(superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

(superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Choke

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

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

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

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

(n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

(n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

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

(n.) A long, curling wave.

(v. t.) To cumber.

(n.) Encumbrance.

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

(a.) Alt. of Cholinic

(v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

(v. t.) To wish; to desire; to prefer.

(v. i.) To make a selection; to decide.

(v. i.) To do otherwise.

(a.) Full of cracks.

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

(p. pr & vb. n.) of Come

(n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

(n.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.

(n.) A cord.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chore

(n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

(n.) See Choreus.

(n.) a trochee.

(n.) A tribrach.

(a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.

(n.) A convex body or surface.

(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.

(n.) A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

(v. t.) To preserve dry with sugar.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coo

(imp. & p. p.) of Cook

(n.) A female cook.

(n.) Alt. of Cookie

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

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

(n.) Same as Cooly.

(a.) Coolish; cool.

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

(n.) An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

(n.) A band of singers and dancers.

(n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.

(n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.

(n.) A company of singers singing in concert.

(n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

(n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

(n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

(v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

(pl. ) of Chose

(n.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.

(n.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

(n.) See Jowl.

(a.) Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.

(a.) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

(n.) Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

(n.) Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.

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

(v. t.) To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.

(n.) One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.

(n.) A trick; sham; imposition.

(n.) A swindler.

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

(n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

(n.) The same as Chrisom.

(n.) A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coop

(n.) See Coupe.

(v. t.) To share.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cope

(n.) A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

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

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

(n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.

(n.) Same as Chromium.

(n.) A copier.

(a.) Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A cop of thread.

(n.) Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

(n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.

(n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.

(pl. ) of Copy

(imp. & p. p.) of Copy

(v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

(v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

(v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

(v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.

(v. t.) To confound.

(v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent.

(v. t.) To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

(v. i.) To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.

(n.) See Courage

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

(v. t. & i.) To mix or mingle together; to blend.

(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.

(v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.

(v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.

(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

(v.) Profane; polluted.

(v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

(n.) The people; the community.

(n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

(n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

(n.) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.

(n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

(n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

(v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

(n.) Alt. of Corcule

(n.) Same as Cordelle.

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

(a.) Rough; clownish; surly.

(n.) The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.

(n.) Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.

(a.) Short and thick.

(v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.

(v. i.) To participate.

(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.

(v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

(n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

(n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.

(n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.

(n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.

(n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Core

(pl. ) of Corf

(a.) Rude; churlish; violent.

(n.) Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.

(n.) Same as Dermis.

(n.) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cork

(a.) having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

(n.) See Corm.

(n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corn

(n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

() Alt. of Chymistry

(n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).

(a.) Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.

(n.) A cicada. See Cicada.

(n.) A wax candle used in religous rites.

(n.) A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

(n.) An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

(pl. ) of Cornu

(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.

(n.) A kind of haircloth undergarment.

(n.) See Cilia.

(n.) A kind of confectionery or cake.

(n.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A girth.

(n.) Five; the number five in dice or cards.

(n.) See Center.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To decipher.

(v. t.) To designate by characters.

(n.) A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.

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

(n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

(n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.

(n.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.

(n.) A round body; a sphere; an orb.

(n.) Compass; circuit; inclosure.

(n.) A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.

(n.) A circular group of persons; a ring.

(n.) A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

(n.) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.

(n.) Indirect form of words; circumlocution.

(n.) A territorial division or district.

(n.) To move around; to revolve around.

(n.) To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.

(v. i.) To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.

(n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

(n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.

(n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.

(n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.

(n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.

(n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.

(n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.

(n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.

(n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.

(n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold.

(v. & n.) Crown.

(n.) Alt. of Corosso

(n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

(n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

(n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.

(n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.

(n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

(n.) A tendril or clasper.

(n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.

(n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.

(n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

(n.) See under Cloud.

(a.) Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.

(a.) See Cystic.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cite

(n.) A city woman

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a city.

(a.) Containing, or covered with, cities.

(n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

(n.) The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.

(n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

(n.) A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.

(v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.

(n.) A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.

(pl. ) of City

(n.) The science of civil government.

(v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

(v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

(v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

(v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

(v. t.) To call forth; to summon.

(v. i.) To make one yield or submit.

(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.

(n.) The corsak.

(n.) A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.

(n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.

(n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.

(v. t.) To inclose in corsets.

(n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

(n.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.

