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- airward
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- pyramid
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- commend
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- dromond
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- discard
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- stamped
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- starred
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- started
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- statued
- redbird
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- amyloid
- assayed
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- ragweed
- assumed
- assured
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- astound
- android
- bigoted
- billard
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- barmaid
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- barwood
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- pythiad
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- beblood
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- bedcord
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- bodiced
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- redweed
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- bowhead
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- ribband
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- derived
- dermoid
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- descend
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- desired
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- sapwood
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- bridled
- 'sblood
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- brigand
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- cedared
- brocard
- scanned
- broiled
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- outward
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- outroad
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- pungled
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- brooked
- browned
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- scooped
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- buckled
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- bundled
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- changed
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- accused
- sinewed
- accused
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- singled
- operand
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- onstead
- tippled
- tissued
- hogherd
- hogweed
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- toasted
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- holland
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- adopted
- adorned
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- toddled
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- indexed
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- indited
- induced
- tongued
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- grinded
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- groined
- groomed
- grooved
- tallied
- grouped
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- fathead
- growled
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- tangled
- tankard
- tanyard
- sutured
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- tapered
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- guarded
- swamped
- guarded
- swapped
- swarded
- guessed
- tarried
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- swashed
- swathed
- sweated
- tarweed
- gullied
- tattled
- gurgled
- gurnard
- gurniad
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- strayed
- spitted
- spliced
- strewed
- equaled
- equated
- pansied
- spoiled
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- spooled
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- erected
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- drudged
- drugged
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- spouted
- ermined
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- escaped
- spurred
- dullard
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- cotland
- cottoid
- concord
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- cowbird
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- cowherd
- cowweed
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- acaroid
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- relumed
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- reached
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- remised
- remould
- removed
- rebound
- rebuild
- rebuked
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- receded
- recited
- roosted
- replead
- rosebud
- replied
- rosland
- reposed
- rotated
- rounded
- reputed
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- rescind
- rescued
- omitted
- oilbird
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- noduled
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- classed
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- carabid
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- saphead
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- cloaked
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- caroled
- carotid
- sarcoid
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- clothed
- clotted
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- abscind
- abscond
- clouted
- breaded
- breamed
- clubbed
- clucked
- bricked
- sauroid
- castled
- catbird
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- nonacid
- omegoid
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- chocard
- chocked
- dunbird
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- esguard
- squared
- serried
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- dartoid
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- settled
- dastard
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- daunted
- cricoid
- crimped
- dawdled
- dazzled
- crinoid
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- astrand
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- crocked
- rawhead
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- debated
- redhead
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- crossed
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- crowned
- cruised
- crumbed
- crushed
- crusted
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- decided
- camwood
- cathead
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- cubhood
- cubited
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- cudweed
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- decried
- deduced
- cuproid
- severed
- oilseed
- squired
- stabbed
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- dwarfed
- stacked
- dwelled
- dyewood
- essayed
- stained
- offered
- taunted
- gustard
- adduced
- adenoid
- guzzled
- gwiniad
- gyrated
- habited
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- feigned
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- haggled
- hagseed
- teethed
- feoffed
- noctuid
- honeyed
- toppled
- to-rend
- honored
- torqued
- hopbind
- hoppled
- touched
- towered
- advised
- infield
- infixed
- infound
- tracked
- hounded
- infused
- matured
- jingled
- joggled
- matweed
- midgard
- midland
- mawseed
- maybird
- mayweed
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- vapored
- lanyard
- waniand
- vapored
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- vaulted
- vaunted
- lassoed
- latched
- laterad
- watched
- watered
- wattled
- wavered
- laughed
- ventrad
- waxbird
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- wayward
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- unsexed
- unsound
- impavid
- impeded
- untread
- unwayed
- tutored
- twanged
- twifold
- twigged
- twilled
- twinned
- twinged
- twinned
- twirled
- twisted
- unyoked
- unzoned
- upbraid
- twisted
- twitted
- upbraid
- upbreed
- uphoard
- jangled
- upstand
- implead
- implied
- jaspoid
- jaunted
- imposed
- impound
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- usurped
- uttered
- vacated
- jellied
- jeopard
- acorned
- faithed
- endowed
- garbled
- endured
- garland
- enfiled
- engaged
- siphoid
- siruped
- syruped
- deviled
- devised
- devoted
- sixfold
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- dextrad
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- skilled
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- dialled
- divided
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- skinned
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- divined
- skipped
- diamond
- skirted
- skulked
- dizened
- dizzard
- dizzied
- skyward
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- slammed
- slanged
- slanted
- slapped
- slashed
- dibbled
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- sleaved
- sledded
- sledged
- sleeked
- sleeted
- sleeved
- sleided
- dogwood
- slipped
- slitted
- donated
- dighted
- slopped
- slotted
- slubbed
- dottard
- doubled
- dilated
- slugged
- sluiced
- dilucid
- diluted
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- slurred
- perched
- myeloid
- fancied
- fangled
- steamed
- steeled
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- steered
- steeved
- stelled
- stemmed
- stepped
- sounded
- stepped
- southed
- sterned
- stetted
- spanned
- steward
- spanked
- enguard
- sticked
- sparred
- enisled
- enjoyed
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- sparoid
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- spathed
- spawned
- enraged
- enround
- stilled
- speared
- stilted
- specked
- entered
- stinted
- stipend
- stirred
- enticed
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- spelled
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- stooked
- stooped
- stopped
- spilled
- stopped
- defaced
- defamed
- curdled
- sexifid
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- curried
- defiled
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- defined
- custard
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- defraud
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- cycloid
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- deified
- deigned
- sharked
- sharped
- delated
- delayed
- cystoid
- deleted
- sheared
- dabbled
- daddled
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- dallied
- sheeted
- deltoid
- deluded
- deluged
- shelled
- shelved
- seaward
- seaweed
- seceded
- demigod
- demised
- shifted
- shinned
- denoted
- shipped
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- shirred
- dentoid
- shoaled
- deodand
- dispand
- dispeed
- dispend
- niggard
- niggled
- muzzled
- storied
- stormed
- storied
- farrand
- trapped
- trashed
- faulted
- treated
- favored
- trebled
- gerland
- fronted
- elfland
- elkwood
- fronted
- frosted
- frothed
- froward
- frowned
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- expired
- embayed
- fumbled
- exposed
- expound
- embraid
- exscind
- embread
- fungoid
- emended
- emerald
- emerged
- emersed
- emitted
- empaled
- emplead
- gabbled
- exulted
- emptied
- enabled
- enacted
- encaged
- gaggled
- encloud
- faceted
- faciend
- encored
- gallied
- fagoted
- fainted
- gambled
- nighted
- moneyed
- monacid
- feasted
- striped
- trended
- strived
- tressed
- triacid
- giggled
- strowed
- moulted
- wagered
- waggled
- wagoned
- lanated
- wakened
- waltzed
- langued
- languid
- laniard
- lanioid
- moulded
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- weasand
- leached
- weazand
- leagued
- ethmoid
- forfend
- earthed
- echinid
- forward
- foulard
- founded
- everted
- evicted
- evinced
- edified
- evolved
- effaced
- exacted
- exalted
- fracted
- fraised
- excised
- franked
- frapped
- freaked
- affined
- weighed
- learned
- leashed
- vialled
- leeched
- wenched
- leeward
- wetbird
- whacked
- girdled
- tricked
- stubbed
- studded
- studied
- stuffed
- gizzard
- trifled
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- stumped
- stunned
- stunted
- styloid
- subacid
- trilled
- gladded
- glaired
- glanced
- glassed
- subdued
- gleamed
- gleaned
- trimmed
- glenoid
- glinted
- gloated
- tripped
- tripled
- gloomed
- gloried
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- glutted
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- subtend
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- trolled
- succeed
- trooped
- suckled
- trotted
- gnarled
- gnashed
- trucked
- trudged
- trumped
- sugared
- gobbled
- gobioid
- godhead
- godhood
- godsend
- godward
- goggled
- trunked
- trussed
- sullied
- goliard
- trusted
- platted
- medaled
- meddled
- wimbled
- wimpled
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- uneared
- unfiled
- intoned
- unfumed
- ungored
- unguard
- unguled
- ignited
- ignored
- unheard
- unhoard
- unhoped
- unhosed
- iguanid
- unified
- inuloid
- inurned
- invaded
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- invalid
- invited
- invoked
- iodized
- iracund
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- unlived
- immixed
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- unmoved
- immured
- unowned
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- impaled
- unplaid
- plastid
- jointed
- joisted
- jostled
- jounced
- mahound
- ycleped
- yearned
- yielded
- yodeled
- footpad
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- imputed
- swerved
- swirled
- inboard
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- incaged
- hexacid
- tiaraed
- incased
- hexapod
- tickled
- incised
- incited
- higgled
- halberd
- ferried
- templed
- adhered
- feruled
- tempted
- tenfold
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- fetched
- fevered
- fibered
- handled
- fibroid
- fiddled
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- figured
- filched
- finched
- hansard
- harried
- thanked
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- hatched
- thebaid
- fitched
- fitweed
- fizzled
- haunted
- flaccid
- flagged
- havened
- adjured
- hayward
- histoid
- hitched
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- hobbled
- hockled
- tingled
- tinkled
- menaced
- zincked
- zincoid
- witched
- wizened
- punched
- pumiced
- pressed
- pollard
- pretend
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- phrased
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- primmed
- prinked
- printed
- phytoid
- poniard
- pickled
- piddled
- piebald
- pierced
- pigweed
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- piloted
- pimpled
- proceed
- pinched
- pinfold
- pinguid
- pinhold
- portend
- prodded
- inhaled
- inhered
- hoveled
- hovered
- huddled
- inhumed
- trailed
- injured
- trained
- humbird
- humbled
- inlaced
- sunbird
- sunward
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- tumored
- gormand
- tupaiid
- suppled
- swelled
- gozzard
- grabbed
- swilled
- swinged
- grafted
- swooned
- swooped
- sworded
- grained
- sylphid
- suspend
- adapted
- granted
- grassed
- alleyed
- tabbied
- greased
- tabooed
- tabored
- resound
- greaved
- percoid
- planted
- tramped
- humored
- tranced
- hunched
- hundred
- innyard
- hurried
- hurtled
- husband
- aerated
- hustled
- instead
- hutched
- huzzaed
- instead
- hyaloid
- hydatid
- hydriad
- insured
- insipid
- hydroid
- unarmed
- unarted
- unbound
- unblind
- unbound
- unbowed
- unbraid
- unbuild
- unchild
- uncloud
- undated
- mustard
- nibbled
- pinweed
- posited
- noticed
- perbend
- modeled
- muscled
- muscoid
- puddled
- prebend
- prowled
- praised
- pranced
- pranked
- prasoid
- provand
- provend
- proteid
- protend
- pouched
- pounded
- pounced
- pounded
- poebird
- offhand
- oreweed
- misword
- propend
- lowbred
- propped
- pronged
- progged
- mastoid
- lycopod
- lynched
- mascled
- luxated
- lurched
- lustred
- married
- lunched
- lunated
- marined
- marched
- marbled
- lubbard
- lowered
- lowland
- lubbard
- manured
- metaled
- lowered
- mantled
- lounged
- mankind
- loppard
- lopseed
- mangled
- manhead
- manhood
- merited
- mermaid
- managed
- limited
- limniad
- mallard
- likened
- limited
- lollard
- jeweled
- logwood
- lombard
- lighted
- flammed
- hearted
- flanged
- flanked
- flapped
- flashed
- flatted
- thieved
- thinned
- flecked
- fledged
- fleeced
- thirled
- fleered
- fleeted
- fleshed
- flicked
- flipped
- flirted
- ellwand
- flitted
- thrived
- floated
- flocked
- flogged
- flooded
- throned
- floored
- flopped
- haybird
- floured
- orchard
- ordered
- natured
- orewood
- orfgild
- nayward
- nayword
- orotund
- obliged
- whapped
- wharfed
- wheeled
- wheezed
- whelked
- whelmed
- whelped
- whetted
- whiffed
- lemurid
- whipped
- whirred
- whirled
- whisked
- lentoid
- leopard
- viroled
- visaged
- lepered
- whizzed
- whooped
- whorled
- visited
- widened
- widowed
- wielded
- visored
- leveled
- linseed
- lionced
- libbard
- libeled
- volumed
- lithoid
- livered
- voluted
- vomited
- vouched
- voyaged
- waddled
- wafered
- loathed
- lobated
- lobbied
- lobiped
- located
- lighted
- osiered
- patched
- osteoid
- oceloid
- octofid
- octopod
- peabird
- peascod
- pebbled
- peckled
- overrid
- outland
- plained
- plagued
- plaided
- umpired
- uddered
- ulcered
- typhoid
- laggard
- labroid
- labeled
- labored
- kotowed
- knobbed
- knocked
- knolled
- knopped
- knotted
- knurled
- kneeled
- knelled
- periled
- parched
- pleaded
- pleased
- pledged
- pleopod
- perpend
- plodded
- plotted
- zygenid
- midward
- morland
- woolded
- worried
- worsted
- mottled
- mottoed
- wounded
- mingled
- miniard
- mounded
- mounted
- jugated
- juggled
- mounted
- mourned
- wrapped
- wreaked
- mouthed
- wrecked
- wrested
- minuend
- wringed
- jumbled
- writhed
- wronged
- xiphoid
- muddled
- misdeed
- negroid
- mislaid
- mislead
- muddied
- muffled
- neighed
- mugweed
- mulched
- mulcted
- misread
- missend
- mistold
- mumbled
- mummied
- munched
- nestled
- miswend
- mitered
- nettled
- mizzled
- plaited
- planned
- pitched
- palsied
- penfold
- overdid
- paroled
- perseid
- parotid
- plucked
- parried
- plugged
- plumbed
- plumped
- plunged
- perused
- poached
- pochard
- pestled
- petaled
- petered
- podurid
- phacoid
- justled
- prehend
- paneled
- katydid
- keckled
- prepaid
- pointed
- phasmid
- phialed
- policed
- placard
- placoid
- pivoted
- knitted
- knagged
- knapped
- knarred
- kneaded
- kirtled
- kindled
- kindred
- twofold
- layland
- hopyard
- purfled
- puppied
- pirated
(imp. & p. p.) of Chop
(imp. & p. p.) of Chord
(a.) Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer.
