(a.) Full of cracks.

(a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.

(n.) A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.

(superl.) Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good-looking; handsome.

(superl.) Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.

(adv.) In a becoming manner.

(v. t.) To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

(v. t.) To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

(v. t.) To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.

(v. t.) To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.

(v. t.) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

(v. t.) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

(v. t.) To accompany; to convoy.

(v. i.) To play the thief; to steal.

(v. t.) To startle from quiet; to alarm.

(v. t.) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.

(v. t.) The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.

(v. t.) Alarm; terror; fright.

(v. t.) A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.

(v. t.) The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.

(a.) Want or defect of sight; blindness.

(a.) Consisting of arrows.

(a.) Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing.

(n.) The trachea or windpipe.

(n.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

(n.) Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce.

(n.) A depository for ashes.

(n.) A place where potash is made.

(adv.) In the manner of an aged person.

(n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

(n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

(n.) The place of business of am agent.

(adv.) Alt. of Anyways

(n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

(n.) Defective digestion, indigestion.

(v. t.) To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

(v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.

(v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

(v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

(v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.

(n.) Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

(n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

(n.) A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

(n.) The condition of being pure.

(n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.

(n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.

(n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.

(n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.

(n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

(v. t.) To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.

(v. t.) To procure; to get.

(v. i.) To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.

(v. i.) To pander; -- with to.

(adv.) In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.

(n.) Purslane.

(a.) Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.

(n.) An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

(n.) The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.

(n.) The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.

(n.) The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.

(n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

(n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.

(v. t.) To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.

(n.) The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.

(n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

(n.) A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.

(n.) Conveyance; means of transportation.

(n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.

(n.) Alt. of Cookie

(a.) Coolish; cool.

(adv.) In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.

(n.) Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.

(n.) A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.

(a.) Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.

(a.) Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.

(a.) Rough; clownish; surly.

(a.) Short and thick.

(a.) Rude; churlish; violent.

(n.) Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

(n.) An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.

(v. i.) To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

(v. i.) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

(v. i.) To fulfill; to accomplish.

(v. i.) To infold; to embrace.

(adv.) See Cozily.

(v. i.) Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.

(superl.) In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.

(a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.

(a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.

(adv.) In a soft manner.

(adv.) In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.

(v. t.) To frighten; to scare.

(n.) Personality.

(n.) Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.

(a.) Mad; frantic.

(v. t.) To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness

(a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.

(n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.

(a.) Adorned with fretwork.

(n.) Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.

(n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.

(n.) The institution or praactices of friars.

(n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.

(n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

(a.) Aborned with fringes.

(a.) Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.

(a.) Woody.

(a.) Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

(a.) Abounding in frogs.

(a.) Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.

(superl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.

(n.) A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

(n.) One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.

(n.) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.

(n.) A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

(n.) A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.

(n.) Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.

(n.) The violent spasms of a dying whale.

(v. t.) To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.

(a.) Fusty; musty.

(a.) Foolishly.

(adv.) Foolishly.

(adv.) In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.

(n.) One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

(n.) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

(n.) Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general.

(n.) See Peony.

(v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.

(a.) Covered with scum; of the nature of scum.

(superl.) Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.

(v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

(n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.

() Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

(adv.) In a busy manner.

(n.) Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.

(n.) Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.

(n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.

(a.) Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.

(a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.

(n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

(a.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.

() a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.

(a.) Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

(n.) Same as Checky.

(n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;

(n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France).

(n.) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).

(n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.

(n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.

(n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.

(a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

(a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

(v. t.) To reduce to a code, as laws.

(n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

(n.) The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

(adv.) In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.

(a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

(a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

(a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

(n.) A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

(n.) See Collie.

(a.) Full of chits or sprouts.

(a.) Childish; like a babe.

(n.) Excessive acuteness of sight.

(adv.) In an oval form.

(n.) A way out; exit.

(n.) Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty.

(n.) An abode or a haunt of owls.

(a.) Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.

(n.) A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.

(a.) Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool.

(a.) Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

(adv.) In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.

(n.) Alt. of Dinghy

(n.) A kind of boat used in the East Indies.

(n.) A ship's smallest boat.

(n.) See Dower.

(a.) Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.

(n.) A smithy.

(a.) Smirk; smirking.

(a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless.

(n.) The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.

(n.) Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

(superl.) Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

(adv.) In a smug manner.

(superl.) Soiled with smut; smutted.

(superl.) Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.

(superl.) Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying.

(superl.) Sorrowful; distressful.

(superl.) Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.

(a.) Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.

(adv.) In a dire manner.

(a.) Showy in dress; attentive to dress.

(a.) Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.

(a.) Snappish; cross; ill-tempered.

(a.) Snappish.

(n.) Like a sneak; sneaking.

(a.) Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind.

(a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

(a.) Snobbish.

(a.) Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.

(a.) Resembling a beast's snout.

(a.) Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.

(a.) Solar.

(adv.) Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.

(a.) Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.

(a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.

(a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.

(a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

(adv.) Soon.

(a.) Relating to, or containing, rubble.

(v. t.) To redden.

(adv.) In a racy manner.

(n.) Wantonness.

(n.) Alt. of Ambury

(n.) A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

(n.) A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

(v. t.) To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay.

(adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.

(n.) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

(a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

(n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.

(adv.) Without covering; nakedly.

(adv.) Without concealment or disguise.

(adv.) Merely; only.

(adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

(n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.

(n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

(n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.

(n.) A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

(adv.) In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

(adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

(v. t.) To convert into a salifiable base.

(n.) The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

(n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.

(n.) A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.

