(a.) Of or pertaining to a chord.

(n.) A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor.

(a.) Not according to rule; abnormal.

(n.) The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.

(n.) The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

(n.) The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival.

(n.) An approach.

(n.) A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

(a.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

(a.) Apogean.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

(n.) The act of pursuit.

(n.) Alt. of Apostille

(n.) External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.

(n.) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

(n.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

(v. t.) To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.

(v. t.) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

(v. t.) To dress or clothe; to attire.

(v. t.) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

(n.) An impalpable powder.

(n.) The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

(n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

(n.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

(n.) A hypothetical radical, C5H4N, regarded as the essential residue of pyridine, and analogous to phenyl.

(n.) Peril.

(a.) Relating to comedy.

(a.) Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.

(a.) Proceeding from the heart.

(a.) Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.

(a.) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.

(n.) Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.

(n.) Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.

(n.) Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.

(a.) Pertaining to the cornea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).

(a.) Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.

(n.) A crown; wreath; garland.

(n.) The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.

(n.) A colonel.

(n.) The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.

(n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.

(a.) See Panic, a.

(n.) An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

(n.) Opposition.

(a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.

(a.) Pertaining to a heap.

(n.) A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.

(a.) Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.

(a.) Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

(a.) Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.

(n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

(n.) The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.

(n.) A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.

(a.) Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.

(a.) Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

(a.) Consisting of pages.

(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.

(n.) The quantity that a pail will hold.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.

(a.) Belonging to a burgh.

(n.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

(n.) A fruitful field.

(a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.

(n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

(n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.

(n.) A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.

(n.) The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed.

(a.) Relating to a codex, or a code.

(n.) A clause added to a will.

(a.) Being on an equality in rank or power.

(n.) One who is on an equality with another.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.

(n.) A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.

(n.) Chloral hydrate.

(n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

(n.) One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

(n.) Perception; insight; acuteness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ovary.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(v. i.) To issue forth.

(n.) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

(n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.

(n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

(n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

(n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

(a.) Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet.

(a.) Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.

(mexcal.) See Mescal.

(a.) Containing miasma; miasmatic.

(a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.

(n.) A large, clumsy horse.

(n.) A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.

(n.) A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries.

(a.) Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.

(n.) A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.

(n.) See Stannel.

(n.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.

(a.) Disposed to sing; full of song.

(n.) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet.

(n.) The common European linnet.

(n.) The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).

(n.) The red-tailed hawk.

(n.) The European redstart.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.

(a.) Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.

(a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.

(a.) Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.

(a.) Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.

(n.) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.

(n.) A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.

(n.) One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative.

(n.) A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.

(n.) Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.

(n.) A radical quantity. See under Radical, a.

(a.) A radical vessel. See under Radical, a.

(n.) A small branch of a root; a rootlet.

(a.) Full of rage; expressing rage.

(a.) Alt. of Anconeal

(n.) See Atabal.

(n.) Having two feet; biped.

(n.) Pertaining to a biped.

(a.) Attic.

(a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed.

(a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

(a.) Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.

(a.) Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.

(n.) Abetment.

(a.) Exciting contention; contentious.

(n.) The true gazelle.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous compound obtained by heating together pyruvic acid and urea.

(n.) A square piece of turf or peat.

(n.) A square brick, tile, or the like.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.

(a.) Apterous.

(a.) Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.

(n.) A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

(n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

(n.) Any small square or quadrangular member

(n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.

(n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.

(n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.

(n.) A glazier's diamond.

(n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.

(n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.

(n.) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.

(n.) Earnest desire or longing.

(v. i.) To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.

(v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.

(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.

(v. t.) To quarrel with.

(v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

(n.) One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

(a.) Alt. of Abaxile

(n.) An obsolete form of admiral.

(n.) A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl.

(n.) A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental.

(n.) A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.

(n.) Return; requital; quittance.

(n.) The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.

(adv. & a.) Sprawling.

(a.) Beamy; radiant.

(a.) Alt. of Avernian

(n.) A lady's waiting-maid.

(n.) An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon.

