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

(a.) That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

(a.) Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

(n.) A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

(n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.

(v. t.) To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.

(v. t.) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

(v. i.) To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.

(v. i.) To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.

(v. i.) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

(n.) The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.

(n.) That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.

(n.) Hair arranged to be worn on the head.

(n.) See Coamings.

(n.) See Neurine.

(n.) A Hindoo caravansary.

(n.) One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chop

(n.) A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.

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

(v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.

(v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

(v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.

(v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

(v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

(v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

(v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

(v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.

(v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

(n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

(n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

(a.) Burnt; consumed.

(a.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun.

(pl. ) of Choragus

(imp. & p. p.) of Chord

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chord.

(n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.

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

(a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

(n.) Alt. of Choree

(n.) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.

(a.) Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer.

(n.) An aneroid barometer.

(n.) A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor.

(n.) A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel.

(a.) Alt. of Angelical

(a.) Of or derived from angelica; as, angelic acid; angelic ether.

(n.) A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.

(n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused.

(n.) A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.

(n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

(n.) The Angelus bell.

(imp. & p. p.) of Anger

(adv.) Angrily.

(n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles.

(n.) One of the Angles.

(adv.) In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.

(v. t.) To convert into English; to anglicize.

(n.) The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line.

(adv.) In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Affix

(pl. ) of Affix

(v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

(v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.

(v. t.) To make low or humble.

(p. p. & a.) Afflicted.

(n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

(v. t.) To distress with extreme pain or grief.

(a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

(a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

(a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.

(n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

(n.) An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

(n.) A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.

(v. t.) To reenforce; to strengthen.

(a.) Alt. of Aaronical

(n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

(n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.

(pl. ) of Abaculus

(n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

(n.) Hell; the bottomless pit.

(v. t.) To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

(v. t.) To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

(v. t.) To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

(n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.

(n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

(n.) An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

(p. pr.) of Affy

(adv. & a.) In a flaunting state or position.

(v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

(v. t.) To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

(n.) Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.

(v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

(v. t.) To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

(v. t.) To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.

(n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

(adv.) In the night time; at night.

(n.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

(n.) An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

(a.) Made from, or of the nature of, aniline.

(n.) The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.

(v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

(v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.

(v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.

(a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

(n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

(n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.

(n.) One who maintains the doctrine of animism.

(a.) Alt. of Animous

(a.) Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.

(n.) The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it.

(n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

(a.) Alt. of Annelidan

(imp. & p. p.) of Annex

(n.) One who annexes.

(n.) Alt. of Arnotto

(n.) A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Annoy

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

(a.) Annual.

(n.) A yearbook.

(a.) Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).

(n.) A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.

(a.) Banded or marked with circles.

(n.) A little ring.

(n.) A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.

(n.) A little circle borne as a charge.

(n.) A narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ.

(n.) A ring; a ringlike part or space.

(n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.

(n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.

(n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

(a.) Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

(a.) Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

(n.) Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.

(n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.

(n.) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.

(n.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Anomoura

(a.) Alt. of Anopsy

(n.) Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.

(a.) Not according to rule; abnormal.

(n.) Loss of the sense of smell.

(pron. & a.) One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

(pron. & a.) Not the same; different.

(pron. & a.) Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.

(a.) Having a handle.

(n. pl.) A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

(n.) A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.

(a.) Counteractive of acidity.

(a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.

(n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.

(n.) A preceding act.

(n.) An ornament fixed upon a frieze.

(n.) An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.

(n.) An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

(n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

() A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

(imp. & p. p.) of Array

(n.) One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

(a.) Resembling a flower; flowerlike.

(n.) A carbuncle.

(n.) A malignant pustule.

(n.) A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]

(n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

(n.) "That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.

(n.) The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.

(n.) The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

(n.) The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival.

(n.) An approach.

(imp. & p. p.) of Arrive

(n.) One who arrives.

(pl. ) of Arroyo

(n.) A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

(n.) A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches.

(n.) A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.

() of Antic

(n.) A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.

(n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.

(n.) Subject; matter; concern; distinct.

(n.) A distinct part.

(n.) A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.

(n.) Precise point of time; moment.

(n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.

(n.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage.

(n.) To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

(n.) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.

(n.) To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

(v. i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.

(adv.) Oddly; grotesquely.

(n.) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

(n.) One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist.

(n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.

(n.) One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

(a.) Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

(a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.

(a.) Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.

(a.) Nearest the stern.

(adv.) Toward the stern.

(prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.

(prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

(prep.) In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time.

(prep.) By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when.

(n.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

(n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts.

(n.) One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

(n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

(n.) A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum.

(n.) A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

(n.) A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

(a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

(n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

(a.) Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.

(a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.

(a.) Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

(a.) Odd; fantastic.

(a.) In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.

(n. pl) Alt. of Antoecians

(pl. ) of Ascidium

(n. pl.) Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

(n.) A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum.

(a.) Alt. of Ascitical

(v. t.) To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.

(v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.

(a.) See Adscript.

(a.) Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.

(n.) An aseptic substance.

(a.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

(a.) Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.

(n.) A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

(a.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

(n.) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

(n.) Eager desire.

(n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.

(a.) Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

(a.) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.

(a.) Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.

(n.) Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

(n.) A person of consideration or standing.

(n.) Goutweed.

(n.) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.

(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Asia.

(n.) Alt. of Assinego

(a.) Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.

(n.) An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage.

(a.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual.

(a.) cryptogamous.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate.

(v. t.) To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.

(a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

(n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.

(n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

(adv.) Alt. of Askant

(v. t.) To turn aside.

(a.) Not sounding or sounded.

(adv.) Anywise; at all.

(adv.) In any wise or way; at all.

(n. pl.) A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

(n.) An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

(n.) Same as Appanage.

(n.) A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

(n.) Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

(n.) The state of being an ape.

(adv.) Openly; clearly.

(pl. ) of Apery

(v. t.) To favor; to grace.

(n.) Grace; favor.

(a.) To please.

(v. t.) To make heavy; to aggravate.

(v. i.) To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

(v. t.) To set upon; to attack.

(n.) Aggression.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

(v. t.) To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character.

(n.) Alt. of Asphaltum

(v. t.) To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.

(n.) Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

(v. t.) To bring together in a group; to group.

(adv.) In an agile manner; nimbly.

(n.) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.

(n.) Activity; powerful agency.

(n.) Alt. of Agistor

(n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

(n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.

(v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

(v. t.) To move or actuate.

(v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.

(v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

(v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

(n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses.

(n.) Alt. of Aphasy

(a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

(pl. ) of Aphelion

(n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

(n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.

(a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.

(n. pl.) See Aphis.

(pl. ) of Aphis

(n.) Alt. of Aphony

(a.) Alt. of Aphonous

(n.) See under Calcite.

(n. pl.) Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

(a.) Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery.

(adv.) In pieces or to pieces.

(adv.) In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

(a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

(a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

(n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

(n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.

(pl. ) of Agnus

(n.) One who contends for the prize in public games.

(v. i.) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

(v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

(v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

(pl. ) of Agony

(n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

(n.) A hook or clasp.

(n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

(n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.

(n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.

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

(n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.

(n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.

(n.) In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.

(adv.) With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.

(n.) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

(n.) A cutting off; abscission.

(n.) The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing.

(v. t.) To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.

(v. i.) To practice theft; to steal.

(pl. ) of Purple

(imp. & p. p.) of Purple

(n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

(n.) Disguise; covering.

(n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.

(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.

(n.) Instance; example.

(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.

(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.

(adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

(n.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

(a.) Apodal; apod.

(a.) Apogean.

(n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.

(a.) Apogean.

(a.) Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

(n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.

(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

(n.) Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

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

(a.) Without female organs; male.

(n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

(adv.) Alt. of Ablins

(n.) Aid.

(n.) Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.

(n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.

(n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

(v. i.) To offer an apology.

(a.) Pursy.

(n.) The act of pursuit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pursue

(n.) One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.

(n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.

(v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.

(v. t.) A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.

(v. t.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.

(a.) Helpless; without aid.

(n.) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.

(n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

(a.) Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life.

(n.) Apoplexy.

(pl. ) of Aporia

(n. pl.) A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

(a.) Without pores.

(v. t.) Prosecution.

(n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.

(n.) The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.

(n.) Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.

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

(a.) Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

(a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

(a.) Resembling air.

(n.) A thoughtless, gay person.

(adv.) Alt. of Airwards

(n.) Alt. of Apostille

(n.) Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.

(n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

(n.) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.

(n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.

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

(n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

(adv. & a.) According to the fashion or prevailing mode.

(n.) A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode.

(a.) To the death; mortally.

(n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

(n.) See Inulin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Alarm

(a.) Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty.

(n.) The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

(n.) A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.

(n.) The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between Ã2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

(n.) The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone.

(n.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

(n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

(v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

(v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.

(v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

(v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

(n.) Alt. of Alaternus

(n.) The state of being winged.

(pl. ) of Albino

(n.) External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.

(n.) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

(n.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

(v. t.) To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.

(v. t.) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

(v. t.) To dress or clothe; to attire.

(v. t.) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

(n.) One who putties; a glazier.

(n.) The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game.

(n.) The European kite.

(n.) The buzzard.

(n.) The marsh harrier.

(n.) See Futtock.

(imp. & p. p.) of Putty

(imp. & p. p.) of Puzzle

(n.) A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pyaemia; of the nature of pyaemia.

(n.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

(pl. ) of Pygidium

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small.

