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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) See Neurine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

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 It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl.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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Alt. of Animous

(a.) Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A distinct part.

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

(n.) Precise point of time; moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Odd; fantastic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(adv.) Alt. of Askant

(v. t.) To turn aside.

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

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

(n.) Same as Appanage.

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

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

(n.) Grace; favor.

(a.) To please.

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To move or actuate.

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

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

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

(n.) See under Calcite.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A hook or clasp.

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

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

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

(n.) A cutting off; abscission.

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

(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.

(n.) Instance; example.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Aid.

(a.) Pursy.

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

(a.) Without pores.

(a.) Resembling air.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Same as Alcaid.

(n.) Alt. of Alcohate

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A quest at a banquet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A kind of close stool.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The commonalty; the common people.

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

(n.) Absolute municipal self-government.

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

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

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

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

(pl. ) of Cicada

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

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

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

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

(a.) Alt. of Cornuted

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

(pl. ) of Corona

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Comparison.

(n.) Illustration by comparison; simile.

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

(a.) Alt. of Ciliated

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

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

(a.) Resembling a tendril or cirrus.

(a.) Capable of being cited.

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

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

(n.) A salt of citric acid.

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To contain or comprise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) See Compony.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To come to terms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Sipage

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

(n.) Computation.

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

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

(n.) Expense; cost.

(a.) Alt. of Costated

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The curvet of a horse.

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

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

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

(a.) Alt. of Oppleted

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

(n.) A nurse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To perform musically.

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

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

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

(v. i.) To totter.

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

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

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

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

(pl. ) of Exedra

(n.) An exegetist.

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

(n.) A bushel basket.

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

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

(n.) Any small vessel on the water.

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

(n.) Alt. of Electer

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

(a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

(a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

(n.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

(v. t.) To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.

(n.) A curl; a lock of hair crisped.

(v. t.) To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.

(n.) A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.

(a.) Furnished with a pappus; downy.

(n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

(n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.

(n.) Fluency.

(a.) Fluxible.

(a.) Flowing; also, wanting solidity.

(n.) The quality of being fluid.

(n.) Fluid matter.

(n.) The twaite.

(n.) Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.

(n.) A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.

(n.) A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.

(n.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.

(n.) Alt. of Hektometer

(n.) See Faldage.

(n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

(n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.

(v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

(a.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

(v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.

(v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

(n.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

(a.) Having many leaves; leafy.

(n.) A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek.

(n.) Guidance; direction.

(n.) Alt. of Helvite

(n.) A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

(n.) An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

(n.) The redshank; -- so called from its note.

(pl. ) of Pagina

(n.) The rank or dignity of a peer.

(n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.

(a.) Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.

(v. t.) To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another).

(v. t.) To superintend; to oversee; to inspect.

(v. t.) To see; to observe.

(n.) A patron; a protector.

(n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.

(n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

(n.) Act or process of packing.

(n.) A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

(n.) A charge made for packing goods.

(n.) A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

(v. t.) To convert into ozone, as oxygen.

(v. t.) To treat with ozone.

(v. t.) To crowd; to squeeze.

(n.) A mean fellow; a wretch.

(n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

(n.) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

(n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

(v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

(v. t.) To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

(v. t.) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

(v. i.) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

(v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

(v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.

(n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

(n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.

(n.) A child's pinafore or bib.

(n.) A garden hoe.

(v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.

(n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

(n.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

(a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

(a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

(n.) A broad, shallow basket.

(n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

(v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.

(n.) A quick pace; a short run.

(n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.

(n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.

(n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.

(n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.

(v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

(v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.

(pl. ) of Scypha

(n.) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

(n.) A coachman

(v. i.) To unite or coalesce.

(v. t.) To cause to unite or coalesce.

(v. t.) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

(n.) A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

(n.) Any small bracket; also, a console table.

(n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.

(a.) Same as Cheliferous.

(n.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.

(n.) A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer.

(n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.

(n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

(n.) See Chiefage.

(a.) Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

(n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

(n.) A term at omber, signifying that the game is won.

(v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

(v. i.) To waste away slowly.

(n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.

(n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.

(a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

(a.) Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.

(n.) One who is related to another on the female side.

(n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

(v. t.) To know or perceive; to recognize.

(n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century.

(v. t.) The act or process of converting metal into money.

(v. t.) Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

(v. t.) The cost or expense of coining money.

(v. t.) The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.

(v. t.) To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

(v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

(v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

(v. t.) To bestow or confer.

(v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

(n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.

(a.) Parsimonious; niggardly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

(n.) See Quinone.

(n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

(n.) A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

(n.) A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

(n.) Fig.: A community.

(v. i.) To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.

(v. t.) To strike or dash against.

(n.) A small hill or mount.

(v. i.) To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.

(n.) A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

(a.) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.

(a.) Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.

(a.) Well-known; notorious.

(n.) A person, or thing, of distinction.

(n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.

(v. t.) To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.

(v. t.) To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.

(v. t.) To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.

(a.) Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

(n.) An acute sound.

(n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

(a.) Placable.

(n.) A salt of oxamic acid.

(n) A white crystalline neutral substance (C2O2(NH2)2) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.

(v. t.) To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.

(n.) A salt of oxalic acid.

(n.) A yellow mineral consisting of oxalate of iron.

(n.) Same as Pedicel.

(n.) A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

(n.) A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirEe.

(n.) See Matrix.

(n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

(n.) Same as Cyma/recta, under Cyma.

(n.) A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.

(v. t.) Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.

(a.) Full of din.

(n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

(n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

(n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

(n.) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.

(n.) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.

(v. t.) To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.

(v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

(v. t.) To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.

(v. i.) To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.

(v. t.) To infect.

(n.) Infection.

(a.) Alt. of Smittlish

(n.) Use of a dray.

(n.) The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.

(n.) A noun which has only two cases.

(v. t.) To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.

(v. t.) Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.

(v. i.) To import or export in violation of the customs laws.

(n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.

(v. t.) To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.

(n.) See Snath.

(v. i.) To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

(v. i.) To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

(v. i.) To fall weakly and slowly.

(v. t.) To let fall in drops.

(n.) A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.

(v. i.) To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.

(v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.

(v. t.) To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.

(a.) Lacking ability; unable.

(v. t.) To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.

(v. t.) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.

(v. t.) To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.

(a.) Weak or rare.

(v. t.) To debase or degrade.

(v. t.) To uncage.

(v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.

(v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.

(n.) Fine rain or mist.

(v. t.) To strip; to undress.

(v. i.) To yield or give up; to depart.

(n.) Stain; pollution.

(a.) Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.

(a.) Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.

(a.) Relaxed; open or readily opened.

(v. t.) To divide; to cleave in two.

(v. t.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

(v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.

(n.) A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance.

(n.) The quality or state of being sonant.

(v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.

(n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

(n.) Soreness.

(n.) A salt of sorbic acid.

(a.) Fit to be drunk or sipped.

(n.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A red color used in enameling.

(a.) Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth.

(n.) A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.

(n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

(n.) One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

(n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

(n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.

(v. i.) To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.

(v. i.) To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.

(v. t.) To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.

(v. t.) To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.

(a.) Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal.

(a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.

(a.) Belonging to the Radiata.

(n.) One of the Radiata.

(n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.

(n.) A rootlet; a radicel.

(n.) An elevation of mind to things celestial.

(n.) The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

(v. t.) To besiege.

(n.) A siege.

(pl. ) of Radula

(v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.

(v. i.) To abate or subside.

(n.) Alt. of Analyser

(v. t.) To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

(v.) See Assuage.

(n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

(n.) A maidservant; a handmaid.

(adv.) With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

(a.) Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto.

(n.) A movement or piece in andante time.

(n.) Same as Anlace.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

(n.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.

(n.) Alt. of Banshie

(n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

(n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.

(v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

(v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.

(v. t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.

(v. t.) To render atheistic or godless.

(v. i.) To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist.

(n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

(n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

(n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

(a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

(n.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.

(n.) A very minute barb or beard.

(n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

(v. t.) To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.

(v. t.) To outrun.

(n.) Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

(v. t.) One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

(v. t.) To taste or cause to taste.

(n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.

(a.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

(n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

(v. t.) To touch lightly.

(n.) Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

(adv.) Horizontally.

(n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.

(a.) Rubbed; worn by friction.

(a.) Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

(n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

(n.) An inn.

(a.) Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

(n.) That which may be heard.

(n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

(n.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

(a.) Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.

(n.) See Basyle.

(a.) Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

(a.) Golden; gilded.

(n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

(n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

(n.) A halo, actual or figurative.

(n.) See Areola, 2.

(n.) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.

(n.) The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

(n.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

(n.) An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.

(pl. ) of Aurora

(a.) Disputable.

(a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.

(a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.

() Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

() Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

() Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

(a.) Procurable.

(v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

(v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

(v. i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

(n.) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.

(n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

(n.) A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.

(n.) One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves.

(n.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

(n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument

(n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.

(v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

(n.) Notice; information.

(v. t.) To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

(v. i. & t.) To suffocate; to choke.

(pl. ) of Quadra

(v. t.) To show to be real or true; to prove.

(v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

(v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

(v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.

(v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

(v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

(adv. & a.) From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.

(n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.

(n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

(pl. ) of Aquila

(v.) A thrust or pass; a lunge.

(v.) A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.

(v. i.) To thrust with a sword; to lunge.

(n.) A bark canoe used by the Africans.

(n.) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

(n.) A negro of the West Indies.

(n.) The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

(n.) Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.

(n.) Wharfage.

(a.) Alt. of Arcuated

(a.) Sandy; full of sand.

(pl. ) of Areola

(n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

(n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

(a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.

(n.) Alt. of Abelonian

(n.) Alumina.

(pl. ) of Alumna

(n.) Alum stone.

(n.) Same as Alveolus.

(n.) A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.

(n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

(a.) Full of love; amatory.

(n.) A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

(n.) A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3.

(n.) An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark.

(v. t.) To manage.

(v. t.) To lessen.

(n.) A short aria, or air.

(n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

(n.) A pun; a low conceit.

(v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.

(v. i.) To pun; to practice punning.

(a.) Lovable; lovely; pleasing.

(a.) Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

(a.) Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman.

(a.) Done out of love.

(v. i.) To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

(n.) Alt. of Quiddler

(a. & n.) To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.

(n.) A salt of quinic acid.

(n.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.

(n.) A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.

(pl. ) of Amoeba

(n.) One of the Quirites.

(a.) Pertaining to the rails.

(n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.

(n.) A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (/).