(n.) An aneroid barometer.
(imp. & p. p.) of Anger
(imp. & p. p.) of Affix
(n.) The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it.
(a.) Alt. of Annelidan
(imp. & p. p.) of Annex
(imp. & p. p.) of Annoy
(a.) Having a handle.
(n.) A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or
absorbent.
(a.) Counteractive of acidity.
(imp. & p. p.) of Array
(a.) Resembling a flower; flowerlike.
(imp. & p. p.) of Arrive
(adv.) Toward the stern.
(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.) Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a
conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.
(n.) Goutweed.
(n.) The state of being an ape.
(imp. & p. p.) of Purple
(adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied
to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pursue
(adv.) Alt. of Airwards
(imp. & p. p.) of Alarm
(a.) Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching
danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed
modesty.
(imp. & p. p.) of Putty
(imp. & p. p.) of Puzzle
(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.
(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.
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Paper
(imp. & p. p.) of People
(a.) Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.
(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
(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.
(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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.
(n.) One of the Copepoda.
(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.
(n.) A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
(a.) Rising to a point; conical; copped.
(a.) Having coral; covered with coral.
(a.) Chubby.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chuck
(imp. & p. p.) of Chuck
(imp. p. p.) of Chum
(imp. & p. p.) of Churn
(imp. & p. p.) of Circle
(a.) Having the form of a circle; round.
(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.) A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
(imp. & p. p.) of Secure
(imp. & p. p.) of Seduce
(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.
(imp.) of Seethe
(p. p.) of Seethe
(n.) An apple, large and round like the head.
(n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dandle
(imp. & p. p.) of Oppose
(imp. & p. p.) of Effuse
(imp. & p. p.) of Excite
(imp. & p. p.) of Fret
(imp. & p. p.) of Excuse
(imp. & p. p.) of Eject
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Elapse
(imp. & p. p.) of Elbow
(a.) Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts,
knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.
(imp. & p. p.) of Elect
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Frisk
(imp. & p. p.) of Frit
(imp. & p. p.) of Friz
(a.) Clothed in a frock.
(imp. & p. p.) of Exhume
(imp. & p. p.) of Exist
(a.) Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See
Frog, n., 4.
(a.) Furnished with fronds.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flout
(imp. & p. p.) of Thumb
(a.) Having thumbs.
(a.) Soiled by handling.
(imp. & p. p.) of Thump
(imp. & p. p.) of Flunk
(imp. & p. p.) of Flush
(imp. & p. p.) of Focus
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Foist
(imp. & p. p.) of Admire
(a.) Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an
admired poem.
(a.) Wonderful; also, admirable.
(imp. & p. p.) of Fondle
(imp. & p. p.) of Plash
(imp. & p. p.) of Notch
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Overfeed
(imp. & p. p.) of Paddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Scud
(imp. & p. p.) of Scuff
(imp. & p. p.) of Scull
(imp. & p. p.) of Chap
(imp. & p. p.) of Scum
(imp. & p. p.) of Char
(imp. & p. p.) of Charge
(n.) A bird of the genus Otis.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bustle
(a.) Armed scythes, as a chariot.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chark
(imp. & p. p.) of Charm
(imp. & p. p.) of Chart
(a.) Having gaps or a chasm.
(imp. & p. p.) of Coach
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chat
(imp. & p. p.) of Cheat
(imp. & p. p.) of Check
(imp. & p. p.) of Coast
(imp. & p. p.) of Cobble
(a.) Having a cheek; -- used in composition.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cheep
(imp. & p. p.) of Cheer
(imp. & p. p.) of Cockle
(a.) Inclosed in a shell.
(a.) Wrinkled; puckered.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chest
(a.) Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as,
broad-chested; narrow-chested.
(imp. & p. p.) of Coddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Coerce
(imp. & p. p.) of Child
(a.) Furnished with a child.
(n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things;
especially, a period of a thousand years.
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cohere
(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."
(v. t.) To join in praising.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chink
(a.) Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as,
short-chinned.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chinse
(imp. & p. p.) of Chip
(p. & a.) Darkened. See Colly, v. t.
(imp. & p. p.) of 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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chivy
(imp. & p. p.) of Colly
(n.) A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a
myxopod state.
(a.) Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.
(v. t.) To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.
(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-.
(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 weed out.
(v. t.) To extricate by winding; to unloose.
(imp. & p. p.) of 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.) Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.
(imp. & p. p.) of Miaul
(a.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style,
like notes marked with a slur.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slush
(imp. & p. p.) of Smack
(imp. & p. p.) of Dimple
(n.) The emerald.
(imp. & p. p.) of Smart
(imp. & p. p.) of Dowel
(p. a.) Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage
portion.
(imp. & p. p.) of Smash
(imp. & p. p.) of Smear
(a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as,
the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).
(imp. & p. p.) of Smell
(imp. & p. p.) of Smelt
(imp. & p. p.) of Smirk
(a.) Stupid; heavy.
(imp. & p. p.) of Drab
(imp. & p. p.) of Draft
(imp. & p. p.) of Drag
(imp. & p. p.) of Drain
(n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral
faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dread
(imp. & p. p.) of Dream
(imp. & p. p.) of Smudge
(imp. & p. p.) of Smut
(imp. & p. p.) of Dredge
(imp. & p. p.) of Dress
(imp. & p. p.) of Drib
(imp. & p. p.) of Snag
(a.) Full of snags; snaggy.
(imp. & p. p.) of Snap
(imp. & p. p.) of Snarl
(imp. & p. p.) of Sneak
(imp. & p. p.) of Sneer
(imp. & p. p.) of Sneeze
(imp. & p. p.) of Snick
(imp. & p. p.) of Sniff
(imp. & p. p.) of Dirty
(imp. & p. p.) of Snift
(imp. & p. p.) of Snip
(imp. & p. p.) of Drift
(imp. & p. p.) of Drill
(a.) Wearing or having a snood.
(imp. & p. p.) of Snooze
(imp. & p. p.) of Snort
(imp. & p. p.) of Drip
(imp. & p. p.) of Stalk
(a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
(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 unbend.
(v. t.) To unbind; to loosen.
(imp. & p. p.) of Droll
() Alt. of Dromon
(imp. & p. p.) of Stall
(a.) Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Drool
(imp. & p. p.) of Droop
(imp. & p. p.) of Drop
(imp. & p. p.) of Solace
(imp. & p. p.) of Stamp
(imp. & p. p.) of Staple
(imp. & p. p.) of Star
(n.) A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses
and asses; a solidungulate.
(n.) A substance to be dissolved.
(a.) Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.
(a.) Influenced in fortune by the stars.
(v. t.) To part; to divide.
(imp. & p. p.) of Start
(imp. & p. p.) of Starve
(imp. & p. p.) of Soothe
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Statue
(n.) The cardinal bird.
(n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra).
(n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Reduce
(a.) Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.
(a.) Alt. of Amyloidal
(n.) A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.
(n.) The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid
degeneration.
(imp. & p. p.) of Assay
(imp. & p. p.) of Raffle
(imp. & p. p.) of Assize
(n.) A common American composite weed (Ambrosia
artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Assume
(a.) Supposed.
(a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed
character.
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Astone
() of Astone
(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.
(n.) Alt. of Androides
(a.) Resembling a man.
(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.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.
(a.) Bilobate.
(n.) See Sweet gum.
(n.) A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in
a tavern or beershop.
(imp. & p. p.) of Birch
(imp. & p. p.) of Attire
(p. p.) Provided with antlers, as a stag.
(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.
(imp. & p. p.) of Attune
(imp. & p. p.) of Audit
(a.) Smeared with bitumen.
(imp. & p. p.) of Augur
(imp. & p. p.) of Blab
(a.) Inclosed in a basin.
(imp. & p. p.) of Black
(a.) Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.
(a.) Combined with auric acid.
(a.) Having ears. See Aurited.
(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.) Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.
(imp. & p. p.) of Abet
(imp. & p. p.) of Blank
(imp. & p. p.) of Blast
(a.) Blighted; withered.
(a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.
(a.) Rent open by an explosive.
(imp. & p. p.) of Plank
(imp. & p. p.) of Apply
(a.) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles
of a bird's beak.
(n.) The period intervening between one celebration of the
Pythian games and the next.
(a.) Wearing an apron.
(imp. & p. p.) of Allay
(imp. & p. p.) of Allege
(imp. & p. p.) of Quaff
(a.) Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees.
(imp. & p. p.) of Allow
(a.) Furnished with an arcade.
(imp. & p. p.) of Alloy
(imp. & p. p.) of Allude
(imp. & p. p.) of Allure
(imp. & p. p.) of Quash
(imp. & p. p.) of Queen
(imp. & p. p.) of Quell
(imp. & p. p.) of Alter
(imp. & p. p.) of Abash
(imp. & p. p.) of Abduce
(imp. & p. p.) of Query
(imp. & p. p.) of Amass
(imp. & p. p.) of Amend
(imp. & p. p.) of Amerce
(imp. & p. p.) of Quiet
(imp. & p. p.) of Quill
(a.) Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills.
