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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) See Coamings.

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

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

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

(p. pr.) of Affy

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A thoughtless, gay person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Apprehension; judgment.

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

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

(n.) Fishing with a seine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Friborgh

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

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

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

(a.) That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.

() a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.

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

(n.) Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A foil.

(n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

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

(n.) The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.

(n.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.

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

(n.) A hag of or fit for hell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of one who packs.

(n.) Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.

(n.) A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious

(n.) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.

(n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

(n.) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

(n.) Same as Filling.

(n.) A trick; collusion.

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

(n.) The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

(n.) The material with which anything is padded.

(n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

(n.) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

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

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

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

(a.) That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

(a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.

(n.) The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

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

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

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

(n.) The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

(n.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) An abuttal; a boundary.

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

(n.) The act or process of forming a seam or joint.

(n.) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.

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

(n.) The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.

(n.) Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.

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

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

(a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2.

(n.) A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.

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

(n.) Cockfighting.

(a.) Lustful.

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

(n.) An apple fit to stew or coddle.

(n.) An immature apple.

(n.) A young cod; also, a hake.

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) An embrace; dalliance.

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

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

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

(v. t.) To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying.

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

(v. t. & i.) The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

(a.) Hiding; skulking; cowardly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

() a. & n. from Smoke.

(n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.

(n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

(n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

(n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

(n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

(n.) The act or process of immersing.

(n.) The act of inclining downward.

(n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

(n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

(n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.

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

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

(a.) Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

(a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.

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

(n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

(n.) Tendency; drift.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.

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

() a. & n. from Rub, v.

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

(n.) A ruche, or ruches collectively.

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

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

(a.) Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

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

(n.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

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

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

(n.) The business of making or managing rafts.

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

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

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

(a.) Expressing reproach; insulting.

(n.) A barrier made of a rail or of rails.

(n.) Rails in general; also, material for making rails.

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

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

(n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.

(n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.

(n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

(v. t.) A building.

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

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

(n.) The business of a bank or of a banker.

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

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

(n.) The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

(n.) A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

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

(a. & n.) Caressing; kissing.

(n.) Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.

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

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

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

(a.) That binds; obligatory.

(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

(n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

(pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

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

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

(n.) Birdcatching or fowling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Opinion.

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

(n.) An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam.

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

() a. & n. from Quake, v.

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

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

(n.) The arched part of a structure.

(n.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.

(a.) Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

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

(a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

(n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.

(n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

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

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

(n.) Molding in imitation of beads.

(n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.

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

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

(a.) Emitting beams; radiant.

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

(a.) Continuing; lasting.

(n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.

(n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.

(n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.

(n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

(n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.

(n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.

(n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.

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

(n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

(n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

(n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.

(n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.

(n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.

(n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.

(n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

(n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

(n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.

(n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

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

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

(n.) A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

(n.) The state or position of beds and layers.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

(n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

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

(n.) The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

(n.) That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.

(n.) Support or aid given to a person or cause.

(n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.

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

(n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

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

(n.) A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.

(n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

(n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

(n.) Cloth or other material for bags.

(n.) The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.

(n.) The act of swelling; swelling.

(n.) Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.

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

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

(n.) The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

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

(v. t.) A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

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

(n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

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

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

(n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside.

(n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal.

(n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.

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

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

(n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.

(n.) A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.

(n.) The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called milling.

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

(n.) The process of taking in a reef.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

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

() a. & n. from Rest, v. t. & i.

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

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

(n.) A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.

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

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

(a.) Moving or advancing by running.

(a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.

(a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.

(a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.

(a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.

(a.) Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.

(a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.

(a.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.

(n.) The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.

(n.) That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.

(n.) The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.

(n.) A place where flax is retted; a rettery.

(n.) The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.

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

() of Sabre

(n.) The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

(n.) A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.

(n.) A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.

(n.) A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.

(n.) One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.

(n.) The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.

(n.) Title; appellation; name.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

(n.) Lodging in a camp.

(n.) A game of football.

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

() a. & n. from Sacre.

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

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

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

(n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The spiny dogfish.

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

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

(a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.

(a.) Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.

(n.) The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns.

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

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

(n.) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

(n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.

(n.) A kicking, as with a booted foot.

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

(n.) Alt. of Bordraging

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

(a.) Huge; great in size.