(v. t.) To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

(v. t.) To spoil; to corrupt.

(v. t.) To furnish or deck with a frill.

(n.) The quantity or amount that fills a boat.

(v. t.) To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.

(v. t.) To libel or traduce; to calumniate.

(a.) Portentous; ominous.

(a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

(a.) Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

(a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bath.

(v. t.) To expel again.

(n.) Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines.

(v. t.) To spell again.

(a.) Being at rest; quiet.

(a.) Giving rest; freeing from toil, trouble, etc.

(a.) Ruminant; ruminating.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the retina.

(n.) A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink.

(n.) A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.

(a.) Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty.

(a.) Full of ruth

(a.) Pitiful; tender.

(a.) Full of sorrow; woeful.

(a.) Causing sorrow.

(n.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.

(a.) Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange.

(n.) See Gambrel, n., 2.

(n.) As much as a sack will hold.

(a.) Bent on plunder.

(n.) See Borneol.

(n.) The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

(n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.

(n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.

(n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.

(n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

(n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.

(n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.

(n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

(n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.

(n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.

(a.) See Canine, a.

(a.) Relating to a sister; sisterly.

(n.) Alt. of Besayle

(n.) A little banner, flag, or streamer.

(n.) Same as Banderole.

(v. t.) To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.

(a.) Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.

(a.) Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.

(n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.

(v. t.) To make still.

(n.) As much as will fill a book; a book full.

(a.) Filled with book learning.

(n.) A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

(a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

(a.) Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization.

(n.) Alt. of Boultin

(n.) The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.

(n.) The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.

(n.) Act of refuting; refutation.

(a.) Violent.

(a.) Given to the commission of rape.

(a.) Rash; hasty; precipitate.

(n.) Gravelly stone.

(n.) Accrument.

(n.) The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.

(v. i.) To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

(n. & v) To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

(n. & v) To flow gently, or in a small stream.

(n. & v) To practice the art of distillation.

(v. t.) To let fall or send down in drops.

(v. t.) To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water.

(v. t.) To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.

(v. t.) To dissolve or melt.

(n.) Derivation.

(a.) Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful.

(a.) Relating to the stars.

(a.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful.

(n.) A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.

(a.) Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

(a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.

(a.) Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.

(a.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.

(v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

(v. t.) To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.

(n.) Spoil.

(n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.

(a.) Bobtailed.

(n.) The merganser.

(n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

(a.) Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.

(n.) A seaport city in the west of England.

(n.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

(n.) Alt. of Scammel

(n.) The female bar-tailed godwit.

(n.) Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.

(n.) Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.

(n.) Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.

(v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

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

(a.) Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.

(v. t.) To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning.

(v. t.) To exceed in toiling.

(n.) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

(v. t.) To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than.

(v. t.) To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.

(v. t.) To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value.

(a.) Relating to, or containing, a census.

(a.) Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.

(n.) Alt. of Centrale

(n.) A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

(n.) The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

(n.) The slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.

(n.) See Scissel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cerris.

(a.) See Caesural.

(v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.

(v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.

(n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

(n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

(n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

(n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

(n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

(n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.

(v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

(v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel.

(n.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.

(n.) Accusation.

(n.) One of the Acephala.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.

(n.) The European starling.

(a.) Suprarenal.

(n.) A lean-to. See Lean-to.

(a.) Indexical.

(a.) Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid.

(v. t. & i.) To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.

(a.) Unequal; uneven; various.

(a.) Tonic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.

(n.) A bosom friend.

(n.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.

(n.) A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.

(n.) A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.

(a.) Full of stories.

(n.) The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.

(n.) A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.

(n.) The ball or globe of the eye.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

(n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

(n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.

(n.) A groundling (fish).

(a.) Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.

(a.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence.

(a.) Able to sway.

(n.) A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.

(a.) Pertaining to an ephor.

(a.) Epigaeous.

(n.) A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.

(n.) A spadeful.

(a.) Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.

(n.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

(n.) Alt. of Spondyle

(a.) See Equine.

(a.) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.

(n.) A slut; a hussy; a drazel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments.

