.) One who foils or frustrates.

(n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

(a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.

(n.) One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.

(n.) The eye; as, to close the peepers.

(n.) A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.

(n.) One who, or that which, pads.

(n.) A highwayman; a footpad.

(n.) One who, or that which, paddles.

(n.) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.

(n.) One who, or that which, buries.

(n.) One who burls or dresses cloth.

(n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.

(n.) The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.

(n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

(n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

(n.) Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.

(n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.

(n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

(n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

(v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.

(v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

(n.) One who, or that which, butts.

(n.) One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.

(n.) A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

(n.) One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

(n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

(n.) One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

(n.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

(n.) One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.

(n.) One who coaxes.

(v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.

(n.) One given to cockfighting.

(n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.

(n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.

(n.) A gatherer of cods or peas.

(n.) One who chews.

(n.) A miser or mean person.

(n.) A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.

(n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.

(n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

(n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

(n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

(v. t.) To put into a coffer.

(v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.

(v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

(n.) One who chides or quarrels.

(n.) A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.

(n.) A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

(n.) One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.

(n.) An inventor or maker, as of words.

(n.) Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.

(n.) A ring or cincture.

(n.) A collar beam.

(n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

(n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.

(n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.

(n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.

(n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.

(n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

(n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.

(v. t.) To seize by the collar.

(v. t.) To put a collar on.

(n.) One who chimes.

(n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.

(n.) One who peels or strips.

(n.) A pillager.

(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.

(n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

(n.) One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.

(n.) See Madder.

(n.) One that mewls.

(n.) That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment.

(n.) That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.

(n.) That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme.

(n.) That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business.

(n.) Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter ? no matter, and the like.

(n.) Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.

(n.) Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite.

(n.) Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

(n.) That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form.

(n.) Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing.

(v. i.) To be of importance; to import; to signify.

(v. i.) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

(v. t.) To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.

(n.) One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.

(n.) An extinguisher for candles.

(n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

(n.) An entertainment; a feast.

(n.) A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.

(n.) One who uses the dowser or divining rod.

(n.) One who smiles.

(n.) One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

(n.) One who smites.

(n.) One who, or that which, draws

(n.) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.

(n.) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

(n.) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.

(n.) That which is drawn

(n.) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.

(n.) One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.

(n.) A small grebe; the dabchick.

(n.) The buffel duck.

(n.) One who dries or preserves by smoke.

(n.) One who smokes tobacco or the like.

(n.) A smoking car or compartment.

(n.) An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

(n.) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.

(n.) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).

(n.) One who lays snares, or entraps.

(n.) One who snores.

(n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

(n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.

(n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

(n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

(n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.

(n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

(n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

(n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.

(v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.

(n.) A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.

(n.) anything which unites or cements.

(n.) To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.

(n.) To mend; to patch up.

(n.) See Solar, n.

(n.) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.

(v. t.) To cover, or provide with, a sollar.

(n.) One who, or that which, solves.

(a.) Alt. of Sombre

(v. t.) Alt. of Sombre

(n.) Alt. of Sombre

(n.) One who stares, or gazes.

(n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.

(n.) One who states.

(n.) The principal gold coin of ancient Grece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.

(n.) One who sops.

(n.) One who, or that which, rubs.

(n.) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.

(n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.

(n.) A whetstone; a rubstone.

(n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.

(n.) The cushion of an electrical machine.

(n.) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.

(n.) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.

(n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.

(n.) India rubber; caoutchouc.

(n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.

(n.) One who amuses.

(n.) One who racks.

(n.) A horse that has a racking gait.

(n.) A raftsman.

(n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.

(v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.

(v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.

(v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.

(n.) One who engages in a raid.

(n.) One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.

(n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

(n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

(n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.

(n.) An emblem of hope.

(n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

(n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

(n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.

(v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.

(v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.

(v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

(v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.

(n.) An anchoret.

(n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).

(a.) compar. of Big.

(n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

(n.) A money changer.

(n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.

(n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.

(n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.

(n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.

(n.) A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

(n.) A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

(n.) Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.

(v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.

(v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.

(v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.

(n.) The influence of a star upon other stars or upon men.

(v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.

(n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

(n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

(n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

(n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.

(v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of.

(n.) One who makes atonement.

(n.) The manager of a barge.

(n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.

(n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.

(n.) A pistol.

(n.) The spotted redshank.

(n.) One who strips trees of their bark.

(n.) A birdcatcher.

(n.) Shame; abuse.

(n.) A rule steelyard.

(n.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

(n.) Alt. of Bistre

(v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

(v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

(n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.

(n.) The thing given in exchange.

(v. t.) Alt. of Auntre

(n.) The south wind.

(n.) One who blames.

(n.) One who bathes.

(n.) One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

(n.) One who fastens with, or drives, nails.

(n.) The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

(n.) One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line.

(n.) One who quakes.

(n.) One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.

(n.) The nankeen bird.

(n.) The sooty albatross.

(n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.

(n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

(n.) An almoner.

(v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

(v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

(v. t.) To utter with quavers.

(n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.

(n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

(n.) He who, or that which, abases.

(n.) One who, or that which, abates.

(n.) One who abates a nuisance.

(n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

(a.) Pertaining to the alula.

(n.) One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

(n.) A horse or a person that ambles.

(a.) Nimble; active.

(v. i.) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

(n.) The act or state of quivering; a tremor.

(n.) A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

(n.) One who quotes the words of another.

(n.) One who, or that which, rams or drives.

(n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity

(n.) A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod

(n.) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.

(n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or season with pepper.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds.

(v. i.) To fire numerous shots (at).

(n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.

(n.) A net; a noose.

(n.) The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

(n.) One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.

(n.) The editor of a periodical.

(n.) An informant.

(v. t.) To occasion; to originate.

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

(n.) One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.

(v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

(v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

(v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

(v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

(v. t.) Paste of clay or loam.

(v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

(n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

(v. i.) To slope gently backward.

(n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.

(n.) One who bawls.

(n.) A baker; originally, a female baker.

(n.) Alt. of Bazar

(n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

(n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

(n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.

(n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.

(n.) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.

(n.) One who abides, or continues.

(n.) One who dwells; a resident.

(n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

(n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.

(n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.

(n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.

(n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

(n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

(n.) One who avows or asserts.

(n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

(n.) One who, or that which, blows.

(n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

(n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

(n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

(n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

(n.) A braggart, or loud talker.

(n.) One who, or that which, beats.

(n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.

(n.) An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.

(n.) The fur of the beaver.

(n.) A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.

(n.) Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.

(n.) That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

(n.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

(n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

(n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.

(n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.

(n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

(v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.

(v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

(n.) One who, or that which, bobs.

(n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

() compar. of Bad, a.

(n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

(n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

(n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.

(v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

(v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

(n.) One who boils.

(n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled.

(n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

(n.) See Bailor.

(n.) One who bails or lades.

(n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.

(n.) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

(n.) One who baits; a tormentor.

(n.) One who, or that which, bends.

(n.) An instrument used for bending.

(n.) A drunken spree.

(n.) A sixpence.

(n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.

(n.) One who sifts flour or meal.

(n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

(n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

(n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.

(n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

(n.) One who, or that which balks.

(n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

(a.) Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.

(n.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen.

(n.) A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.

(n.) One who reels.

(n.) The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.

(n.) A riddle or sieve.

(n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.

(n.) Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.

(v. t.) A packman or itinerant huckster.

(v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging.

(n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge.

(n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar.

(n.) One who, or that which, ruins.

(n.) A large and tall glass, or drinking cup.

(n.) A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament.

(n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

(n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.

