(n.) The European kite.

(n.) The buzzard.

(n.) The marsh harrier.

(n.) See Futtock.

(n.) The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

(n.) The frontier of a country; confines.

(n.) One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

(n.) A toad or frog.

(n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting.

(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.

(n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.

(n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.

(v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.

(n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

(n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

(n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

(a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

(n.) A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

(n.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

(n.) A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

(n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

(n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

(n.) A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

(v. t.) To disembark.

(v. t.) To strip of bark; to bark.

(n.) The dunlin.

(n.) A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.

(n.) The European water rail.

(n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.

(n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

(n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.

(v. t.) To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.

(v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks.

(n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.

(n.) Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

(n.) A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

(n.) The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

(n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.

(n.) A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

(n.) Alt. of Berserker

(n.) The European robin.

(n.) A piece of gold money; -- probably because the gold of coins was often reddened by copper alloy. Called also red ruddock, and golden ruddock.

(n.) A secluded or private walk.

(v. t.) To speak or utter again.

(v. t.) To answer; to echo.

(n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.

(v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

(v. t.) To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.

(v. t.) To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.

(v. t.) To speak to; to address.

(v. i.) To speak.

(n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)

(imp. & p. p.) of Bestick

(v. t.) To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.

() imp. & p. p. Bestick.

(v. t.) To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought.

(v. i.) To think; to recollect; to consider.

(n.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

(v. t.) To wreck.

(n.) A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

(v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.

(v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.

(v. i.) To make a thorough search.

(n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.

(v. t.) To degrade from rank.

(v. t.) To throw out of rank or into confusion.

(n.) A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building.

(n.) A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

(n.) The pollock, or coalfish.

(n.) A sawhorse.

(v. t.) To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down.

(v. t.) To excel in walking; to leave behind in walking.

(v. t.) To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

(n.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.

(n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.

(n.) An ox, steer, or stag.

(v. t.) To bully.

(n.) Alt. of Chabuk

(n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

(n.) That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.

(n.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.

(v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

(n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

(n.) Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

(n.) A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock.

(n.) An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.

(n.) Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.

(n.) A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

(n.) The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.

(n.) The common guillemot.

(n.) The common tern.

(n.) The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.

(n.) A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

(n.) See Cowpox.

(v. t.) To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.

(n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.

(n.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.

(n.) A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.

(n.) See Carack.

(n.) A carack. See Carack.

(n.) A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

(n.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.

(a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.

(n.) A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.

(n.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).

(n.) Offset, n., 4.

(n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.

(n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

(n.) A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie.

(n.) Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or Hungarian courts.

(n.) A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

(n.) An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.

(n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.

(n.) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.

(n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.

(n.) Work in which one part laps over another.

(n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

(n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

(n.) A mark to guide in traveling.

(n.) Same as Laverock.

(v. t.) To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay.

(v. t.) To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack.

(v. t.) To release, as one thing stuck to another.

(v. t.) To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast.

(v. t.) To remove from the stocks, as a ship.

(n.) No thanks; ill will; misfortune.

(v. t.) To recall or take back, as something thought.

(n.) A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

(n.) Same as Tussock grass, below.

(n.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia.

(n.) See Tussock.

(v. i.) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

(n.) A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.

(v. t.) To pull or pluck up.

(n.) A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

(a.) Affected with seasickness.

(n.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.

(n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.

(n.) Alt. of Dornock

(n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.

(n.) See Suslik.

(n.) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

(n.) The rotten body of a tree.

(v. t.) To unlink; to disunite; to separate.

(v. t.) To divest of a mask.

(v. t.) To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.

(v. t.) To set at large; to release from inclosure.

(n.) A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.

(n.) The menhaden.

(n.) A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.

(n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.

(n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.

(n.) A wink; a token.

(n.) One of the Mollusca.

(v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.

(v. i.) A wife; a married woman.

(v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

(n.) A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

(n.) A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

(n.) A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.

(v. t.) To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

(n.) An instrument for removing wax from the ear.

(imp.) of Forsake

(n.) A garfish.

(a.) Subfuscous.

(n.) The common guillemot.

(n.) The puffin.

(n.) A species of gull or tern.

(v. t.) To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.

(v. t.) To inclose as in a trunk; to incase.

(a.) Not quick.

(n.) See Jacksnipe.

(n.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

(n.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.

(n.) The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.

(n.) Alt. of Inbreaking

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(n.) The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.

(n.) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

(n.) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.

(n.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

(n.) See Hordock.

(n.) Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.

(n.) A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.

(n.) A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use.

(n.) A hatstand; hattree.

(v. t.) A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon.

(n.) A small hill.

(n.) An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.

(n.) See Hogframe.

(n.) A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(n.) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.

(n.) The American pollock; the coalfish.

(n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

(n.) Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.

(n.) The hedge sparrow.

(n.) The tomtit.

(n.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse.

(n.) Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novae-Hollandiae) is pure white.

(n.) A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.

(n.) A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

(n.) A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.

(n.) Timbered land. See Hammock.

(v. t.) To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.

(v. i.) To remove, or take off, one's cloak.

(n.) A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

(n.) A small inclosure.

(n.) An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.

(n.) A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing.

(n.) Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.

(n.) The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.

(n.) A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.

(n.) A shapeless piece; a fragment.

(v. t.) To tear to pieces.

(n.) The pileated woodpecker.

(n.) A kind of doublet; a jacket.

(n.) Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

(n.) A conical pile or hear of hay in the field.

(n.) A fork for pitching and tedding hay.

(n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

(n.) A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

(n.) The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.

(n.) An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

(n.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2.

(v. t.) To mark or designate with an obelisk.

(n.) A tree; the mastic. See Mastic.

(n.) Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.

(n.) A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.

(n.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.

(n.) In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.

(v. t.) To face down; to outstare.

(v. t.) To inspect throughly; to select.

(n.) The act of looking out; watch.

(n.) One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower.

(n.) The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance.

(v. t.) To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.

(n.) A rack for pens not in use.

(n.) Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

(n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

(n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.

(n.) Ill luck; misfortune.

(v. t.) To mark wrongly.

(n.) Rubbish; refuse; dirt.

(imp. & obs. p. p.) of Mistake

() imp. & obs. p. p. of Mistake.

(n.) A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.

(n.) Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

(n.) A croft, or small field; a paddock.

(imp.) of Partake

() imp. of Partake.

(n.) See Calmucks.

(n.) A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin.

(n.) A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.

(n.) A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.

(n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.

(v. t.) To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).