(n.) Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita.

(v. t.) To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

(n.) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.

(n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.

(a.) Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.

(n.) An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.

(n.) A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council.

(n.) Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.

(n.) Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

(n.) Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.

(n.) Result of consultation; advice; instruction.

(n.) Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.

(n.) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.

(n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.

(v. t.) To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.

(v. t.) To advise or recommend, as an act or course.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

(a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.

(n.) A seed.

(v. t.) To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.

(v. t.) To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.

(v. i.) To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.

(n.) Gum senegal. See under Gum.

(a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.

(n.) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cranium.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.

(a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.

(a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.

(a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the head.

(n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.

(n.) First in importance; chief; principal.

(n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.

(n.) Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.

(a.) Risky.

(v. t.) To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.

(n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.

(n.) The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

(v. t.) To renew; to renovate.

(a.) Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.

(n.) As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.

(n.) A change of apparel; a second or different suit.

(n.) The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

(n.) A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.

(n.) That which is recited; a story; a narration.

(n.) A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.

(n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation.

(n.) A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback.

(a.) Full of pangs.

(n.) The act or state of reposing; as, the reposal of a trust.

(n.) That on which one reposes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at Rome, or their decorations.

(a.) A rondelay.

(a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.

(a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

(a.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.

(a.) A bastion of a circular form.

(n.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.

(a.) Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.

(n.) A nominalist.

(n.) A verb formed from a noun.

(n.) A name; an appellation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon.

(n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

(n.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.

(n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.

(a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.

(a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.

(a.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

(a.) A chapter, or section, of a book.

(a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.

() The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.

() The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.

(n.) The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.

(a.) Salivary.

(n.) A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.

(n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

(n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.

(n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels.

(n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

(n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.

(n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.

(n.) A Turkish man-of-war.

(a.) Full of care; anxious; solicitous.

(a.) Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful.

(a.) Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.

(n.) A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cloaca.

(n.) See Caramel.

(n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.

(a.) Pertaining to the shin bone.

(n.) A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise.

(n.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.

(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.

(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

(n.) A scroll.

(n.) A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest.

(n.) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed.

(a.) Sexless; asexual.

(a.) Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous.

(a.) Full of darkness.

(n.) A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye.

(a.) Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works.

(a.) Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.

(a.) Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.

(n.) A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.

(v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).

(a.) Croupy.

(a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

(a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.

(a.) Relating to a crust.

(a.) Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.

(a.) Pertaining to a dean or deanery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.

(n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.

(a.) Of or pertaining to crypts.

(n.) The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

(n.) The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.

(n.) A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.

(n.) The glass over the dial of a watch case.

(n.) Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.

(a.) Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.

(a.) Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

(a.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.

(a.) Of the length of a cubit.

(n.) A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.

(n.) A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

(a.) Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring.

(n.) A plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or V. Pyrenaica).

(n.) A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.

(a.) Lasting.

(a.) Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

(a.) Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.

(n.) A kind of ruby. See Spinel.

(n.) Alt. of Estivation

(a.) Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.

(a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.

(a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.

(a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.

(a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.

(n.) One of the appellations of God.

(n.) That which is endless and immortal.

(n.) A trivalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C.

(n.) A univalent hydrocarbon radical of the ethylene series, CH2:CH; -- called also vinyl. See Vinyl.

(n.) An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.

(a.) Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.

(n.) Wine mixed with honey; mead,

(n.) A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin; -- called also melissyl.

(a.) Tasteful; well-tasted.

(a.) Gusty.

(a.) Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.

(a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.

(a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.

(a.) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.

(n.) See Federalist.

(a.) Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.

(a.) Feminine.

(a.) Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.

(a.) Pregnant; prolific.

(a.) Brimful.

(a.) Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.

(n.) Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.

(n.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.

(n.) Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.

(n.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.

(n.) The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

(a.) Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.

(a.) Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect.

(a.) Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity.

(n.) One who does not believe in the prevailing religious faith; especially, one who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.

(a.) Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.

(a.) Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.

(n.) A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.

(n.) The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.

(a.) Mazy.

(a.) Wary; watchful; cautious.