(n.) Alt. of Nargileh

(n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

(n.) An elevated river bed or sea bed.

(n.) Alt. of Beauxite

(n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

(n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

(n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

(n.) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.

(v. t.) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

(n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

(n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc.

(n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

(n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

(n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.

(n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.

(n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.

(n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

(a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.

(a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.

(v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.

(v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

(v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.

(v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

(v. t.) To take away by judicial decision.

(a.) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

(n.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.

(v. i.) To fly away; to escape; to exhale.

(a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.

(a.) Expressive of awe or terror.

(conj.) By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

(conj.) In order that; that.

(pl. ) of Axilla

(n.) A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

(n.) A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

(n.) A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

(n.) The Neapolitan medlar (Crataegus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

(n.) A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite.

(v. t.) To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

(a.) Azure.

(n.) The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus); -- so called from its color.

(n.) Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

(n.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

(n.) A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

(n.) The side of a bed.

(n.) A recess in a room for a bed.

(n.) A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

(n.) The time to go to bed.

(n.) A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

(interj.) Alt. of Backare

(interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.

(a.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.

(n.) Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

(interj.) Same as Baccare.

(v. t.) To bury; also, to engrave.

(v. t.) To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

(v. t.) To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.

(v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.

(v. t.) To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.

(n.) A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

(n.) A boasting.

(v. t.) To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

(v. i.) To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.

(n.) Advantage; behoof.

(v. t.) To call knave.

(n.) Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.

(n.) An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.

(v. t. & i.) To leave or to be left.

(n.) A raid.

(n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.

(n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

(n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.

(n.) Purulent matter.

(n.) Trashy talk.

(n.) A man of bad character.

(n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

(n.) A romping, saucy girl.

(n.) A grandfather, or ancestor.

(n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

(v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.

(n.) The first day of May (Old Style).

(n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.

(n.) Bailiff.

(n.) Same as Bailie.

(n.) An apparatus for weighing.

(n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.

(n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

(n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.

(n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.

(n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

(n.) The constellation Libra.

(n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.

(n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.

(n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.

(n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

(n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.

(n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.

(n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.

(n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.

(n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.

(n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.

(n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.

(v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.

(v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.

(v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

(n.) Cotton; padding.

(n.) See Banshee.

(n.) A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum.

(n.) A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

(n.) Same as Benzene.

(n.) Alt. of Benzol

(v. t.) To reduce to prose.

(v. t.) To quote constantly or with great frequency.

(n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

(v. t.) To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.

(v. t.) To take away from.

(v. t.) To take away.

(v. t.) To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.

(a.) Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Bern.

(n.) One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

(v. i.) To kindle again into flame.

(v. t.) To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over.

(v. t.) To frame again or anew.

(n.) A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.

(n.) A nickname.

(a.) Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.

(n.) A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.

(v. t.) To shape again.

(n.) That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

(n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.

(n.) That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.

(n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.

(n.) An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.

(n.) The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.

(n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below.

(v. i.) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.

(v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.

(n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

(n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

(n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.

(n.) See Cazique.

(n.) Alt. of Caddis

(n.) The act or state of declining or sinking.

(n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.

(n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.

(n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.

(n.) See Cadency.

(n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.

(n.) A uniform time and place in marching.

(n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.

(n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.

(v. t.) To regulate by musical measure.

(v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

(v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.

(v. i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

(v. i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.

(v. i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).

(v. i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.

(v. i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.

(v. i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.

(v. i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.

(v. i.) To relax; to lay at ease.

(v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.

(v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.

(v. i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.

(v. i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.

(n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.

(n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.

(v. i.) To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.

(v. i.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.

(v. t.) To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.

(v. t.) To breathe out; to exhale.

(n.) A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.

(n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay.

(n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.

(n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

(n.) To give or grant a respite to.

(n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.

(n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.

(n.) To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.

(v. t.) To state anew.

(a.) Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.

(a.) Inactive; sluggish.

(a.) Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.

(a.) Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses.

(v. t.) To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.

(v. t.) To cause to fall; to cast down.

(v. i.) To fall; to tumble.

(a.) Involved in ruin; ruined.

(a.) That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule.

(n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

(n.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage.

(n.) A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.

(v. t.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage.

(v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.

(v. i.) To search a place narrowly.

(n.) A small net.

(n.) A reticule. See Reticule, 2.

(n.) A mineral. See Turquoise.

(n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.

(v. t.) To trace back, as a line.

(v. t.) To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.

(v. i.) To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.

(v. i.) To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.

(v. i.) To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.

(v. t.) To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.

(n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.

(n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.

(n.) Hernia. See Hernia.

(n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.

(n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.

(v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.

(v. t.) To produce a hernia in.

(v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.

(n.) See Calash.

(n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber.

(n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.

(n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.

(n.) One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.

(n.) A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy.

(v. t.) To thrust back.

(a.) Abstruse.

(v. t. & i.) To unite again; to join after separation or variance.

(v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.

(v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

(a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

(n.) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.

(n.) Alt. of Callot

(n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.

(v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with

(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.

(n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

(n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

(n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

(n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

(a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

(n.) See Gamboge.

(n.) Alt. of Revery

(a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

(a.) Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.

(a.) Reversed; as, a reverse shell.

(a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.

(a.) That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite.

(a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.

(a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse.

(a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.

(a.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

(a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.

(a.) To cause to return; to recall.

(a.) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

(a.) To turn upside down; to invert.

(a.) Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.

(n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.

(pl. ) of Camera

(n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.

(a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.

(v. i.) To return; to revert.

(v. i.) To become or be reversed.

(v. t.) To consecrate.

(v. t.) To overcome; to refute, as error.

(n.) A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

(n.) See Damper, and 5th Mute.

(n.) The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.

(n.) An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.

(a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

(a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.

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

(n.) Alt. of Besayle

(n.) A great-grandfather.

(n.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.

(v. t.) To shine upon; to illumine.

(a.) The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.

(a.) Obligation; tie of duty.

(a.) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

(n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

(n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.

(v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

(v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

(v. t.) To enslave.

(v. t.) To daub with slime; to soil.

(v. t.) To foul with smoke.

(v. t.) To harden or dry in smoke.

(n.) A worthless fellow; a bezonian.

(n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.

(n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

(imp.) of Bespeak

() of Bespeak

(p. p.) of Bespeak

(v. t.) To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.

() imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.

(a.) Capable of being bored.

(n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

(n.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

(n.) The condition of a peon.

(n.) A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

(n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

(v. t.) To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle.

(n.) An old French dance tune in common time.

(n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.

(n.) A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

(n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

(n.) Same as Boscage.

(a.) Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.

(v. t.) To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.

(v. t.) To pronounce or characterize as a whore.

(n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

(n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.

(n.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.

(n.) Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings.

(v. i.) To clamor; to contest noisily.

(n.) A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.

(n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

(n.) A small boot; a lady's boot.

(n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.

(n.) The brambling or bramble finch.

(v. t.) To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

(v. t. & i.) To shake; to totter.

(n.) A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.

(v. i.) To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.

(n.) A brawl or dance.

(n.) One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.

(n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

(v. i.) To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.

(v. i.) To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.

(v. i.) To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.

(v. i.) To return; to pass.

(v. t.) To cause to turn, as on an axis.

(v. t.) Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.

(v. t.) To pull back with force.

(n.) Bravado.

(v. t.) To write again.

(n.) Rule.

(v.) Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.

(v. i.) To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.

(n.) A rampart.

(v. t.) To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.

(n.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

(n.) A rootstock. See Rootstock.

(v. t.) To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.

(v. t.) To swallow again; to swallow back.

(v. i.) To retire; to go back.

(v. t.) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.

(v. t.) To offend; to shock.

(v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.

(v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.

(a.) Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.

(n.) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.

(n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

(n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.

(n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

(v. t.) To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

(v. t. & i.) To issue a second time.

(n.) A second or repeated issue.

(v. i.) To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.

(v. t.) To enjoy.

(v. t.) To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.

(n.) The act of rejoicing.

(v. t.) To judge again; to reexamine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.

(v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.

(v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.

(v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.

(v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.

(a.) Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.

(a.) Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.

(a.) Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.

(v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.

(n.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

(v. t.) To joggle.

(v. i.) To grow together.

(v. i.) To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.

(v. t.) To make adhere; to add.

(a.) Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

(a.) Grown together.

(v. t.) To dispose.

(v. t.) To dispose of.

(v. t.) To make over, or convey, legally.

(v. t.) To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom.

(v. t.) To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

(v. t.) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

(v. t.) To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.

(v. t.) To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.

(v. t.) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.

(v. i.) To bargain; to make terms.

(n.) Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

(n.) Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.

(v. i.) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.

(v. t.) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

(v. t.) To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments.

(v. t.) To strive or contend about; to contest.

(v. t.) To struggle against; to resist.

(a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

(a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.

(v. i.) Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.

(v. i.) Contest; struggle; quarrel.

(v. t.) To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.

(v. t.) To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.

(v. t.) To complain of.

(v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up.

(v. i.) To lament.

(v. t.) To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

(v. t.) To lay bare; to expose.

(v. t. & i.) To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.

(a.) Lying apart.

(n. t.) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

(n. t.) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

(v. t.) To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

(v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.

(v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.

(n.) A sheriff.

(v. t.) To shrive; to question.

(v. t.) To drive away.

(v. t.) To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

(v. t.) To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.

(v. t.) To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.

(v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

(v. t.) To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.

(v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

(v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

(v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

(v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

(v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

(n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

(n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

(n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.

(n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

(n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

(v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Siamese.

(v. t.) To dry.

(v. t.) To put out of tune.

(a.) Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like.

(n.) See Syenite.

(v. t.) To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin.

(v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.

(v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.

(v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

(n.) Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

(v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

(n.) Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

(n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.

(n.) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

(prep.) In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

(v. t.) To free from spume or scum.

(v. t.) Having definite color markings.

(v. t.) To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.

(n.) Sir; Mr.; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor.

(a.) Disused; out of use.

(n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.

(n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.

(n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.

(n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.

(n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.

(interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.

(v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.

(v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.

(v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.

(v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.

(n.) A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.

(v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

(n.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

(n.) A grimace.

() See Simar.

(n.) An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.

(n.) A saucisson. See Saucisson.

(a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being saved.

(n.) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.

(n.) A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.

(v. t.) See Scapple.

(n.) See Catcall.

(n.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

(n.) Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.

(v. t.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades.

(n.) Alt. of Scalado

(a.) Alt. of Caudated

(a.) Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.

(n.) The state of being brindled.