(imp. & p. p.) of Quilt
(imp. & p. p.) of Quip
(a.) Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks.
() of Quit
(a.) Clad with armor.
(imp. & p. p.) of Quiz
(imp. & p. p.) of Arouse
(imp. & p. p.) of Rally
(imp. & p. p.) of Rabble
(imp. & p. p.) of Ramble
(imp. & p. p.) of Aspire
(imp. & p. p.) of Battle
(p. p.) Embattled.
(imp. & p. p.) of Blear
(a.) Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bleat
(imp. & p. p.) of Blend
(imp. & p. p.) of Bless
(a.) Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration;
heavenly; holy.
(a.) Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings;
happy; highly favored.
(a.) Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness;
blissful; joyful.
(a.) Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or
heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
(a.) Beatified.
(a.) Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
(imp. & p. p.) of Blind
(imp. & p. p.) of Blink
(imp. & p. p.) of Beach
(p. p. & a.) Bordered by a beach.
(p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach;
as, the ship is beached.
(imp. & p. p.) of Avail
(imp. & p. p.) of Bloat
(p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the
presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face.
Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
(imp. & p. p.) of Avenge
(imp. & p. p.) of Aver
(imp. & p. p.) of Block
(imp. & p. p.) of Blood
(a.) Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of
approved breed; of the best stock.
(imp. & p. p.) of Avert
(a.) Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also,
offended; unpropitious.
(imp. & p. p.) of Avoid
(imp. & p. p.) of Bloom
(imp. & p. p.) of Beard
(a.) Having a beard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Blot
(imp. & p. p.) of Await
(imp. & p. p.) of Award
(a.) Having high color from exposure to the weather;
ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.
(a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of
instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace,
or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a
trick; an awkward boy.
(a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
(a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward.
(v. t.) To make bloody; to stain with blood.
(v. t.) Alt. of Bebloody
(v. t.) To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
(a.) Proper; decorous.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bluff
(imp. & p. p.) of Blunt
(imp. & p. p.) of Babble
(n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support
the bed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bedew
(imp. & p. p.) of Blur
(imp. & p. p.) of Blurt
(imp. & p. p.) of Blush
(adv.) Towards bed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Board
(imp. & p. p.) of Beetle
(imp. & p. p.) of Boast
(n.) Alt. of Beguard
(n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in
imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were
afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by
Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
(imp. & p. p.) of Behave
(imp. & p. p.) of Belace
(imp. & p. p.) of Belate
(a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by
night; benighted.
() of Belay
(imp. & p. p.) of Belch
(n.) A sweet or loving look.
(a.) Wearing a bodice.
(a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition;
as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
(n.) A bogey.
(imp. & p. p.) of Boggle
(n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It
is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making
ornaments.
(imp. & p. p.) of Abjure
(imp. & p. p.) of Baffle
(imp. & p. p.) of Belly
(imp. & p. p.) of Belove
(p. p. & a.) Greatly loved; dear to the heart.
(n.) One greatly loved.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bemire
(p. p.) of Bename
(imp. & p. p.) of Bench
(n.) An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock,
used in veering or fastening ropes.
(n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing
stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of
cannon.
(n.) A bombardment.
(n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for
carrying liquor or beer.
(n.) Padded breeches.
(n.) See Bombardo.
(v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially,
to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
(imp. & p. p.) of Berate
(a.) Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate;
as, a berried shrub.
(imp. & p. p.) of Berry
(n.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).
(n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of
California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
(n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus
santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
(a.) Made ruddy or red.
(imp. & p. p.) of Refine
(a.) Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished;
cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined
sentiments.
(v. t.) To found or cast anew.
(v. t.) To found or establish again; to re/stablish.
() imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
(a.) Byssaceous.
(imp. & p. p.) of Reside
(imp. & p. p.) of Resile
(imp. & p. p.) of Cabin
(imp. & p. p.) of Cackle
(v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to
respond to a question or an argument.
(v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in
response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
(v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the
defendant is held to respond in damages.
(v. t.) To answer; to reply.
(v. t.) To suit or accord with; to correspond to.
(n.) An answer; a response.
(n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a
chapter.
(n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an
arch.
(imp. & p. p.) of Ruffle
(imp. & p. p.) of Resume
(imp. & p. p.) of Retch
(imp. & p. p.) of Rumor
(imp. & p. p.) of Rumple
(a.) Wrinkled; crumpled.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cajole
(imp. & p. p.) of Retire
(a.) Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of
retired habits.
(a.) Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired
officer; a retired physician.
(v. t. & i.) To tread again.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rustle
(imp. & p. p.) of Revel
(imp. & p. p.) of Sabre
(imp. & p. p.) of Revere
(imp. & p. p.) of Revile
(imp. & p. p.) of Revise
(imp. & p. p.) of Revive
(imp. & p. p.) of Clack
(imp. & p. p.) of Saddle
(a.) Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a
saddle; saddle-backed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Claim
(a.) Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike
substance; as, candied fruits.
(a.) Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as
candied sirup.
(a.) Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins
(a.) Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering.
(a.) Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or
candy.
(imp. & p. p.) of Candy
(v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or
harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and
strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to
thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
(v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly
or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations
which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord
demanding resolution into a concord.
(a.) Adorned with statues.
(n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to
suit.
(imp. & p. p.) of Berth
(imp. & p. p.) of Bandy
(imp. & p. p.) of Bestead
(v. t.) To put in a certain situation or condition; to
circumstance; to place.
(v. t.) To put in peril; to beset.
(v. t.) To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.
() of Bestride
() of Bestride
(imp. & p. p.) of Boost
(imp. & p. p.) of Betide
(imp. & p. p.) of Bosom
(imp. & p. p.) of Bowel
(a.) Having bowels; hollow.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bevel
(a.) Alt. of Bevelled
(n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus).
See Baleen, and Whale.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bezzle
(n.) The wood of the box (Buxus).
(n.) The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a
boy.
(a.) Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.
(a.) Pecked; pitted; notched.
(imp. & p. p.) of Botch
(a.) Furnished with bracts.
(imp. & p. p.) of Brag
(imp. & p. p.) of Bottle
(a.) Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as
in, a bottle.
(a.) Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bounce
(imp. &. p. p.) of Braid
(imp. & p. p.) of Bound
(imp. & p. p.) of Brain
(p.a.) Supplied with brains.
(imp. & p. p.) of Revoke
(imp. & p. p.) of Brand
(imp. & p. p.) of Refuse
(imp. & p. p.) of Refute
(imp. & p. p.) of Regale
(n.) An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to
the fox. Same as Renard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Brawl
(a.) Brawny; strong; muscular.
(n.) A rootlike appendage.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rankle
(imp. & p. p.) of Reign
(n.) A ribbon.
(n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted
longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and
give rigidity to the framework.
(imp. & p. p.) of Riddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Relate
(p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance,
particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or
second degree.
(p. p. & a.) Standing in relation or connection; as, the
electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.
(p. p. & a.) Narrated; told.
(p. p. & a.) Same as Relative, 4.
(imp. & p. p.) of Right
(imp. & p. p.) of Relax
(imp. & p. p.) of Rimple
(imp. & p. p.) of Shock
(imp. & p. p.) of Accrue
(n.) See Despond.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shop
(imp. & p. p.) of Depone
(imp. & p. p.) of Shot
(a.) Loaded with shot.
(a.) Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture.
(imp. & p. p.) of Depose
(imp. & p. p.) of Shout
(imp. & p. p.) of Depute
(imp.) of Shrive
() of Shrive
(imp. & p. p.) of Deride
(imp. & p. p.) of Shuck
(v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to
stretch.
(v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate;
to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce
tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc.
(v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shun
(imp. & p. p.) of Shunt
(imp. & p. p.) of Derive
(a.) Same as Dermatoid.
(v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move
downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing,
walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite
of ascend.
(v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
(v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage
ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less
virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as,
he descended from his high estate.
(v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the
particular or less important matters to be considered.
(a.) Furnished with a sickle.
(v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to
be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or
pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown
descends to the heir.
(v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower
tone.
(v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a
lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a
ladder.
(imp. & p. p.) of Disuse
(imp. & p. p.) of Ditch
(imp. & p. p.) of Parade
(imp. & p. p.) of Desire
(a.) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament;
ligamentous.
(a.) Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in
composition.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sight
(a.) Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used
in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted,
sharp-sighted, and the like.
(v. t.) To send hastily.
(v. t.) To spend; to squander. See Dispend.
(a.) Alt. of Sigmoidal
(v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be
thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or
depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
(n.) Despondency.
(n.) Alt. of Bobsleigh
(n.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree
next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap
flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.
(imp. & p. p.) of Savor
(imp. & p. p.) of Bridge
(imp. & p. p.) of Bridle
(interj.) An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath.
(imp. & p. p.) of Scab
(a.) Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.
(a.) Fig.: Mean; paltry; vile; worthless.
(a.) Set with briers.
(n.) A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.
(n.) A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of
robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a
highwayman; a freebooter.
(imp. & p. p.) of Scald
(imp. & p. p.) of Brim
(a.) Having a brim; -- usually in composition.
(a.) Full to, or level with, the brim.
(a.) Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue;
streaked; brindled.
(imp. & p. p.) of Brisk
(a.) Scabby; scurfy; scall.
(imp. & p. p.) of Scalp
(imp. & p. p.) of Cavil
(a.) Covered, or furnished with, cedars.
(n.) An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial
rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.
(imp. & p. p.) of Scan
(imp. & p. p.) of Broil
(imp. & p. p.) of Scant
(adv.) Alt. of Outwards
(imp. & p. p.) of Peddle
(n.) Alt. of Outrode
(imp. & p. p.) of Preen
(a.) Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which
has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat
midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium).
(imp. & p. p.) of Scar
(imp. & p. p.) of Scarf
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Scaridae, a family of marine
fishes including the parrot fishes.
(imp. & p. p.) of Scarp
(imp. & p. p.) of Scath
(imp. & p. p.) of Scent
(imp. & p. p.) of Scheme
(imp. & p. p.) of Bronze
() of Centre
(imp. & p. p.) of Brood
(imp. & p. p.) of Brook
(imp. & p. p.) of Brown
(imp. & p. p.) of Scoff
(imp. & p. p.) of Scold
(imp. & p. p.) of Sconce
(imp. & p. p.) of Scoop
(p. a.) Covered with wax.
(imp. & p. p.) of Scorn
(imp. & p. p.) of Browse
(imp. & p. p.) of Bruise
(imp. & p. p.) of Bruit
(imp. & p. p.) of Brush
(imp. & p. p.) of Scour
(imp. & p. p.) of Scout
(imp. & p. p.) of Bubble
(imp. & p. p.) of Scowl
(imp. & p. p.) of Buckle
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
(n.) One of the Cestoidea.
(imp. & p. p.) of Scrape
(imp. & p. p.) of Build
(imp. & p. p.) of Bully
(imp. & p. p.) of Screw
() See Bombard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chaff
(imp. p. p.) of Chain
(imp. & p. p.) of Scribe
(imp. & p. p.) of Bunch
(imp. & p. p.) of Bundle
(imp. & p. pr.) of Chair
(imp. & p. p.) of Chalk
(imp. & p. p.) of Champ
(imp. & p. p.) of Chance
(imp. & p. p.) of Change
(imp. & p. p.) of Chant
(imp. & p. p.) of Bungle
(imp. & p. p.) of Accuse
(imp. & p. p.) of Sinew
(a.) Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.
(a.) Fig.: Equipped; strengthened.
(a.) Charged with offense; as, an accused person.