(n.) Same as Ambry.

(n.) A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.

(a.) Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.

(n.) The upland plover.

(n.) The old squaw.

(n.) Same as 1st Quarrel.

(a.) Quadrate; square.

(n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

(n.) A heap of game killed.

(n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.

(v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

(n.) A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).

(v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

(n.) See Ambry.

(adv.) In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly.

(a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.

(a.) Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.

(n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.

(n.) A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size.

(v. t. & i.) To argue pertinaciously.

(v. t. & i.) To signify.

(n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.

(a.) Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.

(n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

(n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms.

(n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords.

(n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.

(n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.

(n.) Debauchery; lewdness.

(v. t.) To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

(v. i.) To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.

(v. i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.

(v. t.) To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.

(v. t.) To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.

(a.) Affected by blasts; gusty.

(a.) Causing blast or injury.

(a.) Bleak.

(a.) Somewhat blear.

(a.) Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.

(n.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.

(n.) The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

(n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication.

(n.) Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.

(a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.

(n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

(a.) Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

(a.) Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

(a.) Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

(a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

(a.) Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

(v. t.) To stain with blood.

(a.) Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.

(a.) Covered with bloom, as fruit.

(a.) Blossomy.

(n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

(n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

(a.) Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

(a.) Weary.

(adv.) With a blue color.

(n.) An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

(n.) A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

(n.) A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.

(n.) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

(a.) Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

(a.) Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.

(n.) Finery of a kind to please a child.

(n.) An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

(a.) Full of blurs; blurred.

(a.) Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.

(a.) Of or relating to beeches.

(n.) Good friend; dear friend.

(n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

(n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

(n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

(n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended.

(n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

(n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.

(a.) Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.

(a.) Real; actual; put in execution.

(adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.

(adv.) In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below."

(adv.) In a bold manner.

(n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle.

(n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

(n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.

(n.) The trade of a baker.

(n.) The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

(adv.) Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

(a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.

(n.) Rudeness; ignorance.

(a.) Like resin; resinous.

(n.) A sort of Spanish wine.

(a.) Rumpled.

(n.) The channel of a stream.

(n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.

(v. i.) To make warm or hot.

(v. i.) To grow hot or warm.

(adv.) In a calm manner.

(n.) A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.

(n.) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

(a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.

(n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.

(n.) A canary bird.

(n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.

(n.) A quick and lively dance.

(v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.

(n.) Same as Reverie.

(a.) Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

(n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.

(n.) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.

(n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

(adv.) In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

(v. t.) To convert into, or make, good.

(n.) A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

(v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.

(v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.

(v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

(v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

(v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.

(v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

(v. t.) To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

(a.) Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.

(n.) A farm or plantation with its buildings.

(a.) Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

(v. t.) To soil. See Beray.

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

(a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

(a. & n.) The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.

(a. & n.) A book which treats of the science of botany.

(a.) Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.

(n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

(a.) Brackish.

(adv.) In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.

(n.) Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.

(a.) Having an active or vigorous mind.

(n.) Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.

(n.) That which is given generously or liberally.

(n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.

(n.) The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.

(n.) A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.

(a.) Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran.

(a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

(a.) Impudent; impudently bold.

(a.) Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.

(adv.) With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

(adv.) In a rich manner.

(v. t.) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.

(v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.

(adv.) In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.

(adv.) Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2.

(n.) The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

(n.) That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.

(adv.) In a rash manner; with precipitation.

(n.) Same as Rhatany.

(n.) To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination.

(adv.) Without uttering words or sounds; in a mute manner; silently.

(v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.

(v. t.) A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.

(a.) Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.

(a.) Abounding with shops.

(a.) Of or pertaining to shops, or one's own shop or business; as, shoppy talk.

(variant) of Disarray.

(v. t. & i.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

(n.) Alt. of Deployment

(n.) One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.

(n.) A member of the Chamber of Deputies.

(adv.) Secretly; grievously; mournfully.

(superl.) Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.

(superl.) Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.

(superl.) Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.

(superl.) Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

(adv.) In a sick manner or condition; ill.

(v. t.) To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

(v. t.) To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.

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

(n.) Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.

(a.) Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell.

(n.) An aromatic labiate plant (Satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory.

(n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)

(superl.) Affected with scabs; full of scabs.

(superl.) Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.

(a.) Full of briers; thorny.

(n.) A place where briers grow.

(n.) See Bryony.

(n.) A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.

(n.) Hollowness.

(n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

(n.) Blindness.

(n.) A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.

(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.

(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.

(n.) A sandal.

(a.) Bearing scars or marks of wounds.

(a.) Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.

(a.) Like bronze.

(a.) Inclined to brood.

(a.) Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.

(n.) See Sentry.

(n.) The chaffinch.

(v. i.) To go to school; to study.

(a.) Deserving scorn; paltry.

(a.) Brown or, somewhat brown.

(a.) Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

(n.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.

(a.) Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.

(pron.) Alt. of Cestui

(n.) A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

(a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.

(a.) Light or worthless as chaff.

(a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.

(a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

(a.) Swelling out in bunches.

(a.) Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.

(a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.

(n.) The most northern of the English Kings-at-arms. See King-at-arms, under King.

(n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

(adv.) In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.

(adv.) Plainly; without art or subtlety.

(adv.) Weakly; foolishly.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.

(a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.

(adv.) Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.

(adv.) Only; by one's self; alone.

(adv.) Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.

(adv.) Honestly; sincerely; simply.

(adv.) Singularly; peculiarly.

(adv.) In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy.

(adv.) Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently.

(n.) Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.