(n.) A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.

(a.) Brindled.

(a.) Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.

(a.) Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.

(a.) Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.

(n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.

(n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

(n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.

(v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.

(v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.

(v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.

(v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.

(v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

(n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

(n.) A mark of cadency or difference.

(a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

(v. i.) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.

(v. i.) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.

(v. t.) To mangle.

(n.) Alt. of Caviar

(n.) Cayenne pepper.

(n.) Alt. of Cazic

(n.) A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.

(n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.

(n.) See Brokkerage.

(n.) To sniggle, or fish with a brog.

(n.) See Brokerage.

(n.) A small cell.

(v. i.) To be deficient; to fail.

(v. t.) To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.

(a.) Containing an ovule or ovules.

(n.) A fossil egg.

(v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.

(a.) Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.; as, an outside estimate.

(adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of); without; on the exterior; as, to ride outside the coach; he stayed outside.

(n.) The outside sole of a boot or shoe.

(n.) A place for riding out.

(v. t.) To river; to sever.

(n.) An excursion.

(n.) The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior.

(n.) The part or space which lies without an inclosure; the outer side, as of a door, walk, or boundary.

(n.) The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.; the utmost; as, it may last a week at the outside.

(n.) One who, or that which, is without; hence, an outside passenger, as distinguished from one who is inside. See Inside, n. 3.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the outside; external; exterior; superficial.

(n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.

(n.) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.

(v. t.) To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.

(v. i.) To make a preface.

(v. t.) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.

(v. t.) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone.

(n.) A salt of bromic acid.

(v. t.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

(n.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

(n.) One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

(n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.

(n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.

(n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.

(v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.

(n.) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

(n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.

(n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.

(v. i.) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

(v. i.) To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.

(v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.

(v. i.) To judge.

(n.) Rate by the hundred; percentage.

(n.) A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.

(v. t.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.

(n.) The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

(n.) An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.

(v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.

(v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.

(v. t.) To finish; to accomplish.

(v. t.) To resolve or explain.

(n.) Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.

(n.) Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.

(n.) Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.

(n.) Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

(n.) Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.

(v. t.) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

(a.) Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.

(pl. ) of Scoria

(n.) The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

(n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.

(n.) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.

(n.) The mineral chondrodite.

(a.) Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

(v. i.) To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.

(v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

(n.) A bristle.

(n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

(n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.

(n.) To whip severely; to lash.

(n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.

(n.) To harass or afflict severely.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae.

(n.) A red pimple.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.

(n.) One of the Cestoidea.

(n.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

(a.) Bulbous.

(n.) A small bulb; a bulblet.

(n.) A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.

(n.) The bully tree.

(a.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.

(n.) Same as Chalaza.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.

(n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea.

(n.) A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

(n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.

(n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.

(n.) A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.

(n.) Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

(n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

(n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.

(n.) Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.

(a.) Capable of being named.

(n.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.

(n.) An operculum.

(a.) Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.

(v. i.) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

(v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

(v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.

(v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

(superl.) Pure; unmixed; unadulterated.

(superl.) Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured.

(superl.) Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness.

(superl.) Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person.

(v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

(n.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.

(a.) Acerose; needle-shaped.

(n.) A person or thing detained

(n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

(n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

(n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio.

(n.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.

(n.) The tincture vert; green.

(v. i.) To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.

(a.) Sinuous.

(a.) Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory.

(n.) Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

(n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.

(v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.

(v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

(v. t.) To darken; to cloud.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.

(v. t.) To convert into opal, or a substance like opal.

(v. t.) To load; to burden.

(n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

(n.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oophytes or Oophyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oospheres, either while included in their oogonia or after exclusion.

(n.) Same as Ferrotype.

(n.) Articles made of tinned iron.

(pl. ) of Titmouse

(n.) To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution.

(v. t.) To beautify; to dandify.

(n.) Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll.

(n.) A salt of any one of the toluic acids.

(n.) A hydrocarbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; -- called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.

(n.) Same as Toluene.

(v. t.) To cover the back of; to load or burden.

(v. t.) To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

(v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).

(v. t.) To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.

(v. t.) To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

(v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;

(v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.

(v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

(v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.

(n.) A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.

(n.) The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.

(n.) The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. (b).

(n.) A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals.

(n.) The whole amount of shipping estimated by tons; as, the tonnage of the United States. See Ton.

(a.) Capable of being clipped.

(n.) The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.

(n.) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.

(n.) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank.

(n.) An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance.

(v. i.) Alt. of Grecianize

(n.) An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander.

(n.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.

(n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.

(n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.

(n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.

(n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.

(v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.

(n.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.

(n.) The hooded merganser.

(pl. ) of Taenia

(a.) Addible.

(a.) Capable of being added.

(n.) The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle.

(n.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt.

(n.) A grasp; a gripe.

(a.) Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.

(n.) Cartilage. See Cartilage.

(n.) See Tallage.

(n.) Same as Tailzie.

(n.) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

(n.) A squinting eye.

(n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

(n.) Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.

(a.) Alt. of Talcous

(n.) A companion.

(n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.

(n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

(n.) Alt. of Talliage

(v. t.) To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

(a.) Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness.

(n.) A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning.

(n.) A salt of tannic acid.

(v. i.) To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.

(n.) A long, deep breath; a sigh.

(v. i.) To murmur; to grumble.

(v. i.) To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.

(v. i.) To growl; to snarl in deep tones; as, a lion grumbling over his prey.

(v. i.) To rumble; to make a low, harsh, and heavy sound; to mutter; as, the distant thunder grumbles.

(v. t.) To express or utter with grumbling.

(n.) The noise of one that grumbles.

(n.) A grumbling, discontented disposition.

(a.) Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.

(v. i.) To grunt; to grunt repeatedly.

(n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.

(v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.

(v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.

(n.) A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.

(n.) Alt. of Swanky

(n.) A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

(n.) The reward given to a guide for services.

(n.) Guidance; lead; direction.

(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

(n.) A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

(n.) A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

(n.) Act of being gulled.

(n.) A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.

(n.) The number of guns carried by a ship of war.

(n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.

(n.) The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

(n.) The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.

(n.) The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

(n.) A form; a shape.

(v. t.) To spirt in a scattering manner.

(n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

(a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

(superl.) Belonging to another country; foreign.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

(superl.) Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

(superl.) Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.

(superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.

(superl.) Backward; slow.

(superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

(adv.) Strangely.

(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange.

(v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.

(v. i.) To wonder; to be astonished.

(a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

(n.) A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.

(n.) One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

(n.) A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

(a.) Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.

(a.) Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks.

(n.) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf.

(adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

(n.) See Spital.

(v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.

(n.) A small sort of spade.

(n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

(n.) A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

(n.) A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.

(n.) One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.

(v. t.) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.

(a.) To mark with striaae.

(a.) Alt. of Striated

(n.) A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.

(n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything.

(a.) Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.

(a.) Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper.

(n.) A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.

(v. i.) To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.

(n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.

(n.) The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

(n.) A small spore; a spore.

(v. i.) To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.

(v. i.) To mumble in speaking.

(n.) A hermit.

(n.) A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

(v. t.) To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend.

(a.) That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.

(n.) A mark indicating a question; a note of interrogation.

(a.) Liable to error; fallible.

(v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.

(v. i.) A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.

(v. t.) To catch in a springe; to insnare.

(v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.

(a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.

(a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

(n.) Guidance.

(a.) Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.

(a.) Freed from wrinkles; smooth.

(n.) A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

(n.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.

(n.) Plunder, or booty.

(v. t.) To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.

(n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

(n.) Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.

(n.) That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

(n.) A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop.

(n.) Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle.

(a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.

(a.) Hollow; void of contents.

(n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.

(n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

(v. t.) To make hollow or concave.

(v. t.) To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

(v. t.) To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

(v. t.) To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

(v. i.) To yield or make concession.

(n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.

(n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.

(n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

(n.) A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.

(n.) A small house; a cot; a hut.

(n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.

(a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

(v. t.) To excite or stir up.

(v. t.) A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.

(a.) Preserved; pickled.

(v. t.) To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc.

(n.) See Cowhage.

(v. i.) To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To lament or grieve over.

(v. t.) To pardon; to forgive.

(v. t.) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife.

(n.) To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward.

(v. t.) To conduct; to lead; to guide.

(n.) A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.

(n.) See Conine.

(v. i.) To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

(v. t.) To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.

(n.) Alt. of Selvedge

(v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

(v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

(n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.

(n.) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.

(n.) The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.

(n.) Heart; inclination; desire; will.

(n.) That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.

(n.) A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.

(n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

(a.) Mixed; confounded.

(v. t.) To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

(v. t.) To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.

(v. t.) To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

(pl. ) of Semita

(n.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.

(a.) Resembling a cow.

(n.) Same as Semolina.

(v. i.) To agree.

(v. i.) To agree; to be suitable.

(n.) See Conine.

(v. t.) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

(a.) Alt. of Sensated

(v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

(n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.

(n.) A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.

(n.) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

(v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

(v. i.) To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.

(v. t.) To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers.

(v. i.) To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.

(a.) Born with another; being of the same birth.

(a.) Congenital; existing from birth.

(a.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate.

(v. i.) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

(v. i.) To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at.

(v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.

(v. t.) To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.

(v. t.) To imply as an attribute.

(n.) Abuse.

(a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

(a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.

(a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

(a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

(a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

(n.) Gum arabic.

(n.) An academy.

(a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases.

(v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.

(n.) The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.

(n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.

(n.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.

(v. t.) To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.

(n.) The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

(n.) The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

(n.) The money or price paid for the use of a crane.

(v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.

(v. i.) To bend, turn, or wind.

(n.) A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

(a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.

(n.) A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.

(n.) A claw.

(n.) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

(a.) Associated.

(n.) An associate.

(v. i.) To associate.

(n.) See Heptane.

(a.) Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

(n.) Faith; belief; creed.

(n.) A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.

(v. i. & t.) To get on credit; to borrow.

(n.) A song or air for one or more voices, of Provencal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.

(n.) An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.

(a.) Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.

(a.) Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations.

(a.) Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will.

(a.) Capacious; large; comprehensive.

(n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.

(v. t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

(v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.

(v. t.) To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.

(v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.

(v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.

(v. t.) To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.

(v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.

(n.) See Relic.

(v. t.) To lodge again.

(n.) Excess; tumult; revelry.

(n.) A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.

(a.) Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.

(a.) Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing.

(a.) Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles.

(n.) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

(v. i.) To merge again.

(v. i.) To agree again.