(a.) Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical.

(n.) An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.

(n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.

(n.) The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool.

(n.) A festive or drinking song or glee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.

(v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals.

(n.) A vegetable.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

(a.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.

(a.) Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.

(n.) Any waste thing or substance

(n.) Waste land or common land.

(n.) A profligate.

(n.) A neglected child; a street Arab.

(n.) Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.

(n.) That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.

(n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.

(v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

(v. t.) Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.

(v. t.) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

(v. i.) To become unraveled, in any sense.

(v. t.) To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.

(n.) Want of skill; ignorance; unskillfulness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ischium or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic.

(v. t.) To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.

(v. t.) To disarm; to soften.

(a.) Not still; restless.

(v. t.) To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.

(v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.

(v. t.) To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls.

(v. t.) To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls.

(v. t.) To untwist; to undo.

(a.) Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

(v. t.) To bring into peril; to endanger.

(v. i.) To swell or rise up.

(v. t. & i.) To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

(n.) The goatsucker.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one or more median and posterior elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes.

(n.) A urohyal bone or cartilage.

(a.) Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.

(v. t.) That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.

(a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife.

(a.) Pertaining to the jejunum.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

(n.) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery.

(v. i.) Wandering; vagrant.

(a.) Pertaining to acnodes.

(n.) Tumult; disturbance; disorder.

(a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.

(a.) Alt. of Gastly

(a.) Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.

(n.) A devising.

(a.) Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.

(a.) A daybook; a journal.

(a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.

(a.) A diurnal bird or insect.

(a.) See Skilful.

(n.) As much as a skin can hold.

(a.) Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel.

(a.) Alt. of Diarian

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

(a. & n.) Same as Doggerel.

(a.) Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

(a.) The same as Dihedral.

(a.) Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

(a.) Full of condemnation or destructive power.

(a.) Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

(n.) See Dotterel.

(a.) Joyful; showy.

(n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

(n.) Same as Meconin.

(n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.

(v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

(n.) As much as a dish holds when full.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

(a.) See Spatial.

(n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.

(n.) A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow.

(v. t.) To tie or hobble with a spancel.

(a.) Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.

(n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker.

(n.) A cringing, fawning person.

(a.) Cringing; fawning.

(v. i.) To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious.

(v. t.) To follow like a spaniel.

(v. t.) To variegate or spot, as with hail.

(v. t.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.

(v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

(a.) Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to space.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.

(a.) Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon.

(a.) Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon.

(a.) Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.

(a.) Chief in excellence.

(n.) A particular.

(n.) One appointed for a special service or occasion.

(v. t.) To entangle.

(a.) Alt. of Enthean

(v. t.) To interweave; to intertwine.

(n.) Entanglement; fold.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

(n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.

(n.) Gangrene.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres.

(a.) Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.

(n.) Same as Spickenel.

(a.) Separate; distinct; particular; single.

(a.) Diverse; different; various.

(a.) Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place.

(adv.) By itself; severally.

(n.) Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual.

(n.) Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many.

(n.) An inclosed or separate place; inclosure.

(v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.

(n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.

(n.) An armor-bearer to a knight.

(n.) See Costrel.

(a.) Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.

(a.) Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.

(a.) Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.

(a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.

(n.) Alt. of Damoiselle

(n.) As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.

(a.) Disloyal; perfidious.

(v. t.) To divest of coat of mail.

(a.) Historical.

(v. t.) To encircle.

(a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.

(a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.

(a.) Gazing.

(a.) Pertaining to the fasces.

(a.) Relating to a fascia.

(a.) A pair.

(n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

(n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

(n.) To labor with pain; to toil.

(n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

(v. t.) To harass; to tire.

(a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

(a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.

(a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.

(a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.

(a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire.

(a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part.

(a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.

(a.) The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.

(a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

(a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.

(a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.

(a.) The public; the people; the vulgar.

(a. .) Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.

(a. .) Significant of fate; ominous.

(n.) As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.

(a.) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.

(a.) Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs.

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

(a.) Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.

(a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.

(a.) Alt. of Exitious

(a.) Belonging to the front part; being in front

(a.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.