(a.) Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a
separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
(imp. & p. p.) of Single
(n.) The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical
operation is performed; -- called also faciend.
(imp. & p. p.) of Plash
(n.) A single farmhouse; a steading.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tipple
(a.) Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tissue
(a.) Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as,
tissued flowers.
(n.) A swineherd.
(n.) A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiaege). See Ambrosia, 3.
(n.) In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hoist
(imp. & p. p.) of Toady
(imp. & p. p.) of Toast
(imp. & p. p.) of Holla
(n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen
fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or
unbleached hollands.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hollo
(imp. & p. p.) of Adopt
(a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted
son, citizen, country, word.
(imp. & p. p.) of Adorn
(imp. & p. p.) of Homage
(imp. & p. p.) of Toddle
(a.) Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.
(imp. & p. p.) of Index
(imp. & p. p.) of Token
(a.) Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence.
(imp. & p. p.) of Indite
(imp. & p. p.) of Induce
(imp. & p. p.) of Tongue
(a.) Having a tongue.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tooth
(a.) Having teeth; furnished with teeth.
(a.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tackle
(a.) Made of ropes tacked together.
(imp. & p. p.) of Green
(imp. & p. p.) of Greet
(imp. & p. p.) of Grieve
(imp. & p. p.) of Grill
(imp. & p. p.) of Grin
(p. p.) Ground.
(a.) See Grizzled.
(imp. & p. p.) of Taint
(imp. & p. p.) of Grit
(imp. & p. p.) of Groan
(imp. & p. p.) of Groin
(a.) Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.
(imp. & p. p.) of Groom
(imp. & p. p.) of Groove
(imp. & p. p.) of Tally
(imp. & p. p.) of Group
(imp. & p. p.) of Grout
(n.) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales
promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.
(n.) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.
(imp. & p. p.) of Growl
(imp. & p. p.) of Grub
(imp. & p. p.) of Tangle
(n.) A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
(n.) An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a
tannery.
(a.) Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.
(imp. & p. p.) of Swab
(imp. & p. p.) of Grunt
(imp. & p. p.) of Taper
(a.) Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
(imp. & p. p.) of Swag
(imp. & p. p.) of Guard
(imp. & p. p.) of Swamp
(a.) Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his
expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were
guarded.
(imp. & p. p.) of Swap
(imp. & p. p.) of Sward
(a.) Covered with sward.
(imp. & p. p.) of Guess
(imp. & p. p.) of Tarry
(imp. & p. p.) of Swarm
(imp. & p. p.) of Swash
(imp. & p. p.) of Swathe
() of Sweat
(n.) A name given to several resinous-glandular composite
plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and
Madia.
(imp. & p. p.) of Gully
(imp. & p. p.) of Tattle
(imp. & p. p.) of Gurgle
(n.) Alt. of Gurnet
(n.) See Gwiniad.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spit
() imp. & p. p. of Straw.
(imp. & p. p.) of Stray
(a.) Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.
(a.) Shot out long; -- said of antlers.
() p. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit.
(imp. & p. p.) of Splice
(imp. & p. p.) of Strew
(imp. & p. p.) of Equal
(imp. & p. p.) of Equate
(a.) Covered or adorned with pansies.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spoil
(imp. & p. p.) of Sponge
(imp. & p. p.) of Spool
(imp. & p. p.) of Drown
(imp. & p. p.) of Drowse
(imp. & p. p.) of Sport
(imp. & p. p.) of Erect
(imp. & p. p.) of Drub
(imp. & p. p.) of Drudge
(imp. & p. p.) of Drug
(imp. & p. p.) of Spot
(a.) Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.
(imp. & p. p.) of Drum
(imp. & p. p.) of Spout
(a.) Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spruce
(imp. & p. p.) of Escape
(imp. & p. p.) of Spur
(n.) A stupid person; a dunce.
(a.) Stupid.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spurn
(a.) Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having
shoots like spurs.
(a.) Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spurt
(a.) See Cottised.
(n.) Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager
or cotter.
(a.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus.
(n.) A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See
Sculpin.
(n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union.
(n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or
league.
(n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number,
person, or case.
(n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in
reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an
acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant.
See Fine.
(n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a
consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
(n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost
black) grapes in compact clusters.
(v. i.) To agree; to act together.
(imp. & p. p.) of Couch
(a.) Same as Couch/.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cough
(imp. & p. p.) of Count
(imp. & p. p.) of Couple
(imp. & p. p.) of Course
(a.) Hunted; as, a coursed hare.
(a.) Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
(imp. & p. p.) of Court
(imp. & p. p.) of Cover
(a.) Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
(imp. & p. p.) of Covet
(n.) The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling.
Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the
nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with
cattle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cower
(n.) One whose occupation is to tend cows.
(n.) Same as Cow parsley.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cozen
(n.) Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or
moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition,
or manners.
(n.) Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --
applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
(n.) Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed
author.
(n.) Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crack
(a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
(a.) Crack-brained.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cradle
(a.) Full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with
prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.
(imp. & p. p.) of Abut
(a.) Shaped like or resembling a mite.
(imp. & p. p.) of Accede
(imp. & p. p.) of Snub
(imp. & p. p.) of Snuff
(imp. & p. p.) of Snug
(imp. & p. p.) of Cram
(imp. & p. p.) of Cramp
(a.) Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked
axle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sober
(imp. & p. p.) of Crash
(a.) Having one or more sepals.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crawl
(imp. & p. p.) of Creak
(imp. & p. p.) of Cream
(imp. & p. p.) of Crease
(imp. & p. p.) of Create
(n.) Alt. of Cantref
(imp. & p. p.) of Clam
(imp. & p. p.) of Clamp
(imp. & p. p.) of Caper
(imp. & p. p.) of Clang
(imp. & p. p.) of Clank
(imp. & p. p.) of Clap
(imp. & p. p.) of Rattle
(imp. & p. p.) of Ravage
(imp. & p. p.) of Relume
(imp. & p. p.) of Ripen
(imp. & p. p.) of Ripple
(imp. & p. p.) of Ravel
(imp. & p. p.) of Raven
(n.) Any one of very numerous species of small spiral
gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in
fresh and salt water.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rival
(imp. & p. p.) of Rivel
(a.) Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rivet
(n.) In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the
superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole
material laid in place and ready for travel.
(imp. & p. p.) of Reach
(imp. & p. p.) of Roast
(a.) Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of
certain crustaceans and insects.
(n.) An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of
certain crustaceans.
(n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for
swimming. See Water beetle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Remise
(v. t.) To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.
(v. t.) See Remold.
(imp. & p. p.) of Remove
(a.) Changed in place.
(a.) Dismissed from office.
(a.) Distant in location; remote.
(a.) Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once
removed.
(v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or
reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a
rebounding echo.
(v. i.) To give back an echo.
(v. i.) To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.
(v. t.) To send back; to reverberate.
(n.) The act of rebounding; resilience.
(v. t.) To build again, as something which has been demolished;
to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rebuke
(a.) Brought forth prematurely.
(a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in
normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted
branches.
(imp. & p. p.) of Abrade
(imp. & p. p.) of Recede
(imp. & p. p.) of Recite
(imp. & p. p.) of Roost
(v. t. & i.) To plead again.
(n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but
partially open.
(imp. & p. p.) of Reply
(n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
(imp. & p. p.) of Repose
(a.) Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rotate
(a.) Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
(imp. & p. p.) of Round
(a.) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized;
labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
(imp. & p. p.) of Repute
(imp. & p. p.) of Rowel
(v. t.) To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
(v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the
enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind
a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rescue
(imp. & p. p.) of Omit
(n.) See Guacharo.
(a.) Knotted.
(a.) Having little knots or lumps.
(imp. & p. p.) of Saint
(a.) Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious.
(a.) Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
(imp. & p. p.) of Clash
(imp. & p. p.) of Clasp
(imp. & p. p.) of Class
(imp. & p. p.) of Clean
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or
family Carabidae.
(n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous
beetles.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sally
(imp. & p. p.) of Clear
(imp. & p. p.) of Salute
(imp.) of Cleave
(p. p.) of Cleave
() of Cleave
() of Clepe
(imp. & p. p.) of Click
(imp. & p. p.) of Climb
(n.) A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop.
(imp. & p. p.) of Clink
(a.) Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner
side of the sphenoid bone.
(imp. & p. p.) of Clip
(imp. & p. p.) of Cloak
(imp. & p. p.) of Clog
(imp. & p. p.) of Carol
(n.) One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood
is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.]
(a.) Alt. of Carotidal
(a.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.
(imp. & p. p.) of Carry
(imp. & p. p.) of Clot
(imp. & p. p.) of Clothe
(a.) Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of
a clot; sticky; slimy; foul.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cloud
(v. t.) To cut off.
(v. i.) To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
(v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's
self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal
process; as, an absconding debtor.
(v. t.) To hide; to conceal.
(imp. & p. p.) of Clout
(a.) Braided
(imp. & p. p.) of Bream
(imp. & p. p.) of Club
(a.) Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cluck
(imp. & p. p.) of Brick
(a.) Like or pertaining to the saurians.
(a.) Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.
(imp. & p. p.) of Castle
(a.) Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a
castled height or crag.
(a.) Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
(n.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to
the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other
birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a
cat.
() of Catch
(imp. & p. p.) of Cater
(n.) A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of
the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and
replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the
chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often
carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in
genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA
into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus
altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in
the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow
into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased
resistance to disease.
(a.) Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic;
positive; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.
(a.) Having the form of the Greek capital letter Omega (/).
(imp. & p. p.) of Color
(a.) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
(a.) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a
highly colored description.
(a.) Of some other color than black or white.
(a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to
negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored
people.
(a.) Of some other color than green.
(n.) The chough.
(imp. & p. p.) of Chock
(n.) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or
dun-curre.
(n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
(a.) Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
(n.) Guard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Square
(a.) Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together.
(imp. & p. p.) of Serry
(imp. & p. p.) of Dangle
(a.) Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;
variegated; as, a dapple horse.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dapple
(a.) Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crest
(a.) Having a crest.
(a.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
(a.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an
elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
(imp. & p. p.) of Settle
(n.) One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a
poltroon.
(a.) Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
(v. t.) To dastardize.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crib
(imp. & p. p.) of Daunt
(a.) Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the
larynx, and the adjoining parts.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crimp
(imp. & p. p.) of Dawdle
(imp. & p. p.) of Dazzle
(a.) Crinoidal.
(n.) One of the Crinoidea.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crisp
(adv. & a.) Stranded.
(imp. & p. p.) of Croak
(imp. & p. p.) of Crock
(n.) A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and
bloodybones.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crook
(a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning;
bent; twisted; deformed.
(a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted
from the right.
(a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
(imp. & p. p.) of Debase
(a.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted;
reversed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Debate
(n.) A person having red hair.
(n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a
game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and
its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard,
grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.
(n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
(n.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red
flowers. It is used in medicine.
(imp. & p. p.) of Croon
(imp. & p. p.) of Crop
(imp. & p. p.) of Cross
(imp. & p. p.) of Crowd
(imp. & p. p.) of Crown
(p. p. & a.) Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested,
or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded;
completed; consummated; perfected.
(p. p. & a.) Great; excessive; supreme.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cruise
(imp. & p. p.) of Crumb
(imp. & p. p.) of Crush
(imp. & p. p.) of Crust
(a.) Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old,
crusted port wine.
(imp. & p. p.) of Debit
(n.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the
Decapoda. Also used adjectively.
(imp. & p. p.) of Decay
(a.) Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with
decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune
or gentleman.
(imp. & p. p.) of Decide
(a.) Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable;
unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage.
(a.) Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose;
fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose.