(n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

(n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

(n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

(n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence.

(n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

(n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

(n.) A detective.

(n.) A messenger.

(n.) A smuggler.

(n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.

(n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.

(n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

(n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

(n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

(n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.

(n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

(n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

(n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

(n.) Any cursorial bird.

(n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

(n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

(n.) One who rushes.

(n.) One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances.

(n.) A horseman or trooper.

(n.) That which ruts.

(n.) One who calks.

(n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

(n.) One who calls.

(a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air.

(a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.

(n.) One who, or that which, makes calm.

(v. i.) To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon.

(v. i.) To crimp; as, calvered salmon.

(v. i.) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver.

(n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

(n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.

(v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.

(v. i.) To curve upward.

(n.) One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.

(n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.

(n.) Same as Sadda.

(n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

(n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.

(n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.

(n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

(n.) Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.

(n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.

(n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

(n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.

(n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.

(n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

(n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.

(v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

(v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

(v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

(v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

(n.) An adder.

(n.) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.

(v. t.) To stick together.

(n.) A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.

(n.) One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

(n.) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

(n.) A freeholder on a small scale.

(n.) One banded with others.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.

(v. t.) To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.

(n.) One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

(n.) One who, or that which, booms.

(n.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.

(n.) A large male kangaroo.

(n.) One who works up a "boom".

(n.) A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.

(n.) One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

(n.) A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

(n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

(n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

(n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

(n.) A narrow flower bed.

(v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

(v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

(v. t.) To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

(v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.

(v. t.) To confine within bounds; to limit.

(a.) Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

(a.) Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.

(a.) Greater in amount; larger; more.

(a.) Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.

(a.) More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.

(n.) Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.

(n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.

(compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.

(compar.) More correctly or thoroughly.

(compar.) In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.

(compar.) More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.

(a.) To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.

(a.) To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.

(a.) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.

(a.) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.

(v. i.) To become better; to improve.

(n.) One who bets or lays a wager.

(n.) One who bets; a better.

(n.) A toper; a boozer.

(n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

(n.) One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

(n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

(n.) An archer; one who uses bow.

(n.) One who makes or sells bows.

(n.) A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

(n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

(v. i.) To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

(v. i.) To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

(v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

(n.) A skirmish; an encounter.

(n.) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

(n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

(v. t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

(v. i.) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

(n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

(n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.

(n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.

(n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.

(n.) One who bids or offers a price.

(n.) A rhetorician.

(n.) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

(n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

(n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.

(n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.

(n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.

(n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.

(n.) One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

(n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

(n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.

(n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.

(v. t.) To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.

(n.) One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.

(n.) A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.

(n.) One who, or that which, rids.

(n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.

(n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.

(n.) A forcible oath or lie.

(n.) A raptor.

(n.) A ravisher; a plunderer.

(n.) A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

(n.) See Reaver.

(n.) One who rifles; a robber.

(n.) A rafter.

(n.) A thin slice of bacon.

(n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).

(n.) Razor.

(n.) One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.

(n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

(n.) One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.

(a.) Prior; earlier; former.

(a.) Earlier; sooner; before.

(a.) More readily or willingly; preferably.

(a.) On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead.

(a.) Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat.

(a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.

(a.) In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp.

(n.) An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer.

(v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

(v. t.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

(n.) Alt. of Moulder

(v. i.) Alt. of Moulder

(v. t.) Alt. of Moulder

(n.) A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

(n.) One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.

(n.) One who shows or exhibits.

(n.) That which shows; a mirror.

(n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.

(n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.

(n.) A copious supply bestowed.

(v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.

(v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.

(v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.

(v. t.) To banish or drive from a country.

(v. i.) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

(a.) Alt. of Siker

(adv.) Alt. of Siker

(n.) One who, or that which, sifts.

(n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.

(v. i.) Same as

(n.) One who sighs.

(a.) Smeared over.

(n.) AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

(v. t.) Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

(v. t.) Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.

(v. t.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.

(v. t.) Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.

(v. t.) Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.

(n.) Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.

(v. t.) To make bitter.

(n.) One who signs or subscribes his name; as, a memorial with a hundred signers.

(n.) Alt. of Signore

(n.) Silver.

(n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.

(n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.

(n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.

(n.) The color of silver.

(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.

(a.) Resembling silver.

(a.) Bright; resplendent; white.

(a.) Precious; costly.

(a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.

(a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.

(v. t.) To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.

(v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.

(v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.

(v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.

(v. t.) To fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning or tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat.

(n.) Psalter.

(v.) One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

(v.) Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.

(n.) A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.

(n.) One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

(n.) A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.

(n.) The bowfin.

(n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.

(n.) One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.

(n.) One who or that which causes.

(n.) A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.

(n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

(n.) See Calker.

(n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

(a.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

(v. t.) To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general.

(v. t.) To set above or before something else in estimation, favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater favor; to choose rather; -- often followed by to, before, or above.

(v. t.) To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc.

(v. t.) To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass.

(v. t.) One who transacts business for another; an agent.

(v. t.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.

(v. t.) A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.

(v. t.) A dealer in secondhand goods.

(v. t.) A pimp or procurer.

(n.) A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

(n.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.

(n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.

(n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.

(n.) A critic; a reviewer.

(n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.

(n.) The middle or central portion of anything.

(n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.

(n.) The earth.

(n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

(n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.

(n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

(n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.

(v. i.) Alt. of Centre

(v. t.) Alt. of Centre

(n.) One who, or that which, scores.

(n.) Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.

(v. i.) a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.

(v. i.) One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit.

(v. t.) An assessor.

(n.) One who bucks ore.

(n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

(n.) A horse or mule that bucks.

(n.) One who budges.

(n.) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

(n.) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.

(n.) One who polishes with a buff.

(n.) A wheel for buffing; a buff.

(n.) A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.

(n.) One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

(n.) A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.

(n.) One who plays on a bugle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.

(n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

(n.) One who chafes.

(n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.

(n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.

(n.) An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.

(n.) A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.

(n.) A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.

(n.) That which bumps or causes a bump.

(n.) Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.

(n.) A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

(n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.

(n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.

(n.) A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.

(v. i.) To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.

(v. t.) To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.

(v. i.) To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.

(v. i.) To glimmer; to twinkle.

(n.) A constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.

(n.) One who, or that which, singes.

(n.) One employed to singe cloth.

(n.) A machine for singeing cloth.

(n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

(n.) One who, or that which, sinks.

(n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.

(n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

(n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.

(n.) One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.

(v. i.) To act as a sinner.

(n.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.

(n.) One who, or that which, opens.

(n.) One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.

(n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.

(n.) A wild ass, especially the koulan.

(n.) A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

(n.) One who collects tithes.

(n.) One who pays tithes.

(n.) A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

(v. t.) To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.

(n.) A restrained laugh.

(v. i.) To seesaw. See Teeter.

(n.) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.

(n.) One who, or that which, holds.

(n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.

(n.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

(n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.

(n.) One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.

(n.) A whoremonger.

(n.) One who toils, or labors painfully.

(n.) A toll gatherer.

(n.) One who tolls a bell.

(a.) Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work.

(n.) A barber.

(n.) One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn.

(n.) One who tacks.

(n.) One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.

(n.) That which is pointed like a tag.

(n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

(n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep.

(a.) One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.

(n.) A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.

(n.) One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

(n.) One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.

(n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.

(n.) One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

(n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

(n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.

(v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.

(v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.

(v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.

(n.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies.

(n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

(n.) A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.

(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.

(n.) The eelpout; guffer eel.

(n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.

(n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.

(n.) A guide; a director.

(n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.

(n.) See Tartarus.