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

(n.) A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

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

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

(n.) The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

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

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

(a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

(n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

(n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

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

(n.) Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.

(n.) The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

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

(n.) A bravado; a boast.

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

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

(n.) The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

(n.) A kind of basket work used in gabions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

(n.) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.

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

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

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

(n.) DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.

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

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

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

(v. t.) The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face.

(v. t.) Small coal produced in making the nicking.

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

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

(n.) The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.

(n.) A system of props; props, collectively.

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

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

(n.) Appearance; display; exhibition.

(n.) Presentation of facts; statement.

(n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

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

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

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

(a.) Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.

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

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

(n.) A little cat; a kitten.

(n.) Catgut; a catgut string.

(n.) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.

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

(p. pr. & v. n.) of Cause

(a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.

(a.) Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.

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

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

(v. t.) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

(v. t.) The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

(v. t.) The inner planking of a vessel.

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

(v. t.) To surpass in singing.

(v. t.) To excel in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Browsing.

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

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

(n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.

(n.) A washing.

(n.) The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

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

(n.) The act or process of producing buds.

(n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

(n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

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

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

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

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

(n.) of Bum

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

(v. t.) The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing.

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

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

(n.) A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).

(n.) Alt. of Buntine

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

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

(a.) Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache.

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

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

() a. & n. from Sing, v.

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

(n.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.

(n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.

() a. & n. from Sink.

(n.) A rest at noon; a repast at noon.

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

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

(n.) The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.

(n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.

(n.) Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.

(n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.

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

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

(n.) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.

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

(n.) The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.

(n.) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary.

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

(n.) The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(n.) Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.

(n.) Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.

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

(n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.

(n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

(n.) That which holds, binds, or influences.

(n.) The burden or chorus of a song.

(imp. & p. p. Adored ) /); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Work performed with a tool.

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

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

(n.) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.

(n.) See Graylag.

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

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

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

(n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.

(n.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

(n.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).

(n.) Sexual intercourse.

(n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

(n.) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.

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

() a. & n. from Soar.

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

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

(a.) That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.

(a.) Given to talk; loquacious.

(n.) A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.

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

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

(n.) The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.

(n.) The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.

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

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

(n.) One tanned by the sun.

(n.) The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

(n.) The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.

(n.) A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.

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

(a.) Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters.

(a.) Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental.

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

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

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

(adv.) Before the /apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long.

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

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

(n.) The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

(n.) The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.

(n.) A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

(n.) The body substance of an angler's fly.

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

() n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.

(n.) The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

(n.) The operation of fastening together or lashing.

(n.) The cord or lashing used for such fastening.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Crannoge

(a.) Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.

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

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

(n.) A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.

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

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

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

(n.) Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

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

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

(a.) Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone.

(n.) The use of cant; hypocrisy.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1.

(v. i.) The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.

() a & n. from Ring, v.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A foreboding.

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

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

(p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Roar

(n.) A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.

(n.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

(n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

(n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.

(n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

(n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.

(n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

(a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

(a.) Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.

(a.) Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.

(a.) Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land.

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

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

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

(a.) Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.

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

(n.) The act of covering with a roof.

(n.) The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof.

(n.) Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter.

(n.) The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.

(a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.

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

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

(v. t.) Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

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

(a.) Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.

(n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.

(n.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.

(n.) The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

(n.) A salt marsh.

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

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

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

(a.) The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.

(v. t.) A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.

(imp. & p. p. & vb. n) of Clew

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

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

(a.) Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares.

(n.) A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.

(n.) A young tree.

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

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

(a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.

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

(n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.

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

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

(a.) Making a harsh noise; blaring.

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

(n.) The act or art of one who carves.

(n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.

(n.) The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.

(n.) The quantity brewed at once.

(n.) A mixing together.

(n.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

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

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

(n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.

(n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.

(n.) That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.

(n.) The warping of a board.

(n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc.

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

(n. & v.) Catalogue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

() a. & n. from Serve.

(n.) One dearly beloved; a favorite.

(a.) Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Bold; spirited; showy.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.

(n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.

(n.) Something set in, or inserted.

(n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.

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

(n.) The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.

(n.) A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

(n.) In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing.

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

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

(n.) The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.

(n.) A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.

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

(n.) Decalogue.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who culls.

(n.) Anything separated or selected from a mass.