(v. t.) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.

(v. t.) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.

(v. t.) To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.

(v. t.) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.

(v. t.) To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.

(v. i.) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.

(n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.

(n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

(v. t.) To argue anew or again.

(n.) Alt. of Rokee

(a.) Reasonable; also, loquacious.

(v. i.) To awake again.

(v. t.) To nerve again; to give new vigor to; to reinvigorate.

(n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.

(n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.

(n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.

(n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).

(n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.

(v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.

(v. t.) To brace again.

(v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

(v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

(v. t.) To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

(v. t.) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.

(v. t.) Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.

(v. t.) To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.

(v. t.) To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.

(v. t.) To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.

(n.) Renown.

(v. t.) To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.

(v. t.) To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.

(v. t.) To bat back (the ball) when served.

(v. i.) To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.

(v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

(v. t.) To review; to revise.

(n.) Rent.

(n.) Alt. of Romeite

(n.) A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium.

(n.) A round; a circle.

(n.) Roundness; plumpness.

(v. t.) To chase again; to chase or drive back.

(n.) Space; place; room.

(v. t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

(v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

(v. t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.

(v. t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.

(v. t.) To put in a new or different place.

(v. t.) To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.

(v. i.) To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.

(v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.

(v. t.) Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.

(v. t.) To close again.

(v. t.) To open; to unclose.

(a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.

(a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.

(a.) The place where a recluse dwells.

(v. t.) To shut up; to seclude.

(a.) Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.

(a.) Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.

(v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety.

(a.) resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips.

(n.) See Magenta.

(n.) a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.

(n.) An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.

(n.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.

(n.) A red color. See Roset.

(n.) A rose burner. See under Rose.

(n.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.

(n.) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.

(n.) A taking by way of retaliation.

(n.) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.

(n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

(v. t.) To take again; to retake.

(v. t.) To recompense; to pay.

(n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

(v. t.) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

(v. t.) To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.

(v. t.) To reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive.

(v. t.) To prune again or anew.

(a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

(a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.

(n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

(n.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.

(n.) A groveling or very mean person.

(v. t.) To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.

(v. t.) To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.

(n.) The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.

(n.) Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.

(v. t.) To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

(v. t.) To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

(v. t.) To ask as a favor; to request.

(n.) A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.

(n.) Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.

(a.) That may be rowed, or rowed upon.

(v. t.) To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.

(v. t.) To seize again, or a second time.

(v. t.) To put in possession again; to reinstate.

(v. t.) To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized.

(v. t.) To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

(a.) Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.

(a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.

(n.) A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres.

(n.) A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.

(n.) Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.

(n.) A salt of nitrous acid.

(n.) See Salite.

(n.) A salt of capric acid.

(v. i.) An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.

(v. i.) See Capriccio.

(a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.

(v. t. & i.) To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.

(n.) An upset or overturn.

(n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.

(n.) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.

(n.) a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.

(n.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.

(n.) A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.

(n.) A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle.

(n.) A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Clavated

(n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.

(n.) One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.

(a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement.

(a.) Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.

(v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture.

(n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

(a.) Salic.

(n.) The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.

(n.) The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.

(v. t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.

(v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

(v. i.) To leap or dance.

(v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.

(n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

(n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.

(n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.

(a. & n.) Savage.

(n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.

(n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.

(n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.

(v. t.) To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned".

(a.) Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

(n.) See Carcass.

(v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

(v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

(v. i.) To dwell.

(n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.

(n.) A small, light, open one-horse carriage

(n.) A covered cart

(n.) A kind of calash. See Carryall.

(n.) Alt. of Caroline

(n.) Alt. of Carling

(n.) A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.

(n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.

(n.) The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.

(pl. ) of Cloaca

(n.) Flesh of slain animals or men.

(n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.

(a.) Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.

(n.) Kyanite.

(a.) Alt. of Carnous

(n.) A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach.

(n.) A large draught of liquor.

(n.) A drinking match; a carousal.

(v. i.) To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.

(v. t.) To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.

(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

(n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

(v. t.) The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

(v. t.) That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

(v. t.) That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.

(v. t.) A conclusion; an end.

(v. t.) A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding.

(n.) The act of carrying in a cart.

(n.) The price paid for carting.

(n.) See Closure, 5.

(n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.

(n.) See Sardius.

(n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face.

(n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

(n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.

(n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

(a.) Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

(v. t.) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.

(v. t.) To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.

(v. t.) To saturate.

(n.) An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

(n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.

(v. i.) To fall in a cascade.

(v. i.) To vomit.

(v. i.) To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

(v. i.) To take breath; to rest from action.

(v. i.) To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.

(v. t.) To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.

(v. t.) To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.

(v. t.) To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.

(v. t.) To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.

(v. t.) To express; to manifest; to give forth.

(v. t.) To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.

(v. t.) To promote free respiration in; to exercise.

(v. t.) To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.

(v. t.) To put out of breath; to exhaust.

(v. t.) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

(v. t.) To render void or useless; to vacate or annul.

(n.) Malt liquor; drink brewed.

(a.) Brittle; easily broken.

(n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

(n.) A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.

(n.) A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.

(v. t. & i.) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.

(v. t.) To beat, pound, or together.

(v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

(v. i.) To come together; to meet; to unite.

(v. i.) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.

(v. t.) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.

(v. t.) To summon judicially to meet or appear.

(n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage.

(n.) The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

(n.) A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.

(n.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

(n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

(a.) Capable of being duped.

(pl. ) of Squama

(v. t.) To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.

(v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.

(v. t.) To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.

(v. i.) To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; -- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.

(n.) The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.

(n.) A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.

(n.) Alt. of Serfdom

(a.) Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.

(a.) Alt. of Serrated

(n.) Serfage; slavery; servitude.

() Alt. of Service

() A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.

(n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love.

(n.) The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.

(n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.

(n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.

(n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.

(n.) Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.

(n.) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.

(n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.

(n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp/na or an attachment.

(n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.

(n.) The act of serving the ball.

(n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.

(a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.

(a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.

(a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.

(n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

(n.) One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223.

(n.) A low stool.

(v. t.) To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

(a.) Alt. of Crenated

(n.) Alt. of Crenkle

(a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.

(a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

(a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

(n.) See Sextain.

(n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

(v. t.) To crack; to flaw.

(a.) That may be chosen; desirable.

(n.) A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.

(a.) That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.

(n.) A coarse sieve or screen.

(n.) Coarse flour or meal.

(v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.

(a.) Coarse; as, cribble bread.

(v. t.) To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl.

(n.) A withe for fastening a gate.

(n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

(a.) Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.

(a.) Bearded or tufted with hairs.

(v. t.) To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

(v. i.) To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

(n.) A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.

(a.) Hairy.

(n.) One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

(a.) Lame; halting.

(v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

(v. t.) To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.

(n.) The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit.

(n.) A hole for the arm in a garment.

(a.) Rawboned.

(v. i.) To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.

(v. i.) To fawn or coax.

(v. i.) To coo.

(n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.

(n.) A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.

(v. i.) To curdle.

(v. t.) To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

(v. i.) To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.

(v. t.) To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

(v. i.) To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

(v. i.) To cry like a crane.

(n.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

(n.) Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.

(n.) Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.

(n.) A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.

(v. i.) To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.

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

(n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

(v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.

(v. t.) To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.

(v. t.) To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.

(v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.

(n.) Decency.

(v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurity.

(v. t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.

(v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.

(v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.

(v. i.) To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.

(v. i.) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.

(v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

(v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.

(v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.

(v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

(v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

(v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.

(v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.

(v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

(v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

(v. i.) A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.

(v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

(v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.

(n.) A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.

(a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.

(n.) A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

(n.) The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.

(n.) A decree.

(a.) Tenfold.

(n.) A number ten times repeated.

(v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.

(n.) The kitchen or cooking department.

(n.) Manner or style of cooking.

(n.) Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).

(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.

(pl. ) of Setula

(n.) Sloth; torpor.

(a.) Alt. of Cuneated

(n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.

(n.) The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

(v. t.) Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.

(n.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.

(n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene.

(n.) A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

(a.) Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.

(n.) Continuance; duration. See Endurance.

(n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

(n.) A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.

(n.) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.

(prep.) During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.

(v. t.) To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

(v. t.) To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.

(v. t.) To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.

(v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.

(v. i.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain.

(v. i.) A row of dried or drying hay, etc.

(v. i.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.

(v. t.) To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.

(v. t.) To form into staddles, as hay.

(v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.

(v. t.) To make less; to bring low.

(v. t.) To break; to disperse.

(n.) The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.

(n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.

(v. t.) To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend.

(n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

(n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.

(n.) Constituent substance.

(n.) A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.

(n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.

(n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.

(v. t.) To perfume; to scent.

(n.) Alt. of Esthetics

(n.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.

(n.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais.

(v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

(v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.

(a.) Causing hunger; eating; corroding.

(n.) A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger.

(n.) A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use.

(a.) Cleaving with difficulty.

(v. t.) To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.

(v. t.) To provide.

(v. i.) To have or exercise foresight.

(a.) Arable; tillable.

(n.) Ache or pain in the ear.

(n.) Alt. of Offence

(n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.

(n.) The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.

(n.) A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.

(a.) Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.

(pl. ) of Fecula

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

(n.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3.

(a.) Spotted, as if discolored by drops.

(v. t.) To sweeten; to soothe.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia.

(n.) One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater.

(n.) A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.

(a.) Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.

(a.) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs.

(n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

(n.) The longer wood for making or mending fences.

(pl. ) of Tegula

(n.) A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

(n.) The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

(v. t.) To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.

(a.) Odorous.

(n.) See Offense.

(n.) A large European bat (Vespertilio, / Noctulina, altivolans).

(n.) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.

(a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

(a.) Twisted; wreathed.

(n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

(n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

(n.) The act or process of torturing.

(v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

(v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

(v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

(v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

(pl. ) of Torula

(n.) Alt. of Hopbind

(n.) A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

(n.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

(v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.

(v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

(v. t.) To raise; to elevate.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.

(v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

(v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.

(v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

(v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.

(v. t.) To extol; to laud.

(v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.

(v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

(v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.

(v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.

(v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.

(v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

(v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.

(v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.

(a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

(a.) Opposite.

(a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.

(v. t.) To oppose; to resist.

(n.) One who has an advowson.

(n.) A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.

(v. t.) To stuff; to swell.

(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

(v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.

(v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

(v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.

(v. t.) To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

(v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

(p. a.) Blown in; inflated.

(v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.