(n.) See Barwood.
(n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of
vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
(a.) Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale
(a.) Pertaining to the Ctenoidei.
(n.) A ctenoidean.
(n.) The state of being a cub.
(a.) Having the measure of a cubit.
(n.) A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an
adulteress.
(n.) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
(n.) The cowfish.
(v. t.) To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his
wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
(imp. & p. p.) of Decoy
(n.) A half foot in poetry.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cuddle
(n.) A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and
leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to
many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.;
cottonweed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Decree
(imp. & p. p.) of Decry
(imp. & p. p.) of Deduce
(n.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under
twelve equal triangles.
(imp. &. p. p.) of Sever
(n.) Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean;
also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.
(n.) A cruciferous herb (Camelina sativa).
(n.) The sesame.
(imp. & p. p.) of Squire
(imp. & p. p.) of Stab
(imp. & p. p.) of Stable
(imp. & p. p.) of Dwarf
(imp. & p. p.) of Stack
(imp. & p. p.) of Dwell
(n.) Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for
dyeing.
(imp. & p. p.) of Essay
(imp. & p. p.) of Stain
(imp. & p. p.) of Offer
(imp. & p. p.) of Taunt
(n.) The great bustard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Adduce
(a.) Alt. of Adenoidal
(imp. & p. p.) of Guzzle
(n.) A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern
Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and
schelly.
(imp. & p. p.) of Gyrate
(imp. & p. p.) of Habit
(p. p. & a.) Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like
a shepherd.
(p. p. & a.) Fixed by habit; accustomed.
(p. p. & a.) Inhabited.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hackle
(imp. & p. p.) of Feign
(a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
false.
(a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty;
untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
(a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering;
hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in
appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
(a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(a.) A fierce, intractable creature.
(a.) A hag.
(n.) A stackyard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Haggle
(n.) The offspring of a hag.
(imp. & p. p.) of Teeth
(imp. & p. p.) of Feoff
(n.) Any one of numerous moths of the family Noctuidae, or
Noctuaelitae, as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths; -- so called
because they fly at night.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family Noctuidae.
(imp. & p. p.) of Honey
(a.) Covered with honey.
(a.) Sweet, as, honeyed words.
(imp. & p. p.) of Topple
(v. t.) To rend in pieces.
(imp. & p. p.) of Honor
(a.) Wreathed; twisted.
(a.) Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms
a figure like the letter S.
(n.) The climbing stem of the hop.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hopple
(imp. & p. p.) of Touch
(imp. & p. p.) of Tower
(a.) Adorned or defended by towers.
(imp. & p. p.) of Advise
(v. t.) To inclose, as a field.
(n.) Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; --
distinguished from outfield.
(n.) The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5.
(imp. & p. p.) of Infix
(v. t.) To pour in; to infuse.
(imp. & p. p.) of Track
(imp. & p. p.) of Hound
(imp. & p. p.) of Infuse
(imp. & p. p.) of Mature
(imp. & p. p.) of Jingle
(imp. & p. p.) of Joggle
(n.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed
(Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of
the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum
Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.
(n.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the
abode of human beings; the earth.
(a.) Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or
seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.
(a.) Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
(n.) The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in
the plural.
(n.) The seed of the opium poppy.
(n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May
whaap.
(n.) The knot.
(n.) The bobolink.
(n.) A composite plant (Anthemis Cotula), having a strong odor;
dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in
the United States.
(n.) The feverfew.
(a.) Infected or spotted with measles, as pork.
(a.) Being on, or towards, the van, or front.
(imp. & p. p.) of Vapor
(a.) Wet with vapors; moist.
(n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in
ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like;
esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds,
stays, etc.
(n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook
at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction
tube.
(n.) The wane of the moon.
(a.) Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.
(imp. & p. p.) of Warble
(imp. & p. p.) of Vault
(a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
(a.) Covered with an arch, or vault.
(a.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of
many ringent flowers.
(imp. & p. p.) of Vaunt
(imp. & p. p.) of Lasso
(imp. & p. p.) of Latch
(adv.) Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; -- opposed
to mesiad.
(imp. & p. p.) of Watch
(imp. & p. p.) of Water
(imp. & p. p.) of Wattle
(a.) Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the
chin or throat.
(imp. & p. p.) of Waver
(imp. & p. p.) of Laugh
(adv.) Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally;
-- opposed to dorsad.
() The waxwing.
(imp. & p. p.) of Waylay
(a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse;
willful.
(a.) Not governed or controlled.
(a.) Not ruled or marked with lines; as, unruled paper.
(imp. & p. p.) of Unsex
(a.) Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm;
diseased.
(a.) Fearless.
(imp. & p. p.) of Impede
(v. t.) To tread back; to retrace.
(a.) Not used to travel; as, colts that are unwayed.
(a.) Having no ways or roads; pathless.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tutor
(imp. & p. p.) of Twang
(a.) Twofold; double.
(imp. & p. p.) of Twig
(imp. & p. p.) of Twill
(imp. & p. p.) of Twin
(imp. & p. p.) of Twinge
(a.) Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning.
See Twin, n., 4.
(imp. & p. p.) of Twirl
(imp. & p. p.) of Twist
(a.) Not yet yoked; not having worn the yoke.
(a.) Freed or loosed from a yoke.
(a.) Licentious; unrestrained.
(a.) Not zoned; not bound with a girdle; as, an unzoned bosom.
(v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to
reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or
for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
(v. t.) To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
(v. t.) To treat with contempt.
(v. t.) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up;
-- with to before the person.
(v. i.) To utter upbraidings.
(a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence,
perverted.
(imp. & p. p.) of Twit
(n.) The act of reproaching; contumely.
(v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse.
(v. t.) To hoard up.
(imp. & p. p.) of Jangle
(v. i.) To stand up; to be erected; to rise.
(v. t.) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to
sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
(v. i.) To sue at law.
(a.) Virtually involved or included; involved in substance;
inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or
expressed. See Imply.
(imp. & p. p.) of Imply
(a.) Resembling jasper.
(imp. & p. p.) of Jaunt
(imp. & p. p.) of Impose
(v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound;
hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle;
to impound a document for safe keeping.
(imp. & p. p.) of Usher
(imp. & p. p.) of Usurp
(imp. & p. p.) of Utter
(imp. & p. p.) of Vacate
(a.) Brought to the state or consistence of jelly.
(imp. & p. p.) of Jelly
(v. t.) To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury; to
imperil; to hazard.
(a.) Furnished or loaded with acorns.
(a.) Fed or filled with acorns.
(a.) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
(imp. & p. p.) of Endow
(imp. & p. p.) of Garble
(imp. & p. p.) of Endure
(n.) The crown of a king.
(n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or
feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like
a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
(n.) The top; the thing most prized.
(n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
(n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
(n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience
in handling.
(v. t.) To deck with a garland.
(p. a.) Having some object, as the head of a man or beast,
impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing
which it pierces.
(imp. & p. p.) of Engage
(a.) Occupied; employed; busy.
(a.) Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections
pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
(a.) Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
(a.) Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the
engaged ships continued the fight.
(n.) A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.
(a.) Alt. of Syruped
(a.) Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet
juice.
(imp. & p. p.) of Devil
(imp. & p. p.) of Devise
(imp. & p. p.) of Devote
(a.) Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous;
devout; as, a devoted admirer.
(a.) Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sizzle
(adv.) Toward the right side; dextrally.
(imp. & p. p.) of Skid
(a.) Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and
dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert;
skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or
geometry.
(imp. & p. p.) of Skim
() of Dial
(imp. & p. p.) of Divide
(a.) Parted; disunited; distributed.
(a.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the
midrib; -- said of a leaf.
(imp. & p. p.) of Skimp
(imp. & p. p.) of Skin
(imp. & p. p.) of Skink
(imp. & p. p.) of Divine
(imp. & p. p.) of Skip
(n.) A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and
beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme
hardness.
(n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight
lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a
rhombus; a lozenge.
(n.) One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of
a diamond.
(n.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for
ornament in lines or groups.
(n.) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having
the bases at its angles.
(n.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that
called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
(a.) Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds;
as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
(imp. & p. p.) of Skirt
(imp. & p. p.) of Skulk
(imp. & p. p.) of Dizen
(n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.]
(imp. & p. p.) of Dizzy
(a. & adv.) Toward the sky.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slacken
(imp. & p. p.) of Slam
(imp. & p. p.) of Slang
(imp. & p. p.) of Slant
(imp. & p. p.) of Slap
(imp. & p. p.) of Slash
(a.) Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed;
especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of
a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.
(a.) Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp
incisions; laciniate.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dibble
(imp. & p. p.) of Slat
(imp. & p. p.) of Sleave
(a.) Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sled
(imp. & p. p.) of Sledge
(imp. & p. p.) of Sleek
(imp. & p. p.) of Sleet
(imp. & p. p.) of Sleeve
(a.) Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in
composition; as, long-sleeved.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sleid
(n.) The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the
wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slip
() of Slit
(imp. & p. p.) of Donate
() of Dight
(imp. & p. p.) of Slop
(a.) Having a slot.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slub
(n.) An old, decayed tree.
(imp. & p. p.) of Double
(imp. & p. p.) of Dilate
(a.) Expanded; enlarged.
(a.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike
appendages.
(a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slug
(imp. & p. p.) of Sluice
(a.) Clear; lucid.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dilute
(a.) Reduced in strength; thin; weak.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slump
(imp. & p. p.) of Slur
(imp. & p. p.) of Perch
(a.) Resembling marrow in appearance or consistency; as, a
myeloid tumor.
(v. t.) Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied
wrong.
(imp. & p. p.) of Fancy
(a.) New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs.,
except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.
(imp. & p. p.) of Steam
(imp. & p. p.) of Steel
(imp. & p. p.) of Steep
(imp. & p. p.) of Steer
(imp. & p. p.) of Steeve
(a.) Firmly placed or fixed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Stem
(imp. & p. p.) of Step
(imp. & p. p.) of Sound
(a.) Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets
or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
(imp. & p. p.) of South
(a.) Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in
composition; as, square-sterned.
(imp. & p. p.) of Stet
(imp. & p. p.) of Span
(n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to
manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the
rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
(n.) A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a
ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc.
In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage
steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide
for the messes under their charge.
(n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a
Methodist church.
(n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the
students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to
the accounts of the students.
(n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to
exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
(v. t.) To manage as a steward.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spank
(v. t.) To surround as with a guard.
() of Stick
(imp. & p. p.) of Spar
(p. a.) Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as
an island.
(imp. & p. p.) of Enjoy
(imp.) Stuck.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of
spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea
bream.
(n.) One of the Sparidae.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spat
(imp. & p. p.) of Stifle
(a.) Stifling.
(a.) Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.
(imp. & p. p.) of Spawn
(imp. & p. p.) of Enrage
(v. t.) To surround.
(imp. & p. p.) of Still
(imp. & p. p.) of Spear
(imp. & p. p.) of Stilt
(a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a
stilted style; stilted declamation.
(imp. & p. p.) of Speck
(imp. & p. p.) of Enter
(imp. & p. p.) of Stint
(n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid
daily, monthly, or annually.
(v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
(imp. & p. p.) of Stir
(imp. & p. p.) of Entice
() of Speed
(imp. & p. p.) of Stock
(imp. & p. p.) of Spell
(imp. & p. p.) of Spell
(imp. & p. p.) of Sphere
(imp. & p. p.) of Stook
(imp. & p. p.) of Stoop
(imp. & p. p.) of Stop
(imp. & p. p.) of Spill
(a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; --
said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
(imp. & p. p.) of Deface
(imp. & p. p.) of Defame
(imp. & p. p.) of Curdle
(a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shab
(a.) Shabby.