(n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.

(n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.

(v. t.) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.

(v. i.) To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.

(a.) Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.

(a.) Specked, as if plashed with color.

(n.) The science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and number.

(n.) A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.

(adv.) Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.

(adv.) Sacredly; inviolably.

(prep.) On this day; on the present day.

(n.) The present day.

(n.) Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate.

(n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.

(n.) Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome.

(adv.) Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed.

(n.) A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange.

(n.) A romping girl; a hoiden.

(n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

(n.) A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.

(n.) Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.

(a.) Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker.

(a.) Toothed; with teeth.

(superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.

(superl.) Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.

(a. & n.) See Tacky.

(v. t.) To broil; to grill; hence, To harass.

(a.) Grim; hideous; stern.

(adv.) In a grim manner; fiercely.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.

(a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.

(a.) Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

(a.) Spirited; resolute; unyielding.

(a.) Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.

(a.) Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.

(a.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse.

(n.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

(a.) Cross; sulky; sullen.

(adv.) In a tame manner.

(n.) A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.

(v. t.) Several; divers; more than one or two; various.

(v. t.) Separate; diverse.

(a.) Entangled; intricate.

(a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed.

(a.) Dirty; unclean.

(n.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.

(a.) Surly; dissatisfied; grouty.

(a.) Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight.

(a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.

(n.) An active and clever young fellow.

(a.) Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck.

(a.) Covered with sward or grass.

(a.) Swarthy; tawny.

(superl.) Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.

(adv.) In a tart manner; with acidity.

(superl.) Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.

(superl.) Conscious; cognizant.

(superl.) Condemned to payment.

(superl.) Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.

(superl.) Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.

(superl.) Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.

(n.) An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.

(a.) Moving with a sweeping motion.

(a.) Neatly; dexterously; nimbly.

(n.) The guillemot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.

(a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.

(a.) Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

(a.) Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.

(n.) Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.

(n.) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.

(n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.

(n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

(a. & n.) Same as Spooney.

(n.) A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities.

(superl.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.

(a.) Troubled; muddy.

(superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.

(superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

(superl.) Dull; stupid.

(n.) Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.

(a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.

(a.) Turbid; muddy.

(a.) Alt. of Druxy

(n.) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.

(superl.) Full of spunk; quick; spirited.

(adv.) In silence; mutely.

(n.) An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder.

(n.) An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.

(n.) A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire.

(n.) A count; an earl or lord.

(adv.) Snugly; comfortably.

(a.) Of six; belonging to six; containing six.

(a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.

(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.

(a.) Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.

(a.) Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.

(a.) Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.

(a.) Soiled with snuff.

(a.) Sulky; angry; vexed.

(adv.) In a snug manner; closely; safely.

() Affected with cramp.

() Productive of, or abounding in, cramps.

(a.) Full of spirit; crank.

(a.) Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.

(a.) Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.

(n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

(n.) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.

(v. i.) To crack into, or become full of, crannies.

(v. i.) To haunt, or enter by, crannies.

(a.) Quick; giddy; thoughtless.

(n.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

(n.) Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.

(a.) Creepy.

(n.) Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery.

(a.) Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.

(a.) Full of creases.

(adv.) In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.

(n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

(n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.

(n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.

(n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.

(Compar.) Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

(adv.) In a sage manner; wisely.

(n.) The act or practice of rioting; riot.

(adv.) Maturely; at the fit time.

(a.) Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.

(a.) Having rivers; as, a rivery country.

(n.) That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.

(n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.

(n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.

(n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.

(n.) Royalty.

(n.) Loyalty; faithfulness.

(n.) Reality.

(n.) Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.

(n.) Real estate; a piece of real property.

(adv.) Early.

(n.) A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine.

(a.) Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat.

(v. t.) To bury again.

(v. t.) To send back.

(n.) A sending back.

(n.) A gypsy.

(n.) The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies.

(n.) A place where ropes are made.

(n.) Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.

(adv.) In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.

(n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.

(n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.

(n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.

(n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.

(n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.

(adv.) In a rosy manner.

(a.) like rosin, or having its qualities.

(a.) Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.

(v. t.) To copy again.

(n.) A common hackney horse; a nag.

(a.) Round.

(v. t.) To render universal; to enlarge.

(n.) The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.

(a.) Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.

(a.) Saline

(n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.

(v. t.) To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

(v. t.) To combine or impregnate with a salt.

(v. t.) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid.

(a.) Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

(adv.) With taste of salt; in a salt manner.

(n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

(a.) See Cleche.

(a.) Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.

(n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.

(n.) Learning; also, a learned profession.

(n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy.

(a.) Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.

(a.) Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

(n.) The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

(a.) Apt to cling; adhesive.

(n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.

(a.) Consisting of clods; full of clods.

(a.) Clogging, or having power to clog.

(n.) Full of clots, or clods.

(a.) Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.

(n.) Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.

(n.) Consisting of a cloud or clouds.

(n.) Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.

(n.) Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.

(n.) Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.

(n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

(n.) Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.

(superl.) Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.

(superl.) Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.

(a.) Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.

(a.) Fresh; brisk; full of life.

(a.) Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.

(n.) The place where provisions are deposited.

(n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.

(n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.

(n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

(n.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

(n.) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.

(n.) The act or practice of duping.

(a.) Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.

(a.) Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.

(adv.) With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.

(adv.) With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.

(a.) Abounding in cresses.

(n.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.

(n.) The office or employment of a datary.

(n.) A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.

(a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

(a.) Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

(a.) Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.

(a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

(a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.

(a.) Subject to death; mortal.

(adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.

(adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally.

(adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively.

(adv.) Extremely.

(adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely.

(a.) Lonely; solitary.

(adv.) Royally.

(adv.) In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.

(a.) Smutty.

(adv.) In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.

(adv.) At a high rate or price; grievously.

(adv.) Exquisitely.

(a.) Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.

(n.) A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.

(a.) Full of crumb or crumbs.

(a.) Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

(a.) Brittle; crisp.

(a.) Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.

(a.) Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.

(n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

(n.) A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.

(adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

(adv.) Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.

(adv.) Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.

(adv.) Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.

(adv.) With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.

(v. t.) To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy.

(n.) The office or employment of a curate.

(n.) Hardness; firmness.

(n.) Harshness; cruelty.

(adv.) In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.

(a.) Much undersized.

(v. i.) To stray.

(n.) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.

(n.) Difficult or painful discharge of urine.

(n.) Turpitude; vileness.

(superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

(superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

(n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.

(n.) A place where skins are tawed.

(adv.) In a feeble manner.

(a.) Rough or broken, as if hacked.

(a.) Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the hackly fracture of metallic iron.

(n.) An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

(n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

(n.) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.

(n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.

(n.) Wildness; savageness; fierceness.

(n.) The body of nobles; the nobility.

(n.) Noble birth; nobility; dignity.

(n.) No person; no one; not anybody.

(n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.

(n.) See Hockey.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.

(a.) Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.

(a.) Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.

(a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.

(n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.

(n.) A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.

(n.) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.

(n.) A hostelry; an inn or lodging house.

(n.) A stable for horses.

(a.) Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.

(adv.) Every hour; frequently; continually.

(n.) Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.

(n.) A professional rider of horses in races.

(n.) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.

(n.) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.

(v. t.) " To jostle by riding against one."

(v. t.) To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.

(v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat.

(n.) A familiar diminutive of John.

(n.) A sculpin.

(a.) The middle part of the day; noon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.

(a.) Mangy.

(adv.) In a mazy manner.

(adv.) Moderately.

(adv.) In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.

(a.) Infected with measles.

(a.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.

(adv.) In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.

(n.) That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment.

(n.) One of the established characters in the old moralities and puppet shows. See Morality, n., 5.

(adv.) In a lank manner.

(a.) Full of vapors; vaporous.

(a.) Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.

(v. t.) To make different; to vary; to variegate.

(adv.) Cautiously; warily.

(adv.) In a wary manner.

(n.) A larder.

(adv.) In a warm manner; ardently.

(adv.) To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.

(a.) Arched; concave.

(v. t.) To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax.

(adv.) In the last place; in conclusion.

(adv.) at last; finally.

(adv.) Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.

(n.) Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.

(n.) The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase.

(a.) Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.

(a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

(a.) Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.

(a.) Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

(v. t.) To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.

(v. t.) To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

(superl.) Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.

(a.) Not blessed or happy; wretched; unfortunate.

(a.) Unseasonable; untimely.

(a.) Not tidy or neat; slovenly.

(a.) Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless.

(a.) Unexpected; unforeseen; unware.

(n.) Empery.

(n.) Tutorage.

(n.) Idle trifling; twaddle.

(a.) One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.

(a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty.

(n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.

(n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.

(n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.

(n.) The tricks of a jade.

(v. t.) To sustain; to support.

(v. t.) To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club.

(n.) Jesting; buffoonery.

(n.) Alt. of Jarvy

(superl.) Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.

(n.) A wandering or strolling.

(n.) Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose.

(n.) Excess; intemperance.

(n.) Inability to judge.

(n.) Undecided character of a disease.

(n.) Sharpness; keenness.

(adv.) Softly; quietly; gently.

(n.) See Gauntree.

(n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.

(n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.

(n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.

(n.) Capacity for performing work.

(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.

(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.

(v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

(v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.

(v. t.) To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

(v. i.) To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.

(a.) See Ghastful, Ghastly.

(a.) Alt. of Syrupy

(a.) Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.

(n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

(n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.

(v. i.) To squint.

(n.) A squint.

(n.) A rocky isle; an insulated rock.

(n.) The water rail.

(a.) Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.

(n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen.

(n. & v.) See Scurry.

(a.) Thick; viscous.

(a.) Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy.

(n.) Teachableness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.

(a.) Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.

(a.) Wet and dirty; slushy.

(n.) A maidservant.

(a.) Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.

(n.) Alt. of Dicky

(a.) Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.

(a.) Fawning and deceitful; sly.

(n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.

(n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.

(n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.

(n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.

(adv.) In a state of slimness; in a slim manner; slenderly.

(a.) Flimsy; frail.

(a.) Thin; lank.

(v. t.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense.

(v. t.) To tame; to domesticate.

(n.) Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.

(a.) Slippery.

(n.) A thing given to a sacred use.

(n.) An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.

(n.) A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.

(a.) Sluggish; slow.

(superl.) Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

() See Slush, Slushy.

(adv.) In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

(a.) Sluggish.

(n.) An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.

(a.) Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.

(a.) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.

(adv.) In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.

(adv.) Deceitfully.

(adv.) In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.

(a.) Made of steel; consisting of steel.

(a.) Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.

(a.) Steep; precipitous.

(a.) Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc.

(adv.) In a sour manner; with sourness.

(superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

(n.) An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.

(a.) Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose.

(n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

(n.) A state of opposition; hostility.

(a.) Having the form of a spear.

(a.) Still; quiet; calm.

(adv.) In a still manner; quietly; silently; softly.

(a.) Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.

(a.) Stinging; able to sting.