(v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.

(v. t.) To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

(v. i.) To expand; to fill; to distend.

(a.) Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.

(pl. ) of Trabea

(n.) A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.

(n.) A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.

(a.) Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

(n.) An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.

(n.) A fee for keeping goods in a house.

(n.) See Ingeny.

(v. t.) To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly.

(v. t. & i.) See Engorge.

(v. i.) To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.

(n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.

(n.) Alt. of Microbion

(a.) Mauve-colored.

(n.) A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality.

(n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.

(n.) A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.

(n.) An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.

(n.) The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.

(n.) The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.

(n.) Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.

(n.) Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.

(n.) The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.

(n.) Undefined quantity; extent; degree.

(n.) Regulated division of movement

(n.) A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet.

(n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.

(n.) The space between two bars.

(a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.

(a.) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers.

(a.) A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.

(a.) The act of measuring; measurement.

(a.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.

(n.) To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.

(n.) To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.

(n.) To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.

(n.) To adjust by a rule or standard.

(n.) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.

(v. i.) To make a measurement or measurements.

(v. i.) To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.

(v. i.) To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.

(n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

(n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

(n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

(n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

(n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.

(n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

(n.) The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.

(n.) An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.

(n.) superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

(n.) The first point after deuce.

(v. t.) To profit; to aid.

(n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

(n.) That which is wanting; deficiency.

(v. t. & i.) To alter; to make different; to vary.

(n.) An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size.

(n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.

(n.) Contest; struggle.

(v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

(a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.

(a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.

(n.) The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

(n.) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.

(n.) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.

(n.) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.

(n.) A tax on wares sold by the last.

(n.) The lading of a ship; also, ballast.

(n.) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

(n.) That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.

(n.) That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.

(n.) Latency.

(n.) A substance in which medicine is taken.

(n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.

(n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

(n.) A European lake whitefish (Coregonus Willughbii, or C. Vandesius) native of certain lakes in Scotland and England. It is regarded as a delicate food fish. Called also vendis.

(n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.

(v. i.) To bark as a dog.

(n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.

(n.) Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.

(n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.

(v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.

(v. i.) To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window.

(n.) A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.

(n.) A ventouse.

(a.) Windy; flatulent.

(a.) The sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend/miaire.

(n.) A salt of lauric acid.

(n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

(n.) An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.

(n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

(v. i.) To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.

(v. i.) To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.

(v. t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.

(v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.

(v. t.) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.

(v. i.) To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.

(n.) The act of journeying; travel; passage.

(n.) The tailrace of a mill.

(n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.

(n.) A rare sulphide of osmium and ruthenium found with platinum in Borneo and Oregon.

(n.) The ketone of lauric acid.

(n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.

(a.) Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.

(v. t.) To unwind; to disentangle; to loose.

(v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.

(v. t.) To divest of scales; to remove scales from.

(v. t.) To strip the shale, or husk, from; to uncover.

(v. t.) To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange.

(n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin.

(v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.

(v. t.) To deprive of state or dignity.

(v. t.) To deprive of a taste for a thing.

(v. t.) To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

(v. t.) To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together. [R.] Cf. Impasto.

(v. t.) To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

(v. t.) To insulate. See Insulate.

(v. t.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.

(v. t.) To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie.

(v. i.) To become untwined.

(n.) Want or lack of usage.

(v. t.) To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.

(a.) Not whole; unsound.

(v. t.) To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.

(v. i. & t.) To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

(n.) Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

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

(v. i.) To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.

(v. t.) To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.

(n.) Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.

(v. t.) To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.

(v. i.) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.

(n.) A slight twist with the fingers.

(n.) A pimple.

(v. i.) To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.

(v. i.) To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.

(n.) A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.

(n.) A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.

(n.) The time of a wink; a twinkling.

(v. t.) To cancel, as what is written; to erase.

(v. t.) To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad.

(a.) Uttered or done again; repeated.

(v. t.) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.

(adv.) By way of iteration.

(v. t.) To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.

(n.) See Jade, the stone.

(v. t.) To raise; to lift up.

(v. t.) To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse.

(v. t.) To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

(v. i.) To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous.

(v. t.) To trace up or out.

(n.) Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.

(n.) A salt of uranic acid.

(n.) A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.

(v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.

(v. i.) To entreat; to beg; to prey.

(n.) Imploration.

(n.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea.

(n.) A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water.

(n.) Urgency.

(v. i.) To discharge urine; to make water.

(a.) Alt. of Urinous

(n.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.

(n.) One of the Urodela.

(n.) Any one of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.

(n.) The abdomen, or post-abdomen, of arthropods.

(a.) Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.

(a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father.

(v. t.) To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

(n.) A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed.

(n.) A microscopic cell in the structure of an egg, animal, or plant.

(n.) A small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit, as of goosefoot.

(n.) A utriculus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.

(n.) The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.

(n.) any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.

(v. t.) To make void, or empty.

(n.) A device. See Impresa.

(n.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm.

(pl. ) of Vagina

(n.) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

(n.) One who attends; an assistant.

(n.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.

(n.) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.

(v. t.) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

(n.) Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.

(n.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets.

(a.) Alt. of Falcated

(n.) A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.

(v. t.) Same as Indorse.

(n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

(n.) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

(n.) A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground.

(n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.

(v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.

(adv.) On end; erectly; in an upright position.

(adv.) With the end forward.

(v. t.) To kill off; to destroy.

(v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.

(v. t.) To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.

(v. t.) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.

(v. t.) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.

(v. t.) To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.

(v. t.) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.

(v. i.) To attempt by force.

(v. i.) To prove; to evince.

(v. i.) To strengthen; to grow strong.

(n.) Force; strength; power.

(v. t.) To inclose, as in a frame.

(n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.

(v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

(v. t.) To thrust down or out; to push down with force.

(v. i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

(v. t.) To cause to deviate.

(n.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.

(n.) The hide of a cow.

(n.) Leather made of the hide of a cow.

(n.) A coarse whip made of untanned leather.

(v. t.) To flog with a cowhide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus.

(n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

(v. t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

(v. t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.

(v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.

(a.) Alt. of Situated

(v. t.) To place.

(n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.

(n.) The Lotus corniculatus.

(n.) An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.

(a.) Of considerable size or bulk.

(a.) Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.

(n.) Hurt; damage.

(a.) Hurtful.

(n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

(n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

(n.) Tmesis.

(v. i.) To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

(v. i.) To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

(a.) Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.

(a.) Capable of various forms; multiform.

(adv.) In different directions; diversely.

(v. i.) To turn aside.

(v. t.) To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.

(n.) Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.

(n.) A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.

(n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.

(a.) Pertaining to the game of skittles.

(n.) Same as Diapason.

(n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."

(n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

(n.) Separation; disunion of things closely united.

(n.) That which separates.

(n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

(n.) To separate or disunite; to sunder.

(n.) To make away; to put away.

(v. t.) To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.

(v. t.) To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

(v. t.) To impart; to communicate.

(v. i.) To become publicly known.

(n. pl.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

(a.) Easily taught or managed; teachable.

(n.) A charge for the use of a dock.

(n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

(n.) A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment.

(a. & adv.) Plaintively. See Doloroso.

(v. t.) To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.

(v. t.) To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.

(v. i.) To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).

(v. i.) To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.

(v. t.) A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel.

(n.) A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

(n.) Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.

(a.) Capable of being tamed; tamable.

(v. i.) To be distrustful.

(v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.

(v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.

(a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

(n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

(n.) A clergyman. See Domine, 1.

(a.) Capable of being donated or given.

(n.) A penalty or fine for neglect.

(pl. ) of Dormouse

(n.) Same as Dorsal, n.

(n.) A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.

(n.) A salt of nitric acid.

(a.) Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.

(n.) A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

(a.) Resembling a fan;

(a.) folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.

(n.) A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.

(v. t.) To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.

(n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.

(a.) Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar.

(n.) Disrepute.

(v. t.) To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.

(n.) A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

(n.) A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.

(n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

(n.) That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops.

(n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.

(a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

(a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.

(a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

(a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

(n.) The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.

(n.) A little spade.

(v. t.) To gorge; to glut.

(v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

(v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.

(n.) Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.

(n.) A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.

(n.) Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless.

(v. t.) To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate.

(v. i.) To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.

(v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury.

(v. t.) To cut in; to make by incision.

(v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.

(v. t.) To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.

(v. t.) To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.

(v. t.) To raise or lift up; to exalt.

(v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.

(v. i.) To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

(v. t.) To surround as with a hedge.

(n.) Alt. of Sparagrass

(v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

(v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.

(v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.

(v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

(v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

(v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.

(v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.

(v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

(n.) A little spark; a scintillation.

(n.) Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.

(n.) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.

(n.) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.

(n.) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.

(v. t.) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.

(v. t.) To disperse.

(v. t.) To scatter on or over.

(v. t.) To set at large or set free.

(v. i.) To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

(v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.

(v. i.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

(v. t.) To place in a niche.

(v. t.) To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.

(v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

(n.) A woman affected with ennui.

(pl. ) of Spatha

(n.) Spawl; spittle.

(n.) A spatula.

(n.) A tool or implement for mottling a molded article with coloring matter

(v. t.) To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

(v. t.) To utter; to articulate.

(v. i.) To inquire.

(v. i. & t.) See Inquire.

(v. t.) To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange.

(v. t.) To rove over; to range.

(v. t.) To cover with scales.

(v. t.) To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.

(v. t.) To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

(v. t.) See Instate.

(v. t.) To restore.

(v. t.) To style; to name.

(n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.

(v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.

(n.) Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.

(n.) The tarsius.

(n.) A stick insect.

(n.) See Specter.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become enthusiastic.

(v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

(v. t.) To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.

(n.) Alt. of Stippling

(n.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

(v. t.) To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable."

(v. t.) To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

(v. t.) To attribute; to ascribe.

(n.) Asperagus.

(a.) Hoped for, or to be hoped for.

(a.) Alt. of Spicated

(n.) A stoma.

(a.) Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes.

(n.) A minute, slender granule, or point.

(n.) Same as Spicula.

(n.) Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.

(v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.

(v. i.) To be twisted or twined.

(n.) A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.

(a.) Bearing a spine; spiniform.

(n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.

(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

(n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.

(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

(n.) The fusee of a watch.

(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

(v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.

(v. t.) To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.

(n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

(n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.

(n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

(n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

(a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.

(n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.

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

(n.) Alt. of Defence

(n.) The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.

(n.) Alt. of Shabble

(n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.