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

(a.) Knowing; skillful; dexterous.

(a.) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.

(a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.

(a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.

(a.) Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.

(a.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.

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

(n.) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t.

(v. t.) A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching.

(v. t.) An impression on paper, parchment, or other material, taken in ink from an etched plate.

(n.) A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.

(n.) The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.

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

(n.) A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Same as Atheling.

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

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

(n.) the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.

(n.) That which is eaten; food.

(n.) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.

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

(a.) Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

(a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

(n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.

(n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.

(n.) The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.

(n.) Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.

(n.) That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

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

(n.) The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.

(n.) Contract work.

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

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

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

(n.) The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.

(n.) The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.

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

(imp. & p. p. Fenced ) /); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence

(n.) The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.

(v. i.) Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.

(v. i.) The materials used for building fences.

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

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

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

(a.) Prolific; productive.

(v. i.) The act of building a fence.

(v. i.) The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

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

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

(a.) Rising above; surpassing.

(a.) Hence, assuming superiority; proud.

(a.) Fine; gallant.

(n.) The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.

(n.) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.

(n.) That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

(n.) A gathering of hops.

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

(n.) The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

(n.) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.

(n.) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

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

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

(n.) Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.

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

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

(n.) An encounter; a battle.

(n.) A muster or review.

(n.) The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

(n.) A regular path or track; a course.

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

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

(v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.

(v. t. & i.) Materials for mats.

(v. t. & i.) An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.

(n.) A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.

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

(n.) The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.

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

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

(a.) Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.

(a.) Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician.

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

(n.) The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog.

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

(n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

(n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.

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

(n.) That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.

(n.) That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.

(n.) Sense; power of thinking.

(n.) A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.

(a.) Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.

(n.) A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.

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

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

(a.) Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.

(n.) Yelping.

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

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

(n.) One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.

(n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

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

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

(n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling.

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

(n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

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

() a. & n. from Vary.

() a. & n. from Warm, v.

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

(a.) Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.

(n.) Previous notice.

(n.) Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.

(n.) The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.

(n.) See 2d Lasher.

(n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

(n.) The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.

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

(a.) Shifting.

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

(a.) Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

(n.) Continuance; endurance.

(n.) A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.

(n.) The act or process of shaping on a last.

(adv.) In a lasting manner.

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

(n.) A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils.

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.

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

(a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

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

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

(n.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

(n.) An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.

(v. t.) To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings.

(v. t.) To disarm of a sting; to remove the sting of.

(n.) Crude zinc.

(n.) Packfong.

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

(a.) Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.

(a.) The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.

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

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

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

(a.) Flung or thrown up.

(n.) See Holing.

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

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

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

(a.) Shaking; disturbing; discordant.

(n.) A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines.

(n.) Discord; a clashing of interests.

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

(a.) Mocking; scoffing.

(n.) A mocking utterance.

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

(n.) A frieze or rough-napped cloth.

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

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

(a. & n.) from Fall, v. i.

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

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

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

(n.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

(n.) Boasting; insincere or empty talk.

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

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

(a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

(n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

(n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

(n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

(n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.

(n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.

(n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

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

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

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

(n.) The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.

(n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.

(n.) The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.

(n.) A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.

(n.) Slates, collectively; also, material for slating.

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

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

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

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

(a.) That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

(a.) Slippery; elusory.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The frame of a door.

(n.) The act or the place of excavating.

(n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.

(n.) Region; locality.

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

(a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.

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

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

(n.) A darling; a favorite.

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

(n.) See Niding.

(a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

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

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

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

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

(n.) Any sour apple.

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

(a.) Dish-shaped; concave.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Spare; saving; frugal; merciful.

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

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

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

(p. p. & vb. n.) of Spice

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

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

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

(n.) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

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

(n.) The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.

(n.) A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.

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

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

(n.) Act or process of making a shade.

(n.) That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The art of making edged tools or cutlery.

(n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

(n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.

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

(a.) Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

(a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

(a.) Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

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

(n.) The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.

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

(n.) Alt. of Cymbling

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.

(n.) That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.

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

(n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.

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

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

(n.) Demagogue.

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

(a.) That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

(n.) The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

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

(a.) Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.

(a.) Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.

(a.) Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.

(n.) Emission or reflection of light.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Shooting up in a spire or spires.

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

(n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

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

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

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

(n.) Stuffing; forcemeat.