(n.) Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet

(n.) An ornamental band for the hair.

(n.) The metal face guard of a soldier.

(n.) A little pediment over a door or window.

(n.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.

(n.) A medicament or application for the forehead.

(n.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.

(v. t.) To fill up; to make full or complete.

(v. t.) To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.

(n.) Exposure.

(v. t.) To disembowel.

(v. t.) To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.

(v. t.) To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.

(v. t.) To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.

(n.) See Embroilment.

(n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.

(n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

(n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

(n.) A list of jurors; a panel.

(v. t.) See Impanel.

(v. t.) To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.

(v. t.) To put in peril. See Imperil.

(n.) The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.

(n.) A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck.

(a.) Of or pertaining to exuviae.

(a.) Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.

(a.) Relating to, or containing, facts.

(n.) Complete termination.

(n.) The hind leg of a horse.

(n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

(v. t.) To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

(a.) Full of game or games.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Monera.

(n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.

(a.) Not of a pure breed.

(n.) The quantity or number which fills a tree.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.

(n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

(n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.

(a.) Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

(a.) inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.

(a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear.

(a.) Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.

(n.) Same as Treenail.

(n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

(n.) Hence, a dirge; an elegy.

(n.) A trestle.

(a.) Alt. of Tribular

(n.) The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives.

(n.) Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name.

(a.) Sorrowful; mournful.

(a.) Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.

(n.) The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characterized residue of certain vanadium compounds.

(n.) A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.

(a.) Weleful.

(n.) Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.

(n.) Silver gilt or gilt bronze.

(n.) A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a verse.

(a.) Full of anxiety or yearning.

(a.) Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.

(n.) A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.

(a.) Creative; imaginative.

(n.) Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.

(a.) Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

(a.) See Edentate, a.

(n.) One of the Edentata.

(a.) Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.

(n.) The tail or brush of a fox.

(n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.

(n.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.

(a.) Related by marriage; from the same source.

(a.) Given to jesting; full of jokes.

(a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder.

(n.) A basketful.

(a.) Confining to the bed; as, a lectual disease.

(a.) Near; vicine.

(n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.

(n.) Grain of any kind.

(v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.

(a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.

(a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.

(a.) Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth.

(a.) Stygian.

(a.) Full of gladness; joyful; glad.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the open air; being under the open sky.

(n.) Act of subduing.

(a.) Merry; gay; joyous.

(a.) Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic.

(a.) Found anywhere; common.

(a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

(a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.

(n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

(n.) The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.

(v. t.) To turn up the subsoil of.

(a.) Resembling a wheel.

(n.) The crocodile bird.

(a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutaeus.

(n.) A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid.

(n.) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.

(n.) An aperture in a tromp.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.

(n.) A trundle.

(n.) See Treenail.

(a.) Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.

(a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder.

(a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.

(a.) Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant.

(n.) The whimbrel.

(n.) The radical regarded as characteristic of undecylic acid.

(a.) Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes.

(v. t.) To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise.

(a.) Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.

(a.) Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.

(a.) Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.

(a.) Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.

(a.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.

(a.) Ungual.

(a.) Uniaxial.

(a.) Not ideal; real; unimaginative.

(a.) Unideaed.

(a.) Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.

(v. t.) To encircle.

(a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

(a.) Having no moral perception, quality, or relation; involving no idea of morality; -- distinguished from both moral and immoral.

(n.) Alt. of Jonquille

(a.) Daily; diurnal.

(a.) A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.

(a.) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.

(a.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.

(a.) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.

(a.) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.

(a.) That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.

(a.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.

(a.) Worthy of meed, reward, or recompense; meritorious.

(a.) Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.

(a.) Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery. Hence: Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle.

(a.) Of, or connected with, hernia.

(v. t.) Same as Hatchel.

(a.) Uncivil; rude.

(n.) Alt. of Tiercelet

(a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.

(a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.

(n.) As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.

(n.) As much as the hand will grasp or contain.

(n.) A hand's breadth; four inches.

(n.) A small quantity.

(n.) A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.