(a.) Running; flowing.

(n.) Stubble.

(n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.

(n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.

(n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.

(n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.

(n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.

(n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.

(v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.

(v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.

(n.) That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.

(n.) Protecting plea; vindication; justification.

(n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.

(n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.

(n.) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

(v. t.) To furnish with defenses; to fortify.

(n.) A character used in cursive writing.

(n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.

(a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.

(a.) Alt. of Curvated

(v. i.) To hobble or limp; to shuffle.

(n.) A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

(n.) See Custodian.

(v. t.) To reduce from an inflated condition.

(v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

(v.) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.

(n.) The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

(n.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.

(n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

(n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.

(n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.

(n.) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.

(v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.

(n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

(n.) A cunette.

(n.) A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.

(n.) A salt of cyanic acid.

(n.) A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

(n.) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

(n.) A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.

(n.) A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.

(n.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

(v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.

(v. t.) To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.

(v. t.) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

(v. i.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.

(v. i.) To gape; to open by dehiscence.

(n.) The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.

(n.) One concerned in putting Christ to death.

(a.) Deified.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cypress.

(a.) Cyprinoid.

(n.) A dejeuner.

(n.) A kind of fabric for women's dresses.

(v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

(a.) Capable of being blotted out or erased.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

(a.) Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.

(n.) A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.

(v. t.) To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.

(v. t.) To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.

(v. t.) To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.

(v. t.) To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.

(v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.

(a.) Woven like damask.

(n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.

(n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.

(n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

(n.) Alt. of Shelty

(n.) A descendant of Shem.

(n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

(n.) The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).

(v. t.) To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

(v. t.) To shut or keep out; to exclude.

(v. t.) To immerse.

(n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.

(v. t.) To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.

(v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

(n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.

(v. t.) To cover or roof with shindles.

(n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

(n.) A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.

(n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.

(v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

(v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

(v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

(v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.

(a.) Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.

(v. t.) To unlade.

(v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

(v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease.

(n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.

(n.) Discord; dissension.

(v. t.) To deprive of life.

(a.) Alt. of Dentated

(n.) A small tooth, like that of a saw.

(n.) The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

(n.) An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

(n.) A shuttle.

(a.) Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.

(n.) A gift or offering to God.

(v. i.) To roam.

(n.) An eyeglass for one eye.

(n.) Same as Columbate.

(n.) Same as Columbite.

(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

(a.) Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

(n.) A minute spine.

(n.) The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

(n.) Room in which things may be stowed.

(n.) The state of being stowed, or put away.

(n.) Things stowed or packed.

(n.) Money paid for stowing goods.

(n.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.

(n.) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

(n.) A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

(v. i.) To wink; to nictitate.

(n.) See Dunnage.

(n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

(a.) Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.

(n.) One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes.

(n.) A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

(v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.

(pl. ) of Fascia

(n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

(a.) Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

(n.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

(n.) A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts.

(a.) Having buds; reproducing by buds.

(n.) A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

(n.) One of the buds of mosses.

(n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae.

(n.) An ovule.

(n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.

(n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.

(n.) A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.

(n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

(n.) The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.

(n.) The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.

(n.) To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

(n.) A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.

(n.) A sovereign remedy; a cure.

(n.) Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.

(n.) A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like.

(n.) The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread.

(n.) A truce.

(n.) One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch.

(n.) The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur.

(n.) See Treadle.

(n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

(n.) The dung of sheep or hares.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Genoa; collectively, the people of Genoa.

(a.) One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

(a.) Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.

(a.) Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.

(a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.

(n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.

(a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.

(n.) See Fa/ence.

(a.) Elevated; raised aloft.

(v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.

(v. t.) To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.

(v. t.) To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.

(v. t.) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

(v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

(a.) Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.

(v. t.) To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.

(v. t.) To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.

(n) Alt. of Ellingeness

(n.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.

(n.) Omission. See Ellipsis.

(n.) The elliptical orbit of a planet.

(n.) That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.

(v. t.) To expand.

(v. i.) To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.

(v. i.) To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.

(n.) A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.

(n.) An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.

(a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

(v. t.) To dislocate; to luxate.

(n.) A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.

(n.) A confection of fruit.

(n.) A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

(n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.

(n.) Loss.

(v. i.) To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

(v. i.) To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.

(a.) Issuing forth; emanant.

(v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.

(v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.

(a.) Terminated.

(v. t.) To put in a barge.

(v. i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

(v. i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

(v. i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.

(v. t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.

(v. t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.

(v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.

(v. t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.

(v. t.) To bathe; to imbathe.

(n.) The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.

(v. t.) To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

(v. t.) To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.

(v. t.) To adorn with glittering embellishments.

(v. t.) To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon.

(v.) To thunder.

(v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.

(a.) Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.

(a.) Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.

(a.) Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.

(v. i.) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.

(n.) The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.

(v. t.) To drive out; to expel.

(v. t.) To fasten on, as armor.

(n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

(n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love.

(n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.

(n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.

(n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

(n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to.

(n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.

(v. i.) To join in an embrace.

(n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.

(v. t.) To inspire with bravery.

(v. t.) To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

(v. t.) To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense.

(v. t.) To purge away.

(v. t.) To search into or out.

(v. t.) To decorate; to make showy and fine.

(v. t.) To brutify; to imbrute.

(n.) A salt of fungic acid.

(n.) A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

(n.) Outward existence.

(n.) A small cord, ligature, or fiber.

(n.) The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.

(v. t.) Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.

(n.) A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

(a.) Alt. of Furcated

(n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

(n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

(n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.

(n.) An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients.

(a.) Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.

(a.) Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.

(v. t.) CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.

(v. t.) See Implore.

(n.) One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.

(v. i.) To acetify.

(n.) A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

(a.) Sour like vinegar; acetous.

(v. t.) To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.

(v. t.) To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

(v. t.) To finish; to kill.

(n.) Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.

(a.) Alt. of Acinous

(n.) An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.

(n.) The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.

(v. t.) To undertake.

(n.) A tax, especially on salt.

(a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

(a.) Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

(a.) The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.

(a.) Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

(a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.

(n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

(n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.

(n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.

(n.) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

(n.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

(v. t.) To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away.

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

(n. pl.) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

(n. pl.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

(n.) A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

(n.) Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish.

(a.) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

(v. t.) To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great.

(a.) Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.

(n.) To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.

(v. t.) To chafe; to enrage; to heat.

(v. t.) To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.

(n.) Zinc spinel; automolite.

(v. t.) The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

(v. t.) The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.

(v. t.) To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.

(v. t.) To delineate or describe, as by writing.

(n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.

(v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.

(v. t.) To inclose. See Inclose.

(a.) Alt. of Galeated

(n.) See Facet, n.

(n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals.

(n.) A salt of gallic acid.

(a.) Making; having power to make.

(n.) The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

(n.) An invoice or bill of parcels.

(n. pl.) Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.

(a.) That may be ended; terminable.

(n.) Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

() A clog or patten.

(n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

(n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.

(n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.

(n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.

(n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.

(n.) A failing; a slight fault.

() Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.

() A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.

(n.) Same as Galoche.

(n.) A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.

(n.) A ferruginous variety of rutile.

(n.) A small germ.

(n.) Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

(n.) A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion.

(v. t.) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.

(v. i.) To make gestures; to gesticulate.

(v. i.) To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

(v. i.) To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.

(v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.

(n.) An involuntary shaking or quivering.

(v. i.) A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.

(n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.

(n.) The frame of a table.

(a.) Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.

(a.) Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.

(a.) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.

(n.) A frame on which paper is dried.

(n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

(n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.

(n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

(n.) An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.

(n.) A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection.

(n.) A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense.

(v. i.) To pay as tribute.

(n.) A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.

(n.) An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.

(n.) See Molossus.

(a.) Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.

(a.) Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.

(n.) See Waywode.

(n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.

(n.) The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.

(v. t.) To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.

(n.) The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four.

(v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.

(v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.

(v. t.) To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.

(v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.

(v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.

(v. i.) To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.

(v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.

(v. i.) To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.

(n.) A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.

(n.) See Gainage, a.

(a.) Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.

(a.) Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.

(a.) Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.

(n.) A little valve; a valvelet.

(n.) A small valvelike process.

(n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.

(n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

(n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

(n.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.

(n.) See Waywode.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter; used or represented by Vandyke.

(n.) A picture by Vandyke. Also, a Vandyke collar, or a Vandyke edge.

(n.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds.

(v. t.) fit or furnish with a Vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a Vandyke.

(v. t.) To tear in pieces.

(pl. ) of Papula

(n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.

(adv.) Perhaps; perchance.

(n.) A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

(n.) A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

(n.) Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.

(n.) A kind of sweet wine from Italy.

(a.) Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious.

(n.) An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) Leaves, collectively; foliage.

(a.) Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.

(n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

(n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

(n.) An annoyance to the ear.

() imp. of Forgive.

(a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.

(n.) Something fit to be eaten.

(n.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

(v. t.) To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.

(n.) One who resolves religion into prayer.

(n.) A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

(imp.) of Forgive

(v. t.) To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

(v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.

(v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.

(p. p.) of Forgo

(p. p.) of Forlese

(v. t.) To lose utterly.

() imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese.

(n.) A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up.

(n.) A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series.

(n.) A salt of formic acid.

(n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.

(n.) The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.

(v. t.) To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.

(v. t.) To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.

(v. i.) To suffer an eclipse.

(n.) A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

(n.) A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms.

(n.) See Intercolumnlation.

() The Muse who presided over music.

() A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.

(n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

(n.) A set or prescribed model; a formula.

(v. t.) To waste away completely by suffering or torment.

(v. t.) To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

(v. t.) To renounce; to reject; to refuse.

(n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.

(n.) That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.

(n.) That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.

(n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

(n.) To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

(n.) To provide with a fortune.

(n.) To presage; to tell the fortune of.

(v. i.) To fall out; to happen.

(n.) A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.

(n.) Alt. of Fougasse

(a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

(n.) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

(a.) Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

(n.) A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.

(n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

(v. t.) To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.

(v. t.) To shun; to avoid.

(v. t.) To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.

(n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

(n.) One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.

(v. t.) To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

(a.) Having pits or depressions; pitted.

(a.) Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.

(v. t.) To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.

(v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.

(n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

(n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.

(n.) That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.

(n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.

(n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.

(v. t.) To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

(v. t.) To plow up; also, to engrave; to write.

(a.) Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

(v. t.) To fill with breath; to puff up.

(n.) Alt. of Excipulum

(v. t.) A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.