(superl.) Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

(n.) An anvil.

(n.) A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge.

(v. t.) To forge on an anvil.

(n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

(superl.) Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.

(a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.

(a.) Headstrong.

(a.) Wet.

(a.) Round; spherical; starlike.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spheres.

(n.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.

(n.) See Sacristy.

(n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.

(n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

(n.) Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment.

(adv.) In a curt manner.

(n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

(n.) Rough with long hair or wool.

(n.) Rough; rugged; jaggy.

(v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.

(v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.

(adv.) Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.

(n.) The chamois.

(n.) A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying.

(n.) See Shammy.

(n.) The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head.

(a.) Jaunty; showy.

(n.) A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.

(v. i.) To inhabit a shanty.

(a.) Having, or consisting of, shards.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.

(n.) Same as Sheelfa.

(a.) Bright; shining; radiant; sheen.

(n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

(n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.

(n.) A term of fondness.

(superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.

(superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.

(a.) Resembling sheep; sheepish.

(superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.

(superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.

(a.) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.

(a.) Full of strata of rock.

(a.) Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell.

(n.) A Shetland pony.

(a.) Sloping gradually; shelving.

(n.) A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.

(a.) Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.

(n.) The number ten; a division into ten.

(n.) A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius.

(a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.

(n.) A chemise.

(n.) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.

(n.) Hockey; shinney.

(n.) A fancy or liking.

(n.) A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.

(v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

(v. i.) To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

(v. i.) To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

(v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

(v. t.) Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

(a.) Disposed to shirk.

(a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places.

(n.) The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.

(n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.

(n.) A collection of nests.

(adv.) In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost.

(n.) See Story.

(superl.) Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.

(superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

(superl.) Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.

(n.) A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.

(a.) Thin and long; slim; slender.

(n.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

(n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.

(n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.

(n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

(n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

(v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.

(a.) Like, or suitable to, a monk.

(a.) Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.

(a.) The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

(a.) Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.

(adv.) Firmly; surely.

(a.) Same as Trappous.

(superl.) Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

(a.) Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.

(a.) Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.

(n.) The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.

(n.) An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.

(n.) A proposal tending to an agreement.

(n.) A treatise; a tract.

(adv.) In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply.

(adv.) In a gentle manner.

(a.) Birth; condition; rank by birth.

(a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.

(a.) Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

(n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.

(n.) Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.

(a.) Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

(a.) Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.

(a.) Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.

(a.) Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.

(superl.) Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

(superl.) Not firm or solid; soft; unstable.

(superl.) Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue.

(a.) Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.

(a.) Frowning; scowling.

(a.) Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.

(n.) Banishment.

(n.) Expiration.

(v. t.) To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.

(v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.

(n.) Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of smoke.

(v. t.) To employ.

(n.) Empire; sovereignty; dominion.

(v. t.) To inclose; to infold.

(v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.

(v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study.

(v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.

(n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

(adv.) Sourly; tartly.

(n.) Same as Gayety.

(a.) Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously.

(n.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars.

(n.) A splendid assemblage of persons or things.

(a.) Feeble; languid.

(adv.) In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.

(adv.) Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.

(adv.) Honestly; properly.

(adv.) In a plucky manner; spiritedly.

(n.) The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.

(n.) Any wheeled cart or carriage.

(a.) Abounding in tresses.

(a.) Prone to giggling.

(superl.) Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.

(n.) The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.

(n.) A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).

(adv.) In a vain manner; in vain.

(n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.

(n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.

(n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.

(a.) Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.

(n.) The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.

(n.) An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.

(adv.) In a nice manner.

(a.) Moist.

(a.) Same as 2d Molar.

(a.) One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.

(a.) An indefinite part; a small part.

(adv.) In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.

(superl.) Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.

(a.) The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

(a.) Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border.

(v. t.) To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.

(v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.

(v. t.) To maintain; to affirm; to support.

(adv.) In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly.

(n.) The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.

(n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.

(adv.) In a lazy manner.

(a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.

(a.) Very; true.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.

(a.) Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.

(n.) A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.

(adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.

(a.) Gross; low; unrefined.

(a.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

(adv.) With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

(adv.) Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.

(adv.) Readily; without reluctance; willingly.

(adv.) Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord.

(adv.) Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.

() Nobleness of birth.

(v. t.) To lie in wait for; to ambush.

(n.) A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth.

(n.) Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government.

(n.) Good or established order or arrangement.

(v. t.) To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.

(adv.) Therefore.

(conj.) Wherefore; because.

(v.) In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.

(adv.) With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.

(n.) Same as Ectopia.

(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill.

(adv.) In a strange, unearthly way.

(n.) Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.

(n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

(n.) One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

(adv.) Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

(n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.

(n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.

(n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.

(a.) Consisting of vetches or of pea straw.

(a.) Abounding with vetches.

(n.) A vicar.

(n.) Fault; defect; coarseness.

(a.) Alt. of Viewsome

(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

(a.) Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses.

(a.) Abounding with stubs.

(a.) Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles.

(a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.

(a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.

(a.) Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

(a.) Ill-ventilated; close.

(a.) Foolish; silly.

(a.) Full of stumps; hard; strong.

(a.) Short and thick; stubby.

(superl.) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.

(superl.) Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.

(superl.) Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.

(superl.) Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.

(n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.

(a.) Preferably; by choice.

(a.) With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly.

(a.) Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy.

(a.) Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.

(a.) Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.

(a.) Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.

(a.) Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.

(a.) Ichorous; thin; limpid.

(adv.) In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

(adv.) In a trim manner; nicely.