(n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

(n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.

() p. p. of Carve.

(n.) Alt. of Corvette

(n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

(n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

(n.) Nasal catarrh.

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

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

(n.) A tailor who botches his work.

(adv.) See Cozily.

(n.) Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

(n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.

(a.) Alt. of Cossical

(imp. & p. p.) of Con

(a.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

(a.) Relating to a costa, or rib.

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

(a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.

(v. t.) To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

(v. t.) To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.

(v. t.) To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.

(n.) The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.

(n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

(n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.

(n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.

(n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.

(n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.

(n.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.

(n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.

(n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.

(v. t.) To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.

(v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.

(v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.

(p. p. / a.) Furnished with a chape or chapes.

(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.

(v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.

(v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.

(v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.

(v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.

(v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.

(v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.

(v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.

(v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.

(v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.

(v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.

(v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.

(v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.

(v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.

(v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

(v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.

(v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.

(v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.

(v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.

(v. t.) Harm.

(v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.

(v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.

(v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.

(v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.

(v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.

(v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time

(v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.

(v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.

(v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.

(v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.

(n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.

(n.) Weight; import; value.

(n.) See Charge, n., 17.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chase

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.

(a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

(a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.

(a.) Unmarried.

(n.) The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coal

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

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

(n. & v.) See Chant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chaw

(a.) Alt. of Coarctate

(superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.

(superl.) Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.

(n.) See Chebacco.

(n.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coat

(n.) A coat with short flaps.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coax

(n.) One who coaxes.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Cob

(n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.

(n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.

(n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.

(n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.

(n.) A cobblestone.

(n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.

(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.

(v. t.) To make clumsily.

(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.

() a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.

(n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

(n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

(n.) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).

(n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

(n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.

(n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.

(n.) The European spotted flycatcher.

(n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).

(n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

(n.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.

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

(n.) Alt. of Chegre

(n.) See Chigoe.

(pl. ) of Chela

(imp. & p. p.) of Cock

(n.) A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice

(n.) The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone.

(n.) A chemist; an alchemist.

(n.) A solution of chloride of lime.

(a.) Chemical.

(n.) See Check.

(n.) Same as Checky.

(n.) Pert; saucy.

(n.) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.

(n.) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.

(n.) A measure for bread.

(n.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

(n.) A cockleshell.

(n.) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

(n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.

(n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.

(n.) The dome of a heating furnace.

(v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.

(n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

(n.) The Lotium, or darnel.

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

(n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.

(n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.

(n.) One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

(n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.

(v. i.) To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup.

(v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup.

(n.) A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.

(n.) See Cheetah.

(n.) A horse; hence, a support or frame.

(n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

(n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.

(n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.

(n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.

(n.) A gatherer of cods or peas.

(n.) One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

(n.) A senator; a counselor.

(n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.

(n.) An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen.

(n.) A river fish; the chub.

(n.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chew

(n.) One who chews.

(n.) A kind of meat pie.

(n.) Alt. of Chiasma

(v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling.

(v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

(n.) A miser or mean person.

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

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

(n.) A codifier; a maker of codes.

(n.) Alt. of Codling

(n.) A cavity.

(a.) Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.

(v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

(v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.

(v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.

(n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.

(n.) Contumely; reproach.

(n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.

(n.) One of the same age; a contemporary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) One who chides or quarrels.

(v. i.) See Cheve, v. i.

(n.) Alt. of Chigre

(n.) A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cog

(p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.

(p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.

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

(n.) A small fishing boat.

(n.) A cobblestone.

(n.) A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth.

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

(a.) To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.

(a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.

(a.) To suit; to agree; to fit.

(n.) See Coehorn.

(n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

(n.) Any band or body of warriors.

(n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.

(n.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.

(a.) Wearing a coif.

(n.) A quoin.

(n.) Alt. of Coigny

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Coil

(imp. & p. p.) of Coin

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

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

(v. t.) To join; to conjoin.

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

(n.) Bile; choler.

() An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.

(n.) A crafty fox.

(v. t.) To context.

(n.) See Chili.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Chime

(n.) One who chimes.

(n.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

(n.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chine

(a.) Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.

(a.) Broken in the back.

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

() A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.

(n.) A small collar or neckband.

(n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

(n.) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.

(n.) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

(n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.

(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.

(v. i.) To coo, as a pigeon.

(n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.

(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.