(n.) Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.
(n.) Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.
(imp. & p. p.) of Curry
(imp. & p. p.) of Defile
(a.) Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted
arch.
(a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and
the shaft are of different tinctures.
(imp. & p. p.) of Define
(n.) A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or
boiled.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shag
(a.) Shaggy; rough.
(v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a
deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by
embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a
creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sham
(n.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when
the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same
plane.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.
(n.) One of the Cycloidei.
(a.) Having a shank.
(a.) Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme
regard; godlike.
(a.) Having elytra, as a beetle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Deify
(imp. & p. p.) of Deign
(imp. & p. p.) of Shark
(imp. & p. p.) of Sharp
(imp. & p. p.) of Delate
(imp. & p. p.) of Delay
(n.) Alt. of Cystoidean
(imp. & p. p.) of Delete
(imp.) of Shear
(p. p.) of Shear
(imp. & p. p.) of Dabble
(imp. & p. p.) of Dadle
(imp. & p. p.) of Daggle
(a.) Made of straw.
(imp. & p. p.) of Sheer
(a.) Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dally
(imp. & p. p.) of Sheet
(a.) Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
(imp. & p. p.) of Delude
(imp. & p. p.) of Deluge
(imp. & p. p.) of Shell
(a.) Having a shell.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shelve
(a.) Directed or situated toward the sea.
(adv.) Toward the sea.
(n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
(n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse,
Fucus, Ulva, etc.
(imp. & p. p.) of Secede
(n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the
offspring of a deity and a mortal.
(imp. & p. p.) of Demise
(imp. & p. p.) of Shift
(imp. & p. p.) of Shin
(imp. & p. p.) of Denote
(imp. & p. p.) of Ship
(imp. & p. p.) of Shirk
(a.) Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.
(a.) Broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; --
said of eggs.
(a.) Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shoal
(n.) A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person,
and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown,
to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high
almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was
forfeited as a deodand.
(v. t.) To spread out; to expand.
(v. t.) To send off with speed; to dispatch.
(v. t.) To spend; to lay out; to expend.
(n.) A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends
grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.
(a.) Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious;
niggardly; miserly; stingy.
(v. t. & i.) To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
(imp. & p. p.) of Niggle
(imp. & p. p.) of Muzzle
(a.) Told in a story.
(a.) Having a history; interesting from the stories which
pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.
(a.) Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in
composition; as, a two-storied house.
(imp. & p. p.) of Storm
(imp. & p. p.) of Story
(n.) Manner; custom; fashion; humor.
(imp. & p. p.) of Trap
(imp. & p. p.) of Trash
(imp. & p. p.) of Fault
(imp. & p. p.) of Treat
(imp. & p. p.) of Favor
(a.) Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored
friend.
(a.) Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as,
well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
(imp. & p. p.) of Treble
(n.) Alt. of Gerlond
(imp. & p. p.) of Front
(n.) Fairyland.
(n.) The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M.
Umbrella).
(a.) Formed with a front; drawn up in line.
(a.) Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost;
ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake;
frosted glass.
(imp. & p. p.) of Froth
(a.) Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is
reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
(imp. &, p. p.) of Frown
(a.) Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented
upon an escutcheon.
(imp. & p. p.,) of Fuddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Expire
(imp. & p. p.) of Embay
(imp. & p. p.) of Fumble
(imp. & p. p.) of Expose
(v. t.) To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
(v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of
obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a
word, a meaning, or a riddle.
(v. t.) To braid up, as hair.
(v. t.) To upbraid.
(v. t.) To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to
extirpate.
(v. t.) To braid.
(a.) Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.
(imp. & p. p.) of Emend
(n.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of
beryl. See Beryl.
(n.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It
is used by English printers.
(a.) Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.
(imp. & p. p.) of Emerge
(a.) Standing out of, or rising above, water.
(imp. & p. p.) of Emit
(imp. & p. p.) of Empale
(v. t.) To accuse; to indict. See Implead.
(imp. & p. p.) of Gabble
(imp. & p. p.) of Exult
(imp. & p. p.) of Empty
(imp. & p. p.) of Enable
(imp. & p. p.) of Enact
(imp. & p. p.) of Encage
(imp. & p. p.) of Gaggle
(v. t.) To envelop in clouds; to cloud.
(imp. & p. p.) of Facet
(a.) Having facets.
(n.) The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.
(imp. & p. p.) of Encore
(p. p. & a.) Worried; flurried; frightened.
(imp. & p. p.) of Fagot
(imp. & p. p.) of Faint
(imp. & p. p.) of Gamble
(a.) Darkness; clouded.
(a.) Overtaken by night; belated.
(adv.) Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey
men.
(adv.) Converted into money; coined.
(adv.) Consisting in, or composed of, money.
(a.) Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid
atom or radical; capable of neutralizing a monobasic acid; -- said of
bases, and of certain metals.
(imp. & p. p.) of Feast
(imp. & p. p.) of Stripe
(a.) Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
(imp. & p. p.) of Trend
(p. p.) Striven.
(a.) Having tresses.
(a.) Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.
(a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic
acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid
radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.
(imp. & p. p.) of Giggle
(imp.) of Strow
() of Strow
() of Moult
(imp. & p. p.) of Wager
(imp. & p. p.) of Waggle
(imp. & p. p.) of Wagon
() Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
(imp. & p. pr.) of Waken
(imp. & p. p.) of Waltz
(a.) Tongued; having the tongue visible.
(a.) Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to
exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
(a.) Slow in progress; tardy.
(a.) Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a
languid day.
(n.) See Lanyard.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidae).
() of Mould
(imp. & p. p.) of Weary
(n.) The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.
(imp. & p. p.) of Leach
(n.) See Weasand.
(imp. & p. p.) of League
(a.) Alt. of Ethmoidal
(n.) The ethmoid bone.
(v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
(imp. & p. p.) of Earth
(a. & n.) Same as Echinoid.
(n.) An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
(adv.) Alt. of Forwards
(a.) Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else;
as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
(a.) Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense,
overready; to hasty.
(a.) Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or
modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for
his years.
(a.) Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as,
the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward
spring.
(v. t.) To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate;
to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward
one in improvement.
(v. t.) To send forward; to send toward the place of
destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
(n.) A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton,
originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.
(imp. & p. p.) of Found
(imp. & p. p.) of Found
(imp. & p. p.) of Evert
(imp. & p. p.) of Evict
(imp. & p. p.) of Evince
(imp. & p. p.) of Edify
(imp. & p. p.) of Evolve
(imp. & p. p.) of Efface
(imp. & p. p.) of Exact
(imp. & p. p.) of Exalt
(a.) Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined;
dignified; sublime.
(a.) Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an
ordinary.
(a.) Fortified with a fraise.
(imp. & p. p.) of Excise
(imp. & p. p.) of Frank
(imp. & p. p.) of Frap
(imp. & p. p.) of Freak
(a.) Joined in affinity or by any tie.
(imp. & p. p.) of Weigh
(imp. & p. p.) of Learn
(a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized
by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a
learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.
(imp. & p. p.) of Leash
() of Vial
(imp. & p. p.) of Leech
(imp. & p. p.) of Wench
(a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side
toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward
berth; a leeward ship.
(n.) The lee side; the lee.
(adv.) Toward the lee.
(n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.
(imp. & p. p.) of Whack
(imp. & p. p.) of Girdle
(imp. & p. p.) of Trick
(imp. & p. p.) of Stub
(a.) Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something
truncated; blunt; obtuse.
(a.) Abounding in stubs; stubby.
(a.) Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.
(imp. & p. p.) of Stud
(a.) Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made
the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.
(a.) Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study;
learned; as, a man well studied in geometry.
(a.) Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult.
(a.) Intent; inclined.
(imp. & p. p.) of Study
(imp. & p. p.) of Stuff
(n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which
the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular
stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
(n.) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate
animals.
(n.) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth,
as in certain insects and mollusks.
(imp. & p. p.) of Trifle
(imp. & p. p.) of Stum
(imp. & p. p.) of Stump
(imp. & p. p.) of Stun
(imp. & p. p.) of Stunt
(a.) Dwarfed.
(a.) Styliform; as, the styloid process.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
(a.) Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid
juices.
(n.) A substance moderately acid.
(imp. & p. p.) of Trill
(imp. & p. p.) of Glad
(imp. & p. p.) of Glair
(imp. & p. p.) of Glance
(imp. & p. p.) of Glass
(imp. & p. p.) of Subdue
(a.) Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
(a.) Not glaring in color; soft in tone.
(imp. & p. p.) of Gleam
(imp. & p. p.) of Glean
(imp. & p. p.) of Trim
(a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression;
socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the
glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the
humerus articulates.
(imp. & p. p.) of Glint
(imp. & p. p.) of Gloat
(imp. & p. p.) of Trip
(imp. & p. p.) of Triple
(imp. & p. p.) of Gloom
(a.) Illustrious; honorable; noble.
(imp. & p. p.) of Glory
(imp. & p. p.) of Gloss
(imp. & p. p.) of Glut
(imp. & p. p.) of Gnar
(imp. & p. p.) of Gnarl
(v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a
triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
(v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take
the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the
throne; autumn succeeds summer.
(v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
(v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to
follow; to pursue.
(v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.
(v. i.) To come in the place of another person, thing, or
event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of
things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything;
-- often with to.
(v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal
the death of the occupant.
(v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same
family; to devolve.
(v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is
attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be
successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
(imp. & p. p.) of Troll
(v. i.) To go under cover.
(imp. & p. p.) of Troop
(imp. & p. p.) of Suckle
(imp. & p. p.) of Trot
(a.) Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.
(imp. & p. p.) of Gnash
(imp. & p. p.) of Truck
(imp. & p. p.) of Trudge
(imp. & p. p.) of Trump
(imp. & p. p.) of Sugar
(a.) Sweetened.
(a.) Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.
(imp. & p. p.) of Gobble
(a.) Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius.
(n.) A gobioid fish.
(n.) Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence;
godhood.
(n.) The Deity; God; the Supreme Being.
(n.) A god or goddess; a divinity.
(n.) Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.
(n.) Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece
of good fortune.
(adv.) Toward God.
(imp. & p. p.) of Goggle
(a.) Prominent; staring, as the eye.
(a.) Having (such) a trunk.
(imp. & p. p.) of Truss
(imp. & p. p.) of Sully
(n.) A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's
tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.
(imp. & p. p.) of Trust
(imp. & p. p.) of Plat
(imp. & p. p.) of Medal
(imp. & p. p.) of Meddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Wimble
(imp. & p. p.) of Wimple
(a.) Having icicles attached.
(a.) Not eared, or plowed.
(a.) Not defiled; pure.
(imp. & p. p.) of Intone
(a.) Not exposed to fumes; not fumigated.
(a.) Not stained with gore; not bloodied.
(a.) Not gored or pierced.
(v. t.) To deprive of a guard; to leave unprotected.
(a.) Hoofed, or bearing hoofs; -- used only when these are of a
tincture different from the body.
(imp. & p. p.) of Ignite
(imp. & p. p.) of Ignore
(a.) Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by
those present.
(a.) Not granted an audience or a hearing; not allowed to
speak; not having made a defense, or stated one's side of a question;
disregarded; unheeded; as, to condem/ a man unheard.
(a.) Not known to fame; not illustrious or celebrated; obscure.
(v. t.) To take or steal from a hoard; to pilfer.
(a.) Not hoped or expected.
(a.) Without hose.
(a.) Same as Iguanoid.
(imp. & p. p.) of Unify
(n.) A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs
of the dahila.