(adv.) In a triple manner.

(superl.) Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.

(superl.) Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

(adv.) By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly.

(adv.) That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular or specific designation.

(superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.

(superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

(adv.) In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

(a.) dark; gloomy; dismal.

(a.) Glum; sullen; sulky.

(n.) Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.

(adv.) In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.

(adv.) Nicely; delicately.

(adv.) Deceitfully; delusively.

(n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

(n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like.

(n.) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal.

(n.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

(n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

(n.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.

(n.) The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

(n.) Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.

(n.) A napkin or handkerchief.

(n.) Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.

(a.) Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

(a.) Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.

(a.) Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.

(superl.) Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.

(superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.

(superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.

(n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously.

(n.) The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a melee.

(n.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.

(n.) A cloth of mixed colors.

(a.) Mixed; of mixed material or color.

(a.) Mingled; confused.

(adv.) In an undue manner.

(a.) Not easy; difficult.

(a.) Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.

(a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.

(a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.

(n.) The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.

(v. t.) To form into fire.

(a.) Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious.

(v. i.) To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.

(n.) Want of piety.

(v. t.) To revoke or annul by prayer, as something previously prayed for.

(v. t.) To make wet or moist.

(n.) Linsey-woolsey.

(adv.) In a meek manner.

(adv.) Fitly; suitably; properly.

(n.) The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.

(a.) Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.

(a.) Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.

(a.) Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth.

(adv.) Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.

(a.) Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

(n.) A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the like; a minute distinction.

(prep.) Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.

(n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

(adv.) By means of this.

(adv.) Close by; very near.

(n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not

(n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.

(n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.

(n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

(n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

(n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

(n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

(n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

(n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

(n.) An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.

(n.) Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.

(n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.

(adv.) In a tidy manner.

(n.) The wren.

(n.) The goldcrest.

(adv.) In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.

(n.) A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

(n.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

(n.) Absence of thirst.

(n.) Tenaciousness; obstinacy.

(n.) A tender; an offer.

(a.) Feverish.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become tepid, or moderately warm.

(adv.) In a fickle manner.

(a.) Open, like a field.

(n.) A frolic; a vagary; a whim.

(superl.) Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

(n.) See Finery.

(adv.) In a fine or finished manner.

(n.) Fineness; beauty.

(n.) Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.

(n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

(a.) Occurring every term; as, a termly fee.

(adv.) Term by term; every term.

(a.) To make fine; to dress finically.

(adv.) In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

(adv.) Unwillingly; grudgingly.

(adv.) Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly.

(adv.) Severely; harshly; roughly.

(adv.) Confidently; hardily.

(adv.) Certainly; surely; indeed.

(n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.

(a.) See Techy.

(adv.) In a firm manner.

(a.) Having fitches or vetches.

(a.) Fitche.

(n.) Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.

(n.) Coherence of parts.

(a.) Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

(a.) Weak; flexible; limber.

(a.) Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple.

(a.) Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

(n.) See Hockey.

(adv.) In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.

() Alt. of Tilley seed

(a.) Unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate.

(superl.) Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.

(superl.) Keeping time or measure.

(adv.) Early; soon; in good season.

(a.) Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.

(n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

(n.) The stick used by the players.

(a.) Young.

(n.) The European yellow-hammer.

(n.) A place where grapes are converted into wine.

(n.) A melee; a conflict.

(n.) A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

(n.) A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.

(n.) The air or tune of a musical piece.

(n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

(n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

(n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

(n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

(n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.

(n.) A memorial.

(a.) Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.

(adv.) In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.

(a.) Pertaining to zinc, or having its appearance.

(adv.) According to desire; longingly; with wishes.

(adv.) Attentively; observingly.

(n.) Alt. of Mopsy

(a.) Short and thick, or fat.

(v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.

(b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

(a.) Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled.

(n.) The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.

(n.) Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.

(n.) Policy; art; management.

(n.) A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.

(superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.

(superl.) Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.

(superl.) Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.

(superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.

(superl.) Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.

(adv.) In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

(a.) Stiff and sharp; prickly.

(adv.) In a prim or precise manner.

(a.) Dappled.

(n.) A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

(a.) Pertaining to a prism.

(n.) A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.

(n.) A pigpen.

(adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.

(adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.

(adv.) Meanly; without spirit.

(adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.

(a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.

(n.) The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

(a.) Pimpled.

(n.) A pine forest; a grove of pines.

(n.) A hothouse in which pineapples are grown.

(a.) Swollen; gibbous.

(a.) Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.

(a.) Belonging to train oil.

(adv.) With humility; lowly.

(n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day.

(superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.

(superl.) Involving trust; as, a trusty business.

(a.) Truthful; likely; probable.

(a.) Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.

(adv.) Excellently.

(superl.) Pleasant; agreeable; desirable.

(superl.) Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.

(superl.) Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number.

(v. t.) To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

(v. i.) To rise in a tumor; to swell.

(n.) A dung fly.

(a.) Swelled in the legs.

(v. t.) To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.

(v. t.) To serve instead of; to take the place of.

(v. t.) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.

(v. t.) To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.

(n.) The act of supplying; supplial.

(a.) Having, abounding in, or decked with, daisies.

(n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.

(n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.

(n.) The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

(n.) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

(n.) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.

(a.) Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.

(n.) An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

(n.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

(n. & v.) Tourney.

(adv.) In a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly.

(adv.) Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely.

(n.) The state of being sure; certainty; security.

(n.) That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.

(n.) Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.

(n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.

(n.) Hence, a substitute; a hostage.

(n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.

(v. t.) To act as surety for.