(pl. ) of Pygmy

(n.) One of the Pygopodes.

(n.) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.

(n.) The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

(n.) A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.

(n.) The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

(n.) The white of an egg.

(n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

(n.) Same as Albumin.

(n.) A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.

(n.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

(v. t.) To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

(n.) Any moth of the family Pyralidae. The species are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth.

(n.) A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.

(n.) A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.

(n.) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.

(n.) The febrile condition.

(a.) Related to, or formed from, pyridin or its homologues; as, the pyridic bases.

(n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

(n.) The warden, or keeper of a jail.

(n.) A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.

(n.) An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

(n.) Same as Alcaid.

(n.) A fortress; also, a royal palace.

(n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

(n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.

(n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

(n.) See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.

(n.) Alt. of Alcohate

(n.) An impalpable powder.

(n.) The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

(n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

(n.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

(v. t.) To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

(n.) A hypothetical radical, C5H4N, regarded as the essential residue of pyridine, and analogous to phenyl.

(pl. ) of Pyrite

(n.) A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color.

(a.) Alt. of Pyritical

(n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form).

(n.) Electricity.

(n.) A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria.

(n.) The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

(n.) Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

(n.) Peril.

(v. t.) To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign.

(v. t.) To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve.

(v. i.) To express approbation loudly or significantly.

(n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.

(adv.) At full length; lengthwise.

(n.) A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse.

(adv.) In an alert manner; nimbly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

(n.) The science of digestion.

(n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.

(n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish.

(n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paper

(a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Paphos.

(n.) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose.

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

(n.) Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft.

(n.) See Popinjay, 1 (b).

(adv.) In a papal manner; popishly

(n.) The papacy.

(n.) A genus of plants, including the poppy.

(imp. & p. p.) of People

(a.) Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.

(n.) A settler; an inhabitant.

(a.) Relating to a comet.

(v. t.) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

(v. t.) To assist or help; to aid.

(v. t.) To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.

(n.) Assistance; relief; support.

(n.) Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.

(n.) A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.

(n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.

(n.) Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

(n.) A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum.

(a.) Relating to comedy.

(a.) Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.

(p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted.

(n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

(n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

(v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

(v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.

(v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

(v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.

(v. i.) To feast together; to be convivial.

(n.) A quest at a banquet.

(v. t.) To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.

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

(n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

(n.) A delicacy; a dainty.

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

(p.a.) Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.

(a.) Somewhat cool.

(n.) The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea).

(pl. ) of Coolie

(n.) The true skin, or cutis.

(n.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.

(n.) A singer in a choir; a chorister.

(a.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.

(n.) The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chouse

(n.) The power of exciting mirth; comicalness.

(n. pl.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.

(v. t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

(v. t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.

(v. t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.

(v. t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.

(v. t.) To direct to come; to bestow.

(v. i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.

(v. i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.

(n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.

(n.) The possession or exercise of authority.

(n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.

(n.) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.

(n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.

(n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.

(n.) The frontier of a country; confines.

(v. t.) To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.

(v. t.) To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.

(v. t.) To mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act.

(v. t.) To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will.

(n.) Commendation; praise.

(n.) Compliments; greetings.

(n.) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

(n.) A seller of fish.

(v. t.) To make a chowder of.

(n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.

(n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.

(n.) A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

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

(a.) Relating to a cooper; coopered.

(n.) The occupation of a cooper.

(n.) A striped satin made in India.

(n.) Alt. of Copaiva

(n.) A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba.

(v. i.) To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon.

(v. t.) To comment on.

(n.) A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.

(n.) A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.

(v. i.) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.

(n.) One of the Copepoda.

(a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.

(n.) One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.

(pl. ) of Chromo

(n.) A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.

(a.) Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

(n.) A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

(a.) Rising to a point; conical; copped.

(a.) Relating to time; according to time.

(a.) Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.

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

(a. & n.) From Copy, v.

(n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

(n.) A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

(n.) A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.

(a.) Having coral; covered with coral.

(a.) Chubby.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chuck

(imp. & p. p.) of Chuck

(n.) A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.

(n.) A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion

(n.) A chest of drawers or a bureau.

(n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.

(n.) A kind of close stool.

(n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet.

(n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.

(pl. ) of Corby

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

(n.) Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.

(a.) Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.

(v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.

(v. t.) To fondle; to cocker.

(n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

(v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

(imp. p. p.) of Chum

(n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.

(n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.

(n. pl.) Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.

(n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.

(n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground.

(a.) Proceeding from the heart.

(a.) Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.

(a.) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.

(n.) Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.

(n.) Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.

(n.) Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.

(a.) Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.

(imp. & p. p.) of Churn

(n.) A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

(v. t.) To commove; to disturb; to stir up.

(v. t.) To urge; to persuade; to incite.

(v. t.) To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle.

(v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

(v. i.) To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.

(n.) Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.

(n.) The commonalty; the common people.

(n.) A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement.

(n.) Absolute municipal self-government.

(n.) The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle.

(n.) A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.

(n.) A small fruit; a currant.

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

(n.) The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

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

(n.) Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

(pl. ) of Cornea

(a.) Pertaining to the cornea.

(n.) Alt. of Chutnee

(n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

(v. t. & i.) To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

(a.) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.

() Alt. of Chymistry

(v. t.) To form into chyme.

(a.) Of or pertaining to chyme.

(pl. ) of Ciborium

(pl. ) of Cicada

(pl. ) of Cicada

(n.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.

(v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.

(v. i.) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

(v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

(p. p. & a) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

(p. p. & a) Composed or made; -- with of.

(p. p. & a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

(p. p. & a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.

(v. t.) To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.

(v. t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

(n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.

(n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.

(a.) Alt. of Cornuted

(v. t.) To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold.

(n.) A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.

(n.) The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom.

(pl. ) of Corona

(n.) The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

(n.) A companion or companions.

(n.) An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.

(n.) Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.

(n.) Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.

(n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.

(n.) Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

(n.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.

(n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.

(n.) The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.

(v. t.) To accompany or go with; to be companion to.

(v. i.) To associate.

(v. i.) To be a gay companion.

(v. i.) To have sexual commerce.

(v. t.) To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.

(v. t.) To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.

(v. t.) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.

(v. i.) To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.

(v. i.) To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.

(n.) Comparison.

(n.) Illustration by comparison; simile.

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

(a.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

(n. pl.) One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.

(a.) Alt. of Ciliated

(a.) Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany.

(n.) The language of the Cimbri.

(n.) See Scimiter.

(pl. ) of Cimex

(a.) Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.

(n.) A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.

(v. t.) To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions.

(n.) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

(n.) An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.

(n.) An inclosed space; an area; extent.

(n.) Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.

(n.) Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.

(n.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.

(n.) An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.

(n.) A pair of compasses.

(n.) A circle; a continent.

(v. t.) To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.

(v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.

(v. t.) To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.

(v. t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.

(v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.

(a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

(imp. & p. p.) of Circle

(a.) Having the form of a circle; round.

(n.) A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a.

(n.) A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.

(n.) A round body; an orb.

(n.) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.

(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

(n.) Circumlocution.

(v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

(v. t.) To travel around.

() A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.

(pl. ) of Corona

(a.) Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).

(a.) Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.

(n.) A crown; wreath; garland.

(n.) The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.

(n.) A colonel.

(n.) The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.

(n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.

(n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.

(n.) The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.

(n.) The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.

(n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.

(n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.

(a.) Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.

(n.) Same as Cirrus.

(a.) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.

(a.) Resembling a tendril or cirrus.

(a.) Cirrose.

(a.) Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.

(a.) Varicose.

(n.) A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.

(n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.

(n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.

(a.) Capable of being cited.

(n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.

(n.) One who cites.

(n.) An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

(n.) See Cittern.

(n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.

(n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.

(n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.

(n.) One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.

(pl. ) of Corpus

(v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.

(v. t.) To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion.

(a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.

(v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

(v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

(v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.

(v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

(a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.

(n.) A salt of citric acid.

(a.) Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.

(n.) A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.

(n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.

(v. i.) To appear.

(v. i.) To appear in court personally or by attorney.

() An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.

(v. t.) To be equal with; to match.

(v. i.) Alt. of Compeir

(n.) A compendium; an epitome; a summary.

(n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.

(n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.

(n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.

(n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.

(n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.

(n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

(n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

(n.) Devotion to a sect.

(n.) One devoted to a sect; a soetary.

(a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

(a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.

(v. i.) To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.

(v. t.) To put together; to construct; to build.

(v. t.) To contain or comprise.

(v. t.) To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.

(v. t.) To write; to compose.

(n.) Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

(n.) Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.

(n.) Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

(a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.

(a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.

(a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.

(n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

(n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

(n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

(imp. & p. p.) of Secure

(n.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.

(v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.

(v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.

(v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

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

(n.) A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.

(v. t. & i.) To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.

(v. t.) To compose; to settle; to arrange.

(a.) See Compony.

(a.) Alt. of Compone

(a.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

(v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

(v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.

(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.

(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

(n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.

(v. t.) To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

(v. t.) To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.

(v. t.) To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.

(v. t.) To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.

(v. t.) To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.

(v. t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).

(v. i.) To come to terms.

(v. t.) To corrupt. See Corrupt.

(a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

(a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

(a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

(v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

(v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

(v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

(v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

(v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

(v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

(v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

(n. pl.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.

(imp. & p. p.) of Seduce

(n.) One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.

