(n.) A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.

(v. t.) To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.

(n.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.

(n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.

(n.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.

(v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

(v. t.) To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.

(v. t.) To turn from a regular or designed course.

(n.) Disturbance.

(v. t.) To rub and cleanse without wetting.

(n.) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. Formerly called weber.

(n.) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

(n.) The cap itself.

(n.) The top of the head, or the head itself

(n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.

(n.) A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb.

(n.) A tub in which clothes are washed.

(v. t. & i.) To climb up; to ascend.

(n.) The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow.

(v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dismember.

(n.) One of a denomination of Christians formerly living under the government of the Moors in Spain, and having a liturgy and ritual of their own.

(v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

(v. t.) To deprive of lead, as of a leaden coffin.

(n.) An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.

(n.) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

(n.) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.

(n.) A drama exemplifying a proverb.

(v. t.) To name in, or as, a proverb.

(v. t.) To provide with a proverb.

(v. i.) To write or utter proverbs.

(n.) Same as Bablh.

(n.) An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb.

() Alt. of Mozarabic

(v. t.) To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.

(v. t.) To disorder; to confuse.