(n.) A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.

(n.) A part or piece of anything; a portion.

(n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

(n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

(n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

(a.) Full of chits or sprouts.

(a.) Childish; like a babe.

(n.) Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.

(n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

(n.) Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.

(n.) The capybara. See Capybara.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cable

(a.) Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.

(a.) Adorned with cabling.

(n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

(pl. ) of Cabman

(n.) The driver of a cab.

(n.) The pronghorn antelope.

(n.) Same as Cabree.

(n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

(n.) A seal, as of a letter.

(n.) A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

(v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

(v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.

(v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

(n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.

(n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.

(n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.

(n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.

(n.) A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.

(n.) A jackdaw.

(a.) Falling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cadge

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

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

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

(n.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.

(a.) Perishable; frail; transitory.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.

(a.) Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.

(n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.

(n.) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.

(n.) See Kaffir.

(n.) Alt. of Cafileh

(n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.

(v. t.) To clothe with a caftan.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cage

(n.) A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.

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

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

(n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.

(n.) See Cayman.

(n.) A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

(v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cake

(n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

(pl. ) of Calamus

(n.) A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.

(n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.

(n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.

(n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.

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

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

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

(n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence.

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

(a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

(n. pl.) See Calx.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.

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

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

(pl. ) of Calf

(n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.

(n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

(a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.

(n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.

(n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.

(imp. &p. p.) of Calk

(n.) One who calks.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Call

(n.) Same as Callet.

(n.) One who calls.

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

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

(n.) A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.

(v. i.) To rail or scold.

(a.) Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.

(a.) Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.

(a.) Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.

(n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.

(n.) Same as Callosity

(n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

(n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

(imp. & p. p.) of Calm

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

(adv.) In a calm manner.

(v. t.) See 2d Calk, v. t.

(imp. & p. p.) of Calve

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

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

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

(pl. ) of Calx

(pl. ) of Calx

(n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.

(n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.

(n.) A hood of other material than mail;

(n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

(n.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians.

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

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

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

(v. i.) To curve upward.

(pl. ) of Cameo

(n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

(n.) A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.

(n.) See Camass.

(imp. & p. p.) of Camp

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

(n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Can

(n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

(v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

(v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

(v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

(v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

(v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

(v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

(v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

(v. i.) The part thus suppressed.

(n.) State of citizenship.

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

(a.) White.

(a.) Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.

(a.) Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.

(n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.

(n.) That which gives light; a luminary.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cane

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.

(n.) A canine tooth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

() Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.

(imp. & p. p.) of Canoe

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cant

(n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

(n.) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

(n.) An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.

(n.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

(n.) Alt. of Catmint

(pl. ) of Catso

(n.) Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.

(n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

(n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.

(v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

(adv.) Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

(a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.

(n.) The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

(n.) A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

(v. t.) To make into caudle.

(v. t.) Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

(n.) A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle.

() imp. & p. p. of Catch.

(pl. ) of Caulis

(n.) An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.

(a.) Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.

(n.) A causal word or form of speech.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cause

(n.) One who or that which causes.

(n.) Caution; prudence; wariness.

(n.) Craft; deceit; falseness.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cave

(n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.

(n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

(n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.

(n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

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

(n.) Hollowness.

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

(v. i.) To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.

(pl. ) of Cavy

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caw

(n.) See Calker.

(n.) The south America alligator. See Alligator.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cease

(n.) Blindness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cede

(n.) Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

(n.) A scroll; a writing; a schedule.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ceil

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

(a.) See Coellac.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cell

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

(a.) Containing a cell or cells.

(pl. ) of Cello

(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.

(n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.

(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.

(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.

(n.) To unite firmly or closely.

(n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cense

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

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

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

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

(n.) A critic; a reviewer.

(n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

(n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

(n.) A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

(n.) Relating to a hundred.

(pl. ) of Cento

(pl. ) of Centrum

(n.) See Sentry.

(n.) Beebread.

(n.) An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tail.

(n.) See Cercopod.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cere

(a.) Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

(n.) Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.

(a.) Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

(n.) A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.

(n.) A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.

(n.) A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

(n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

(n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

(n.) The cere of birds.

(n.) A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

(n.) See Cerate.

(n.) A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.

(adv.) Certainly; in truth; verily.

(a.) Blue; cerulean.

(n.) White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.

(n.) A cosmetic containing white lead.

(n.) The native carbonate of lead.