(n.) A mixture; a compound.

(n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.

(n.) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.

(n.) a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.

(n.) A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

(n.) A piratical vessel.

(n.) A corselet.

(n.) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.

(n.) A train of attendants; a procession.

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

(n.) A capsule.

(n.) A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.

(v. t.) To manure with compost.

(v. t.) To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.

(n.) A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.

(n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.

(n.) Alt. of Seedlop

(See) Seedsman.

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

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

(n.) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.

(adv.) In a silly manner.

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

(a.) Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

(n.) Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

(n.) Apprehension; judgment.

(n.) Alt. of Sipage

(n.) A female seer; a prophetess.

(imp.) of Seethe

(p. p.) of Seethe

(n.) A pot for boiling things; a boiler.

(n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

(n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

(n.) A counter.

(adv.) Neatly.

(n.) One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

(n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.

(n.) A segment gear.

(n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

(n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

(v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

(n. pl.) Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.

(v. t.) To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

(n.) Computation.

(n.) A mate, companion, or associate.

(n.) Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.

(n.) A disciple of Comte; a positivist.

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

(v. t.) To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm.

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

(n.) Expense; cost.

(n.) An apple, large and round like the head.

(n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.

(a.) Alt. of Costated

(v. i.) To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

(a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

(a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.

(a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

(n.) Fishing with a seine.

(a.) Alt. of Seismal

(a.) Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.

(n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

(n.) A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

(n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

(n.) Same as Pandour.

(n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

(n.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.

(n.) An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.

(n.) One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came.

(a.) See Panic, a.

(n.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.

(n.) The curvet of a horse.

(n.) The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

(n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

(n.) A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel.

(n.) The portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories; -- used, generally, for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.

(n.) An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

(a.) Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.

(a.) See Heptoic.

(pl. ) of Septulum

(n.) A septet.

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

(n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.

(n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.

(n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.

(a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.

(a.) Following as an effect; consequent.

(n.) A follower.

(n.) That which follows as a result; a sequence.

(a.) Somewhat soft.

(n.) See Softener.

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

(p. a. & vb. n.) from Dance.

(v. t.) To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dandle

(a.) Believing; giving credence; credulous.

(a.) Having credit or authority; credible.

(a.) Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard.

(pl. ) of Narrow

(a.) Alt. of Oppleted

(n.) Opposition.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oppose

(n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

(v. t.) To change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun.

(n.) A nurse.

(v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

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

(v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

(v. t.) To cherish; to comfort.

(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.

(v. i.) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

(v. i.) To gain nourishment.

(n.) A nurse.

(pl. ) of Nappy

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

(n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

(n.) Privileges; franchises; immunities.

(n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

(n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

(n.) Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

(n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

(n.) Generosity; liberality.

(pl. ) of Freeman

(n.) One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.

(n.) A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman.

(v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

(v. t.) To give assurance to.

(v. t.) To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.

(v. i.) To shine forth; to beam.

(imp. & p. p.) of Effuse

(adv.) Alt. of Eftsoons

(n.) Equality.

(n.) See Aegilops.

(n.) Egoism.

(n.) One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

(n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

(n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

(n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

(n.) Freight transportation, or freight line.

(a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

(v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

(pl. ) of Frenum

(imp. & p. p.) of Excite

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

(v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.

(n.) Outcry; clamor.

(n.) A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.

(v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.

(v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.

(n.) The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.

(n.) One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

(v. i.) To talk or write as an egotist.

(pl. ) of Fresco

(pl. ) of Fresh

(n. pl.) Matters to be excreted.

(v. t.) To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

(n.) An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.

(a.) Pacific. See Irenic.

(v. t.) To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

(v. t.) To refresh; to revive.

(v. t.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.

(v. i.) To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

(v. i.) To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.

(a.) A stream of fresh water.

(a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

(adv.) In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fret

(v. t.) To journey or pass thought.

(imp. & p. p.) of Excuse

(imp. & p. p.) of Eject

(n.) One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

(n.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.

(n.) One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

(n.) One who excuses or forgives another.

(v. t.) To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

(v. t.) To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

(v. t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.

(v. t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

(v. t.) Too put to death illegally; to kill.

(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.

(v. i.) To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.

(v. i.) To perform musically.

(a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.

(p. p. & a.) Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

(p. p. & a.) Agitated; vexed; worried.

(p. p. & a.) Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

(p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.

(a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.

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

(a.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.

(a.) Like a friar; inexperienced.

(n.) A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.

(v. i.) To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.

(v. i.) To totter.

(n.) Alt. of Friborgh

(n.) Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.

(n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.

(a.) Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.

(n.) A solid isomeric modification of olein.

(n.) A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elapse

(a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.

(a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.

(n.) An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

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

(a.) Eating out; consuming.

(pl. ) of Exedra

(n.) An exegetist.

(n.) An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.

(n.) A bushel basket.

(n.) Acting force; elasticity.

(n.) A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

(a.) Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elbow

(a.) Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands.

(n.) The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

(a.) Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.

(n.) One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.

(n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.

(n.) Any small vessel on the water.

(a.) Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.

(n.) A philosopher of the Eleatic school.

(imp. & p. p.) of Elect

(a.) See Eclectic.

(n.) The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exert

(imp. & p. p.) of Frill

(a.) Furnished with a frill or frills.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fringe

(a.) Furnished with a fringe.

(n.) One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.

(n.) Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

(n.) In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.

(n.) One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.

(a.) Pertaining to an election or to electors.

(n.) Alt. of Electer

(n.) The act of eating out or through.

(v. t.) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

(v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

(v. t.) To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.

(v. t.) To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.

(a.) Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

(a.) Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.

(n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

(n.) The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

(n.) One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.

(imp. & p. p.) of Frisk

(n.) One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.

(a.) The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

(n.) A kind of small ruffle.

(n.) The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Frit

(n.) See Exedra.

(v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.

(v. t.) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.

(v. t.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.

(n.) Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

(n.) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.

(a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

(a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

(a.) Same as Acerose.

(a.) Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.

(a.) Without antennae, as some insects.

(a.) Pertaining to a heap.

(n.) An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.

(n.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

(v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.

(v. t.) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

(v. t.) To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.

(v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.

(imp. & p. p.) of Friz

(pl. ) of Friz

(v. t.) To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.

(n.) A curl; a lock of hair crisped.

(a.) Alt. of Frizzy

(a.) Clothed in a frock.

(a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.

(a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

(a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.

(a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

(n.) Elegiac verse.

(n.) A write of elegies.

(v. t.) To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.

(pl. ) of Elegy

(n.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

(n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

(n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

(n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.

(n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.

(n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.

(n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.

(n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.

(n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.

(n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression.

(n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.

(n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.

(n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.

(n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.

(n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire

(n.) the conditions and movements of the air.

(n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.

(n.) The whole material composing the world.

(n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.

(v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles.

(v. t.) To constitute; to make up with elements.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exhume

(a.) Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.

(n.) Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.

(n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

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

(a.) Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exist

(a.) Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4.

(n.) A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.

(a.) Furnished with a pappus; downy.

(a.) Pappose.

(a.) Furnished with fronds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flout

(n.) One who flouts; a mocker.

(a.) Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums.

() Throughout.

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

(n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

(a.) Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

(a.) Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.

(a.) That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.

() a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.

(n.) A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.

(n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.

(n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thumb

(a.) Having thumbs.

(a.) Soiled by handling.

(n. pl.) A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thump

(n.) Fluency.

(n.) The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.

(a.) Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flunk

(a.) Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flush

(n.) A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

(n.) The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.

(v. t.) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.

(v. i.) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.

(n.) Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.

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

(n.) Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.

(n.) A performer on the flute; a flautist.

(n.) To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.

(n.) To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.

(n.) To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.

(v. t.) To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

(v. t.) To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.

(n.) The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.

(n.) Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.

(a.) Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

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

(a.) Fluxible.

(n.) The act of flowing.

(n.) The matter that flows.

(n.) Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.

(n.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.

(n.) A constantly varying indication.

(n.) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.

(n.) A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.

(a.) Flowing; also, wanting solidity.

(n.) The quality of being fluid.

(n.) Fluid matter.

(n.) A trap for catching flies.

(n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.

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

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

(n.) The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

(n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

(n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.

(n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.

(n.) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.

(n.) Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.

(n.) To utter violent denunciation.

(v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.

(a.) Pertaining to pleasure.

(a.) Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.

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

(a.) Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.

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

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

(pl. ) of Focus

(imp. & p. p.) of Focus

(a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.

(n.) One of the Fodientia.

(n.) The twaite.

(n.) Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.

(n.) A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.

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

(n.) One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.

(n.) A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking.

(v. t.) To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)

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

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

(adv.) In a foggy manner; obscurely.

(a.) Without fog; clear.

(n.) The principles and conduct of a fogy.

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

(n.) A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.

(a.) Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal.

(n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

(n.) The burbot of Lake Erie.

(n.) The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.

(a.) Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

(n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

(n.) A female heir.

(n.) Alt. of Hektometer

(n.) A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.

(n.) A foil.

(n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foist

(n.) One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.

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

(n.) See Faldage.

(n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

(n.) The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.

(n.) A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Admire

(a.) Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

(a.) Wonderful; also, admirable.

(n.) One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

(n.) The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.

(n.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.

(n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

(n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.

(v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

(a.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

(v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.

(v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.

(n.) A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)

(n.) A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.

(n.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

(a.) Having many leaves; leafy.

(a.) Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.

(a.) Foliose.