(n.) A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer.

(n.) A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

(n.) One who imposes a task.

(n.) One who performs a task, as a day-laborer.

(n.) A laborer who receives his wages in kind.

(n.) One who gulls; a deceiver.

(n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.

(n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

(n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.

(n.) A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.

(n.) One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer.

(n.) A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.

(n.) The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.

(n.) The sea bream.

(n.) One who makes tatting.

(n.) A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.

(n.) One who gushes.

(n.) One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

(n.) One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

(n.) A boat driven by the tide.

(n.) One who, or that which, dubs.

(n.) A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.

(n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.

(n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner.

(n.) One who leads.

(n.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4.

(v. t.) To confuse or confound with noise.

(v. i.) To shiver or tremble; to dodder.

(n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

(n.) One who engages in a duel.

(n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.

(n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.

(n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

(n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dull

(n.) One who, or that which, dulls.

(n.) One who, or that which, seizes.

(n.) One who seizes, or takes possession.

(n.) Alt. of Cottar

(n.) A cottager; a cottier.

(n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.

(n.) A toggle.

(v. t.) To fasten with a cotter.

(v. i.) To run together; to meet.

(v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.

(v. i.) To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.

(v. i.) To assent; to consent.

(n.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

(n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

(n.) A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.

(v. t.) To bring together for comparison; to compare.

(v. t.) To grant as a possession; to bestow.

(v. t.) To contribute; to conduce.

(v. i.) To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.

(n.) One who sells.

(n.) The conger eel; -- called also congeree.

(n.) See Cosier.

(n.) One who sends.

(a.) More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

(a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.

(n.) A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

(n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

(n.) An aged person; an older.

(n.) One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

(n.) The water rat.

(n.) A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.

(n.) One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

(n.) See Caterer.

(n.) One who, or that which, soaks.

(n.) One who boasts; a braggart.

(n.) A hard drinker.

(a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

(n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

(n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine.

(n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.

(n.) One who craves or begs.

(n.) See Crare.

() A word compounded of so and ever, used in composition with who, what, where, when, how, etc., and indicating any out of all possible or supposable persons, things, places, times, ways, etc. It is sometimes used separate from the pronoun or adverb.

(n.) Alt. of Cantarro

(n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

(n.) A rapid or easy passing over.

(v. i.) To move in a canter.

(v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

(n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.

(n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

(n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.

(n.) A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.

(n.) Any loud and continued noise.

(n.) A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

(v. t.) To salute loudly.

(v. t.) To stun with noise.

(v. t.) To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.

(v. i.) To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands.

(n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.

(n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.

(n.) One who relies.

(n.) One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

(n.) A crowbar.

(n.) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

(n.) One who skates at a rink.

(n.) One who, or that which, rinses.

(n.) One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer.

(n.) One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3.

(n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.

(n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.

(n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

(n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.

(n.) One who risks or hazards.

(v. t.) To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock.

(n.) One who roams; a wanderer.

(n.) One who, or that which, roars.

(n.) A riotous fellow; a roaring boy.

(n.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2.

(n.) The barn owl.

(n.) One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

(n.) One who reads.

(n.) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.

(n.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.

(n.) A proof reader.

(n.) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.

(n.) One who reads much; one who is studious.

(n.) A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

(n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.

(n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.

(n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.

(n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.

(n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.

(n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.

(n.) Same as Rock shaft.

(n.) One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.

(n.) One who reaps.

(n.) A reaping machine.

(n.) One who, or that which, rears.

(n.) One who rends.

(v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.

(v. t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

(v. t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender.

(v. t.) Hence, to furnish; to contribute.

(v. t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.

(v. t.) To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.

(v. t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.

(v. t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.

(v. t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.

(v. t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.

(v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.

(n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.

(n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.

(n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.

(n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.

(n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.

(n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.

(n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.

(n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.

(n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.

(n.) One who reaves.

(v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.

(n.) A surrender.

(n.) A return; a payment of rent.

(n.) An account given; a statement.

(n.) A runner.

(n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

(v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.

(v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.

(v. i.) To return.

(v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.

(n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

(n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.

(v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.

(v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.

(n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.

(n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

(n.) One who puts on roofs.

(n.) A lodger.

(a.) At a greater distance; farther off.

(n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

(n.) A rosebush; roses, collectively.

(n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

(v. t.) To pour again.

(a.) Bovine.

(n.) A bovine beast.

(n.) A rudder.

(n.) One who, or that which, rouses.

(n.) Something very exciting or great.

(n.) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.

(n.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.

(n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

(n.) A ruler or governor.

(n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.

(n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.

(n.) The head master of a public school.

(n.) The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.

(n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.

(n.) One who nods; a drowsy person.

(n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.

(n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.

(n.) A sailor.

(n.) A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.

(n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

(n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps.

(n.) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].

(n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.

(n.) See Clover.

(n.) Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.

(n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.

(n.) One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.

(n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.

(n.) A salvor.

(n.) A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.

(n.) One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.

(n.) An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).

(a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.

(n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc.

(a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.

(a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.

(a.) Well-shaped; handsome.

(a.) Good-natured; obliging.

(n.) A race course: the ground run over.

(n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course.

(n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.

(n.) The flight of a hawk.

(v. i.) To move or run rapidly.

(n.) One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

(n.) One who carps; a caviler.

(n.) One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.

(n.) A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.

(n.) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.

(n.) A charioteer.

(n.) A man who drives a cart; a teamster.

(n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman

(n.) A British fish; the whiff.

(n.) An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.

(n.) One that brays like an ass.

(n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.

(n.) One who carves or divides meat at table.

(n.) A large knife for carving.

(n.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense.

(n.) One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

(n.) A thief.

(n.) One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.

(n.) That which bribes; a bribe.

(n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.

(n.) A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.

(n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets.

(n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.

(n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

(n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.

(n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape.

(n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.

(n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

(n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.

(n.) A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver.

(n.) Castoreum. See Castoreum.

(n.) A hat, esp. one made of beaver fur; a beaver.

(n.) A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.

(n.) See Caster, a small wheel.

(n.) the northernmost of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux.

(n.) Alt. of Castorite

(n.) An olive grove.

(n.) An olive tree.

(n.) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.

(n.) See Color.

(n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.

(n.) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.

(n.) One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

(n.) One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.

(n.) A porpoise.

(n.) See 2d Dubber.

(n.) One who serves.

(n.) A tray for dishes; a salver.

(n.) Authority; jurisdiction; control.

(n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

(n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

(n.) Difficulty; sparingness.

(n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.

(v. t.) To endanger.

(n.) Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.

(a.) Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.

(n.) One who mends by darning.

(n.) One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.

(n.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.

(n.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.

(n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.

(n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.

(n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.

(n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.

(n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.

(n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

(v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

(n.) That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.

(n.) A dashboard or splashboard.

(n.) One who makes an ostentatious parade.

(n.) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

(n.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

(n.) A low and gross flatterer.

(n.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

(n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

(n.) One who distributes cards to the players.

(n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.

(n.) One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.

(n.) One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.

(n.) A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.

(n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.

(n.) A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

(n.) One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.

(n.) A variety of pigeon.

(n.) A colter. See Colter.

(n.) A dove.

(n.) A culverin.

(v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.

(v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

(n.) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer.

(n.) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.

(n.) One who performs the operation of cupping.

(n.) A square. See 1st Squire.

(v. t.) See Squir.

(n.) An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India.

(n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.

(n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.

(n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.

(n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.

(n.) One who espies.

(n.) One who etches.

(n.) A player.

(n.) One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.

(n.) A horse used in drawing a stage.

(n.) One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.