(n.) The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cess

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

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

(v. t.) An assessor.

(n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

(n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.

(n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

(pron.) Alt. of Cestui

(pron.) He; the one.

(n.) See Caesura.

(n.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.

(n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.

(n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]

(imp. & p. p.) of Chafe

(n.) One who chafes.

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

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

(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.

(n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.

(n.) a carriage in general.

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

(n.) A bed blanket.

(n.) The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.

(n.) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

(v. t.) To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.

(v. t.) To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention.

(v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.

(v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.

(v. i.) To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.

(v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.

(v. t.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.

(v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.

(v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.

(v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.

(v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.

(v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due.

(v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.

(v. t.) A public house; an alehouse.

(v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.

(n.) A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

(n.) A game played by children with nuts.

(n.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

(n.) A covenant.

(n.) See Cottise.

(n.) A cottager; a cottier.

(n.) Alt. of Cotyle

(n.) A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.

(v. t.) Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

(v. t.) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

(n.) A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.

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

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

(n.) A stream

(n.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a caon, which has precipitous sides.

(v. t.) To combine or unite.

(v. i.) To concur; to agree.

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

(n.) Familiar talk or conversation.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Same as Comfit.

(v. t.) To fix; to fasten.

(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.

(a.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.

(n.) A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.

(a.) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

(a.) Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.

(a.) A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.

(a.) See Couple-close.

(a.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

(a.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.

(v.) To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.

(v.) To join in wedlock; to marry.

(v. i.) To come together as male and female; to copulate.

(n.) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.

(n.) A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

(n.) A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

(n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

(n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.

(n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

(n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

(n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

(n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

(n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

(n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

(n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

(n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

(n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

(n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

(n.) The menses.

(v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

(v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

(v. t.) To run through or over.

(v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

(v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cove

(n.) A convent or monastery.

(v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

(v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.

(v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.

(a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.

(a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cow

(n.) See Cowhage.

(n.) See Kauri.

(n. & v.) See Conge, Conge.

(n.) Boiled rice; rice gruel.

(n.) A jail; a lockup.

(v. t.) Timorous; fearful; cowardly.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.

(a.) Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.

(n.) The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.

(n.) Same as Kauri.

(n.) Alt. of Cowry

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coy

(a.) Somewhat coy or reserved.

(n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

(n.) See Cosier.

(adv.) Snugly; comfortably.

(n.) Alt. of Congo

(a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.

(n.) The water rat.

(n.) That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

(n.) Conic sections.

(n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.

(n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.

(n.) Infancy, or very early life.

(n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

(n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

(n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

(n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

(n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.

(n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.

(n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

(n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

(n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

(n.) A magnesian variety of dolomite.

(v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

(v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.

(v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

(v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

(v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

(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.

(v. t.) To connect.

(n.) Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

(n.) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.

(n.) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.

(a.) Resembling a cone; conoidal.

(n.) One who boasts; a braggart.

(a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.

(a.) A word rhyming with another word.

() Affected with cramp.

() Productive of, or abounding in, cramps.

(v. t.) See Craunch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crane

(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 garland carried before the bier of a maiden.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crape

(n.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

(n.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.

(n.) A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crate

(n.) A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.

(imp. & p. p.) of Crave

(n.) One who craves or begs.

(a.) Creepy.

(n.) See Crare.

(n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.

(n.) A crayon drawing.

(n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

(v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

(imp. & p. p.) of Craze

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

(a.) Creative; formative.

(n.) See Creese.

(n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.

(n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.

(v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.

(a.) Full of creases.

(a.) Created; composed; begotten.

(n.) Alt. of Cantarro

(a.) Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.

(a.) Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.

(n.) See Cantle.

(pl. ) of Canthus

(n.) A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part.

(n.) The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel.

(v. t.) To cut in pieces; to cut out from.

(a.) Alt. of Canulated

(n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

(n.) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

(n.) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.

(n.) Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.

(n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

(a.) Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cap

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

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

(n.) Any loud and continued noise.

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

(v. t.) To salute loudly.

(v. t.) To stun with noise.

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

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

(n.) As much as will fill a cap.

(n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

(n.) A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

(n.) The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given to similar wines made in the United States.

(n.) See under Tenant.

(n.) Wine with a mixture of honey and species.

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

(n.) A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.

(n.) See Capelin.

(n.) Alt. of Capling

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

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

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.