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

(a.) Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.

(n.) The business of cultivating land.

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

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

(n.) Harness.

(n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.

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

(v. t.) A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.

(p. pr. a. & vb. n.) from Geld, v. t.

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

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

(n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.

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

(a.) Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

(a.) Investing in the public funds.

(n.) A shrinking back through fear.

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

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

(a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

(n.) The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) The strips thus laid on.

(v. t.) Double planking of a ship's side.

(v. t.) A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.

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

(v. i.) The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms.

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

(a. & n.) Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.

(n.) See Gad, n., 4.

(v. i.) Gadding about.

(n.) A roving vagabond.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating.

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

(n.) Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

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

(adv. & prep.) Lengthwise; along.

(n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.

(n.) The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.

(n.) A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.

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

(n.) A gosling.

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

(n.) The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

(n.) That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

(n.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) Beginning.

(n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

(n.) A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.

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

(n.) That with which one is girded; a girdle.

(p.a.) Alt. of Moulding

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

(n.) The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

() a. & n. from Wait, v.

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

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

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

() a. & n. from Walk, v.

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

(n.) The act of making a wall or walls.

(n.) Walls, in general; material for walls.

(a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.

(n.) A going or bringing on shore.

(n.) A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.

(n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

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

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

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

(n.) The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.

(n.) That which is worn; clothes; garments.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.

(n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle.

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

(n.) A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.

(a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.

(n.) The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance.

(n.) Suggestion; hint; example.

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

(n.) Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

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

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

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

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

() a. & n. from Weed, v.

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

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

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

(n.) That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.

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

(n.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

(n.) The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

(n.) The act of counterfeiting.

(n.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.

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

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

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

(n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.

(n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

(n.) A framework, or a sy/ of frames.

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

(n.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns.

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

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

(a.) Sportive; not serious; fit for jests.

(n.) The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry.

(n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.

(a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.

(a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.

(a.) Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

(a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.

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

(n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

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

(a. & n.) from Leap, to jump.

(n.) Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.

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

(a.) The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north.

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

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

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

(n.) The hunting of whales.

(a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.

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

(n.) The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

(n.) The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.

(n.) The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

(n.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

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

(a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

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

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

(n.) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.

(n.) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.

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

(n.) A diminutive god.

(n.) Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

(n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

(n.) A cipher; naught.

(adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

(n.) A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum).

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

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

(v. t.) Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready.

(v. t.) Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired.

(v. t.) Spontaneous; self-moved.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wilt

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

(n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

(n.) The reversal of what has been done.

(n.) Ruin.

(a.) Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.

(n.) The clothes ironed.

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

(a.) Affected with madness; raging; furious.

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

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

(n.) The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

(n.) A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

(n.) A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.

(n.) An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.

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

(n.) A farm.

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

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

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

(n.) The song of a minstrel; hence, any song.

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

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

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

() of Yodle

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

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

(n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.

(a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.

(n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.

(n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.

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

(n.) Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

(n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

(n.) Relative condition; state.

(n.) Tread; step; especially, measured tread.

(n.) The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

(n.) The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.

(n.) A narrow cotton lace, without figures.

(n.) The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.

(n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.

(n.) A petty fop.

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

(n.) The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.

(n.) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Hirling

(n.) The young of the sea trout.

(n.) One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.

(n.) Contempt; scorn.

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

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

(n.) A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe.

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

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

(n.) Same as Kilt.

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

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

(n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.

(a.) Low; sneaking; ashamed.

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

(n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

(n.) The woof in woven fabrics.

(n.) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

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

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

(n.) That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.

(n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

(n.) The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.

(a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.

(a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.

(a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.

(n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.

(n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.

(n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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

(n.) The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.

(n.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.

(n.) The snowy owl.

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

(n.) A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.

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

(a.) Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies.

(n.) See Furring.

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

(n.) A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.

(n.) The act, practice, or art of one who fishes.

(n.) A fishery.

(n.) Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) Anything used in fitting up

(n.) necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.

(a.) Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.

(n.) The business of making hats; also, stuff for hats.

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

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

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

() a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t.

(n.) A base, menial wretch.

(a.) Base; spiritless.

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

(n.) The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of one who tilts; a tilt.

(n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

(n.) The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.

(n.) The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.

(n.) The covering or lining of tin thus put on.