(n.) A machine for calendering paper.

(n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

(n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.

(n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

(v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

(v. t.) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

(v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

(n.) One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

(n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.

(n.) One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.

(n.) One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.

(n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.

(n.) A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.

(n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.

(n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.

(n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.

(n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.

(n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.

(n.) One who, or that which, feels.

(n.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.

(n.) Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.

(n.) One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

(n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

(n.) Heather; heath.

(n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

(n.) One who teases or vexes.

(n.) A jager gull.

(v. t.) To clot or mat together like felt.

(n.) A caviler; a wrangler.

(n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.

(n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

(n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

(n.) Same as Tether.

(v. t.) Same as Tether.

(n.) One who teems, or brings forth.

(v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.

(v. t. & i.) One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm

(v. t. & i.) A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.

(v. t. & i.) Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.

(v. t. & i.) A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.

(v. t. & i.) Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.

(n.) One who, or that which, hooks.

(n.) A Dutch vessel with two masts.

(n.) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland.

(n.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

(n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

(n.) Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.

(n.) One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

(n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.

(n.) One who, or that which, hops.

(n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.

(n.) See Grasshopper, 2.

(n.) A game. See Hopscotch.

(n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

(n.) The larva of a cheese fly.

(n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.

(n.) Ohe who tosser.

(v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.

(v. i.) To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.

(n.) One who touses.

(n.) One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.

(n.) One who works or deal in horn or horns.

(n.) One who winds or blows the horn.

(n.) One who horns or cuckolds.

(n.) The British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus).

(n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

(n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

(n.) A familiar name for a dog.

(n.) One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

(n.) One who, or that which, traces.

(n.) A horse that jibs.

(n.) A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.

(n. & v.) One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.

(n. & v.) A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.

(n. & v.) A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.

(n. & v.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.

(n. & v.) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.

(n. & v.) A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).

(n.) A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).

(n.) One who works by the job.

(n.) A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber.

(n.) One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.

(n.) One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

(n.) One who jogs.

(prep.) Alt. of Maugre

(a.) Alt. of Meagre

(v. t.) Alt. of Meagre

(a.) To bewilder; to perplex.

(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.

(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.

(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

(n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.

(n.) A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.

(n. m.) Alt. of Lanneret

(v. t. & i.) To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.

(n.) A gudgeon.

(n.) A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety.

(n.) One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.

(n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.

(n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.

(n.) A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.

(n.) One who, or that which, warms.

(n.) One who warns; an admonisher.

(n.) A warrener.

(n.) One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

(n.) One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.

(n.) A catcher of larks.

(n.) One who indulges in a lark or frolic.

(n.) One who, or that which, washes.

(n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.

(n.) A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.

(n.) One who whips or lashes.

(n.) A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing.

(n.) A weir in a river.

(n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.

(n.) The common raccoon.

(n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2.

(n.) The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

(n.) Same as Radius vector.

(n.) A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.

(n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.

(v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.

(v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.

(n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

(n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.

(n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.

(v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.

(v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.

(v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.

(n.) One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.

(n.) A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

(v. t.) To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.

(v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.

(n.) An avenger.

(a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.

(a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second.

(a.) Recent; modern.

(a.) Last; latest; final.

(n.) One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.

(n.) The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.

(n.) The uterus, or womb.

(n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.

(n.) The lower part of the abdomen in insects.

(n.) A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.

(n.) One who lauds.

(v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.

(n.) A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line.

(n.) The quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science.

(v. t.) To take the spars, stakes, or bars from.

(n.) A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.

(n.) An elephant having large tusks.

(n.) Any plant which twines about a support.

(v. t.) To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain.

(n.) One who issues, emits, or publishes.

(v. i.) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter.

(v. t.) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French.

(n.) Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

(n.) One who jabbers.

(n.) See Jager.

(n.) One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag.

(n.) One who, or that which, jags; specifically: (a) jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. (b) A toothed chisel. See Jag, v. t.

(n.) A village or district the government and revenues of which are assigned to some person, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops.

(n.) A large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger.

(n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.

(v. t.) To raise; to erect.

(n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.

(v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.

(v. i.) To make an uproar.

(v. i.) To soar or mount up.

(n.) A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs.

(n.) Insurrection; commotion; disturbance.

(v. t.) To tear up.

(n.) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped / banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper.

(v. t.) To impoverish.

(n.) The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.

(v. t.) To confirm; to assure.

(v. t.) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum.

(n.) One who has the use of anything in trust for another.

(n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.

(n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a uvula.

(n.) A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.

(n.) A beater.

(n.) One who jerks or moves with a jerk.

(n.) A North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus).

(n.) The male of any species of goose.

(n.) One who oversees a gang of workmen.

(n.) One of the mandibles of a spider.

(n.) The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.

(n.) One who, or that which, falls.

(n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

(n.) A deceiver.

(n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

(v. t.) To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.

(v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

(v. & n.) To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.

(v. & n.) To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.

(v. & n.) To hesitate in purpose or action.

(v. & n.) To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.

(v. t.) To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.

(v. i.) Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.

(n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

(n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

(n.) Same as Bendlet.

(v. t.) To bind with a garter.

(v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter.

(n.) One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.

(v. t.) To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.

(n.) One whi sips.

(n.) Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

(n.) A Hindoo clerk or accountant.

(n.) A district or province; a circar.

(n.) The government; the supreme authority of the state.

(n.) A native chief in Hindostan; a headman.

(n.) A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.

(n.) A woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.

(n.) One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.

(v. t.) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

(n.) Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies.

(n.) One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.

(n.) A bird that sits or incubates.

(v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

(v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.

(v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left.

(a.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side.

(n.) One who skates.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

(n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.

(v. t.) To fasten with skewers.

(n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.

(n.) The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.

(n.) Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

(n.) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

(n.) A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.

(n.) An infant's breechcloth.

(v. t.) To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.

(v. t.) To put a diaper on (a child).

(v. i.) To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

(n.) See Dabchick.

(n.) A float to a fishing line.

(n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

(n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

(n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

(n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

(n.) The friar skate.

(v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

(v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

(v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

(v. i.) To practice physic.

(n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.

(v. t. & i.) To shake, tremble, or totter.

(n.) One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.

(n.) A small handbill.

(n.) See Corndodger.

(n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.

(n.) A dibble.

(n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.

(n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

(n.) A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.

(n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.

(v. i.) To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.

(v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.

(v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

(n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.

(n.) One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

(n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.

(n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.

(v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.

(n.) A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.

(n.) A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.

(n.) One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.

(n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

(v. i.) To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

(v. i.) To be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment; -- often with from or with.

(v. i.) To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend.

(v. t.) To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance.

(a.) See Slidder.

(n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.

(n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).

(n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.

(n.) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.

(n.) A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.

(n.) The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.

(n.) An Anabaptist or Baptist.

(n.) One who, or that which, digs.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

(n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.

(n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.

(n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.

(n.) Alt. of Dormer window

(n.) See Dosser.

(n.) A pannier, or basket.

(n.) A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.

(n.) One who, or that which, nips.

(n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.

(n.) A satirist.

(n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

(n.) The cunner.

(n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

(n.) A thief.

(n.) One who fans.

(n.) A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.

(v. t.) To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

(v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.

(v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

(v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

(v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

(v. t.) To gain; to win.

(v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.

(v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

(v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

(v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

(v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

(v. i.) To collect or bring things together.

(n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

(n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

(n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.

(n.) See Fakir.

(n.) One who, or that which, sorts.

(n.) A shoemaker; a cobbler.

(n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

(n.) One who spares.

(v. t.) To sear; to dry up.