(imp. & p. p.) of Inurn
(imp. & p. p.) of Invade
(imp. & p. p.) of Illude
(imp. & p. p.) of Illume
(a.) Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
(a.) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an
invalid contract or agreement.
(a.) A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for
active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.
(n.) Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid
daughter.
(v. t.) To make or render invalid or infirm.
(v. t.) To classify or enroll as an invalid.
(imp. & p. p.) of Invite
(imp. & p. p.) of Invoke
(imp. & p. p.) of Iodize
(a.) Irascible; choleric.
(imp. & p. p.) of Imbibe
(a.) Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; --
said of dogs.
(a.) Bereft or deprived of life.
(a.) Unmixed.
(v. t.) To change the form of; to reduce from any form.
(a.) Not moved; fixed; firm; unshaken; calm; apathetic.
(imp. & p. p.) of Immure
(a.) Not owned; having no owner.
(a.) Not acknowledged; not avowed.
(a.) Not paved; not furnished with a pavement.
(a.) Castrated.
(imp. & p. p.) of Impale
(v. t.) To deprive of a plaid.
(n.) Alt. of Plastide
(imp. & p. p.) of Joint
(a.) Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a
jointed doll; jointed structure.
(imp. & p. p.) of Joist
(imp. & p. p.) of Jostle
(imp. & p. p.) of Jounce
(n.) A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a
devil.
(p. p.) Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or
humorous writings.
(imp. & p. p.) of Yearn
(imp. & p. p.) of Yield
(imp. & p. p.) of Yodle
(n.) A highwayman or robber on foot.
(imp. & p. p.) of Forage
(imp. & p. p.) of Impute
(imp. & p. p.) of Swerve
(imp. & p. p.) of Swirl
(a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the
opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.
(a. & adv.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the
inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.
(v. t.) To produce or generate within.
(v. t.) To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.
(imp. & p. p.) of Incage
(a.) Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by
acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a
hexacid base.
(a.) Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.
(imp. & p. p.) of Incase
(a.) Having six feet.
(n.) An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tickle
(imp. & p. p.) of Incise
(a.) Cut in; carved; engraved.
(a.) Having deep and sharp notches, as a leaf or a petal.
(imp. & p. p.) of Incite
(imp. & p. p.) of Higgle
(n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a
point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes
additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form.
(imp. & p. p.) of Ferry
(a.) Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches;
inclosed in a temple.
(imp. & p. p.) of Adhere
(imp. & p. p.) of Ferule
(imp. & p. p.) of Tempt
(a. & adv.) In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times
repeated.
(a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
(imp. & p. p.) of Fetch
(imp. & p. p.) of Fever
(a.) Alt. of Fibred
(imp. & p. p.) of Handle
(a.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers;
as, fibroid tumors.
(n.) A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
(imp. & p. p.) of Fiddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Field
(a.) Engaged in the field; encamped.
(imp. & p. p.) of Figure
(a.) Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured
muslin.
(a.) Not literal; figurative.
(a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
(a.) Indicated or noted by figures.
(imp. & p. p.) of Filch
(a.) Same as Finchbacked.
(n.) An official report of proceedings in the British
Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
(n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under
2d Hanse.
(imp. & p. p.) of Harry
(imp. & p. p.) of Thank
(n.) A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of
black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hatch
(n.) A Latin epic poem by Statius about Thebes in Boeotia.
(a.) Fitche.
(n.) A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for
fits.
(imp. & p. p.) of Fizzle
(imp. & p. p.) of Haunt
(a.) Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions;
frequented by a ghost.
(a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness;
soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle;
flaccid flesh.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flag
(p. a.) Sheltered in a haven.
(imp. & p. p.) of Adjure
(n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep
cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to
impound animals found running at large.
(a.) Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hitch
(imp. & p. p.) of Hoard
(imp. & p. p.) of Hobble
(imp. & p. p.) of Hockle
(imp. & p. p.) of Tingle
(imp. & p. p.) of Tinkle
(imp. & p. p.) of Menace
(imp. & p. p.) of Zinc
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the
electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a
voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole.
(imp. & p. p.) of Witch
(a.) Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a
wizened old man.
(imp. & p. p.) of Punch
(a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there
is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof
wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.
(imp. & p. p.) of Press
(n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the
ground, that may throw out branches.
(n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
(n.) A fish, the chub.
(n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
(n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
(v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard
willows.
(v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
(v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise
for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
(v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show
hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign;
as, to pretend friendship.
(v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
(v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.
(v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to
allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually
with to.
(v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or
performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to
pretend to be asleep.
(a.) Mixed with opiates.
(a.) Under the influence of opiates.
(imp. & p. p.) of Phrase
(imp. & p. p.) of Prick
(imp. & p. p.) of Prig
(imp. & p. p.) of Prim
(imp. & p. p.) of Prink
(imp. & p. p.) of Print
(a.) Resembling a plant; plantlike.
(n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a
triangular or square blade.
(v. t.) To pierce with a poniard; to stab.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pickle
(a.) Preserved in a pickle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Piddle
(a.) Having spots and patches of black and white, or other
colors; mottled; pied.
(a.) Fig.: Mixed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pierce
(a.) Penetrated; entered; perforated.
(n.) A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and
Lamb's-quarters.
(a.) Mingled or interspersed with poppies.
(a.) Affected with poppy juice; hence, figuratively, drugged;
drowsy; listless; inactive.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pilot
(a.) Having pimples.
(v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to
continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
(v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another;
as, to proceed with a story or argument.
(v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to
come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
(v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin
and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to
prosecute a design.
(v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
(v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate.
(v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.
(n.) See Proceeds.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pinch
(n.) A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are
confined; a pound; a penfold.
(a.) Fat; unctuous; greasy.
(n.) A place where a pin is fixed.
(v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future;
to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious
signs.
(v. t.) To stretch out before.
(imp. & p. p.) of Prod
(imp. & p. p.) of Inhale
(imp. & p. p.) of Inhere
(imp. & p. p.) of Hovel
(imp. & p. p.) of Hover
(imp. & p. p.) of Huddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Inhume
(imp. & p. p.) of Trail
(imp. & p. p.) of Injure
(imp. & p. p.) of Train
(n.) Humming bird.
(imp. & p. p.) of Humble
(imp. & p. p.) of Inlace
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored
birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the
East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they
somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds
(Oscines).
(n.) The sun bittern.
(adv.) Toward the sun.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tumble
(a.) Distended; swelled.
(n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a
gourmand.
(a.) Gluttonous; voracious.
(n.) Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic
insectivores of the family Tupaiidae, somewhat resembling squirrels in
size and arboreal habits. The nose is long and pointed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Supple
(imp.) of Swell
(p. p.) of Swell
(n.) See Gosherd.
(imp. & p. p.) of Grab
(imp. & p. p.) of Swill
(imp. & p. p.) of Swinge
(imp. & p. p.) of Graft
(imp. & p. p.) of Swoon
(imp. & p. p.) of Swoop
(a.) Girded with a sword.
(imp. & p. p.) of Grain
(a.) Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains;
showing the grain; hence, rough.
(a.) Dyed in grain; ingrained.
(a.) Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood,
marble, etc.
(a.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or
sepals of some flowers.
(n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
(n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a
ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
(n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of
eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding;
to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
(n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to
suspend one's judgment or opinion.
(n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any
privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of
income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a
member of a club.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as,
to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative
body.
(n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by
stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
(v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop
payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a
commercial firm or a bank).
(imp. & p. p.) of Adapt
(imp. & p. p.) of Grant
(imp. & p. p.) of Grass
(a.) Furnished with alleys; forming an alley.
(imp. & p. p.) of Tabby
(imp. & p. p.) of Grease
(imp. & p. p.) of Taboo
(imp. & p. p.) of Tabor
(v. i.) To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
(v. i.) To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound
with song.
(v. i.) To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.
(v. i.) To be mentioned much and loudly.
(v. i.) To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth
resounded with his praise.
(v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to
reverberate.
(v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of
instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
(n.) Return of sound; echo.
(imp. & p. p.) of Greave
(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family
Percidae.
(n.) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the
family Percidae.
(imp. & p. p.) of Plant
(imp. & p. p.) of Tramp
(imp. & p. p.) of Humor
(imp. & p. p.) of Trance
(imp. & p. p.) of Hunch
(n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten
times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or
objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as
100 or C.
(n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have
originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
(a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
(n.) The yard adjoining an inn.
(a.) Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a
hurried writer; a hurried life.
(a.) Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried
job.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hurry
(imp. & p. p.) of Hurtle
(n.) The male head of a household; one who orders the economy
of a family.
(n.) A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
(n.) One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a
frugal person; an economist.
(n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to
wife.
(n.) The male of a pair of animals.
(v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ
to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with
economy.
(v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till.
(v. t.) To furnish with a husband.
(imp. & p. p.) of Aerate
(imp. & p. p.) of Hustle
(adv.) In the place or room; -- usually followed by of.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hutch
(imp. & p. p.) of Huzza
(adv.) Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of.
(a.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the
hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor
of the eye.
(n.) A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid,
found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with
the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval
tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the
Vocabulary.
(n.) A water nymph.
(imp. & p. p.) of Insure
(a.) Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste;
without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.
(a.) Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting;
weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid
composition.
(a.) Related to, or resembling, the hydra; of or pertaining to
the Hydroidea.
(n.) One of the Hydroideas.
(a.) Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.
(a.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles,
spurs, claws, etc.
(a.) Ignorant of the arts.
(a.) Not artificial; plain; simple.
(imp. & p. p.) of Unbind
(v. t.) To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to
open the eyes of.
() imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
(a.) Not bent or arched; not bowed down.
(v. t.) To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to
unravel; to disentangle.
(v. t.) To demolish; to raze.
(v. t.) To bereave of children; to make childless.
(v. t.) To make unlike a child; to divest of the
characteristics of a child.
(v. t.) To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from
obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like.
(a.) Rising and falling in waves toward the margin, as a leaf;
waved.
(a.) Not dated; having no date; of unknown age; as, an undated
letter.
(n.) The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus
Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard
(B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum).
(n.) A powder or a paste made from the seeds of black or white
mustard, used as a condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is
stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic.
(imp. & p. p.) of Nibble
(n.) Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs
with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.
(imp. & p. p.) of Posit
(imp. & p. p.) of Notice
(n.) See Perpender.
(imp. & p. p.) of Model
(a.) Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well
muscled.
(a.) Mosslike; resembling moss.
(n.) A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant,
with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular
system.
(imp. & p. p.) of Puddle
(n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance
granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate
church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.
(n.) A prebendary.
(imp. & p. p.) of Prowl
(imp. & p. p.) of Praise
(imp. & p. p.) of Prance
(imp. & p. p.) of Prank
(a.) Resembling prase.
(n.) Alt. of Proant
(n.) See Provand.
(n.) One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles,
containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as
blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all
animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and
organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See
2d Note under Food.
(v. t.) To hold out; to stretch forth.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pouch
(a.) Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the
wombat.
(a.) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.
(a.) Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pounce
(a.) Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of
the eagle.
(a.) Ornamented with perforations or dots.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pound
(n.) The parson bird.
(a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech;
offhand excuses.
(adv.) In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
(n.) Same as Oarweed.
(v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a
sentence.
(n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
(v. i.) To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or
disposed; to incline; to tend.
(a.) Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life;
characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar;
as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.
(imp. & p. p.) of Prop
(a.) Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as,
a three-pronged fork.
(imp. & p. p.) of Prog
(a.) Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied
specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.
(a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process;
mastoidal.
(n.) A plant of the genus Lycopodium.
(imp. & p. p.) of Lynch
(a.) Composed of, or covered with, lozenge-shaped scales;
having lozenge-shaped divisions.