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

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

(n.) Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.

(a.) Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood.

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

(a.) Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address.

(n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.

(n.) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) A new opening.

(n.) The portion of a coal field out for working.

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

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

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

() of Zinc

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

(n.) The act or process of applying zinc; galvanization.

(n.) The delundung.

() a. & n. from Wish, v. t.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.

(n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.

(n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.

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

(n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

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

() a. & n. from pump.

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

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

(v. t.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

(v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.

(a.) Thieving.

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

(n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

(n.) Plunder, or extortion.

(n.) The act of voting, or of registering a vote.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.

(n.) The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.

(n.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.

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

(n.) The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits.

(n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

(n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.

(n.) Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.

(n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

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

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

(v. t.) Range of sight.

(v. t.) The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles.

(n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

(n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.

(n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.

(n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.

(n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.

(n.) Rough sorting of ore.

(n.) Overburned bricks.

(a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.

(a.) Nice; careful.

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

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

() a. & n. from Pop.

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

(n.) The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

(n.) A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.

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

(a.) Little; petty; pitiful.

(a.) Puny; sickly.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) The act of piercing or stabbing.

(n.) The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron.

(n.) The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

(n.) That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.

(n.) The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.

(n.) A niche for a statue.

(n.) A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.

(n.) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

(n.) A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.

(n.) A houseline. See Houseline.

(n.) A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

(n.) An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

(a.) Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

(a.) Frequented by traders.

(a.) Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

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

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

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

(a.) Alt. of Hulky

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

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

(n.) A hint; an intimation.

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

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

(n.) The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

(n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A young or unfledged goose.

(n.) A catkin on nut trees and pines.

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

(n.) The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.

(n.) That which is supped; broth.

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

(n.) The act or process of providing or covering with turf.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.

(n.) The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.

(n.) Deviation from the way or proper course.

(n.) Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.

(n.) The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.

(n.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.

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

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

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

(n.) The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.

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

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

(n.) A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.

(n.) A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating.

(n.) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats.

(a.) That grates; making a harsh sound; harsh.

(n.) A harsh sound caused by attrition.

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

(n.) The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.

(n.) The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio.

(n.) That which is graved or carved.

(n.) Impression, as upon the mind or heart.

(n.) A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

(n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.

(n.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.

(n.) Board; support.

(n.) Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.

(n.) The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, grazes.

(n.) A pasture; growing grass.

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

(a.) Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.

(n.) A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum.

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

(n.) The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hurl

(n.) The act of throwing with force.

(n.) A kind of game at ball, formerly played.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hurt

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hush

(n.) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Husk

(n.) The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

(n.) A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hutch

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hymn

(a.) Praising with hymns; singing.

(n.) The singing of hymns.

(a.) Not existing.

(v. i.) To cease from clinging or adhering.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nib

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kern

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pip

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Post

(n.) The act of traveling post.

(n.) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mock

(a.) Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pulp

(n.) A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

(n.) Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.

(n.) An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.

(n.) Any food or victuals.

(n.) Same as Puddening.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puff

() a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pug

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pull

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prune

(n.) The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.

(n.) That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prate

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pray

() a. & n. from Pray, v.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prove

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pour

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pout

(n.) Childish sullenness.

(n.) Tippling.

(n.) The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.

(n.) The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining.

(v. t.) To surpass in bragging; hence, to make appear inferior.

(n.) Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prose

(n.) The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Miss

(v. i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

(a.) To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.

(a.) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.

(a.) To put off to a distant time; to postpone.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kick

(n.) A young kid.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kill

(a.) Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kid

(n.) Inherence; inherent existence.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pot

(n.) The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mat

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mass

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mast

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mash

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mask

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lust

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lurk

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lunge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mark

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marl

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mar

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lump

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Map

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Luff

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lug

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lull

(a.) Bulky; heavy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mess

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lot

(n.) A little man.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mesh

(n.) A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lord

(n.) The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.

(n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.

(n.) The European whiting.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loot

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lop

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Man

(n.) The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loop.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loose

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Look

(a.) Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.

(n.) The act of one who looks; a glance.

(n.) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loom

(n.) The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loop

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Long

(n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malt

(n.) The process of making, or of becoming malt.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limn

(n.) The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limp

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mall

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loll

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jet

(n.) The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Log

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pen

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lodge

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

(n.) A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.