(n.) A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.

(v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.

(v. t.) A fire poker.

(n.) One who spews.

(n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.

(n.) One who walls with stones.

(n.) One who seasons with spice.

(n.) One who deals in spice.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. See Illust. under Araneina.

(n.) Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).

(n.) An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.

(n.) A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.

(n.) A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc.

(n.) One who, or that which, curls.

(n.) A player at the game called curling.

(n.) One who curses.

(n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

(n.) One who, or that which, shades.

(n.) One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.

(n.) One who opines.

(n.) One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.

(n.) One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

(n.) That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.

(n.) A fore tooth; an incisor.

(n.) A boat used by ships of war.

(n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.

(n.) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.

(n.) A small, light one-horse sleigh.

(n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

(n.) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.

(n.) A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.

(n.) One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed.

(n.) One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.

(n.) That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object.

(n.) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank.

(n.) A machine with a vertically revolving cutter projecting above a flat table top, for cutting irregular outlines, moldings, etc.

(n.) One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.

(n. & v.) See Cipher.

(n.) One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

(n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.

(n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.

(n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

(n.) A tool or machine for shaving.

(n.) That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

(n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.

(n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.

(v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

(n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

(n.) One who digs, as with a spade.

(n.) Alt. of Dammara

(n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.

(n.) One who dances or who practices dancing.

(n.) One who shews. See Shower.

(n.) One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.

(n.) A small copper coin of insignificant value.

(n.) That which shines.

(n.) A luminary.

(n.) A bright piece of money.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.

(n.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.

(n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.

(n.) A thin slice; a shive.

(n.) A variety of blue slate.

(n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.

(n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.

(n.) A spindle.

(v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.

(v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.

(v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.

(v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

(n.) The act of shivering or trembling.

(n.) A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

(n.) A punster.

(n.) A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.

(n.) One who lays up or forms a store.

(n.) One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.

(n.) Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

(v. t.) One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.

(n.) One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.

(n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

(n.) One who farms

(n.) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.

(n.) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.

(n.) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.

(n.) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

(n.) One who gelds or castrates.

(n.) One who abstains from food.

(n.) Kind; sort.

(n.) Sex, male or female.

(n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

(n.) To beget; to engender.

(v. i.) To copulate; to breed.

(n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

(n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.

(n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.

(n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.

(n.) A senator of ancient Rome.

(n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.

(n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

(n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.

(n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

(v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.

(v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).

(v. t.) To provide with a father.

(n.) A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.

(n.) One who fawns; a sycophant.

(n.) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.

(n.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.

(n.) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.

(n.) The refined spirit; the quintessence.

(n.) Any cordial or substance which invigorates.

(n.) A tool. See 2d Frow.

(n.) One who elopes.

(n.) See Fodder, a weight.

(n.) One who, or that which, supplies fuel.

(n.) Dazzling brightness; splendor.

(v. t.) One whose occupation is to full cloth.

(a.) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.

(v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.

(n.) One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

(n.) Scurf; dandruff.

(v. t.) To impair.

(n.) A liar; a deceiver.

(n.) One addicted to idle talk.

(n.) One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

(n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic.

(n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.

(n.) A bar with an eye at one or both ends.

(v. t.) To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

(n.) A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.

(n.) One who gags.

(n.) A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.

(n.) One who gains.

(n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.

(n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.

(v. t.) To dress with gaiters.

(n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.

(n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

(n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.

(n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.

(v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

(v. t.) To make dear or beloved.

(v. t.) To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.

(n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

(conj.) Neither; nor.

(n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.

(n.) A small merchant vessel.

(v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

(n.) One who fars.

(n.) One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.

(n.) A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.

(v.) A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.

(n.) An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians.

(n.) A balky horse.

(v. i.) To speak rapidly and inarticulately.

(n.) One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.

(n.) A Dutch coin. See Guilder.

(n.) A guiler; deceiver.

(n.) Alt. of Gimmor

(n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.

(n.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.

(n.) The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.

(n.) Alt. of Gipsire

(n.) One who girds; a satirist.

(n.) One who, or that which, girds.

(n.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double.

(v. i.) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force.

(n.) One who wails or laments.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a rampart.

(n.) A vallar crown.

(n.) One who values; an appraiser.

(n.) One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.

(v. i.) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.

(v. i.) To neigh; to whinny.

(n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.

(n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.

(n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

(n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.

(n.) A lancet.

(n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.

(n.) One who walks; a pedestrian.

(n.) That with which one walks; a foot.

(n.) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.

(v. t.) A fuller of cloth.

(v. t.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.

(n.) One who builds walls.

(n.) The wels.

(v. i.) To roll or wallow; to welter.

(n.) One who lands, or makes a landing.

(n.) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.

(n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash.

(n.) A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like.

(v. t.) Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.

(v. i.) To toil.

(n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.

(n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.

(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva).

(n.) The burbot (Lota maculosa).

(n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.

(n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.

(n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.

(n.) A garden or orchard.

(n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.

(n.) That which wastes or diminishes.

(n.) The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.

(n.) A whiplash.

(n.) One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.

(n.) A weaver bird.

(n.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.

(n.) One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster.

(n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

(n.) One who goes first.

(n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.

(n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.

(n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

(n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.

(n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.

(n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

(n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.

(n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

(n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.

(n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

(n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

(n.) See Wether.

(n.) A versifier.

(n.) One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.

(n.) The turning factor of a quaternion.

(n. & v. t.) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

(n. & v. t.) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

(n.) An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask.

(n.) The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.

(v. i.) To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.

(n.) One who, or that which, echoes.

(n.) A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

(n.) One who forms; a maker; a creator.

(n.) A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.

(n.) A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.

(n.) A cutting die.

(a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.

(a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.

(a.) Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.

(v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

(v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.

(v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.

(v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.

(n.) A forester.

(n.) One who, or that which, fosters.

(n.) A wagonload; a load of any sort.

(n.) See Fodder, a unit of weight.

(v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.

(n.) One who, or that which makes even.

(n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

(n.) One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

(n.) A despicable fellow.

(n.) A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.

(n.) A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.

(n.) A strong or sweet scent.

(n.) One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.

(n.) A monk; also, a frater house.

(n.) A dog held by a leam.

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

(n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.

(n.) One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.

(n.) A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.

(n.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a).

(n.) Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.

(n.) The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of vespers; as, a vesper hymn; vesper bells.

(n.) One who, or that which, leaps.

(n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

(n.) One who leases or gleans.

(n.) A liar.

(n.) One who leaves, or withdraws.

(n.) A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

(v. i.) To practice lewdness.

(n.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.

(n.) A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.

(n.) One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.

(n.) One who welds, or wields.

(n.) A manager; an actual occupant.

(n.) The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of.

(n.) A destroyer.

(a.) Victorious.

(n.) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.

(n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.

(v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.

(v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.

(v. i.) To wither; to wilt.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.

(n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.

(n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

(n.) One who views or examines.

(n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.

(n.) The superintendent of a coal mine.

(n.) A castrated ram.

(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.

(n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.

(n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

(n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

(a.) See Stilar.

(v. i.) To prate; to jabber; to babble.

(v. i.) To flatter; to wheedle.

(n.) One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

(n.) A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.

(n.) One who, or that which, glides.

(n.) One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.

(v. i.) to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.

(n.) A flatterer.

(n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.

(v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.

(v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.

(v. t.) The person or thing that brings relief.

(n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

(n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.

(n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

(n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.

(n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.

(n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.

(n.) The remora.

(n.) The lumpfish.

(n.) The hagfish, or myxine.

(n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.

(n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

(n.) A hard drinker; a soaker.