(imp. & p. p.) of Luxate
(imp. & p. p.) of Lurch
(imp. & p. p.) of Lustre
(imp. & p. p.) of Marry
(imp. & p. p.) of Lunch
(a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a
lunated cross.
(a.) Having the lower part of the body like a fish.
(imp. & p. p.) of March
(imp. & p. p.) of Marble
(a.) Made of, or faced with, marble.
(a.) Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble.
(a.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused
blending of irregular spots and streaks.
(n.) A lubber.
(imp. & p. p.) of Lower
(n.) Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country;
a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.
(a.) Lubberly.
(imp. & p. p.) of Manure
(imp. & p. p.) of Metal
(imp. & p. p.) of Lower
(imp. & p. p.) of Mantle
(imp. & p. p.) of Lounge
(n.) The human race; man, taken collectively.
(n.) Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of
human race.
(n.) Human feelings; humanity.
(a.) Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.
(n.) A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
(n.) A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender
seedlike fruits.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mangle
(n.) Manhood.
(n.) The state of being man as a human being, or man as
distinguished from a child or a woman.
(n.) Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.
(imp. & p. p.) of Merit
(n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having
the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea
nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
(imp. & p. p.) of Manage
(a.) Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted;
as, our views of nature are very limited.
(n.) See Limoniad.
(a.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
(a.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America
and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called
also greenhead.
(imp. & p. p.) of Liken
(imp. & p. p.) of Limit
(n.) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
(n.) One of the followers of Wyclif in England.
(imp. & p. p.) of Jewel
(n.) The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a
native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a
crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in
dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent.
Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of
Lombardy.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
(n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the
business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
(n.) Same as Lombard-house.
(n.) A form of cannon formerly in use.
(imp. & p. p.) of Light
(imp. & p. p.) of Flam
(a.) Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the
seat of the affections, disposition, or character).
(a.) Shaped like a heart; cordate.
(a.) Seated or laid up in the heart.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flange
(a.) Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flank
(imp. & p. p.) of Flap
(imp. & p. p.) of Flash
(imp. & p. p.) of Flat
(imp. & p. p.) of Thieve
(imp. & p. p.) of Thin
(imp. & p. p.) of Fleck
(imp. & p. p.) of Fledge
(imp. & p. p.) of Fleece
(a.) Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
(a.) Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Thirl
(imp. & p. p.) of Fleer
(imp. & p. p.) of Fleet
(imp. & p. p.) of Flesh
(a.) Corpulent; fat; having flesh.
(a.) Glutted; satiated; initiated.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flick
(imp. & p. p.) of Flip
(imp. & p. p.) of Flirt
(n.) Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flit
() of Thrive
(p. p.) of Thrive
(imp. & p. p.) of Float
(imp. & p. p.) of Flock
(imp. & p. p.) of Flog
(imp. & p. p.) of Flood
(imp. & p. p.) of Throne
(imp. & p. p.) of Floor
(imp. & p. p.) of Flop
(n.) The European spotted flycatcher.
(n.) The European blackcap.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flour
(p. a.) Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has
been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.
(n.) A garden.
(n.) An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit
trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears,
cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and
of sugar maple trees.
(imp. & p. p.) of Order
(a.) Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed;
-- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
(n.) Same as Oarweed.
(n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.
(n.) The negative side.
(n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.
(a.) Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and
smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of
utterance.
(n.) The orotund voice or utterance
(imp. & p. p.) of Oblige
(imp. & p. p.) of Whop
(imp. & p. p.) of Wharf
(imp. & p. p.) of Wheel
(a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a
four-wheeled carriage.
(imp. & p. p.) of Wheeze
(a.) Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.
(imp. & p. p.) of Whelm
(imp. & p. p.) of Whelp
(imp. & p. p.) of Whet
(imp. & p. p.) of Whiff
(a. & n.) Same as Lemuroid.
(imp. & p. p.) of Whip
(imp. & p. p.) of Whir
(imp. & p. p.) of Whirl
(imp. & p. p.) of Whisk
(a.) Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.
(n.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It
is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black
spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and
Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of
leopard.
(a.) Furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a
bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the
horn.
(a.) Having a visage.
(a.) Affected or tainted with leprosy.
(imp. & p. p.) of Whiz
(imp. & p. p.) of Whoop
(a.) Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or
whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
(imp. & p. p.) of Visit
(imp. & p. p.) of Widen
(imp. & p. p.) of Widow
(imp. & p. p.) of Wield
(a.) Wearing a visor; masked.
(imp. & p. p.) of Level
(n.) The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.
(a.) Adorned with lions' heads; having arms terminating in
lions' heads; -- said of a cross.
(n.) A leopard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Libel
(a.) Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist.
(a.) Having volume, or bulk; massive; great.
(a.) Alt. of Lithoidal
(a.) Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as,
white-livered.
(a.) Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
(imp. & p. p.) of Vomit
(imp. & p. p.) of Vouch
(imp. & p. p.) of Voyage
(imp. & p. p.) of Waddle
(imp. & p. p.) of Wafer
(imp. & p. p.) of Loathe
(a.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.
(a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes
having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.
(a.) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot.
See Illust. (m) under Aves.
(imp. & p. p.) of Lobby
(a.) Having lobate toes, as a coot.
(imp. & p. p.) of Locate
(imp. & p. p.) of Light
(a.) Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks.
(imp. & p. p.) of Patch
(a.) Resembling bone; bonelike.
(a.) Resembling the ocelot.
(a.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.
(n.) One of the Octocerata.
(n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note.
(n.) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pebble
(a.) Abounding in pebbles.
(a.) Speckled; spotted.
() of Override
(a.) Foreign; outlandish.
(imp. & p. p.) of Plain
(imp. & p. p.) of Plague
(a.) Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.
(a.) Wearing a plaid.
(imp. & p. p.) of Umpire
(a.) Having an udder or udders.
(a.) Ulcerous; ulcerated.
(a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low
grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
(a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.
(n.) One who lags; a loiterer.
(a.) Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae,
an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which
are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and
cunner are American examples.
(imp. & p. p.) of Label
(imp. & p. p.) of Labor
(a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought;
not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
(imp. & p. p.) of Kotow
(a.) Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See
Illust of Antenna.
(imp. & p. p.) of Knock
(imp. & p. p.) of Knoll
(a.) Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.
(imp. & p. p.) of Knot
(a.) Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord;
the knotted oak.
(a.) Interwoven; matted; entangled.
(a.) Having intersecting lines or figures.
(a.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed
of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots
in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.
(a.) Entangled; puzzling; knotty.
(a.) Full of knots; gnarled.
(a.) Milled, as the head of a screw, or the edge of a coin.
() of Kneel
(imp. & p. p.) of Knell
(imp. & p. p.) of Peril
(imp. & p. p.) of Parch
(imp. & p. p.) of Plead
(imp. & p. p.) of Please
(a.) Experiencing pleasure.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pledge
(n.) One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust.
under Crustacea.
(v. t.) To weight carefully in the mind.
(v. i.) To attend; to be attentive.
(imp. & p. p.) of Plod
(imp. & p. p.) of Plot
(n.) Any one of numerous species of moths of the family
Zygaenidae, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the
vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively.
(a.) Situated in the middle.
(adv.) In or toward the midst.
(n.) Moorland.
(imp. & p. p.) of Woold
(imp. & p. p.) of Worry
(imp. & p. p.) of Worst
(n.) Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been
combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery,
gloves, and the like.
(n.) Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted,
used in knitting and embroidery.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mottle
(a.) Marked with spots of different colors; variegated;
spotted; as, mottled wood.
(a.) Bearing or having a motto; as, a mottoed coat or device.
(imp. & p. p.) of Wound
(imp. & p. p.) of Mingle
(a.) Migniard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mound
(imp. & p. p.) of Mount
(a.) Coupled together.
(imp. & p. p.) of Juggle
(a.) Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted
police; mounted infantry.
(a.) Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a
mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mourn
(imp. & p. p.) of Wrap
(imp. & p. p.) of Wreak
(imp. & p. p.) of Mouth
(a.) Furnished with a mouth.
(a.) Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth,
speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as,
wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Wreck
(imp. & p. p.) of Wrest
(n.) The number from which another number is to be subtracted.
() of Wring
(imp. & p. p.) of Jumble
(imp.) of Writhe
(p. p.) of Writhe
(imp. & p. p.) of Wrong
(a.) Like a sword; ensiform.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.
(imp. & p. p.) of Muddle
(n.) An evil deed; a wicked action.
(a.) Characteristic of the negro.
(a.) Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those
who resemble the negro.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mislay
(v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to
guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
(imp. & p. p.) of Muddy
(imp. & p. p.) of Muffle
(imp. & p. p.) of Neigh
(n.) A slender European weed (Galium Cruciata); -- called also
crossweed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mulch
(imp. & p. p.) of Mulct
(imp. & p. p.) of Misread
(v. t.) To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
(v. t.) To send amiss or incorrectly.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mistell
(imp. & p. p.) of Mumble
(imp. & p. p.) of Mummy
(imp. & p. p.) of Munch
(imp. & p. p.) of Nestle
(v. i.) To go wrong; to go astray.
(imp. & p. p.) of Mitre
(imp. & p. p.) of Nettle
(imp. & p. p.) of Mizzle
(imp. & p. p.) of Plait
(a.) Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved;
intricate; artful.
(imp. & p. p.) of Plan
(imp. & p. p.) of Pitch
(a.) Affected with palsy; paralyzed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Palsy
(n.) See Pinfold.
(imp.) of Overdo
(imp. & p. p.) of Parole
(n.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about
the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating
from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once
connected with a comet visible in 1862.
(a.) Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the
salivary gland near the ear.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland.
(n.) The parotid gland.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pluck
(a.) Having courage and spirit.
(imp. & p. p.) of Parry
(imp. & p. p.) of Plug
(imp. & p. p.) of Plumb
(imp. & p. p.) of Plump
(imp. & p. p.) of Plunge
(imp. & p. p.) of Peruse
(imp. & p. p.) of Poach
(n.) See Poachard.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pestle
(a.) Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to
apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled,
etc.
(imp. & p. p.) of Peter
(n.) Any species of Podura or allied genera.
(a.) Pertaining to the poduras.
(a.) Resembling a lentil; lenticular.
(imp. & p. p.) of Justle
(v. t.) To lay hold of; to seize.
(imp. & p. p.) of Panel
(n.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect
(Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United
States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front
wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a
peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did,
whence the name.
(imp. & p. p.) of Keckle
(imp. & p. p.) of Prepay
(imp. & p. p.) of Point
(a.) Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
(a.) Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of
expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular
person or thing.
(n.) Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf
insect or a stick insect.
(imp. & p. p.) of Phial
(imp. & p. p.) of Police
(a.) Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order,
enforced by organized administration.
(n.) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by
authority.
(n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a
placard to do something.
(n.) A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a
declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.
(n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or
backplate.
(n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in
the fifteenth century and later.
(v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall,
to placard the city.
(v. t.) To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.
(a.) Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often
bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
(n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.
(n.) One of the Placoides.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pivot
() of Knit
(a.) Full of knots; knaggy.
(imp. & p. p.) of Knap
(a.) Knotty; gnarled.
(imp. & p. p.) of Knead
(a.) Wearing a kirtle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Kindle
(n.) Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity;
affinity; kin.
(n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former;
relations; persons related to each other.
(a.) Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as,
kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
(a.) Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold
nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.
(adv.) In a double degree; doubly.
(n.) Land lying untilled; fallow ground.
(n.) A field where hops are raised.
(a.) Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.
(imp. & p. p.) of Puppy
(imp. & p. p.) of Pirate