(n.) Price; payment.

(n.) To give a handsel to.

(n.) To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

(a.) Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.

(a.) Figurate. See Figurate.

(a.) Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.

(a.) Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.

(a. & n.) Same as Tertiary.

(a.) Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.

(a.) Serving for, or depending on, texts.

(a.) Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.

(a.) Abounding with fish.

(n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.

(n.) To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.

(n.) To tease; to worry; to torment.

(a.) Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.

(a.) Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious.

(n.) A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.

(a.) Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early.

(n. & v. t.) See Hatchel.

(n.) A nitrogenous compound, C7H6N2, analogous to indol, and produced from a diazo derivative or cinnamic acid.

(n.) A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.

(n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

(n.) A clownish person; a rustic.

(v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

(a.) Relating to a member.

(a.) Full of zeal.

(a.) Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.

(a.) Showing desire; as, wishful eyes.

(a.) Desirable; exciting wishes.

(a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.

(a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.

(n.) The golden oriole.

(n.) The greater spotted woodpecker.

(a.) Attached to land or farms; as, predial slaves.

(a.) Issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.

(a.) Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate.

(n.) A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.

(n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

(v. i.) To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.

(v. i.) To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.

(v. i.) To persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, I prevailedon him to wait.

(a.) Disposed to take prey.

(a.) Rich in prey.

(a.) Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; as, a phrasal adverb.

(n.) A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

(n.) A small inclosure.

(n.) The tail of a pig.

(n.) A cue, or queue.

(n.) A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

(a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

(n.) The first letter of a word or a name.

(v. t.) To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.

(n.) A dragnet.

(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.

(n.) Alt. of Tumbril

(n.) A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.

(n.) A rough cart.

(n.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.

(n.) A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

(a.) Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.

(n.) Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.

(v. t.) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

(v. i.) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

(n.) A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.

(n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.

(n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.

(n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

(n.) A series of steps.

(n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

(v. t.) To surfel.

(a.) Alt. of Adactylous

(a.) Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.

(a.) Synodical.

(n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.

(n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

(n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial.

(n.) A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

(n.) A net for confining a woman's hair.

(n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.

(n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.

(n.) An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.

(n.) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.

(n.) A beam compass. See under Beam.

(v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch.

(v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

(a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.

(a.) Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.

(v. t.) To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.

(v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.

(v. t.) To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.

(v. t.) To hide in a shell.

(v. t.) To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.

(a.) Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.

(a.) Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vision or sight.

(n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.

(n.) The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky Mountains (Pediocaetes phasianellus); -- called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.

(n.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

(a.) Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons.

(n.) Music.

(n.) A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.

(a.) Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

(a.) Meditative; thoughtfully silent.

(a.) Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.

(a.) Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3.

(a.) Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline.

(n.) A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.

(a.) Pudic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to puberty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the soul; psychical.

(n.) A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.

(adv.) Everywhere.

(n.) The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance.

(v. i. & t.) To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.

(n.) A great fool; a trifler.

(a.) Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance.

(a.) Practiced in, or inclined to, war; warlike; brave.

(a.) Belonging to war, or to an army and navy; -- opposed to civil; as, martial law; a court-martial.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the god, or the planet, Mars.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations.

(n.) An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like

(n.) One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.

(n.) One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.

(n.) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.

(n.) The highest military officer.

(n.) A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.

(v. t.) To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.

(v. t.) To direct, guide, or lead.

(v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.

(n.) Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.

(a.) Full of lust; excited by lust.

(a.) Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality.

(a.) Strong; lusty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lustrum.

(v.) Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority.

(a.) Producing grief; saddening.

(n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.

(n.) A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.

(n.) A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep.

(v. t.) To frighten, as with a lowbell.

(a.) Full of love.

(n.) A hypothetical radical formerly supposed to exist in mesityl oxide.

(a.) Detrimental.

(n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.

(n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

(n.) A white, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); -- called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor.

(n.) A compound radical forming the base of menthol.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to the malleus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties.

(a.) According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical.

(a.) Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker.

(n.) A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy.

(a.) Tending or serving to heal; healing.