(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.

(a.) Resembling grains; granular.

(v. t.) To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

(v. t.) To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.

(v. t.) To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.

(v. t.) To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast.

(v. t.) To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.

(n.) The act of surveying; a general view, as from above.

(n.) A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.

(n.) The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it.

(n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.

(a.) Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.

(a.) Resembling grass; green.

(a.) Same as Sirup, Sirupy.

(n.) The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.

(n.) The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.

(n.) Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.

(n.) The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. T () the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, //262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.

(v. t.) To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.

(superl.) Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.

(superl.) Smeared or defiled with grease.

(superl.) Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.

(superl.) Fat of body; bulky.

(superl.) Gross; indelicate; indecent.

(superl.) Affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. See Grease, n., 2.

(superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

(superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

(superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.

(v. t.) To infuse air into; to combine air with.

(v. t.) To change into an aeriform state.

(v. t.) To free from the body; to disembody.

(v. i.) To leave the body; to be disembodied; -- said of the soul or spirit.

(v. t.) To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose.

(v. t.) To deprive of the rank or rights of a city.

(a.) Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.

(a.) Bulky; corpulent.

(a.) Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.

(n.) A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

(n.) See Key way, under Key.

(v. t.) To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.

(v. t.) To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul.

(a.) See Powdery.

(n.) A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.

(v. t.) To say wrongly.

(v. t.) To speak evil of; to slander.

(v. i.) To speak ill.

(n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

(n.) Habit; disposition; sort; kind.

(n.) A waiter.

(a.) Containing, or like, lymph.

(n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.

(n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.

(n.) Lechery; lust.

(n.) Luxuriance; exuberance.

(a.) According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate.

(a.) Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed.

(a.) Used in play; sportive; playful.

(a.) Containing, or resembling, marble.

(n.) An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.

(n.) Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.

(n.) A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism.

(a.) Lunar.

(n.) The herb moonwort or "honesty".

(n.) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.

(a.) Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

(n.) A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.

(superl.) Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.

(superl.) Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.

(superl.) Loving; tender.

(superl.) Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.

(adv.) In a manner to please, or to excite love.

(n.) See Louver.

(a.) Alt. of Lothsome

(adv.) In a loud manner.

(superl.) Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.

(superl.) Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

(adv.) In a lordly manner.

(adv.) Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.

(adv.) Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.

(superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

(superl.) Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.

(superl.) Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.

(superl.) Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.

(adv.) With longing desire.

(adv.) For a long time; hence, wearisomely.

(a.) Alt. of Limsy

(a.) Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.

(a.) Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.

(a.) Similar; like; alike.

(a.) Such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome.

(a.) Having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.

(adv.) In all probability; probably.

(a.) Illuminated.

(n.) Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

(n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.

(a.) Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.

(n.) Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.

(a.) In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.

(superl.) Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.

(n.) Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination.

(n.) Violent commotion; tumult; strife.

(v. i.) To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.

(v. i.) To fall into strife; to quarrel.

(n.) The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).

(n.) Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.

(n.) A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

(n.) An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.

(n.) The science, as distinguished from the art; as, the theory and practice of medicine.

(n.) The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments.

(superl.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.

(superl.) Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber.

(superl.) Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.

(n.) Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

(a.) Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.

(a.) Fiery; vehement; impetuous.

(a.) Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.

(a.) Without taste or spirit.

(a.) Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills.

(adv.) In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly.

(a.) In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

(a.) Bloody; clotted.

(a.) Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.

(a.) Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

(n.) The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.

(superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

(superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.

(superl.) Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.

(superl.) Human.

(superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.

(a.) Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated.

(superl.) Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.

(n.) Thin or transfer paper.

(n.) A bank note.

(superl.) Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.

(a.) Unstable; fluttering.

(a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

(a.) Abounding with flocks; floccose.

(n.) Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.

(a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

(adv.) In an oral manner.

(adv.) By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally.

(n.) Newness; novelty.

(n.) The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.

(n.) That which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (Fine Arts), the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To render trifling or futile; to make silly.

(n.) Orbation.

(n.) The osprey.

(adv.) In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.

(adv.) In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.

(a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

(n.) See Origan.

(n.) A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NEbulE

(a.) Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

(n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.

(a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard.

(adv.) Necessarily; of necessity.

(a.) Circular; suitable to rotation.

(a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.

(a.) Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.

(v. t.) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.

(v. t.) To treat as vile; to despise.

(n.) Vileness; baseness.

(a.) Shelly.

(n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.

(n.) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.

(n.) A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.

(a.) Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish.

(n.) A vineyard.

(n.) A structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.

(n.) A place where wine is sold.

(a.) Full of whims; whimsical.

(n.) A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.

(n.) A whim.

(n.) A whimsey.

(v. i.) To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.

(n.) The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.

(a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.

(v. i.) To whir.

(n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.

(n.) Alt. of Whiskey

(v. t.) To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.

(n.) The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.

(adv.) In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.

(adv.) To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.

(n.) See Leatherwood.

(adv.) In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.

(adv.) Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ widely in opinion.

(a.) See Leachy.

(a.) Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy.

(n.) A vivarium.

(adv.) In a lively manner.

(v. t.) To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

(n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.

(n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.

(n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.

(n.) Linsey-woolsey.

(a.) Like a lion; fierce.

(n.) See Volery.

(n.) A flight of birds.

(n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.

(n.) A large bird cage; an aviary.

(n.) A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.

(n.) A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.

(n.) A return of the ball before it touches the ground.

(n.) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.

(v. t.) To discharge with, or as with, a volley.