(n.) Abiding place; harbor; cover.

(a.) Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit.

(prep.) During; as, pending the trail.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pair

(v. i.) The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

(v. i.) See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pen

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peg

(a.) Mean; paltry.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pend

(n.) Alt. of Moulding

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Head

(n.) The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.

(n.) That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.

(n.) Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.

(n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

(n.) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.

(n.) That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heal

(a.) Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heap

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hear

(n.) The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.

(n.) Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.

(n.) A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues.

(n.) Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flake

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flame

(a.) Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.

(a.) Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.

(a.) Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flare

(a.) That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.

(a.) Opening or speading outwards.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heat

(a.) That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heave

(n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flaw

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flay

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hedge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flee

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thole

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flex

(n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nudge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Numb

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurl

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurse

(a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nut

(p. pr. & vb. n) of Near

(n.) The act of gathering nuts.

(n.) A young oak.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obey

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neck

(n.) Same as Neckmold.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Need

(n.) Alt. of Leggin

() a. & vb. n., from Leg, v. t.

(n.) Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lend

(n.) The act of one who lends.

(n.) That which is lent or furnished.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of While

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whine

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of White

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Visa

(n.) A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.

(n.) A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake.

(n.) Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf whiting.

(n.) Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whore

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vise

(n.) the material of which wicks are made; esp., a loosely braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Let

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Link

(n.) Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Levy

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lip

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Voice

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Void

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, v/ids.

(n.) That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment.

(a.) Receiving what is ejected or voided.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lisp

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of List

(n.) The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.

(n.) The selvedge of cloth; list.

(n.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.

(n.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lick

(n.) A lapping with the tongue.

(n.) A flogging or castigation.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Load

(n.) The act of putting a load on or into.

(n.) A load; cargo; burden.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loaf

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loam

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loan

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wad

(n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.

(n.) Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waft

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wag

(n.) An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lob

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lift

(a.) Used in, or for, or by, lifting.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lock

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paste

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pat

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pause

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pawn

(vb. n.) Waving.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oust

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peak

(a.) Mean; sneaking.

(a.) Pining; sickly; peakish.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peal

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peck

(n.) Pedagogue.

(n.) The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

(n.) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moan

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mob

(n.) See Tithing.

(a.) Shining; brilliant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lam

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lamb

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ladle

(n.) Same as Ladybird.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lag

(n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.

(n.) Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lack

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kithe

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Know

(a.) Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.

(a.) Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.

(n.) Knowledge; hence, experience.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Play

() a. & vb. n. of Play.

(n.) A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.

(v. t.) To dress with a periwig, or with false hair.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perk

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Park

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wont

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wood

(n.) Mortling.

(a.) Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Word

(n.) The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Milk

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Work

(n.) A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mill

() a & n. from Work.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Worm

(n.) The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moss

(a.) That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mind

(n.) Regard; mindfulness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jug

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mouse

(a.) Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.

(n.) The act of hunting mice.

(n.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.

(n.) A ratchet movement in a loom.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mint

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jump

(p. a. & vb. n.) of Jump, to leap.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Write

(n.) The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.

(n.) Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters

(n.) Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.

(n.) Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.

(n.) An inscription.

(n.) Handwriting; chirography.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yank

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muff

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mull

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mist

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mumm

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mump

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nerve

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Net

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Net

() of Mitre

(n.) Same as Mullion; -- especially used in joiner's work.

(n.) The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.

(n.) A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.

(n.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.

(n.) Urine.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Place

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pit

(n.) The act or process of fastening with pegs.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pack

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plough

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parse

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Part

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plume

(v.) Serving to part; dividing; separating.

(v.) Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.

(v.) Departing.

(v.) Admitting of being parted; partible.

(n.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

(n.) A separation; a leave-taking.

(n.) A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.

(n.) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.

(n.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

(n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

(n.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

(n.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pass

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pet

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pod

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.

(a.) Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.

(a.) Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.

(adv.) Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.

(n.) A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jut

(a.) Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keck

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kedge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keel

(n.) A cod.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keep

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poise

(n.) The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pity

(a.) Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pan

(n.) A young kitten; a whelp.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knife

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of King

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kiss

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kilt

(n.) A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kink

(n.) A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head.

(n.) The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purge

(a.) That purges; cleansing.

(n.) The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pall

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pur

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pique

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palm