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

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

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

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

(adv.) At full length; lengthwise.

(a.) Somewhat cool.

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

(n.) A small fruit; a currant.

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

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

(a.) Somewhat soft.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To gain nourishment.

(n.) A nurse.

(n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

(n.) The burbot of Lake Erie.

(a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.

(a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.

(a.) Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

(v. t. & v. i.) To scranch; to crunch.

(a.) To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.

(v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

(n.) The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.

(n.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.

(v. t.) To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.

(v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.

(n.) A kind of fish. Same as Cod.

(a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

(a.) Alt. of Dimmy

(n.) Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.

(a.) Twelfth.

(n.) Anything consisting of two leaves.

(n.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

(n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

(n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

(a.) Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.

(a.) Like a drone; indolent; slow.

(a.) Consisting of songs.

(a.) Sooty.

(n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

(a.) Somewhat red; moderately red.

(n.) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b).

(n.) The rosefish.

(n.) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.

(n.) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.

(a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.

(a.) Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.

(n.) Same as Calico bass.

(n.) One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507¡ Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

(n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

(n.) See Camass.

(a.) Somewhat like alum.

(n.) See Amianthus.

(v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

(v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.

(n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.

(a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.

(n.) Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.

(n.) The quadrant of an azimuth circle.

(n.) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

(a.) Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.

(a.) Swinish; brutal; cruel.

(a.) Hearty; in good spirits.

(a.) Somewhat bad; inferior.

(prep.) Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.

(prep.) Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.

(prep.) Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.

(adv.) In a lower place; underneath.

(adv.) Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.

(v. t.) To pinch, or mark with pinches.

(a.) Uneven; ridgy.

(n.) A kind of neckcloth.

(n.) The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

(a.) Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.

(n.) A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold.

(v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

(v. t.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.

(n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

(a.) Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.

(n. pl.) Armies; hosts.

(n. pl.) Incorrectly, the Sabbath.

(n.) A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.

(n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.

(n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.

(a.) Like a calf; stupid.

() Alt. of Staunchness

(v. t.) To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

(n.) Solicitation; supplication.

(a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

(a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

(a.) Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.

(n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

(n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

(n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

(n.) The pledge or surety thus given.

(v. t.) To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

(v. t.) To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

(v. t.) To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.

(v. t.) To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

(v. t.) To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.

(n.) The trunkfish.

(a.) To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

(a.) To make as if new; to repair; to restore.

(n.) The act of refreshing.

(a.) Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine.

(n.) Rhine wine.

(a.) Like a rig or wanton.

(n.) Same as Rat-tail.

(v. t.) To discharge.

(a.) Showy; ostentatious.

(n.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

(n.) Alt. of Distichous

(a.) Somewhat sick or diseased.

(a.) Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

(n.) Alt. of Dervis

(n.) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

(a.) Catlike; feline

(a.) Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.

(n. pl.) People of Great Britain.

(v. i.) To rush out; to issue, or ru/ out, forcibly.

(n.) Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

(a.) Dandified; foppish.

(v. t.) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

(v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.

(v. t.) To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.

(v. t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.

(v. t.) To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

(v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

(v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.

(n.) A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.

(n.) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.

(n.) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.

(n.) A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.

(n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.

(a.) Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.

(n.) The menhaden.

(v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

(n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.

(n.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

(n.) A screech.

(n.) See Nonesuch.

(a.) Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.

(a.) Like a toad.

(v. t.) To bury in, or cast into, a ditch.

(v. t.) To inter.

(a.) In the ton; fashionable; modish.

(n.) The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.

(n.) The state or quality of being green; verdure.

(n.) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

(n.) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.

(n.) The opah.

(n.) The basking, or liver, shark.

(n.) Any large jellyfish.

(v. t.) To heal.

(a.) To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color.

(v. i.) To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.

(n.) The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.

(n.) A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.

(a.) Somewhat tart.

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

(n.) The language of Swedes.

(a.) Foolish; stupid.

(v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

(v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.

(v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.

(v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.

(v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.

(v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.

(v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.

(v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.

(v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.

(v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.

(v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.

(n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.

(n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.

(n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.

(n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.

(n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.

(n.) An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.

(n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

(v. t.) To commemorate by an epitaph.