(n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

(n.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

(n.) See Letters clause / close, under Letter.

(n.) See Clevis.

(n.) See Clover.

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

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

(pl. ) of Clavis

(n.) A key; a glossary.

(n.) A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

(imp. & p. p.) of Claw

(a.) Furnished with claws.

(imp. & p. p.) of Clay

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

(pl. ) of Caput

(n.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.

(n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.

(n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite.

(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.

() of Cleave

(a.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

(a.) See Cleche.

(n.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Card

(n. & v. t.) See Clinch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Clepe

(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.

(n.) A clerk, a clergyman.

(a.) Same as Clerical.

(a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.

(n.) The heart.

(n.) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

(a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.

(a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.

(a.) Well-shaped; handsome.

(a.) Good-natured; obliging.

(n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

(n.) A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.

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

(n.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

(n.) A dependent; one under the protection of another.

(n.) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

(a.) Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

(v. i.) Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

(v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.

(v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.

(n.) A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Care

(v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

(v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.

(n.) A race course: the ground run over.

(n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course.

(n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.

(n.) The flight of a hawk.

(v. i.) To move or run rapidly.

(n.) A fast of forty days on bread and water.

(n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.

(v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

(v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.

(v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

(v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

(v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

(n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

(n.) A pun.

(n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

(a.) Apt to cling; adhesive.

(n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.

(n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.

(n.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.

(v. i.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

(v. i.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.

(n.) To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle.

(pl. ) of Carib

(n.) A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.

(n.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

(n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.

(n.) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

(v. i.) A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

(v. i.) To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.

(n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

(n.) A privy.

(n.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.

(a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

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

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

(pl. ) of Carolus

(imp. & p. p.) of Carp

(a.) Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist.

(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale.

(n.) Alt. of Carpellum

(a.) Having an irregular, convulsive motion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Close

(n.) See Carom.

(n.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.

(n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

(n.) A strolling gamester.

(v. t.) To make close.

(n.) One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.

(n.) A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.

(n.) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.

(n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

(n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.

(v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

(v. t.) To make into a closet for a secret interview.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cart

(n.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.

(n.) A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat.

(v. t.) To defy or challenge.

(n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.

(pl. ) of Cloth

(v. t.) To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.

(v. t.) To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.

(v. i.) To wear clothes.

(n.) Full of clots, or clods.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Carve

(n.) Same as Caravel.

(n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.

(a.) Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.

(n.) One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Case

(a.) Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.

(n.) A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin.

(n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.

(n.) Same as Casein.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cash

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cash

(n.) A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.

(n.) See Catechu.

(n.) The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

(n.) An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.

(n.) An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.

(pl. ) of Casino

(n.) A small country house.

(n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.

(n.) A game at cards. See Cassino.

(n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.

(n.) A kind of burial case.

(n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed

(n.) The body.

(n.) The tomb.

(n.) A book of selections.

(n.) A gasket. See Gasket.

(v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

(n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.

(p. p. & a.) from Cleave, v. t.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cloy

(n.) A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

(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.

(n.) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.

(n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.

(n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

(n.) The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.

(n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

(n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

(n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

(n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.

(n.) To close tightly; to clinch.

(v. i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.

(pl. ) of Clypeus

(pl. ) of Cnida

(a.) Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

(a.) Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.

(n.) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Catch

(n.) A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.

(n.) A chain or series of things connected with each other.

(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.) See Color.

(n.) An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

(n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.

(n.) A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.

(n.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

(n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column.

(n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

(n.) A small army.

(n.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

(n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

(n.) A perpendicular line of figures.

(n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.

(n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.

(pl. ) of Coly

(a.) Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Comb

(v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

(v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

(n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

(n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

(n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

(n.) A sufficient number to choose among.

(n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

(n.) The best part; that which is preferable.

(superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

(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.

(n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.

(n.) Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.

(n.) See Crenelle.

(n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

(n.) Same as Crenature.

(n.) A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.

(n.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]

(n.) One afflicted with cretinism.

(n.) A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.

(n.) The crawfish.

(n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

(n.) See Cruet.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the hair.

(a.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

(n.) Alt. of Crinet

(n.) A very fine, hairlike feather.

(v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

(v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

(n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.

(n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.

(n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

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

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

(pl. ) of Crissum

(n.) One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.

(n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.

(n.) The art of criticism.

(n.) An act of criticism; a critique.

