(n.) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles.

(n.) One of the Angles.

(n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

(n.) Hell; the bottomless pit.

(v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

(v. t.) To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

(n.) Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.

(v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.

(n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

(a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.

(n.) One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist.

(n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.

(n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts.

(n.) A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

(a.) Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery.

(n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

(n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.

(n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.

(n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.

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

(v. t.) To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.

(v. i.) To practice theft; to steal.

(a.) Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

(n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

(n.) See Inulin.

(n.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

(n.) Alt. of Alaternus

(n.) The state of being winged.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small.

(n.) The white of an egg.

(n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

(n.) Same as Albumin.

(n.) A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.

(n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form).

(n.) Electricity.

(n.) A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Paphos.

(n.) The true skin, or cutis.

(n.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.

(v. i.) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.

(n.) A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.

(a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

(n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.

(n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.

(n.) See Cittern.

(n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.

(n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.

(n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.

(n.) One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.

(a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.

(n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.

(n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.

(n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.

(n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.

(n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.

(n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.

(n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

(n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

(n.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.

(See) Seedsman.

(v. i.) To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.

(pl. ) of Freeman

(n.) One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.

(n.) A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman.

(adv.) Alt. of Eftsoons

(n.) An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.

(v. t.) To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

(v. t.) To refresh; to revive.

(v. t.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.

(v. i.) To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

(v. i.) To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.

(a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.

(n.) A solid isomeric modification of olein.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

(n.) A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

(n.) The act of eating out or through.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.

(n.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

(n.) The act of flowing.

(n.) The matter that flows.

(n.) Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.

(n.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.

(n.) A constantly varying indication.

(n.) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.

(n.) A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.

(n.) The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.

(n.) A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)

(n.) A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.

(n.) Hematoxylin.

(n.) A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.

(n.) A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

(n.) An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.

(n.) Trousers made of nankeen.

(n.) The supraorbital point.

(n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain.

(pl. ) of Packman

(n.) One who bears a pack; a peddler.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.

(n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.

(n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

(pl. ) of Chapman

(n.) One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.

(n.) A peddler; a hawker.

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

(n.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

(n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

(pl. ) of Bushman

(n.) A woodsman; a settler in the bush.

(n.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

(n.) A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.

(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.

(v. t.) To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.

(v. t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.

(v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.

(v. t.) To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.

(v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.

(v. t.) To stamp or impress; to affect.

(v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.

(v. i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.

(n.) Act of boiling.

(n.) Digestion.

(n.) The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.

(n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

(n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.

(n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.

(n.) A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

(n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

(n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.

(v. t.) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

(v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

(v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

(v. i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

(v. t.) To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

(n.) A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.

(v. i.) To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.

(v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.

(n.) A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.

(a.) Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.

(n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.

(a.) Alt. of Ovarial

(n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.

(n.) Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Mexico.

(v. t.) To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.

(p. p.) of Smite

(n.) A fisherman who uses a dragnet.

(n.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

(n.) A variety of pigeon.

(v. t.) To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

(v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

() p. p. of Smite.

(pl. ) of Drayman

(n.) A man who attends a dray.

() of Drink

(n.) A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.

(v. t.) To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

(v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.

(v. i.) To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

(v. i.) To make cognizance.

(v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.

(v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

(n.) See Socman.

(n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man.

(n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.

(n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.

(n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.

(n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.

(n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.

(n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.

(n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.

(n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.

(n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

(n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).

(n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.

(n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.

(n.) Situation; position; location.

(n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.

(n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

(n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

(n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.

(v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.

(a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.

(n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.

(p. p.) of Redraw

(n.) A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.

(n.) Alt. of Assapanic

(n.) Native carbonate of soda; natron.

(n.) Glass gall or sandiver.

(n.) Saltpeter.

(n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

(n.) The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana).

(n.) See Yataghan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald.

(n.) A farcical drama performed at Atella.

(n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

(pl. ) of Billman

(n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.

() of Bind

(n.) A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

(n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.

(n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.

(n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

(n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.

(n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.

(v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

(n.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

(a.) Of or relating to birch.

(n.) A fowler or birdcatcher.

(n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

(n.) The things sold by auction or put up to auction.

(v. t.) To sell by auction.

(n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.

(a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

(a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.

(n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

(n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.

(v. t.) To make or render black.

(v. t.) To make dark; to darken; to cloud.

(v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

(v. i.) To grow black or dark.

(n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

(n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

(n.) That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action.