(v. i.) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

(n.) A spot; a stain; a daub.

(a.) Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.

(a.) Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.

(a.) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

(n.) See Cowhage.

(n.) Alt. of Acalephan

(v. t. & i.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.

(v. t.) To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

(v. t.) To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.

(a.) Vagrant.

(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.

(a.) Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.

(a.) See Roynish.

(v. t.) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

(adv.) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.

(adv.) Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.

(a.) Given to rude play; inclined to romp.

(n.) The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

(a.) Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.

(n.) A lady; mistress.

(n. & v. t.) Same as Capoch.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

(a.) Somewhat salt.

(n.) Alt. of Absinthe

(a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

(n.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

(a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky.

(a.) Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

(a.) Somewhat like a dunce.

(n.) Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

(a.) Inclined to a dun color.

(a.) Somewhat dank.

(a.) Somewhat dark; dusky.

(a.) Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.

(n.) To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.

(n.) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

(n.) An act or occasion of debauchery.

(v. i.) To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

(n.) A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.

(a.) Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

(a.) Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.

(n.) One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

(n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.

(v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

(n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.

(n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

(a.) Somewhat dusky.

(n.) Ostrich.

(n.) The down of the ostrich.

(a.) Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.

(a.) Abounding in fens; fenny.

(n.) The saibling.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.

(a.) Somewhat like horn; hard.

(v. t.) To incarnate.

(a.) Resembling, or suitable for, a jig, or lively movement.

(a.) Playful; frisky.

(n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

(a.) Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

(a.) Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.

(a.) Nauseous.

(n.) A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.

(a.) Somewhat wild; rather wild.

(a.) Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.

(n.) The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.

(n.) A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.

(n.) That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.

(n.) An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.

(n.) To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.

(n.) To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.

(a.) Somewhat large.

(n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

(a.) Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

(a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

(v. t.) To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.

(v. t.) To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.

(v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

(v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

(v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

(v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.

(n.) Hindrance; impeachment.

(v. t.) To take out the teeth of.

(n.) The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

(n.) That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty.

(v. t.) To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft.

(n.) The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

(n.) A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral.

(a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

(a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

(n.) The next in order after the eleventh.

(n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

(a.) Unworthy.

(n.) Unworthiness.

(n.) See Hyacinth.

(n.) A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.

(n.) Same as Acolyte.

(n.) A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.

(n.) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.

(v. t.) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

(v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

(v. t.) To furnish; to supply.

(v. t.) To fit with fetters.

(v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.

(n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

(n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.

(v. t.) Fetters.

(v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

(v. t.) To clothe with flesh.

(a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

(a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.

(n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.

(n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.

(n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

(n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.

(v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.

(v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

(n.) The grampus.

(n.) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).

(n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.

(a.) Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal.

(a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.

(n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

(n.) Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

(a.) Gaudy.

(v. t.) The act of stealing; theft.

(v. t.) The thing stolen; stolen property.

(v. t.) The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.

(a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

(a.) Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

(a.) Suiting a stew, or brothel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.

(n.) The language of Spain.

(n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

(n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.

(n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

(n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

(n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.

(v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

(v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.

(v. i.) To be angry.

(a.) Stony.

(n.) Alt. of Spinage

(a.) Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the czar.

(n.) The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.

(n.) March; walk; gait.

(n.) A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

(a.) Moderately damp or moist.

(n.) Alt. of Shittah tree

(n.) A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.

(n.) One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.

(n.) A patron deity or presiding genius.

(n.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

(a.) Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.

(a.) Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.

(a.) Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.

(a.) Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.

(a.) Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.

(a.) Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch.

(prep.) According to; conformably to.

(v. t.) To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.

(v. t.) To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.

(v. t.) To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.

(n.) That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.

(a.) Disposed to gad.

(n.) The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

(n.) A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

(n.) See Eyewater.

(v. t.) To carry in a coach.

(a.) Tolerably fair.

(a.) Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.

(a.) Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick.

(n.) A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.

(a.) Somewhat weak; rather weak.

(a.) Weak; withered; shrunk.

(a.) Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.

(n.) A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.

(v. i.) To vanish.

(a.) Alt. of Everych

(n.) The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

(n.) The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

(a.) See Wearish.

(a.) Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.

(a.) Alt. of Wenny

(a.) Somewhat wet; moist; humid.