(pl. ) of Folium

(n.) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

(n.) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.

(n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.

(n.) A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet.

(pl. ) of Helix

(pl. ) of Helix

(pl. ) of Folly

(pl. ) of Fomes

(imp. & p. p.) of Fondle

(n.) One who fondles.

(a.) Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.

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

(n.) The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.

(n.) An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.

(v. t.) To make a fool of; to befool.

(a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.

(a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.

(a.) Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

(n.) A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek.

(n.) A hag of or fit for hell.

(v. t.) One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

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

(n.) Guidance; direction.

(n.) The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen.

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

(a.) Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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

(n.) Alt. of Helvite

(n.) A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

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

(a.) Same as Haematic.

(n.) A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.

(n.) Hematoxylin.

(n.) A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plash

(n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.

(n.) An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

(n.) A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

(n.) An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.

(n.) Trousers made of nankeen.

(n.) The supraorbital point.

(n.) The back or upper surface, as of a bird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Notch

(n.) The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, -- used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc.

(n.) One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha from petroleum; as, Boghead naphtha, from Boghead coal (obtained at Boghead, Scotland); crude naphtha, or light oil, from coal tar; wood naphtha, from wood, etc.

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

(pl. ) of Pelma

(n.) Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.

(a.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical.

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

(n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.

(n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.

(a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.

(v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

(pl. ) of Pagina

(a.) Consisting of pages.

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

(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paint

(a.) Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.

(a.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.

(n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.

(n.) The panther, or puma.

(n.) One whose occupation is to paint

(n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.

(n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.

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

(n.) The rank or dignity of a peer.

(n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.

(n.) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

(n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.

(n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.

(v. t.) To dry too much.

(a.) Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.

(v. t.) To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another).

(v. t. & i.) To gnaw all over, or on all sides.

(v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.

(Superl.) Uppermost; outermost.

(v. t.) To superintend; to oversee; to inspect.

(v. t.) To see; to observe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overfeed

(n.) A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.

(n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain.

(n.) A toad or frog.

(n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting.

(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.

(pl. ) of Paddy

(n.) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.

(n.) See Paduasoy.

(n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.

(n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.

(v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.

(pl. ) of Padrone

(n.) A patron; a protector.

(n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.

(n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Paganical

(adv.) In a pagan manner.

(n.) Same as Pehlevi.

(n.) Pyjama.

(n.) The quantity that a pail will hold.

(a.) Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.

(n.) Act or process of packing.

(n.) A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

(n.) A charge made for packing goods.

(n.) A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

(n.) The act or process of one who packs.

(n.) Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.

(n.) A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious

(n.) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.

(n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

(n.) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

(n.) Same as Filling.

(n.) A trick; collusion.

(pl. ) of Packman

(n.) One who bears a pack; a peddler.

(n.) Same as Paxwax.

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

(n.) The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

(n.) The material with which anything is padded.

(n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

(n.) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paddle

(v. t.) To convert into ozone, as oxygen.

(v. t.) To treat with ozone.

(a.) Pertaining to or containing, ozone. P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.

(n.) Alt. of Parchesi

(a.) Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.

(n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.

(v. t.) To crowd; to squeeze.

(n.) A mean fellow; a wretch.

(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.

(v. t. & v. i.) To scranch; to crunch.

(n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

(n.) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

(n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

(v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

(v. t.) To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

(v. t.) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scud

(v. i.) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scuff

(v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

(v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.

(n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

(n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.

(n.) A child's pinafore or bib.

(n.) A garden hoe.

() See Skulk, Skulker.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scull

(n.) One who chants; a singer or songster.

(n.) The chief singer of the chantry.

(n.) The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.

(n.) The hedge sparrow.

(n.) A chanter.

(n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

(n.) A chapel or altar so endowed.

(a.) Resembling chaos; confused.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chap

(n.) A hat or covering for the head.

(n.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.

(a.) Belonging to a burgh.

(n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

(n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

(n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.

(n.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

(n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.

(n.) One who sculls.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.

(n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.

(n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

(imp. & p. p.) of Scum

(v. i.) To void excrement.

(n.) Dung.

(v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.

(n.) A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

(n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.

(n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.

(n.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.

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

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

(pl. ) of Burman

(a.) Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.

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

(v. i.) To scumber.

(n.) Excrement; scumber.

(n.) An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

(v. t.) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

(v. i.) To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance.

(n.) A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.

(v.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

(n.) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

(n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

(n.) A small chapel or shrine.

(v. t.) To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

(pl. ) of Chapman

(n.) One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.

(n.) A peddler; a hawker.

(n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

(n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

(n.) A community of canons or canonesses.

(n.) A bishop's council.

(n.) A business meeting of any religious community.

(n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.

(n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

(n.) A chapter house.

(n.) A decretal epistle.

(n.) A location or compartment.

(v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.

(v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Char

(n.) A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.

(a.) That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

(a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.

(n.) The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

(a.) To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.

(v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

(n.) The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.

(n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

(n.) A combination cloak and hood worn by women.

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

(n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

(n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.

(n.) A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.

(n.) One that bursts.

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

(n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

(n.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

(n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

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

(pl. ) of Busby

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

(n.) See Bushman.

(n.) The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

(n.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.

(pl. ) of Bushman

(n.) A woodsman; a settler in the bush.

(n.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

(n.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

(a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

(a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

(imp. & p. p.) of Charge

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

(n.) A bird of the genus Otis.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bustle

(n.) An active, stirring person.

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

(n.) A broad, shallow basket.

(n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

(v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.

(n.) A quick pace; a short run.

(n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.

(n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.

(n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.

(n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.

(v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

(v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.

(n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces.

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

(n.) An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.

(n.) A large dish.

(n.) A horse for battle or parade.

(adv.) In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.

(n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.

(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.

(v. t.) To convey in a chariot.

(n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

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

(n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

(n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.

(v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

(v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.

(n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

(n.) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.

(pl. ) of Scypha

(n.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

(n.) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

(n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.

(a.) Armed scythes, as a chariot.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.

(n.) Love; universal benevolence; good will.

(n.) Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.

(n.) Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.

(n.) Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.

(n.) A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.

(n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chark

(imp. & p. p.) of Charm

(n.) A fruitful field.

(n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.

(n.) One who delights and attracts the affections.

(a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.

(n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

(n.) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

(n.) Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun.

(n.) The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chart

(n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.

(n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.

(n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

(n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

(n.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.

(v. t.) To establish by charter.

(v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.

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

(n.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.

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

(a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

(n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

(n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

(n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

(n.) An abuttal; a boundary.

(n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

(n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

(n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.

(a.) Ornamented with a large number of buttons.

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

(n.) The act or process of forming a seam or joint.

(n.) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.

(n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

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

(n.) The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.

(a.) Having gaps or a chasm.

(n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

(n.) One who sifts or bolts.

(n.) A searce, or sieve.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coach

(n.) A coachman

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.

(n.) A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.

(a.) Belonging to the box tree.

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

(n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.

(n.) A blockhead; a dunce.

(a.) Senseless; stupid.

() A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chat

(n.) A castle or a fortress in France.

(n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

(n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

(v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

(v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.

(v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.

(v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.

(n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.

(n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.

(v. t.) To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish.

(v. t.) To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc.

(v. t.) To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace.

(v. i.) To gain the victory; to overcome; to prevail.

(v. i.) To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

(v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.

(v. t.) To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.

(n.) Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.

(n.) Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.

(n.) Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.

(n.) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.

(n.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

(n.) An associate in an act; a coworker.

(pl. ) of Coagulum

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

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

(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.

(adv.) At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.

(v. t.) To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.

(v. t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.

(v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.

(v. i.) To unite or coalesce.

(v. t.) To cause to unite or coalesce.

(n.) A joint ally.

(v. t.) To annex with something else.

(v. t.) To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cheat

(n.) One who cheats.

(n.) An escheator.

(imp. & p. p.) of Check

(v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.

(v. t.) To stamp or impress; to affect.

(v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.

(v. i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.

(v. i.) To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.

(v. i.) To be composed or made up; -- followed by of.

(v. i.) To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in.

(v. i.) To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.

(v. i.) To insist; -- followed by on.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coast

(a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.

(n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.

(n.) One who sails near the shore.

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

(n.) A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.

(n.) Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.

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

(v. t.) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

(n.) A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

(n.) Any small bracket; also, a console table.

(n. pl. ) The leading British funded government security.

(n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

(n.) A ship keeping company with another.

(n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.

(n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.

(n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.

(v. t.) One who checks.

(n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

(n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.

(v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

(v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check.

(v. t.) Checkerwork.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.

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

(a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cobble

(n.) A mender of shoes.

(n.) A clumsy workman.

(n.) A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.

(v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.

(v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.

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

(n.) A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.

(a.) Having a cheek; -- used in composition.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cheep

(imp. & p. p.) of Cheer

(n.) One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.

(a.) Gay; cheerful.

(adv.) Cheerily.

(n.) A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.

(a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

(n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.

(n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

(n.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.

(n.) A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

(a.) Same as Cheliferous.

(n.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.

(n.) A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.

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

(n.) A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer.

(n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.

(n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

(n.) The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.

(n.) A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

(n. & v.) Same as Checker.

(v. t.) To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.

(v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.

(n.) Cockfighting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cockle

(a.) Inclosed in a shell.

(a.) Wrinkled; puckered.

(n.) One who takes and sells cockles.

(n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.

(n.) A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.

(a.) Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

(n.) A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.