(a.) Theriac.

(a.) Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters.

(n.) A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

(n.) The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ivy.

(n.) The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential constituent of certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl chloride.

(n.) The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

(n.) The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare.

(a.) Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular.

(a.) Alt. of Nuclear

(a.) Of or pertaining to an orbit.

(a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.

(a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.

(a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.

(a.) Conformed to truth or reality

(a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.

(a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

(a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

(a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

(a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.

(a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.

(a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

(a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

(n.) A native; an aboriginal.

(n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.

(n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.

(n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.

(n.) Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals.

(n.) Expressing number; representing number; as, numeral letters or characters, as X or 10 for ten.

(n.) A figure or character used to express a number; as, the Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the Roman numerals, I, V, X, L, etc.

(n.) A word expressing a number.

(a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an order.

(n.) A word or number denoting order or succession.

(n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

(n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.

(a.) Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies.

(n.) Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.

(n.) A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.

(n.) Meal made of oats.

(n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass.

(a.) Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days.

(a.) Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.

(a.) Necessary for supply or relief; requisite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

(a.) Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.

(a.) Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.

(n.) A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.

(n.) Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.

(n.) A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.

(n.) Allowable; permissible; lawful.

(n.) A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage.

(n.) A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon.

(a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.

(a.) Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.

(a.) Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.

(a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.

(a.) Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.

(a.) Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.

(a.) Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.

(n.) One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.

(a.) Attentive.

(a.) According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.

(a.) Following the letter or exact words; not free.

(a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.

(a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.

(n.) Literal meaning.

(a.) Full of vitality.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lochia.

(a.) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun.

(n.) A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.

(n.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

(n.) The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.

(n.) A quarrel; a falling out.

(v. t.) To exceed in folly.

(n.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.

(a.) Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.

(a.) Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

(a.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.

(a.) In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

(n.) See Lamprey.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.

(n.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.

(a.) Alt. of Lacunar

(n.) A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.

(n.) A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.

(v. t.) To shade as with a parasol.

(v. t.) To boil or cook thoroughly.

(v. t.) To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.

(a.) Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides of the thorax.

(n.) The dotterel.

(n.) The European blackbird.

(n.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.

(a.) Full of work; diligent.

(a.) Imitative; mimetic.

(a.) Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures.

(a.) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; -- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

(n.) Any singing bird of the genus Motacilla; a wagtail.

(a.) Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.

(v. i.) An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.

(v. i.) A mine.

(v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).

(a.) Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.

(a.) Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.

(n.) See Crookbill.

(n.) Any one of six metameric phenol derivatives of xylene, obtained as crystalline substances, (CH3)2.C6H3.OH.

(n.) As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.

(v. t.) To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

(v. t.) To call by a bad name; to abuse.

(v. t. & i.) To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.

(n.) The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.

(v. t.) To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily.

(n.) The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a wood or grove.

(a.) Of or relating to a nephew.

(v. t.) To tell erroneously.

(a.) Clouded with, or as with, mist.

(n.) A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

(n.) As much or many as will fill a nest.

(n. & a.) See Mongrel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.

(a.) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.

(n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.

(n.) See Peytrel.

(a.) Abounding with plots.

(n.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.

(n.) Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.

(n.) Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond.

(n.) Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pluteus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.

(a.) Produced by the action of rain.

(n.) A priest's cope.

(n.) The act of carefully viewing or examining.

(n.) The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care.

(a.) Pervious.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs.

(n.) See Pasquin.

(v. t.) See Pasquin.

(a.) Pestiferous.

(a.) Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.

(n.) The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel.

(n.) A youth.

(n.) A small chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, esp. T. pygmaeus, or T. kanchil, inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands; a deerlet. It is noted for its agility and cunning.

(a.) Alt. of Premiant

(a.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.

(n.) The pistil of a plant.

(n.) A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages.

(n.) See Poyntel.

(n.) See Pointal.

(a.) The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel.

(n.) A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.

(a.) Full of pith.

(a.) Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.

(a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.

(a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.

(n.) A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.

(n.) A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.

(a.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.