(n.) The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

(n.) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

(n.) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

(n.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

(v. t.) To opine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi.

(n.) A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent.

(n.) One of the Aptera.

(n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.

(n.) The north wind.

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

(n.) A native of Arabia; an Arab.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic.

(n.) A native of Aram.

(n.) Plowing; tillage.

(n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

(n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.

(n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.

(n.) A recipient of alms.

(n.) A giver of alms.

(n.) The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.

(n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.

(a.) Alt. of Altaic

(v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

(v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.

(v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

(v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.

(n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

(n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

(n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

(n.) Alt. of Abelonian

(n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.

(v. t.) To stifle or choke.

(n.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

(a.) See Am/bean.

(a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.

(a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.

(a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.

(v. i.) To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.

(v. i.) To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.

(a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.

(n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.

(n.) See Quintain.

(n.) Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.

(n.) Deprivation of possession.

(n.) The ninth Mohammedan month.

(n.) A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.

(n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.

(n.) See Ramequin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a town.

(n.) An inhabitant of a town.

(n.) A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.

(pl. ) of Batsman

(n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Abietine

(n.) Vision.

(n.) A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

(n.) A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.

(n.) See Biffin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Azores.

(n.) A native of the Azores.

(n.) A nightgown.

(v. t.) To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

(n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.

(a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.

(a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.

() of Begnaw

(n.) A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.

(pl. ) of Boatman

(n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

(n.) A boat bug. See Boat bug.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Belgium.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Belgium.

(n.) A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.

(v. t.) To mourn over.

(n.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

(n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

(n.) A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, C14H12O2, obtained from benzoic aldehyde and some other sources.

(n.) The spicebush (Lindera benzoin).

(n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.

(n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

(n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

(n.) A bomb or shell.

(n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.

(n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

(v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

(v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.

(v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

(n.) A companion; a match; an equal.

(n.) An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.

(v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

(v. t.) To abstain from

(v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.

(v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.

(v. t.) To affix one's signature to, a second time; to sign again.

(n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.

(n.) A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.

(n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.

(a.) brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.

(v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid.

(n.) A chest to hold ammunition.

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber.

(n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.

(n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.

(n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.

(n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.

(n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits.

(n.) See Ronion.

(n.) A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

(n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]

(a.) Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Russia; the language of Russia.

(v. t. & i.) To turn again.

(n.) A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.

(n.) An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed.

(a. & n.) Same as Sabian.

(n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.

(n.) A little can or cup.

(n.) A small village containing a church.

(n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.

(v. t.) A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

(v. t.) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.

(v. t.) The state of being despised; shame.

(v. t.) To treat with scorn.

(pl. ) of Bondman

(n.) A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.

(n.) A villain, or tenant in villenage.

(v. t.) To stain.

(pl. ) of Bookman

(n.) A studious man; a scholar.

(n.) Same as Bumkin.

(n.) A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

(p. p.) of Betake

(v. t.) To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

(v. t.) To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

(n.) A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.

(prep.) In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.

(prep.) Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.

(prep.) Belonging in common to two; shared by both.

(prep.) Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.

(prep.) With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.

(prep.) In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.

(n.) Intermediate time or space; interval.

(v. t.) To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

(n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

(n.) A brake or fern.

(n.) Same as Bridoon.

(n.) Alt. of Brahmin

(n.) A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.

(p. p & a.) Bound; fastened by bonds.

(p. p & a.) Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.

(p. p & a.) Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.

(n.) A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.

(n.) A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

(n.) A pilgrim's staff.

(n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)

(n.) A kind of organ stop.

(n.) A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.

(a.) Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or Rhaetians, or to Rhaetia, their country; as, the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.

(n.) Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.

(n.) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation

(n.) a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.

(n.) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

(n.) The word or words governed.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.

(v. t.) To adjourn; to put off.

(v. t.) To do justice to.

(n.) The albuminous material composing the body of a cytode.

() of Shoot

(pl. ) of Shopman

(n.) A shopkeeper; a retailer.

(n.) One who serves in a shop; a salesman.

(n.) One who works in a shop or a factory.

(a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

(a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.

(a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

(a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.

(v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

(n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.

(n.) Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.

(pl. ) of Showman

(n.) One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.

(v. t.) To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry.

(v. t.) To deepen.

(p. p.) of Shrive

() p. p. of Shrive.

(v. t.) Alt. of Derain

(v. t.) To turn aside.

(v. t.) To dissuade from by previous warning.

(n.) A child's game played with pins.