(n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.

(n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.

(n.) See Kermes.

(n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.

(pl. ) of Cherub

(n.) A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.

(n.) The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed.

(n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.

(n.) Mellow earth; mold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chest

(a.) Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.

(n.) See Chiefage.

(pl. ) of Cheval

(n.) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.

(a.) Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

(n.) Act of boiling.

(n.) Digestion.

(n.) The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

(a.) Lustful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coddle

(v. i.) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

(v. t.) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.

(v. t.) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.

(v. t.) To deliberate upon; to take for.

(v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

(n.) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.

(n.) A council; a meeting for consultation.

(n.) Agreement; concert

(n. pl.) See Cheval.

(n.) A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.

(n.) A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.

(n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

(n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.

(n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.

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

(n.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

(n.) A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves.

(n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

(n.) A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.

(pl. ) of Codex

(n.) A kind of fish. Same as Cod.

(a.) Relating to a codex, or a code.

(n.) A clause added to a will.

(n.) The coarse tow of flax and hemp.

(n.) A term at omber, signifying that the game is won.

(n.) An apple fit to stew or coddle.

(n.) An immature apple.

(n.) A young cod; also, a hake.

(n.) A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

(v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

(v. i.) To waste away slowly.

(n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

(n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

(n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

(n.) A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

(n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.

(n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.

(n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

(n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.

(n.) A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.

(a.) Alt. of Celiac

(a.) Being on an equality in rank or power.

(n.) One who is on an equality with another.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coerce

(v. t.) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

(v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

(v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

(v. i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

(v. t.) To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

(n.) The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.

(adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.

(adv.) For the most part; mostly.

(n.) A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.

(n.) The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India.

(n.) The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

(imp. & p. p.) of Child

(a.) Furnished with a child.

(a.) Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.

(adv.) Like a child.

(n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.

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

(n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

(a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

(a.) Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.

(n.) One who is related to another on the female side.

(n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

(n. pl.) Relatives by the mother's side.

(v. i.) To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.

(v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.

(v. t.) To know or perceive; to recognize.

(n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century.

(v.) To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.

(v.) To dwell or live together as husband and wife.

(v. i.) To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

(v. i.) To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.

(v. i.) To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

(v. t.) To struggle for; to contest.

(a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

(n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.

(n.) Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.

(n.) Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.

(a.) To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.

(a.) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

(n.) Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.

(n.) Acquiescence without examination.

(n.) That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

(n.) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".

(imp. & p. p.) of Cohere

(v. t.) To restrain.

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

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

(v. t.) The act or process of converting metal into money.

(v. t.) Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

(v. t.) The cost or expense of coining money.

(v. t.) The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.

(n.) A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.

(n.) One who swears to another's credibility.

(a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

(n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

(v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

(v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

(v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

(v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.

(n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

(n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.

(a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

(n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.

(v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chill

(a.) Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

(a.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."

(n.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.

(v. t.) To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

(v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

(v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

(v. t.) To bestow or confer.

(v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

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

(n.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

(n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.

(n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.

(n.) A fireplace or hearth.

(n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.

(n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

(n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.

(n.) A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.

(a.) Parsimonious; niggardly.

(v. t.) To join in praising.

(v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

(v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

(v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

(v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

(v. i.) To infer; to conclude.

(v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

(v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

(a.) Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chink

(a.) Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.

(n.) See Quinone.

(n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

(n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

(n.) A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

(n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

(n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.

(n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

(n.) A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

(n.) A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

(n.) Fig.: A community.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chinse

(imp. & p. p.) of Chip

(v. i.) To chirp or chirrup.

(a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.

(v. i.) To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.

(v. t.) To strike or dash against.

(p. & a.) Darkened. See Colly, v. t.

(n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

(n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.

(n.) A small hill or mount.

(v. t.) An embrace; dalliance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chirp

(n.) One who chirps, or is cheerful.

(v. t.) To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.

(v. i.) To chirp.

(n.) The act of chirping; a chirp.

(a.) Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

(n.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.

(n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.

(v. i.) To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.

(v. i.) To shiver or chatter with cold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chivy

(n.) A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.

(n.) A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.

(n.) Chloral hydrate.

(v. i.) To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.

(imp. & p. p.) of Colly

(n.) A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

(n.) See Calumba.

(n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

(n.) A colonist.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.

() A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.

(v. t.) To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.

(v. i.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.

(n.) A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.

(n.) One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

(n.) Perception; insight; acuteness.

(n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.

(n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.

(a.) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.

(a.) Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.

(a.) Well-known; notorious.

(n.) A person, or thing, of distinction.

(n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.

(adv.) In a notable manner.

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

(pl. ) of Ophidion

(n.) A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.

(n.) A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.

(a.) Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.

(v. t.) To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.

(v. t.) To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.

(v. t.) To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.

(a.) Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.

(n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.

(a.) Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.

(n.) Alt. of Oxyopy

(a.) Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

(n.) An acute sound.

(n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.

(n.) The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

(a.) Placable.

(n.) A salt of oxamic acid.

(n) A white crystalline neutral substance (C2O2(NH2)2) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.

(n.) The cow blackbird.

(v. t.) To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.

(v. t.) To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.

(v. t.) To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction.

(v. t.) To buy too much.

(v. t.) To buy at too dear a rate.

(n.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.

(n.) One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.

(a.) Alt. of Juridical

(n.) An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric acid; -- contrasted with the hydracids, which contain no oxygen, as hydrochloric acid. See Acid, and Hydroxy-.

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

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

(a.) Alt. of Ovarial

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ovary.

(n.) An ovary. See Ovary.

(pl. ) of Ovary

(n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.

(n.) Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite.

(v. t.) To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.

(v. t.) To act upon, or influence, unduly.

(v. i.) To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.

(n.) A salt of oxalic acid.

(n.) A yellow mineral consisting of oxalate of iron.

(a.) Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public.

(a.) Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war.

(a.) Tending to the exterior or outside.

(n.) External form; exterior.

(v. t.) To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.

(v. t.) To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other.

(v. t.) To weed out.

(v. t.) To exceed in weeping.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(v. i.) To issue forth.

() imp. of Outgo.

(v. t.) To extricate by winding; to unloose.

(v. t.) To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying.

(n.) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

(n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.

(n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

(n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

(n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

(n.) Same as Pedicel.

(n.) A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

(n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one.

(n.) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Match

(n.) One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.

(a.) Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

(a.) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

(a.) Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet.

(a.) Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.

(n.) A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirEe.

(n.) A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

(n.) See Matrix.

(n.) Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.

(a.) Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.

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

(mexcal.) See Mescal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Mexico.

(n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows.

(n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

(n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.

(a.) Generating or containing pus; purulent.

(a.) Full of substance or matter; important.

(v. t. & i.) The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

(a.) Containing miasma; miasmatic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Miaul

(n.) A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

(n.) Theft; cheating.

(a.) Hiding; skulking; cowardly.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

(n.) Same as Cyma/recta, under Cyma.

(v. t.) A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks.

(a.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slush

(a.) Slushy.

(n.) The quality or state of being sly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smack

(a.) Alt. of Dimmy

(n.) The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.

(n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.

(n.) Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dimple

(a. & n.) Same as Dimyarian.

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

(superl.) Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.

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

(n.) Alt. of Dovecote

(n.) A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.

(n.) A young or small dove.

(v. t.) Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.

(n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.

(n.) The emerald.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smart

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

(adv.) In a dingy manner.

(n.) A wether sheep between one and two years old.

(n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.

(pl. ) of Dowdy

(imp. & p. p.) of Dowel

(p. a.) Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion.

(v. t.) To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.

(adv.) In a smart manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smash

(n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

(n.) Anything very large or extraordinary.

(n.) One who passes counterfeit coin.

(v. i.) To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.

(v. i.) To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

(v. t.) To talk superficially about.

(v. t.) To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack.

(n.) Superficial knowledge; a smattering.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smear

(a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).

(a.) Full of din.

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

(n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.

(n.) A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.

(n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.

(n. pl.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.

(n.) An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.

(n.) Alt. of Dioptra

(n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Smell

(n.) One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell.

(n.) The nose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smelt

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

(a.) To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.

(v.) Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.

(n.) A woman's under-garment; a smock.

(n.) A woman entitled to dower.

(pl. ) of Dowry

(n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

(n.) A dioptre.

(n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.

(n.) A building used for such an exhibition.

(n.) Definition; logical direction.

(n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

(n.) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.

(n.) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.

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

(adv.) Smugly; finically.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Smirk

(p. p.) of Smite

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

(a.) Twelfth.

(a.) Stupid; heavy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drab

(n.) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.

(n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

(v. t.) To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.

(v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

(n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.

(n.) A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.

(n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.

(imp. & p. p.) of Draft

(imp. & p. p.) of Drag

(n.) Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.

(n. pl.) Sugar-coated medicines.

(v. t.) To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.

(v. i.) To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.

(n.) A fisherman who uses a dragnet.

(n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

(n.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

(n.) A variety of pigeon.

(v. t.) To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

(v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drain

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

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

(n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

(n.) Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.

(n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.

(a.) Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.

(n.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.

(n.) The act of drawing or pulling

(n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.

(n.) The drawing of a bowstring.

(n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.

(n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

(n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

(n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

(n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.

(n.) That which is drawn

(n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

(n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.

(n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.

(n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

(n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.

(n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.

(n.) That which draws

(n.) A team of oxen or horses.