(v. t.) Any small spot or discoloration.

(v. t.) To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.

(v. i.) To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.

(n.) A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine, and found with it in white hellebore (Veratrum album); -- called also jervina.

(n.) Texture.

(n.) A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.

(n.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf.

(n.) A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.

(n.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the umbilical vesicle.

(n.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.

(n.) A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the molten mass.

(n.) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.

(v. t.) A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.

(v. t.) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.

(v. t.) Seizin; possession.

(pl. ) of Vettura

(imp. & p. p.) of Vibrate

(v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.

(v. t.) To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.

(v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.

(v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.

(v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.

(v. i.) To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.

(n.) Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.

(n.) Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news.

(n.) Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library.

(n.) Salutation to a newcomer.

(n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome.

(v. t.) To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea.

(n.) The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

(n.) A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.

(n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.

(n.) A rehearsal of a lesson.

(v. t.) To read or deliver a lecture to.

(v. t.) To reprove formally and with authority.

(v. i.) To deliver a lecture or lectures.

(n.) Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.

(n.) Same Vedette.

(n.) The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.

(n.) An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.

(n.) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

(n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.

(v. t.) To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

(v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

(v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

(v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.

(v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.

(v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.

(v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

(n.) A trip in walking or running.

(n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

(a.) Capable of being acted.

(n.) A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

(a.) Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

(n.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.

(n.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol.

(a.) Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.

(n.) The European yellow-hammer.

(v. t.) Alt. of Subduct

(v. t.) To take or carry away; to remove.

(superl.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.

(superl.) Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons.

(superl.) Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.

(superl.) Elevated by joy; elate.

(superl.) Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.

(n.) That which is sublime; -- with the definite article

(n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.

(n.) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.

(v. t.) To raise on high.

(v. t.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.

(v. t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.

(v. t.) To dignify; to ennoble.

(v. i.) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.

(n.) A sudden flash; transient luster.

(n.) A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.

(n.) A faint idea; an inkling.

(v. i.) to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

(v. t.) To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

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

(a.) Alt. of Globated

(n.) A curtain rod for a bedstead.

(v. i.) To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.

(a.) Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.

(n.) A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.

(n.) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.

(n.) A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.

(n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

(n.) A superfluous or augmented fourth.

(n.) A rubbing or grinding; trituration.

(v. i.) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.

(v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.

(v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided.

(n.) A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.

(n.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

(n.) The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.

(n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

(n.) A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol.

(v. t.) To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

(v. t.) To carry out in practice; to perform.

(a.) Put in action; actuated.

(a.) Very active.

(v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.

(a.) Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.

(a.) Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven.

(a.) Acute; piercing; searching.

(a.) Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.

(a.) Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.

(v. i.) To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.

(n.) A sweetmeat.

(n.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections.

(n.) A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.

(a.) Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.

(n.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.

(n.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.

(n.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.

(v. t.) To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

(v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

(v. t.) To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

(a.) Troubled; dark; gloomy.

(v. t.) The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

(v. t.) That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

(v. t.) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

(v. t.) To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

(v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.

(v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

(v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.

(n.) A small wheel or caster.

(v. i.) To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.

(v. t.) To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

(v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.

(n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.

(n.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

(adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

(adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

(adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.

(a.) Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue.

(v. i.) A round body; a little wheel.

(v. i.) A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.

(v. i.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

(v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.

(v. i.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.

(v. t.) To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.

(v. t.) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.

(v. i.) To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.

(v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.

(a.) Alt. of Sulcated

(n.) Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.

(n.) That which sullies or defiles.

(n.) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.

(n.) Silt; mud deposited by water.

(n.) See Galoche.

(n.) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

(v. t.) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

(v. t.) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

(n.) A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.

(a.) Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

(a.) Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.

(a.) Gained or effected by a medium or condition.

(a.) To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene.

(a.) To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.

(v. t.) To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.

(v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.

(pl. ) of Macula

(pl. ) of Medusa

(a.) That which is within; the interior.

(v. t.) To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.

(n.) A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone.

(v. t.) To form an image or likeness of.

(a.) Unworthy.

(v. t.) To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.

(v. t.) See Entitle.

(v. t.) To strip of a fence; to remove a fence from.

(v. t.) To take apart, or destroy the frame of.

(v. t.) To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.

(n.) Idleness.

(v. t.) To take off the glove or gloves of; as, to unglove the hand.

(v. t.) To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume.

(v. t.) To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

(v. t.) To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.

(v. i.) To practice idolatry.

(pl. ) of Ungula

(a.) Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.

(a.) Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.

(a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.

(v. t.) To make ignoble.

(v. t.) To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.

(v. t.) To displace; to unfix by violence.

(v. t.) To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves.

(v. t.) To throw from a horse; to cause to dismount; also, to take a horse or horses from; as, to unhorse a rider; to unhorse a carriage.

(v. t.) To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.

(v. i.) To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.

(v. t.) To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.

(v. t.) To enter by force; to invade.

(v. t.) The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.

(v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.

(v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack.

(v. t.) To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.

(v. i.) To be or to become intwined.

(a.) Useless; unprofitable.

(a.) Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union.

(v. t.) To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.

(n.) Unity.

(n.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

(a.) Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

(a.) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.

(a.) Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x.

(n.) That which is inverse.

(v. t.) To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

(v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.

(v. t.) To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.

(v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

(n.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.

(n.) The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.

(v. t.) To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.

(v. t.) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

(v. t.) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

(v. t.) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

(v. t.) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

(v. t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

(v. t.) To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

(v. t.) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

(v. t.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

(v. t.) To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.

(v. t.) To point or tip with iridium, as a gold pen.

(v. t.) To make iridescent; as, to iridize glass.

(v. i.) To think; to suppose.

(v. t.) To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce.

(v. t.) See Emblaze.

(a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.

(a.) Weary; vexed; uneasy.

(v. t.) To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.

(v. i.) To sink to the state of a brute.

(v. t.) To supply or stock with money.

(v. t.) To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

(v. t.) To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.

(v. t.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.

(a.) Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.

(v. t.) To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse.

(v. i.) To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.

(a.) Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

(v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

(v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

(v. t.) To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.

(v. t.) To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment.

(v. t.) To make loose; to loosen; to set free.

(v. i.) To become unfastened; to lose all connection or union.

(v. t.) To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.

(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.

(adv.) Alt. of Unnethes

(a.) Ignoble.

(n.) Absence or lack of peace.

(v. t.) To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.

(n.) An introduction.

(a.) Causing joyfulness.

(n.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners.

(n.) The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.

(n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.

(n.) A season of general joy.

(n.) A state of joy or exultation.

(v. i.) To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism.

(v. t.) To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism.

(n.) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.

(n.) See Maegbote.

() A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.

() One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.

(n.) See Rokeage.

(n.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.

(n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.

(n.) See Bagasse.

(n.) A mixture; a medley.

(n.) A window.

() imp. of Forbid.

(imp.) of Forbear

() of Forbear

(imp.) of Forbid

() imp. of Forbear.

(n.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.

(n.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.

(n.) Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.

(a.) Undone; ruined.

(n.) Same as Heptylene.

(n.) Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.

(a.) Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.

(n.) Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.

(n.) The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.

(a.) Alt. of Herbous

() See under Gar.

(n.) The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.

(n.) The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.

(n.) The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.

(n.) A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.

(v. t.) To impel; to incite.

(n.) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

(pl. ) of Hernia

(n.) A woman of an heroic spirit.

(v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.

(v. i.) To swing for pleasure.

(v. t.) To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.

(v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.

(n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

(n.) The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.

(n.) A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.

(n.) The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

(n.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.

(v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

(v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.

(n.) To offer incense to. See Incense.

(n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense.

(n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.

(n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.

(n.) Also used figuratively.

(v. t.) See Enchase.

(a.) Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

(v. i.) To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

(v. i.) Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.

(v. i.) To bow; to incline the head.

(v. t.) To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.

(v. t.) To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.

(v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.

(n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

(v. t.) To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls.

(v. t.) To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note.

(n.) Same as Tigella.

(v. t.) To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.

(v. t.) To put into harness; to harness.

(v. t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

(v. t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.

(v. t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.

(a.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.

(n.) A salt of ferric acid.

(n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

(n.) A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.

(a.) Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

(a.) Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.

(a.) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.

(a.) Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.

(a.) produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.

(a.) Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.

(a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.

(n.) A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

(a.) Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.

(a.) Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.

(a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.

(n.) Tension.

(n.) See Haut pas.

(n.) A collection of tents; an encampment.

(v. t.) To make thin; to attenuate.

(n.) A betrothed woman.

(n.) A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

(a.) Belonging to the fibers of plants.

(pl. ) of Fibula

(a.) Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.

(a.) Feigned; counterfeit.

(n.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

(v. t.) To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.

(a.) Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.

(n.) The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.

(n.) The science of raising and expending the public revenue.

(v. t.) To terminate.

(a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.

(a.) The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.

(v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.

(v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.

(a.) Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers.

(n.) Any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils.

(v.) A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.

(v.) A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.

(v.) A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.

(v.) A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.

(v.) A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.

(v. t.) To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.

(n.) A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.

(n.) A tureen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance.

(a.) Earthy; terrestrial.

(n.) The earth's surface; the earth.

(n.) The surface of the ground.

(a.) Resembling a fin.

(n.) A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.

(a.) Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate.

(n.) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person.

(n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents.

(n.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance.

(v. t.) To harass; to plunder from.

(a.) Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

(n.) That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.

(n.) The act or art of weaving.

(n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.

(n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

(n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.

(n.) A tissue. See Tissue.

(v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

(a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.

(n.) Alt. of Hastated

(a.) Same as Hastate.

(n.) Forward; early; -- said of fruits.

(n.) The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

(n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.

(v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

(a.) Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.

(n.) A fistula.

(n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

(n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

(n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.

(n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.

(n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

(a.) Capable of being fixed.

(n.) That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

(n.) State of being fixed; fixedness.

(n.) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.

(n.) Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.

(a.) Liable to be blown about.

(v. t.) To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

(v. t.) To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term.

(v. t.) To sentence; to condemn.

(v. t.) To regard or hold; to judge; to deem.

(n.) The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.

(n.) A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.

(a.) Alt. of Hircinous

(a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

(a.) Rough and coarse; boorish.

(a.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.

(a.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

(v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

(n.) A shed for swine; a sty.

(n.) A mellitate.

(n.) A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.

(n.) A yellow powder, C6H3N9, obtained from certain sulphocyanates. It has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides.

(n.) Honey of roses.