(a.) Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.

(v. i.) To criticise; to play the critic.

(n.) A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

(n.) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora.

(n.) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.

(a.) Smutty.

(n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.

(n.) A crusader.

(n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.

(n.) The iron head of a tilting spear.

(n.) The coronet of a horse.

(n.) The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

(n.) A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.

(v. i.) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

(v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.

(v. t.) To sign with the cross; to bless.

(v. t.) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.

(n.) A crock; a jar.

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

() of Crow

(p. p.) of Crow

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

(v. i.) See Cruddle.

(n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

(n.) See Cruse, a small bottle.

(v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

(v. i.) To wander hither and thither on land.

(n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.

(n.) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel.

(a.) Full of crumb or crumbs.

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

(a.) Brittle; crisp.

(v. i.) To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

(v. i.) To grind or press with violence and noise.

(v. i.) To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

(v. t.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.

(n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

(n.) A crust or shell.

(n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.

(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.) A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.

(n.) A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

(n.) A knee, or piece of knee timber

(n.) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.

(v. t.) To support on crutches; to prop up.

(pl. ) of Crux

(pl. ) of Crux

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cry

(a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

(n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

(pl. ) of Canoe

(n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

(n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.

(n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cube

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chorus.

(a.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.

(n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.

(n.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

(n.) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.

(n.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.

(v. i.) To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.

(v. t.) To embrace closely; to fondle.

(n.) A close embrace.

(n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.

(v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.

(n.) The body.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cuff

(imp. & p. p.) of Cull

(n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.

(v. t.) Broken glass for remelting.

(n.) A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

(n.) A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.

(n.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.

(n.) Top; summit; acme.

(n.) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

(n.) A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.

(n.) Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

(n.) A colter. See Colter.

(n. sing. & pl.) Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.

(v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.

(v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

(n.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.

(n.) Same as Cumin.

(pl. ) of Cumulus

() Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.

(n.) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer.

(n.) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cup

(n.) As much as a cup will hold.

(n.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

(n.) A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

(n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

(n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

(n.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

(n.) One who performs the operation of cupping.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

(n.) Copper.

(n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

(n.) A sucker or acetabulum.

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

(n.) A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison.

(n.) One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Curb

(imp. & p. p.) of Curd

(imp. & p. p.) of Cool

(imp. & p. p.) of Cord

(a.) Bound or fastened with cords.

(a.) Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.

(a.) Made of cords.

(a.) Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface.

(a.) Bound about, or wound, with cords.

(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.

(n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.

(v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.

(v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.

(v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.

(v. t.) To congeal or thicken.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cure

(n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.

(n.) A utensil for covering the fire.

(n.) A cuirass.

() p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.

(pl. ) of Curio

(imp. & p. p.) of Curl

(a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).

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

(n.) A player at the game called curling.

(n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

(imp. & p. p.) of Curse

(a.) Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.

(n.) One who curses.

(n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

(a.) Curt; brief; laconic.

(n.) A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.

(adv.) In a curt manner.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.

(n.) A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.

(p. pr.) Alt. of Curvant

(imp. & p. p.) of Curve

(n.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

(n.) A prank; a frolic.

(n.) To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.

(n.) To leap and frisk; to frolic.

(v. t.) To cause to curvet.

(n.) The ringdove or wood pigeon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cusp

(n.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

(n.) A point; a sharp end.

(n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

(n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.

(n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

(n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.

(v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.

(v. t.) To supply with customers.

(v. i.) To have a custom.

(n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.

(n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.

(v. t.) To pay the customs of.

(n.) A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.

(n.) A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

(n.) A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

(n.) A knife.

(n.) Alt. of Cuttlefish

(n.) The chief police officer of a large city.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a blue color.

(n.) The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.

(n.) A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cycle

(a.) Alt. of Cyclical

() A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.

(n.) See Note under Cyclops, 1.

(n.) A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.

(n.) A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

(n.) A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.

(n.) A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

(a.) Having the form of a cyme.

(a.) Alt. of Cymous

(a.) Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

(n.) A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.

(n. & v.) See Cipher.

(n.) A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.

(a.) Inclosed in a cyst.

(a.) Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.

(a.) Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.

(a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.

(n.) One of the Cystidea.

(n.) A cyst. See Cyst.

(n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

(a.) Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

(n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.

(n. pl.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia. D () The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã178, 179, 229.