(n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

(n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

(n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

(n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

(n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

(n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.

(n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

(n.) See Draft, n., 7.

(a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.

(a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

(a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.

(n.) Light, fine rain.

(n.) Fragments; atoms; finders.

() p. p. of Smite.

(v. t.) To infect.

(n.) Infection.

(a.) Alt. of Smittlish

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

(v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

(v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

(v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

(n. pl.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the diploe.

(n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

(n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.

(n.) The act or state of seeing double.

(a.) Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

(adv.) In a smoky manner.

() a. & n. from Smoke.

(v. i.) Alt. of Smoulder

(v. t.) Alt. of Smoulder

(n.) Alt. of Smoulder

(n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.

(n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

(n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

(n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

(n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drawl

(n.) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

(n.) Use of a dray.

(n.) The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.

(pl. ) of Drayman

(n.) A man who attends a dray.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dread

(n.) The act or process of immersing.

(n.) The act of inclining downward.

(n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

(n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

(n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.

(n. pl.) An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.

(n.) A noun which has only two cases.

(n.) Anything consisting of two leaves.

(n.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

(n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

(n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

(v. t.) To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

(v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.

(v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.

(v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.

(v. i.) To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.

(v. t.) Stifling smoke; thick dust.

(v. t.) A state of suppression.

(n.) One who fears, or lives in fear.

(a.) Dreadful.

(adv.) With dread.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dream

(n.) One who dreams.

(n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smudge

(v. t.) To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.

(v. t.) Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.

(v. i.) To import or export in violation of the customs laws.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smut

(imp. & p. p.) of Dredge

(n.) One who fishes with a dredge.

(n.) A dredging machine.

(n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dress

(a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.

(a.) Divided; separated.

(n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

(n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

(n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

(v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

(v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drib

(n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.

(v. t.) To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snag

(a.) Full of snags; snaggy.

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

(a.) Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snap

(n.) One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.

(n.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.

(n.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.

(n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

(n.) A snap beetle.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Snarl

(n.) One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.

(n.) One who makes use of a snarling iron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sneak

(n.) One who sneaks.

(n.) A vessel of drink.

(n.) See Snath.

(n.) A door latch, or sneck.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sneer

(n.) One who sneers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sneeze

(imp. & p. p.) of Snick

(v. i.) To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.

(v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.

(n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sniff

(v. t.) To separate by force; to tear apart.

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

(adv.) In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dirty

(n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.

(v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

(v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

(v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.

(v. t.) To let fall in drops.

(n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.

(n.) A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

(v. i.) To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snift

(n.) See Snicker.

(v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.

(v. t.) To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snip

(n.) One who snips.

(n.) A small part or piece.

(a.) Lacking ability; unable.

(v. t.) To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.

(v. t.) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.

(v. t.) To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drift

(imp. & p. p.) of Drill

(a.) Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

(a.) Wearing or having a snood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snooze

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

(n.) The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snort

(n.) One who snorts.

(n.) The wheather; -- so called from its cry.

(v. t.) To part, as an alliance; to sunder.

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

() of Drink

(n.) One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.

(v. i.) To snivel; to cry or whine.

(n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.

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

(n.) A wooden frame to set casks on.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drip

(a.) Weak or rare.

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

(a.) Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

(a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.

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

(adv.) In a state stale manner.

(adv.) Of old; long since.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stalk

(a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.

(n.) One who stalks.

(n.) A kind of fishing net.

(v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.

(v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.

(v. t.) To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.

(v. t.) To divorce.

(v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

(v. t.) To disembark.

(v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark.

(v. t.) To debase or degrade.

(v. t.) To unbend.

(v. t.) To unbind; to loosen.

(v. t.) To uncage.

(n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

(n.) Tendency; drift.

(v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.

(v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.

(n.) Fine rain or mist.

(a.) Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.

(n.) A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.

(imp. & p. p.) of Droll

(n.) A jester; a droll.

() Alt. of Dromon

(imp. & p. p.) of Stall

(a.) Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.

(n.) A standard bearer. obtaining

(n.) A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.

(pl. ) of Stamen

(v. t.) To drive from a camp.

(n.) See Descant, n.

(v. t.) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

(v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.

(v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.

(v. i.) To make a discard.

(n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

(v. t.) To strip; to undress.

(v. i.) To yield or give up; to depart.

(v. i.) To debate; to discuss.

(v. t.) To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

(v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.

(v. i.) To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

(v. i.) To make cognizance.

(v. t.) To tear in pieces; to rend.

(v. t.) To separate; to disunite.

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

(pl. ) of Drongo

(a.) Like a drone; indolent; slow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drool

(imp. & p. p.) of Droop

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Drop

(n.) Stain; pollution.

(v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.

(v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

(n.) See Socman.

(imp. & p. p.) of Solace

(n.) Solanine.

(n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.

(pl. ) of Solarium

(n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.

(n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

(n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.

(n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)

(n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.

(v. i.) To serve as a soldier.

(v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.

(n. pl.) See Stamen.

(n. pl.) The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.

(n. pl.) Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State.

(n.) A large, clumsy horse.

(n.) A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.

(n.) A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries.

(a.) Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.

(v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

(v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.

(n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stamp

(n.) One who stamps.

(n.) An instrument for pounding or stamping.

(n.) A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.

(n.) One who stands.

(n.) Same as Standel.

(n.) See Stannel.

(n.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.

() A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.

(v. t.) To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

(v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.

(v. t.) To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.

(v. t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.

(v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.

(n.) The technical name of tin. See Tin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Staple

(n.) A dealer in staple goods.

(n.) One employed to assort wool according to its staple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Star

(a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

(adv.) In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.

(n.) A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate.

(n.) One who sings or plays a solo.

(n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man.

(a.) Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.

(a.) Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.

(a.) Relaxed; open or readily opened.

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

(n.) A substance to be dissolved.

(a.) Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

(a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.

(n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.

(n.) That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.

(adv.) In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.

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

(adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.

(a.) Lighted by the stars; starlight.

(n.) A nobleman who possessed a starosty.

(a.) Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.

(a.) Influenced in fortune by the stars.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.

(v. t.) To divide; to cleave in two.

(n.) A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

(v. t.) To part; to divide.

(imp. & p. p.) of Start

(n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

(n.) A dog that rouses game.

(v. t.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

(v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.

(n.) A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance.

(n.) The quality or state of being sonant.

(n.) The musk shrew. See under Musk.

(a.) Disposed to sing; full of song.

(a.) Consisting of songs.

(a.) Being without a son.

(v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.

(n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

(imp. & p. p.) of Starve

(a.) In a standing position; as, a lion statant.

(a.) Fixed; settled.

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

(superl.) Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.

(adv.) Majestically; loftily.

(n.) The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Soothe

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

(a.) Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.

(n.) Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.

(n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.

(n.) The act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.

(n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.

(n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.

(n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.

(n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.

(n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.

(n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.

(n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.

(n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.

(n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

(n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).

(n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.

(n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.

(n.) Situation; position; location.

(n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.

(n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

(n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

(n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.

(v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.

(adv.) In truth; truly; really; verily.

(a.) Sooty.

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

(n.) The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.

(n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.

(n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.

(n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

(n.) A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.

(n.) A statistician.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

(imp. & p. p.) of Statue

(n.) A genus of leguminous plants.

(n.) A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.

(pl. ) of Soprano

(n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

(n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

(n.) Soreness.

(n.) A salt of sorbic acid.

(n.) An absorbent.

(a.) Fit to be drunk or sipped.

(n.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.

(n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.

(n.) The dunlin.

(n.) The cardinal bird.

(n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra).

(n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.

() a. & n. from Rub, v.

(n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

(n.) A little ruby.

(n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.

(n.) A red color used in enameling.

(n.) the measles.

(n.) Rubella.

(a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.

(n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing rubidium.

(a.) Making red; as, rubific rays.

(a.) Red; ruddy.

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

(n.) A ruche, or ruches collectively.

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

(a.) Somewhat red; moderately red.

(n.) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b).

(n.) The rosefish.

(n.) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.

(n.) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.

(n.) The male of the European bullfinch.

(a.) Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.

(a.) Returning.

(n.) The quality or state of being red; red color.

(n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.

(n.) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin.

(v. t.) To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.

(v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.

(v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.

(n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.

(n.) Rebound; reverberation.

(n.) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet.

(n.) The common European linnet.

(n.) The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).

(v. t.) To draft or draw anew.

(n.) A second draft or copy.

(n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.

(p. p.) of Redraw

(n.) A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

(v. i.) To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.

(n.) A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.

(n.) The red-tailed hawk.

(n.) The European redstart.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reduce

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

(v. t.) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

(v. t.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.

(v. i.) To become larger.

(v. i.) To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.

(n.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

(n.) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.

(n.) The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept.

(n.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

(a.) Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids.

(n.) The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

(n.) Alt. of Assapanic

(n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.

(n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.

(n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery.

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

(a.) Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

(a.) Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth.

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

(n.) A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.

(n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

(a.) Alt. of Amyloidal

(n.) A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

(n.) The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

(n.) One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

(n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.

(n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assay

(n.) One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver.

(n.) Same as Assagai.

(n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.

(a.) Making a tumultuous noise.

(n.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

(n.) See Racket.

(n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

(n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.

(a.) Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.

(a.) Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.

(a.) Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.

(a.) Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.

(a.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.

(n.) The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.

(n.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

(n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.

(n.) A radiate.

(n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.

(v. i.) To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.