(n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.

(n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.

(v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

(v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

(v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

(v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.

(v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.

(v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.

(v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.

(v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.

(v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

(n.) One who, or that which, gnaws.

(n.) A rodent.

(n.) The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.

(n.) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.

(v. t.) To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer.

(n.) One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.

(n.) Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.

(n.) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.

(n.) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.

(n.) One who sulks.

(n.) Alt. of Goitre

(n.) One who plays golf.

(v.) One who sums; one who casts up an account.

(n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.

(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

(v. i.) To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.

(v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

(n.) A summoner.

(n.) The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.

(n.) One who wills.

(n.) A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay.

(n.) One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.

(v. t.) To deprive of fairness or beauty.

(a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.

(v. t.) To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.

(v. t.) To deprive of hair, or of hairs; as, to unhair hides for leather.

(n.) One who, or that which, unites.

(n.) One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor.

(n.) One who, or that which, irons.

(v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.

(v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t.

(v. i.) To weigh anchor.

(prep.) Not near; not close to; at a distance from.

(v. t.) To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

(v. t.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.

(a.) Not fit or appropriate.

(n.) Diminution; injury.

(n.) Alt. of Pedler

(n.) See Peddler.

(n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.

(n.) One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks.

(n.) One who, or that which, joins.

(n.) One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings.

(n.) A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc.

(n.) One who, or that which, jolts.

(n.) One who jots down memoranda.

(n.) A memorandum book.

(n.) A dog with large jowls, as the beagle.

(n.) A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster.

(n.) One who meets.

(n.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.

(n.) The language of the Magyars.

(n.) An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise.

(n.) The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry.

(n.) The tattler.

(n.) One who yodels.

(adv.) At a distance, but within view.

(a.) Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon.

(n.) A young fellow; a younker.

(n.) A tice.

(n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.

(n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.

(n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.

(v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.

(n.) A blow taking away the breath.

(v. i.) To wither; to fail.

(n.) One who, or that which, hems with a needle.

(n.) An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.

(n.) A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.

(n.) One who, or that which, forces or drives.

(n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.

(n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.

(n.) A young salmon; a parr.

(n.) An herb.

(n.) A garden; a pleasure garden.

(n.) A herdsman.

(v. t.) To gast.

(n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

(n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.

(n.) The silversides.

(n.) The goldfish.

(v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

(n.) One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

(v. t.) Alt. of Tiddle

(a. & adv.) compar. of Fer.

(n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

(n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.

(n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.

(n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

(v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.

(v. t.) To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.

(v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.

(v. t.) To govern; to manage.

(v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.

(v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

(n.) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.

(n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

(n.) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.

(n.) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.

(n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.

(n.) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.

(n.) Middle state or course; mean; medium.

(n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

(v. i.) To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.

(v. i.) To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.

(n.) One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.

(n.) A male fallow deer gelded.

(n.) Heat; excessive warmth.

(n.) Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.

(n.) To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.

(n.) To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.

(v. t.) To cause to fester or rankle.

(n.) A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.

(n.) A festering or rankling.

(n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

(n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

(n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

(v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

(v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

(n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.

(n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.

(n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

(superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

(superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

(superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

(superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.

(superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

(superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.

(superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

(superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

(superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

(superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

(n.) Regard; care; kind concern.

(v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

(n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

(n.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.

(n.) See Hawser.

(n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

(n.) A kind of governor.

(n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.

(v. i.) To admit extension.

(v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

(n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

(n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer

(n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

(n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.

(n.) The malleus.

(n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.

(n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

(v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

(v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

(v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.

(v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

(v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

(n.) A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.

(v. t.) To put in a hamper.

(v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.

(n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

(n.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

(n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.

(n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.

(v. t.) To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear.

(n.) One who tells fibs.

(n.) One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession.

(n.) An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.

(n.) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.

(n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

(n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.

(n.) That by which a thing is suspended.

(n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.

(n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.

(n.) A bridle iron.

(n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.

(n.) A steep, wooded declivity.

(n.) One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.

(n.) A thill horse.

(n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.

(n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.

(v. i.) To pass through a filter; to percolate.

(n.) Same as Philter.

(n.) One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

(v. i.) To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.

(v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire.

(v. i.) To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit.

(v. t.) To veneer.

(n.) One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.

(n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.

(n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.

(n.) Same as Termer, 2.

(n.) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.

(v. t.) To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.

(v. t.) To touch lightly; to toy with.

(v. t.) To perform on an instrument of music.

(v. t.) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.

(v. t.) To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.

(v. t.) To execute, as any delicate work.

(v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.

(n.) A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.

(n.) Specif.: A lodging place; an inn.

(n.) The mansion of a heavenly body.

(n.) A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.

(n.) A mixing box materials.

(n.) To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought).

(v. i.) To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.

(n.) See 2d Terrier, 2.

(n.) A South African mullet, salted for food.

(n.) Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.

(n.) That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.

(n.) A finback whale.

(n.) A headpiece; a helmet.

(n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.

(n.) A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.

(n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.

(n.) See Harrier.

(n.) A player on the harp; a minstrel.

(n.) A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland.

(n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

(v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.

(n.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes.

(v. t.) To affect with tetter.

(n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.

(n.) One who fishes.

(n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."

(n.) One who fits or makes to fit;

(n.) One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.

(n.) One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.

(n.) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.

(n.) A little piece; a flitter; a flinder.

(v. t.) To tire or worry; -- out.

(n.) One who makes or sells hats.

(n.) One who hauls.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.

(n.) The palm of the hand.

(n.) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.

(n.) Behavior; demeanor.

(n.) One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.

(v. i.) To sell goods by outcry in the street.

(n.) A falconer.

(n.) A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

(v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

(n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.

(n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.

(n.) A young timber tree.

(v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.

(a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.

(a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.

(a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.

(v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.

(n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.

(n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.

(n.) The handle of anything.

(n.) A small drawer; a till.

(n.) One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.

(n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.

(n.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.

(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.

(v. t.) To surmount as a timber does.

(n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.

(n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

(n.) Fig.: Material for any structure.

(n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.

(n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.

(n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

(v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

(v. i.) To light on a tree.

(v. i.) To make a nest.

(adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

(adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.

(a.) Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.

(a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.

(n.) One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

(n.) One who hoaxes.

(v. t.) See Endear.

(n.) Same as 1st Timber.

(n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

(n.) One who, or that which, tinges.

(n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.

(n.) A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.

(n.) One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

(n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff.

(n.) A young mackerel about two years old.

(n.) The chub mackerel.

(n.) The silversides.

(n.) A skate.

(n.) The razor-billed auk.

(v. t.) To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.

(v. i.) To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.

(n.) One who works in a tin mine.

(n.) One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.

(n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.

(n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.

(n.) One who, or that which, melts.

(v. t.) To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

(n.) A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.

(n.) Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body

(n.) A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.

(n.) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the sign of equality.

(n.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.

(n.) Any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings.

(n.) One of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the society of Friends.

(n.) A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.

(n.) Alt. of Memoirs

(n.) One who winks.

(n.) A horse's blinder; a blinker.

(n.) One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.

(n.) One who judges.

(n.) An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers, or about five cents.

(n.) The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.

(n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.

(v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.

(v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.

(v. i.) Alt. of Zighyr

(n.) One who mends or repairs.

(n.) A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.

(n.) One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.

(n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]

(n.) Mother.

(n.) The governor of a province in Egypt, etc.

(n.) One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck.

(n.) See Zonar.

(n.) To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

(n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.

(n.) To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.

(v. t.) To cause to fade, and become dry.