(n.) A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short-horned buffalo, and bush cow.

(a.) Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.

(a.) Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.

(n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.

(n.) A binary compound of zinc.

(n.) The cackerel.

(n.) Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.

(n.) The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode.

(n.) A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote.

(n.) A place for mooring.

(n.) One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.

(n.) One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.

(n.) Same as Zoonite.

(n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.

(a.) Woeful.

(v. t.) To limit beforehand.

(a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.

(n.) That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.

(a.) Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.

(a.) Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.

(a.) Precocious.

(v. t.) To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.

(n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion.

(v. t.) To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.

(v. t.) To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose.

(v. i.) To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.

(v. i.) To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence.

(v. t.) To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.

(v. t.) To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.

(v. t.) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.

(a.) Polluted.

(n.) Workmanship.

(v. t. & i.) To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance, having a geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.

(v. t.) To foresee.

(v. t.) To inform beforehand; to warn.

(n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.

(n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.

(n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.

(v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

(n.) See Erythrite, 1.

(n.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain.

(a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.

(a.) One of the Primates.

(n.) The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

(n.) See Pomage.

(n.) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.

(n.) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

(n.) See Piaster.

(interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.

(a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

(n.) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples.

(n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.

(a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.

(a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.

(a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.

(a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.

(n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

(n.) Personal interest; particular business.

(n.) Privacy; retirement.

(n.) One not invested with a public office.

(n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.

(n.) The private parts; the genitals.

(n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.

(n.) Alt. of Picotine

(n.) A salt of picric acid.

(n.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

(n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.

(n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.

(n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.

(v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

(n.) Same as Wharfage.

(n.) The lapwing, or pewit.

(a.) Alt. of Pileated

(n.) The act of pillaging; robbery.

(n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.

(a.) Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.

(n.) Proof.

(n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.

(n.) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.

(a.) Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.

(v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.

(a.) Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.

(v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.

(v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

(a.) Of high stature; tall.

(n.) A sailor's wages when in port.

(n.) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.

(n.) A porthole.

(n.) The act of carrying or transporting.

(n.) The price of carriage; porterage.

(n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage.

(n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.

(v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.

(a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

(v. t.) To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan.

(v. t.) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

(v. t.) To solicit; to entreat.

(v. t.) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

(v. t.) To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.

(v. i.) To pimp.

(v. i.) To manage business for another in court.

(n.) A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.

(n.) A man-of-war's boat.

(n.) A procuress; a pimp.

(n.) Poundage of cattle. See Pound.

(a.) Alt. of Pinnated

(n.) One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

(n.) Any one of a series of small, slender organs, or parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.

(a.) Ingrateful.

(n.) An ungrateful person.

(v. t.) To engrave.

(v. t.) To bury.

(v. t.) See Enhance.

(v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

(v. t.) To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.

(v. t.) To increase or distribute by propagation.

(v. t.) To draw away; to seduce.

(v. t.) To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.

(v. t.) To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.

(v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.

(a.) Like or resembling the sun.

(n.) One of the orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance with the Koran.

(n.) Alt. of Sunrising

(adv.) In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.

(n.) An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).

(a.) Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.

(n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.

(n.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.

(n.) See Tonnage.

(n.) Alt. of Goethite

(n.) A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.

(n.) What may be supped; pottage.

(n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

(n.) A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg.

(v. t.) To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?

(v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

(v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.

(v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.

(v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.

(n.) Supposition.

(v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute.

(v. i.) To grope; to feel with the hands.

(v. i.) To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.

(a.) Alt. of Gracillent

(v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

(n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

(a.) Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.

(a.) Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.

(a.) Situated at the highest part or point.

(n.) Assurance.

(n.) A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.

(v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.

(v. t.) To harass; to fatigue.

(n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.

(n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.

(n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.

(n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.

(v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.

(v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.

(n.) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.

(n.) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.

(v. t.) To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.

(v. t.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.

(n.) Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.

(n.) A toothed chised by sculptors.

(n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

(n.) Reflection; thought.

(v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.

(n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.

(n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.

(v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

(v. t.) To drink; to swill.

(n.) Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.

(n.) A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.

(n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores.

(n.) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

(n.) A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite.

(n.) Syllable.

(n.) See Garnet.

(n.) A salt of sylvic acid.

(v. t.) To look over; to supervise.

(v. t.) To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

(v. i.) To remain alive; to continue to live.

(n.) A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.

(n.) Alt. of Sylvite

(n.) Native potassium chloride.

(n.) A descendant of Adam; a human being.

(n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

(n.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.

(n.) The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.

(n.) A sympodium.

(n.) Alt. of Synacmy

(n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.

(n.) Same as Syncopation.

(n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.

(n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.

(n.) A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

(v. t.) To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

(v. t.) To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.

(v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another.

(v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.

(v. t.) An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab.

(v. t.) A grappling iron.

(n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.

(v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

(v. t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

(n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse.

(n.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

(n.) The shortening of the long syllable.

(n.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.

(a.) Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation.

(n.) A systyle temple or other edifice.

(n.) To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.

(v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

(v. i.) To think; to suppose.

(v. t.) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

(n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.

(n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.

(n.) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

(n.) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.

(n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.

(n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden.

(n.) Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.

(n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.

(n.) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

(v. t.) To convince.

(v. t.) To disprove; to refute.

(v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.

(v. t.) To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.

(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

(pl. ) of Tabula

(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.

(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.

(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.

(n.) That which is excepted; exception.

(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

(n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.

(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.

(v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

(v. t.) To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.

(v. t.) To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.

(v. t.) To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.

(v. t.) To make good; to make amends for.

(v. t.) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.

(v. t.) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.

(n.) Restoration.

(v. t.) To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized.

(v. t.) To translate into Greek.

(v. t.) To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate.

(v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.

(v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

(v. i.) To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

(v. i.) To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

(n.) The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.

(n.) A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

(v. i.) To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.

(v. i.) To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination.

(v. t.) To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.

(v. t.) To call or name.

(n.) Insanity.

(v. t.) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

(v. t.) To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

(v. t.) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.

(v. t.) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.

(v. t.) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue.

(v. i.) To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire.

(v. i.) To breathe; to blow gently.

(n.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

(n.) A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman.

(n.) A worthless woman; a hussy.

(n.) A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.

(v. t.) To manage with frugality; -- said of a woman.

(v. t.) To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.

(n.) A hyacinth.

(a.) Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.

(n.) A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.

(n.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.

(n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.

(n.) A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass.

(v. t.) To make to understand; to instruct.

(v. t.) To store up; to inclose; to contain.

(v. t.) To style.

(v. i.) To be of use to an end; to serve.

(n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

(a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.

(n.) A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

(n.) A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water may be eliminated; hence, a derivative of, or compound with, hydroxyl; hydroxide; as, ethyl hydrate, or common alcohol; calcium hydrate, or slaked lime.

(a.) Insipid; dull; stupid.

(v. t.) To form into a hydrate; to combine with water.

(n.) A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.

(adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.

(v. t.) To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means.

(v. t.) To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.

(a.) Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

(a.) Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: (a) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. (b) Keen; biting; as, intense cold. (c) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. (d) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. (e) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light.

(a.) Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.

(a.) Gracious; mild; benign.

(n.) That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.

(n.) An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor.

(a.) Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.

(adv.) Unawares.

(v. t.) To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves.

(v. t. & i.) To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes.

(v. t. & i.) To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.

(v. t.) To free from a curse or an execration.

(v. t.) To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

(v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.

(v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.

(v. t.) To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.

(v. t.) To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.

(v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.

(v. t.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

(v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.

(n.) That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors

(n.) agricultural products.

(n.) See Penuchle.

(interj.) Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.

(a.) Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.

(n.) The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

(a.) Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.

(a.) Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.

(a.) Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.

(a.) To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.

(a.) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

(n.) A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.

(n.) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.

(n.) a mortise for a key or cotter.

(n.) Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan.

(n.) A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.

(n.) An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

(n.) A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.

(n.) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.

(n.) A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.

(n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.

(n.) to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.

(n.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.

(v. t.) To represent by parable.

(n.) A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

(n.) An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.

(n.) Mockery.

(n.) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

(n.) A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide.

(v.) To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

(a.) Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.

(n.) A maid; a virgin.

(n.) See Praecipe, and Precept.

(interj.) See Prithee.

(v. t.) To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

(v. t.) To go before in place, rank, or importance.

(v. t.) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.

(a.) Next; immediately preceding or following.

(v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.

(v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.

(n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

(n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.

(n.) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.

(v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.

(v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.

(v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism]

(v. t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

(v. t.) To supply; to afford; to contribute.

(v. t.) To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.

(v. t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.

(v. t.) To foresee.

(v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.

(v. i.) To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.

(v. i.) To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.

(v. t.) To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.

(n.) The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.

(n.) A dike a marsh or fen.

(n. f.) Alt. of Protegee

(a.) Fit to be drunk; drinkable.

(n.) A potable liquid; a beverage.

(n.) The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.

(n.) Potency; capacity.

(n.) A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.

(n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.

(n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

(prep.) Except.

(v. t.) To propose; to bring forward.

(v.) To set forth.

(v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.

(v.) To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.

(v. i.) To speak; to converse.

(v. i.) To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.

(v. i.) To offer one's self in marriage.

(n.) Talk; discourse.

(v. t.) To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.

(v. t.) Hence, to give in token of friendship.

(v. t.) To give, or deliver; to subject.

(n.) A pledge.

(n.) A gift; esp., drink money.

(n.) Same as Allylene.

(v. t.) To cite erroneously.

(n.) A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.

(n.) Same as Propylene.

(n.) The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

(v. t.) To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.

(v. t.) To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.

(v. t.) To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.

(v. i.) To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.

(v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.

(v. t.) To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.

(v. t.) To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.

(v. i.) To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.

(v. t.) To move forward; to advance; to promote.

(a.) Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees.

(a.) In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.

(a.) An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.

(a.) That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise.

(a.) Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.

(a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.

(v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.

(v. t.) A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.

(n.) A rope used in towing vessels.

(n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

(n.) A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.

(n.) Alt. of Killdeer

(n.) The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.

(n.) Place; position; situation.

(n.) State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.

(v. t.) To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.

(v. i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.

(v. i.) Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.

(a.) Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.

(a.) Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.

(v. t.) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.

(n.) A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.

(a.) Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy.

(a.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive.

(n. f.) The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.

(n. f.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.

(n.) Iron sesquioxide in isometric form, probably a pseudomorph after magnetite.