(v. i.) To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.

(v. t.) To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.

(v. t.) To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.

(a.) Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal.

(a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.

(a.) Belonging to the Radiata.

(n.) One of the Radiata.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.

(a.) Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.

(n.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

(a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

(a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.

(a.) Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.

(a.) Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.

(n.) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.

(n.) A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.

(n.) One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative.

(n.) A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.

(n.) Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.

(n.) A radical quantity. See under Radical, a.

(a.) A radical vessel. See under Radical, a.

(n.) A small branch of a root; a rootlet.

(n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.

(n.) A rootlet; a radicel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to anaemia.

(n.) An elevation of mind to things celestial.

(n.) The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

(n.) Same as Anagoge.

(n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

(v. t.) To anagrammatize.

(v. t.) See Asseverate.

(v. t.) To besiege.

(n.) A siege.

(a.) Consisting of rays, as light.

(a.) Radiating; radiant.

(pl. ) of Radix

(pl. ) of Radix

(pl. ) of Radula

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

(a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.

(imp. & p. p.) of Raffle

(n.) One who raffles.

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

(n.) The business of making or managing rafts.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Assize

(n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

(v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.

(v. i.) To abate or subside.

(a.) Full of rage; expressing rage.

(n.) A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.

(n.) A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.

(n.) A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assume

(a.) Supposed.

(a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

(n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes.

(v. t.) To take up; to elevate; to assume.

(n.) That which is assumed; an assumption.

(n.) A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

(n.) A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.

(n.) Proportion; equality of ratios.

(n.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.

(n.) Alt. of Analyser

(n.) One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

(v. t.) To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

(n.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests.

(n.) A verse composed of such feet.

(n.) Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

(n.) Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

(n.) An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assure

(a.) Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.

(n.) One whose life or property is insured.

(n.) One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

(n.) One who takes out a life assurance policy.

(v.) See Assuage.

(n.) A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

(n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

(a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.

(n.) Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

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

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

(a.) Expressing reproach; insulting.

(n.) A barrier made of a rail or of rails.

(n.) Rails in general; also, material for making rails.

(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.

(n.) Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.

(n.) An article of dress.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

(n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

(n.) The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

(n.) A treatise or book on anatomy.

(n.) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

(n.) A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.

(n.) Native carbonate of soda; natron.

(n.) Glass gall or sandiver.

(n.) Saltpeter.

(n.) Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

(imp. & p. p.) of Astone

() of Astone

(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

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

(n.) A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

(a.) Stunned; astounded; astonished.

() of Astound

(a.) To stun; to stupefy.

(a.) To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear.

(v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.

(a.) Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.

(a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.

(a.) Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.

(a.) Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.

(a.) Experienced; versed.

(a.) Former; sometime.

(n.) Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.

(n.) An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.

(n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.

(n.) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.

(n.) An ensign or flag.

(n.) The bearer of a flag; an ensign.

(n.) A maidservant; a handmaid.

(pl. ) of Ancon

(a.) Alt. of Anconeal

(n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.

(n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.

(n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

(n.) Alt. of Rajput

(v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit.

(v. t.) To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4.

(a.) Concise; contracted.

(adv.) With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

(a.) Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto.

(n.) A movement or piece in andante time.

(n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

(n.) Alt. of Androides

(a.) Resembling a man.

(a.) superl. of Big.

(v. t.) A building.

(n.) The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana).

(n.) The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.

(a.) Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.

(n.) The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

(n.) The practice or tenets of a bigot.

() A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

(n.) Same as Anlace.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

(n.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.

(n.) See Anemone.

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

(pl. ) of Bilbo

(n.) The European water rail.

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

(a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.

(n.) Alt. of Bilimbing

(n.) The business of a bank or of a banker.

(a.) Without columns or pilasters.

(adv.) Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.

(pl. ) of Asylum

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bile.

(a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.

(a.) Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.

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

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

(n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.

(n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

(n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.

(v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

(v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

(v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

(n.) Alt. of Banshie

(n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

(n.) The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

(prep.) After.

(n.) See Yataghan.

(n.) Perfect peace of mind, or calmness.

(adv.) Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.

(n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

(n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

(n.) A workshop; a studio.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald.

(n.) A farcical drama performed at Atella.

(n.) A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat.

(n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.

(n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.

(n.) A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

(v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

(n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.

(n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

(v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

(v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.

(v. t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.

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

(n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

(n.) Godlessness.

(n.) One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

(n.) A godless person.

(v. t.) To render atheistic or godless.

(v. i.) To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist.

(a.) Atheistic; impious.

(a.) Without God, neither accepting nor denying him.

(a.) Wanting drink; thirsty.

(a.) Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing.

(n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

(n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

(n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

(a. & n.) Caressing; kissing.

(n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

(pl. ) of Billman

(n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.

(a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

(a.) Bilobate.

(n.) See Sweet gum.

(n.) Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.

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

(n.) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.

(prep.) Across; from side to side of.

(prep.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.

(adv.) Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.

(adv.) Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.

(n.) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

(pl. ) of Atlas

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

() of Bind

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

(n.) A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

(a.) That binds; obligatory.

(n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon.

(a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

(a.) Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

(n.) The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

(n.) One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory.

(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

(n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

(pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

(n.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.

(n.) A very minute barb or beard.

(n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

(a.) Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.

(n.) The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

(v. t.) To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.

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

(v. t.) To outrun.

(n.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

(n.) A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

(n.) Life development generally.

(n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

(n.) Physiology.

(n.) A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

(n.) The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

(n.) Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

(n.) Same as Calico bass.

(n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.

(n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.

(n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

(n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.

(n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.

(v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

(n.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

(n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

(n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.

(n.) A kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

(n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.

(v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

(v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle.

(n.) Same as Atropine.

(n.) See Atabal.

() Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

(v. t.) One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

(n.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

(n.) Having two feet; biped.

(n.) Pertaining to a biped.

(a.) Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

(pl. ) of Birch

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

(n.) A tanhouse.

(n.) A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.

(v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.

(v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.

(v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.

(v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

(v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.

(v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.

(p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.

(v.) A touch or hit.

(v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.

(v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.

(v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.

(v.) An infecting influence.

(v. t.) To taste or cause to taste.

(v. t.) To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

(v. t.) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.

(v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.

(v. t.) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.

(v. i.) To make an attempt; -- with upon.

(n.) A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.

(imp. & p. p.) of Birch

(a.) Of or relating to birch.

(n.) Birdcatching or fowling.

(n.) A little bird; a nestling.

(n.) A fowler or birdcatcher.

(n.) Same as Berretta.

(n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.

(a.) See Baroque.

(n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

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

(n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

(a.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

(n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

(n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

(n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.

(v. t.) To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.

(v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks.

(n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

(n.) A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

(n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

(n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

(n.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

(n.) A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

(n.) A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.

(n.) An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.

(n.) Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.

(a.) Attic.

(v. t.) To touch lightly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attire

(p. p.) Provided with antlers, as a stag.

(n.) One who attires.

(n.) Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

(n.) One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507¡ Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

(n.) A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

(a.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

(n.) See Bertram.

(adv.) Horizontally.

(n.) A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

(n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to baryta.

(v. t.) To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

(v. t.) To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers.

(n.) Attraction.

(n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

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

(n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.

(a.) Rubbed; worn by friction.

(a.) Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attune

(n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

(n.) An inn.

(n.) That which is superadded; augmentation.

(n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

(n.) The things sold by auction or put up to auction.

(v. t.) To sell by auction.

(a.) Not having a bit or bridle.

(n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.

(a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

(a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.

(a.) Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

(n.) That which may be heard.

(adv.) So as to be heard.

(a.) Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls.

(n.) A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.

(imp. & p. p.) of Audit

(a.) A hearer or listener.

(a.) A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

(a.) One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.

(n. pl.) A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

(n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.

(a.) Smeared with bitumen.

(n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

(n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.

(n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

(n.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

(a.) Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.

(n.) See Bascinet.

(a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed.

(a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

(n.) See Basyle.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.

(v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

(v. t.) To add an augment to.

(v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

(n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.

(n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Augur

(a.) Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.

(a.) Having, or leading, two ways.

(n.) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

(n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

(v. i.) To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.

(v. i.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.

(a.) Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blab

(n.) A tattler; a telltale.

(n.) Alt. of Basilary

(n.) Basilica.

(a.) Alt. of Basilical

(a.) Inclosed in a basin.

(n.) Same as Bascinet.

(n.) An augur.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.

(imp. & p. p.) of Black

(v. t.) To make or render black.

(v. t.) To make dark; to darken; to cloud.

(v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

(v. i.) To grow black or dark.

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

(a.) Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

(a.) Combined with auric acid.

(a.) Having ears. See Aurited.

(a.) Golden; gilded.

(n.) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.

(n.) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.

(n.) Alt. of Aureole

(n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

(n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

(n.) A halo, actual or figurative.

(n.) See Areola, 2.

(n.) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.

(n.) The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

(n.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

(n.) An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.

(adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.

(n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

(n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

(n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.

(n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.

(n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.

(n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.

(a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.

(n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.

(n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.

(n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

(v. t.) To bastardize.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.

(a.) Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.

(n.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused.

(pl. ) of Aurora

(pl. ) of Aurora

(n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

(n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

(n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

(n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.

(v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

(v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

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

(n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

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

(a.) Disputable.

(n.) Alt. of Batata

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.

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

(a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.

(a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.

() Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

() Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

() Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

(a.) Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abet

(n.) Abetment.