(a.) Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.

(n.) A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.

(a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

(n.) Same as Trilithon.

(n.) Gloom.

(n.) A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

(n.) Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.

(n.) A state of joy or exultation for success.

(n.) Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.

(n.) A trump card; also, an old game at cards.

(n.) To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.

(n.) To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.

(n.) To be prosperous; to flourish.

(n.) To play a trump card.

(v. t.) To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph.

(a.) Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.

(a.) Affected with hypochondria; hypped.

(v. t.) To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret.

(n.) Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief.

(v. t.) To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton.

(a.) Idolatrous.

(v. t.) To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

(v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.

(a.) Resembling iron, as in taste.

(v. i.) To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.

(v. t.) To recall, as former laughter.

(v. t.) To free from a leash, or as from a leash; to let go; to release; as, to unleash dogs.

(a.) Somewhat mad.

(n.) A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.

(a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

(n.) A marine fish; the sea bream.

(n.) A young bib. See Bib, n., 2.

(n.) Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.

(prep.) From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.

(prep.) Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue.

(prep.) By means of; by the agency of.

(prep.) Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account.

(prep.) Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.

(prep.) From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.

(adv.) From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.

(adv.) From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.

(adv.) To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.

(a.) Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge.

(a.) Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

(a.) Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

(n.) A finback whale.

(n.) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.

(n.) A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.

(a.) Somewhat hard.

(a.) Captious; testy.

(n.) A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.

(a.) Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.

(n.) Youth.

(n.) A Turkish policeman.

(n.) Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.

(a.) Moody.

(a.) Like the moon; variable.

(a.) Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.

(a.) Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.

(a.) Wolfish.

(n.) A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts.

(n.) Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.

(n.) A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.

(a.) Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.

(n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).

(n.) The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

(a.) Somewhat pink.

(a.) Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

(n.) A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish.

(n.) One of the sect of Sunnites.

(n.) The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.

(a.) Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

(a.) Like a goose; foolish.

(n.) See Turpeth.

(n.) See Turpeth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks.

(n.) The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey.

(a.) Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.

(a.) Somewhat gray.

(adv.) In sooth; truly.

(v. t.) To detach or loose from a coach.

(a.) Unknown.

(a.) Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.

(a.) Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners.

(n.) An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.

(a.) Mock; counterfeit; sham.

(a.) Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.

(v. t.) To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.

(v. t.) To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.

(v. t.) To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.

(v. t.) To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper.

(a.) Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.

(n.) The European loach.

(n.) The bowfin.

(n.) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.

(n.) The mud minnow.

(n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

(n.) The hawthorn.

(a.) Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.

(n.) The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.

(a.) Clownish; rude; awkward.

(a.) Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.

(a.) Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.

(a.) Fond of men; -- said of a woman.

(a.) Somewhat loose.

(n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.

(a.) Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

(a.) Somewhat long; moderately long.

(n.) A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (P. tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities.

(a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

(a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

(a.) Silly; childish; trifling.

(a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.

(n.) The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.

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

(n.) The commander of a fleet.

(n.) The ribbon fish.

(a.) Somewhat like whey; wheyey.

(a.) Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.

(a.) Covered with an opaque white powder.

(a.) Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Letts.

(n.) The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.

(a.) Like a lob; consisting of lobs.

(n.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

(n.) Alt. of Otolite

(a.) Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.

(a.) Having peaks; peaked.

(a.) Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly.

(a.) Inclined to eat; hungry.

(n.) A pouring out; an outburst.

(v. i.) To gush out; to flow forth.

(a.) Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.

(n.) A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.

(n.) A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish.

(n.) The black grouper of Florida and Texas.

(n.) A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurds.

(v. t.) To replenish.

(v. t.) To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm.

(n.) A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

(a.) Respecting words; full of words; wordy.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

(a.) Stupid; awkward.

(a.) See Muggy.

(a.) Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.

(a.) Sullen, sulky.

(a.) Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

(n.) A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.

(n.) See Faro.

(a.) Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.

(a.) Mischievous; roguish; waggish.

(v.) To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.

(n.) A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus).

(n.) The pigfish or sailor's choice.

(n.) An American fresh-water fish; the log perch.

(n.) A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).

(n.) Swill.