(v. i.) To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.

(v. i.) To return the ball before it touches the ground.

(v. i.) To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.

(superl.) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

(superl.) Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth.

(superl.) Gay; airy; animated; spirited.

(superl.) Representing life; lifelike.

(superl.) Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.

(adv.) In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.

(adv.) With strong resemblance of life.

(a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.

(n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.

(n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

(n.) The writ by which possession is obtained.

(n.) Release from wardship; deliverance.

(n.) That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.

(n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.

(n.) The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.

(n.) Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London.

(n.) Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.

(n.) An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.

(n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.

(n.) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.

(n.) A low grade of wool.

(v. t.) To clothe in, or as in, livery.

(a.) Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

(a.) Loathsome.

(adv.) Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.

(adv.) Principally; chiefly.

(n.) The place where pastry is made.

(n.) Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

(n.) An osier bed.

(n.) Alt. of Ospray

(a.) Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.

(v. t.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

(v. t.) Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.

(v. i.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.

(n.) An alloy imitating gold or silver.

(v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

(v. t.) To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.

(v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.

(v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.

(v. t.) To use; to expend; to make use of.

(v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.

(v. i.) To hold possession; to be an occupant.

(v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.

(a.) Ocherous.

(n.) See Occamy.

(n.) Pain in the ear; otalgia.

(a.) Resembling a peach or peaches.

(n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

(n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.

(n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

(n.) Sale at public auction.

(a.) Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.

(a.) Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.

(v. t.) To surpass in flying; to fly beyond or faster than.

(a.) Full of pebbles; pebbled.

(v. t.) To lay out; to spread out; to display.

(n.) A laying out or expending.

(n.) That which is expended; expenditure.

(n.) An outlying haunt.

(v. t.) To outshine.

(v. i.) To spread out in array.

(n.) A potato.

(n.) A dark red color.

(a.) Of a dark red color.

(a.) Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, "He is so plaguy proud."

(v. t.) To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

(n.) Fruitfulness; copiousness; abundance; plenty.

(n.) The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness.

(v. t.) To disfigure; to make ugly.

(adv.) In an ugly manner; with deformity.

(a.) Ugly; loathsome.

(adv.) An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.

(v. t.) To make a lady of; to make ladylike.

(v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

(v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.

(v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

(v. t.) To weaken or impair.

(a.) Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.

(a.) Irregular; stubborn in particulars.

(a.) Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.

(superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

(superl.) Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.

(superl.) Difficult; intricate; perplexed.

(superl.) Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

(a.) Full of knots.

(a.) Flatly. See Plat, a.

(a.) Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.

(a.) Plentiful; abundant.

(n.) The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning.

(n.) Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.

(v. i.) To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace.

(n.) The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.

(n.) The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.

(a.) Being in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air.

(adv.) In the middle of the way or distance; half way.

(n.) Possessing might; having great power or authority.

(n.) Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.

(n.) Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc.

(n.) A warrior of great force and courage.

(adv.) In a great degree; very.

(adv.) In a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the woods or forest.

(a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.

(a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.

(a.) Clothed with wool.

(a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

(adv.) In a mild manner.

(adv.) For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

(n.) Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.

(n.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.

(n.) Of high station; of high social position.

(n.) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.

(v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.

(a.) Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

(a.) Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.

(n.) Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.

(n.) A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.

(n.) Hence, a jester, a fool.

(n.) Alt. of Motorial

(a.) Excessive.

(adv.) Excessively; extremely.

(n.) The common wren.

() See Mold, Molder, Moldy, etc.

(v. t.) To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

(v. t.) To degrade by speech or action.

(v.) The rise of a hawk after prey.

(a.) Very angry.

(adv.) In a yare manner.

(a.) Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy.

(n.) Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

(n.) Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

(n.) Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.

(v. t.) To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.

(v. t.) To lay in a place not recollected; to lose.

(v. t.) To dissatisfy.

(n.) Alt. of Moolley

(a.) Alt. of Moolley

(n.) A wrong way.

(v. t. & i.) To prepare for defense; to fortify.

(n.) Freedom; security; immunity.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.

(n.) A storehouse for bread.

(a.) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough.

(a.) Excessive; too much.

(adv.) In an overly manner.

(n.) A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.

(n.) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.

(v. t.) To write a parody upon; to burlesque.

(superl.) Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.

(a.) Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.

(a.) Plump; fat; sleek.

(adv.) In a pert manner.

(a.) Like plush; soft and shaggy.

(adv.) In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.

(a.) Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land

(n.) A young coalfish.

(n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

(n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.

(a.) In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately.

(n.) The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock.

(adv.) In a keen manner.

(v. t.) To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.

(a.) Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole.

(n.) Civil polity.

(n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.

(n.) The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.

(n.) Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.

(n.) Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.

(n.) Motive; object; inducement.

(v. t.) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

(n.) A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.

(n.) The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.

(n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.

(a.) Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.

(a.) Smeared with pitch.

(a.) Black; pitch-dark; dismal.

(a.) Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish.

(a.) Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper.

(a.) Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby.

(a.) Knotty; gnarled.

(superl.) Belonging to, suitable to, or becoming, a king; characteristic of, resembling, a king; directed or administered by a king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand.

(adv.) In a kingly or kinglike manner.

(n.) According to the kind or nature; natural.

(n.) Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.

(n.) Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.

(adv.) Naturally; fitly.

(adv.) In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.

(interj.) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

(n.) The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.

(n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

(adv.) In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

(adv.) Nicely; prettily.

(n.) The act or crime of a pirate.

(n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.

(n.)