(n.) Alt. of Abettor

(n.) One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

(a.) Being in a state of abeyance.

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

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

(adv.) In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blank

(a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

(a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

(a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

(v. t.) To cover with a blanket.

(v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

(v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

(adv.) In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.

(adv.) Directly; flatly; point blank.

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

(n.) Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

(v. t.) To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

(pl. ) of Bateau

(a.) Exciting contention; contentious.

(n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Blast

(a.) Blighted; withered.

(a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.

(a.) Rent open by an explosive.

(n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plank

(a.) Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.

(pl. ) of Papule

(a.) Procurable.

(n.) Opinion.

(n.) That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action.

(n.) The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

(n.) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

(n.) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

(n.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

(v. t.) To opine.

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

() A manufactory where nails are made.

(v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

(v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

(v. i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

(adv.) Onward.

(n.) A whitlow.

(n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.

(n.) One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.

(pl. ) of Oogonium

(n.) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.

(n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

(n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

(n.) A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.

(n.) One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds.

(a.) Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.

(adv.) In a nobby manner.

(n.) A dram of spirits.

(n.) See Water brash, under Brash.

(a.) Caustic. See Caustic.

(n.) A caustic medicine.

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

(n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

(n.) An ensign; a standard bearer.

(n.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

(n.) Alt. of Algaroth

(adv.) Always; wholly; everywhere.

(adv.) By any or means; at all events.

(adv.) Notwithstanding; yet.

(n.) The true gazelle.

(n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.

(n.) A treatise on this science.

(a.) Producing cold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Apply

(v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

(v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.

(v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.

(v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.

(v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.

(v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.

(v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

(a.) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

(n.) An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.

(n.) An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.

(n.) A foot consisting of two short syllables.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also pyroracemic acid) obtained, as a liquid having a pungent odor, by the distillation of racemic acid.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous compound obtained by heating together pyruvic acid and urea.

(n.) See Henna.

(pl. ) of Alias

(n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.

(n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument

(n.) The period intervening between one celebration of the Pythian games and the next.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi.

(pl. ) of Pyxidium

(n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.

(n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another.

(a.) Wing-shaped; winglike.

(n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.

(n.) An allowance for maintenance.

(a.) Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem,

(v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

(n.) Notice; information.

(v. t.) To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

(n.) Trial; proof.

(n.) Approval; commendation.

(v. i. & t.) To suffocate; to choke.

(pl. ) of Quadra

(n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.

(n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.

(v. t.) To show to be real or true; to prove.

(v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

(v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

(v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.

(v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

(v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

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

(v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.

(n.) Maintenance; means of living.

(n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.

(a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.

(adv. & a.) From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.

(n.) The madder of the Levant.

(n.) A square piece of turf or peat.

(n.) A square brick, tile, or the like.

() A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the second degree.

(n.) A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic.

(n.) A surface whose equation in three variables is of the second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are quadrics.

(n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.

(n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

(n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

(n. pl.) A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture.

(pl. ) of Alkali

(n.) A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.

(n.) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

(n.) The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

(n.) A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent.

(a.) Wearing an apron.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.

(n. pl.) See Apsis.

(pl. ) of Apsis

(a.) Apterous.

(a.) Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.

(n.) One of the Aptera.

(n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae.

(n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

(n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.

(imp. & p. p.) of Allay

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

(n.) Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.

(n.) Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example.

(n.) Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

(n.) Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

(n.) The absence or intermission of fever.

(a.) Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

(pl. ) of Aquarium

(a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

(n.) An aquatic animal or plant.

(n.) Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Allege

(n.) One who affirms or declares.

(a.) Brisk, lively.

(n.) An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quaff

(n.) One who quaffs, or drinks largely.

(n.) An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam.

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

(n.) Wateriness.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.

(a.) Made from, or by means of, water.

(pl. ) of Aquila

(n.) The north wind.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.

(n.) A native of Arabia; an Arab.

(n.) An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language.

(n.) One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

(n.) A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

(n.) A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

(n.) An ally; a confederate.

(n.) Quakerism.

() a. & n. from Quake, v.

(v. t.) To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.

(v. t.) To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

(v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.

(v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic.

(n.) A native of Aram.

(a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.

(n.) The Aramaic language.

(n.) Plowing; tillage.

(a.) Contributing to tillage.

(n.) Totality; completeness.

(v. t.) To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.

(v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

(v. i.) To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.

(n.) The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.

(n.) Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.

(n.) That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.

(n.) An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.

(n.) Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.

(n.) See Camass.

(n.) A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

(n.) A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic.

(n.) A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

(n.) Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.

(v. t.) To act as arbiter between.

(n.) A crossbow. See Arbalest.

(v.) A thrust or pass; a lunge.

(v.) A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.

(v. i.) To thrust with a sword; to lunge.

(n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

(n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author.

(n.) A speaking to another; an address.

(n.) Quantity; amount.

(n.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.

(n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

(n.) Any small square or quadrangular member

(n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.

(n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.

(n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.

(n.) A glazier's diamond.

(n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.

(n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.

(a.) Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees.

(n.) A small tree or shrub.

(n.) Alt. of Arbute

(imp. & p. p.) of Allow

(n.) An approver or abettor.

(n.) One who allows or permits.

(n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

(n.) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.

(n.) Earnest desire or longing.

(v. i.) To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.

(v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.

(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.

(v. t.) To quarrel with.

(v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

(n.) One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

(n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.

(n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.

(a.) Furnished with an arcade.

(n.) A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

(n.) Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

(n.) A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural.

(n.) A secret remedy; an elixir.

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

(a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Alloy

(imp. & p. p.) of Allude

(imp. & p. p.) of Allure

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

(n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc.

(n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds.

(n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal.

(n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full.

(n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters.

(n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp.

(n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin.

(n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter.

(n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.

(n.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings.

(n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

(v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.

(v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud.

(v. t.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ 15', that is, about 2¡ 49'; -- called also quarter point.

(v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.

(v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters.

(v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes.

(v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord.

(v. i.) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

(v. i.) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

(n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.

(n.) Archers, or bowmen, collectively.

(n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.

(pl. ) of Alluvium

(n.) Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

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

(n.) Alt. of Almadie

(n.) A bark canoe used by the Africans.

(n.) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

(n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

(n.) Alt. of Quartette

(a.) Of the fourth degree.

(n.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic.

(n.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.

(n.) The arched part of a structure.

(n.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.

(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.

(n.) One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

(n.) The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed.

(n.) A recipient of alms.

(n.) A giver of alms.

(n.) A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

(pl. ) of Quarto

(a.) Quartzose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quash

(n.) A negro of the West Indies.

(n.) The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.

(n.) The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.

(n.) The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

(n.) Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.

(n.) A way or passage under an arch.

(a.) Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.

(n.) A medicine containing chiefly aloes.

(n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.

(adv.) Only; merely; singly.

(a.) Exclusive.

(prep. & adv.) Along.

(n.) A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.

(n.) Wharfage.

(a.) Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.

(a.) Like a queach; thick; bushy.

(a.) Alt. of Arcuated

(n.) Heat.

(n.) Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.

(a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

(a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

(adv.) Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

(a.) Alt. of Altaic

(imp. & p. p.) of Queen

(a.) Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.

(adv.) In a queer or odd manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quell

(n.) A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller.

(n.) One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.

(n.) A ruff for the neck.

(a.) Sandy; full of sand.

(pl. ) of Areola

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolae.

(n.) A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.

(imp. & p. p.) of Alter

(n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal.

(n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

(v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

(v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.

(v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

(v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.

(n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

(n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Abash

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

(n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

(n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

(a.) Alt. of Abaxile

(a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.

(n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

(n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abduce

(n.) Alt. of Abelonian

(n.) Alt. of Abelonian

(n.) Alt. of Althea

(n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.

(n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.

(n.) Alumina.

(a.) Somewhat like alum.

(pl. ) of Alumna

(n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

(n.) Alum stone.

(n.) A beehive, or something resembling a beehive.

(n.) The hollow of the external ear.

(n.) Same as Alveolus.

(pl. ) of Alveolus

(n.) A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers.

(n.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.

(n.) A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.

(n.) A complainant; a plaintiff.

(n.) An inquirer.

(n.) One who inquires, or asks questions.

(v. t.) To stifle or choke.

(pl. ) of Query

(imp. & p. p.) of Query

(n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.

(n.) A mixture or compound of different things.

(n.) A native compound of mercury and silver.

(v. t. / i.) To amalgamate.

(n.) Amaranth, 1.

(n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

(a.) Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.

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

(n.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

(imp. & p. p.) of Amass

(n.) One who amasses.

(n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

(a.) Full of love; amatory.

(a.) Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

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

(a.) Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

(n. pl.) A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

(n.) See Embassy, the usual spelling.

(a.) Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.

(n.) Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.

(n.) The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

(n.) A canvassing for votes.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

(n.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

(n.) A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

(n.) A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3.

(pl. ) of Ambry

(n.) An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark.

(a.) See Am/bean.

(v. t.) To manage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Amend

(n.) One who amends.

(n.) The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.

(n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.

(n.) Same as Ament.

(v. t.) To lessen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Amerce

(n.) One who amerces.

(n.) One who seeks; a seeker.

(n.) The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.

(n.) Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.

(n.) Alt. of Ariette

(n.) A short aria, or air.

(n.) A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril.

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

(n.) An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.

(n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

(n.) A pun; a low conceit.

(v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.