(v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.

(v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.

(n.) A disputer of a mooted case.

(n.) One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.

(v. t.) To pucker.

(n.) One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as a voter.

(n.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.

(n.) Hence, a mayor or magistrate.

(n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.

(n.) Fluorine.

(n.) One who, or that which, primes

(n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.

(a.) First; original; primary.

(n.) Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.

(n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.

(n.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.

(v. t.) To weigh.

(v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.

(v. i.) To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.

(n.) A stick for stirring a tan vat.

(n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.

(n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.

(n.) One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.

(n.) One who remains or keeps in a place or position.

(n.) A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.

(n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.

(n.) See Keeve, n.

(n.) Regular order or proper condition.

(n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.

(n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.

(n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.

(n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

(n.) One who pieces; a patcher.

(n.) A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

(v. i.) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.

(v. t.) To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.

(n.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.

(n.) The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar.

(n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.

(n.) A dagger.

(n.) One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser.

(n.) One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.

(n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.

(n.) Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.

(n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.

(n.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

(a.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.

(n.) One who pills or plunders.

(n.) A hog.

(n.) The peanut (Arachis hypogaea); -- so called in the West Indies.

(n.) One who impounds; a poundkeeper.

(n.) A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.

(n.) A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.

(n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.

(n.) A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.

(n.) One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.

(n.) A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.

(n.) An apron with a bib; a pinafore.

(n.) A cloth band for a gown.

(n.) A pin maker.

(n.) One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t.

(n.) One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.

(n.) A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

(n.) Same as Hooker.

(n.) One who howls.

(n.) Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.

(n.) A bully; a blusterer.

(n.) One who hugs or embraces.

(v. t. & i.) To conceal; to lurk ambush.

(n.) One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.

(n.) Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.

(v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.

(v. i.) To part; to separate.

(v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.

(v. t.) To expose to the sun and wind.

(n.) A peanut.

(n.) One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.

(n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.

(v. t.) A fuller.

(v. t.) To tire; to weary; -- usually with out.

(n.) One who tugs.

(n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

(n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

(n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

(n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.

(n.) Same as Dunker.

(n.) See Plum Gouger.

(n.) A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.

(v. i.) To take supper; to sup.

(v. t.) To supply with supper.

(n.) One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.

(n.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.

(n.) A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.

(n.) The surf duck.

(n.) One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

(a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.

(n.) One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

(n.) An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.

(n.) One who boards.

(n.) One who boards others for hire.

(n.) One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.

(n. & v.) See Tabor.

(n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.

(n.) A humming bird.

(n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

(n.) Any strong eager desire.

(n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

(n.) To have an eager desire; to long.

(v. t.) To make hungry; to famish.

(n.) Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.

(n.) One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.

(n.) A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.

(n.) A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.

(n.) One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.

(n.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.

(n.) A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.

(n.) One who hurls, or plays at hurling.

(n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.

(n.) An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.

(n.) Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.

(n.) One who hurts or does harm.

(v. t.) A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

(n.) An usher.

(n.) Originally, one of the national cavalry of Hungary and Croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of European armies.

(v. t.) To stud as with stars.

(n. & v. i.) See Huckster.

(n.) See Ether.

(n.) That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius.

(n.) Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

(n.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

(n.) Action; endeavor.

(n.) A material object (vaguely designated).

(v. t.) To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse).

(v. t.) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

(v. t.) A show; a display.

(v. t.) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.

(v. t.) The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

(v. t.) Any assemblage or display; a gathering.

(v. t.) To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.

(n.) The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.

(n.) A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.

(n.) One who posts bills; a billposter.

(n.) One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.

(n.) A post horse.

(n.) A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

(n.) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

(n.) An intransitive verb.

(n.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

(n.) One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

(n.) A deceiver; an impostor.

(n.) A mocking bird.

(v. t. & i.) To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.

(n.) A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.

(n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

(v. i.) To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle.

(v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man.

(n.) A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle.

(n.) One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

(n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.

(n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.

(n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise.

(n.) A kier.

(n.) One who, or that which, pulls.

(n.) One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

(n.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.

(n.) One who prates.

(n.) One who prays; a supplicant.

(v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.

(v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.

(v. i.) The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.

(n.) See Pouter.

(n.) One who, or that which, proves.

(n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

(n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.

(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

(v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

(v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.

(n.) One who pours.

(n.) One who, or that which, pouts.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.

(v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.

(n.) Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.

(v. i.) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.

(v. t.) To harass and perplex; to worry.

(n.) One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.

(n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware.

(n.) One who pots meats or other eatables.

(n.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.

(v. i.) To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.

(v. i.) To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.

(n.) A writer of prose.

(n.) One who talks or writes tediously.

(a.) Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

(a.) Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites.

(a.) Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress.

(a.) Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome.

(a.) Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.

(a.) Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.

(a.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge.

(a.) Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.

(adv.) Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.

(n.) One who, or that which, kicks.

(n.) One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.

(n.) A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known.

(n.) A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.

(n.) One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time.

(n.) One who has attained great skill in the use or application of anything; as, a master of oratorical art.

(n.) A title given by courtesy, now commonly pronounced mister, except when given to boys; -- sometimes written Mister, but usually abbreviated to Mr.

(n.) A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy.

(n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel.

(n.) A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, esp. the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies.

(v. t.) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.

(v. t.) To gain the command of, so as to understand or apply; to become an adept in; as, to master a science.

(v. t.) To own; to posses.

(v. i.) To be skillful; to excel.

(n.) One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.

(v. t.) To confuse; to stupefy.

(n.) A priest who celebrates Mass.

(n.) A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

(n.) One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.

(n.) A charmer of women.

(n.) One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.

(n.) Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause.

(v. t.) To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.

(v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.

(n.) A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape.

(n.) Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.

(n.) Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.

(n.) One who lusts.

(n.) Alt. of Lustre

(v. t.) Alt. of Lustre

(n.) One who mars or injures.

(n.) One who lurks.

(n.) A small fishing boat.

(n.) One who or that which marks.

(n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.

(n.) A counter used in card playing and other games.

(n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.

(n.) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.

(n.) A wasting away of flesh; decay.

(a.) Alt. of Lumbal

(n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

(n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

(n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

(b. t.) To heap together in disorder.

(b. t.) To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

(v. i.) To move heavily, as if burdened.

(v. i.) To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

(v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

(n.) The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.

(n.) One who lumps.

(n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

(n.) See Louver.

(n.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

(n.) One who, or that which, lulls.

(n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.

(n.) See Mister, a trade.

(n.) Alt. of Louvre

(n.) Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

(n.) Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.

(n.) Customary method of acting; habit.

(n.) Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.

(n.) The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.

(n.) Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.

(n.) Sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.

(n.) One who lops or cuts off.

(v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.

(n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

(n.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

(n.) A plunderer.

(n.) See Louver.

(n.) One who, or that which, merges.

(n.) An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

(v. i.) To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully.

(n.) A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.

(n.) One who looks.

(n.) A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

(n.) Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.

(n.) An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

(n.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.

(n.) One who longs for anything.

(n.) One who limps.

(a.) Limber.

(n.) A limehound; a leamer.

(n.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.

(n.) A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute.

(n.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.

(n.) A painter; an artist

(n.) One who paints portraits.

(n.) One who illuminates books.

(n.) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.

(n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.

(n.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.

(v. t.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun.

(a.) Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.

(v. t.) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.

(v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.

(v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant.

(n.) One who lolls.

(n.) An idle vagabond.

(n.) A Lollard.

(n.) One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop.

(n.) One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.

(n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

(n.) One who impairs.

(n.) One who pelts.

(n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

(v. i.) To haggle.

(v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

(v. i.) To babble; to chatter.

(v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.

(v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl.

(v. i.) To sound with a low, rumbling noise.

(v. t.) To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats.

(n.) Repressed or obscure utterance.

(n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

(n.) One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader.

(n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.

(n.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

(n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.

(n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header.

(n.) One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

(n.) One who hears; an auditor.

(n.) One who, or that which, heats.

(n.) Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.

(n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

(n.) A bar used as a lever.

(n.) That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

(n.) That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.

(n.) That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.

(n.) That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.

(v. t.) To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

(n.) One who strips off the skin.

(n.) A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

(v. t.) To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.

(v. i.) To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.

(n.) One who, or that which, banishes or expels.

(n.) A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.

(n.) One who halts or limps; a cripple.

(n.) A strong strap or cord.

(n.) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse.

(n.) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose.

(v. t.) To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.

(n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.

(n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.

(n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.

(n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

(v. i.) To find fault; to be peevish.

(n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.

(n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.

(n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.

(n.) Numerousness; multitude.

(n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.

(n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.

(n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.

(n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

(n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.

(n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

(n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.

(n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

(n.) A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.

(n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

(n.) A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii), native of Nepaul and Thibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck.

(n.) A gatherer of nuts.

(a.) Less advanced in age than another; younger.

(a.) Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.

(a.) Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.

(n.) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

(n.) A younger person.

(n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.

(n.) A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

(n.) One who yields obedience.

(adv.) In passing; incidentally; by the way.

(n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.

(n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.

(n.) An adder.

(n.) One who needs anything.

(n.) See Leger, n., 2.

(n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.

(n.) The European widgeon.

(n.) One who lends.

(a.) Alt. of Lengest

(n.) One who, or that which, whines.

(a.) Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids.

(a.) Slowness; delay; sluggishness.

(n.) See Verger.

(n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.

(n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.

(n.) Same as 1st Wike.

(a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.

(a.) Less; smaller; inferior.

(adv.) Less.

(v. t.) One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease.

(n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.

(n.) One who retards or hinders.

(n.) A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.

(n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.

(n.) A writing; an inscription.

(n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.

(n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.

(n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.

(n.) A letter; an epistle.

(v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.

(a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.

(a.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.

(v. t.) To protract; to draw out.

(v. t.) To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.

(n.) One who levies.

(n.) A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.

(n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.

(n.) Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

(n.) One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.

(n.) A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.

(n.) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.

(n.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.

(n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.

(v. t.) To supply with liquor.

(v. t.) To grease.

(n.) One who lisps.

(n.) One who makes a list or roll.

(n.) Same as Leister.

(a.) Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.

(n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

(n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

(n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

(n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

(n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

(v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

(v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

(v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.

(v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

(v. i.) To produce a litter.

(n.) A lurcher.

(n.) One who, or that which, licks.

(n.) Liquor.

(n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.

(pl. ) of Lied

(n.) A resident ambassador.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.

(a.) Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.

(a.) Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.

(n.) One of the common people; a vulgar person.

(n.) The vernacular, or common language.

(n.) One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

(n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

(n.) One who, or that which, wafts.

(n.) A boat for passage.

(n.) A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

(n.) One who, or that which, lifts.

(n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.

(n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.

(a.) See Ledger, 2.

(n.) One who, or that which, locks.

(n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock.

(n.) One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.

(n.) A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.

(n.) A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

(n.) A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

(n.) A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

(n.) See Hostler.

(v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.

(v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.

(v. i.) To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.

(v. t.) To spatter; to sprinkle.

(v. i.) To mutter; as prayers.

(n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.

(n.) Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.

(n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.

(n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

(n.) One who pauses.

(n.) A paver.

(n.) One who paves; a paver.

(n.) A rammer for driving paving stones.

(n.) A brick or slab used for paving.

(n.) Alt. of Pawnor

(n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

(n.) See Octet.

(a.) Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.

(n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.

(n.) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin.

(v. t.) To bar out.

(n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.

(n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.

(conj.) Other.

(a.) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

(a.) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

(a.) Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.

(a.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

(v. i.) A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.

(v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice.

(v. i.) To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest.

(v. i.) To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; -- often with at or against.

(v. t.) To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales.

(n.) One who places or sets.

(n.) A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.

(n.) A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.

(n.) Alt. of Udalman

(n.) A laggard.

(n.) One who lacks or is in want.

(n. & v.) See Lacquer.

(v. i.) A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.

(v. i.) That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.

(n.) One who knows.

(n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

(n.) One who plays any game.

(n.) A dramatic actor.

(n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.

(n.) A gamester; a gambler.

(n.) The keeper of a park.

(v.) One who receives the profits, as of an estate.

(n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.

(n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.

(n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.

(n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.

(n.) Shingles.

(n.) That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.

(n.) A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle.

(v. i.) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

(v. i.) To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came.

(a.) Wonderful.

(adv.) Wonderfully.

(n.) A speaker.

(n.) A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

(n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.

(n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.

(v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.

(n.) A chamber lamp or light.

(n.) One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

(n.) A cow or other animal that gives milk.

(n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

(n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

(n.) One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.

(n.) A milling machine.

(n.) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.

(n.) The eagle ray.

(n.) The hen harrier.

(n.) A male fish.

(n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

(n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.

(n.) An old woman or matron.

(n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

(n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.

(a.) Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.

(v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

(n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.

(v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

(a.) Worse.

(n.) One who minces.

(n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.

(n.) One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.

(n.) An East Indian falcon. See Lugger.

(n.) A cat that catches mice.

(n.) One who pries about on the lookout for something.

(n.) One who mints.

(n.) One who, or that which, jumps.

(n.) A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

(n.) A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

(n.) The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

(n.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

(n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

(n.) A loose upper garment

(n.) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.

(n.) A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.

(n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

(n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

(n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

(n.) An instrument for scraping bones. Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272.

(n.) A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person.

(v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.

(n.) A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.

(n.) That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.

(n.) See Speculum.

(v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror.

(n.) One who, or that which, yaups.

(n.) A woman.

(n.) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.

(n.) A woman; a wife; a mother.

(n.) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.

(n.) One who, or that which, mulls.

(n.) A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

(n.) A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.

(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.

(v. t.) To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.

(n.) A trade, art, or occupation.

(n.) Manner; kind; sort.

(n.) Need; necessity.

(v. i.) To be needful or of use.

(n.) One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.

(n.) A beggar; a begging impostor.

(n.) A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

(n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

(n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

(n.) To destroy; to put an end to.

(n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

(a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.

(n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.

(n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.

(n.) One who pens; a writer.

(n.) A case for holding pens.

(n.) One who fastens with pegs.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds.

(n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.

(n.) Alt. of Plougher

(n.) One who parses.

(n.) One who, or which, parts or separates.

(v. t.) To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

(v. t.) To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest.

(n.) One who collects pods or pulse.

(n.) One who passes; a passenger.

(n.) A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.

(n.) Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

(n.) The jackdaw.

(n.) Alt. of Kafir

(n.) The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.

(n.) A small anchor; a kedge.

(n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.

(n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.

(n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.

(n.) The balancer of dipterous insects.

(n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.

(n.) Same as Pander.

(v. t.) To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.

(n.) One who pities.

(n.) A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.

(v. i.) To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.

(v. t.) To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.

(n.) A salmon after spawning.

(n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.

(v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.

(a.) Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

(n.) One who kisses.

(n.) See Kelter.

(n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.

(n.) The evening; Hesperus.

(a.) Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.

(a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.

(v. t.) One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

(n.) A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places.

(n.) A palmerworm.

(n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.