(n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.

(n.) The ring finger.

(n.) An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

(pl. ) of Silkman

(n.) A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.

(a.) Made of silver.

(n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.

(n.) A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.

(n.) Security; guaranty; bail.

(n.) Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.

(v. t.) To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed.

(n.) A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

(a.) To grow broad; to become broader or wider.

(v. t.) To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

(v. t. & i.) To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon.

(v. t.) To spin out; to finish.

(n.) A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

(n.) A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.

(n.) A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

(n.) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.

(n.) A nectarine.

(n.) A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

(a.) Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.

(a.) Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.

(a.) Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.

(a.) Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.

(a.) Unfailing; infallible.

(a.) Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.

(a.) Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.

(n.) Certainty.

(n.) A certain number or quantity.

(adv.) Certainly.

(n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.

(n.) A yielding to physical force.

(n.) Concession; compliance.

(n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.

(n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

(n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

(n.) A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.

(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.

(v. i.) To act the part of a buffoon.

(v. t.) To treat with buffoonery.

(n.) A little bull.

(n.) Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.

(n.) Base or uncurrent coin.

(n.) Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.

(n.) Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

(n.) An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.

(n.) Vexation; mortification.

(n.) To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

(v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed.

(a.) Chagrined.

(n.) See Kamsin.

(n.) A song.

(v. i.) To bud. See Bourgeon.

(n.) A Japanese covered litter, carried by men.

(n.) A ferment, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.

(v. t.) To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.

(v. t.) To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc.

(v. i.) To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.

(a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.

(pl. ) of Toftman

(n.) The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.

(n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo.

(n.) An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

(n.) The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

(pl. ) of Tollman

(n.) One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer.

(n.) A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.

(n.) A complex, nitrogenous radical, C8H5NO, regarded as the essential nucleus of indigo.

(n.) A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white.

(a.) Drawn in.

(n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

(n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.

(n.) The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

(n.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

(n.) An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.

(n.) Alt. of Griffon

(n.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.

(n.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.

(n.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir.

(n.) An English early apple.

(n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

(n.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.

(n.) The spine of a hog.

(n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

(n.) An andiron with a knob at the top.

(n.) Imposition; fraud.

(n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.

(n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.

(n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.

(n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

(n.) The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.

(v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

(v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.

(v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

(v. t.) To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

(v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.

(v. t.) To suffer; to bear; to undergo.

(v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.

(v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.

(n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

(n.) The griffin vulture.

(n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.

(n.) What may be got without skill or merit.

(n.) A person easily duped or cheated.

(n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.

(n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.

(v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.

(n.) A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.

(n.) To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for.

(n.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

(n.) The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.

(n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.

(n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.

(n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.

(n.) The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

(n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.

(n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

(v. i.) Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

(v. i.) Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

(v. i.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

(n.) An extract made from ergot.

(n.) Alt. of Ermilin

(n.) The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

(n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

(n.) Guidance.

(n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.

(n.) The haft of a dagger.

(n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.

(n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.

(a.) Homely; rude; coarse.

(n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.

(v. t.) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

(v. t.) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.

(v. i.) To be of importance.

(n.) That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.

(n.) That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.

(n.) Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.

(n.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.

(v. t.) To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

(v. t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.

(v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.

(v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.

(v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

(v. t.) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

(a.) Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.

(a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.

(n.) A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails.

(n.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

(v. t.) To join together; to unite.

(v. i.) To unite; to join; to league.

(v. t.) Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.

(n.) A native of Acadie.

(n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.

(n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.

(n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.

(n.) A song or verses.

(n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

(n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.

(n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.

(n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.

(a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.

(v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.

(n.) See Capelin.

(n.) A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.

(n.) Sagapenum.

(n.) A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.

(n.) One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.

(v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting.

(n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.

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

(pl. ) of Rodsman

(n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.

(v. t.) To make rough.

(v. i.) To grow or become rough.

(n.) See Government, n., 7.

(v. i.) To reign again.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity.

(n.) One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

(n.) A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.

(n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.

(n.) A glucoside found in the bark and leaves of several species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.

(n.) A caviling; a sophism.

(n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.

(n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed.

(n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page.

(n.) The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin).

(n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

(n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

(n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.

(n.) Alt. of Salpid

(n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

(n.) A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.

(n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.

(n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.

(n.) Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.

(n.) A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

(n.) A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

() imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed).

(n.) The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.

(n.) A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.

(n.) One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.

(n.) Sard; carnelian.

(n.) A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot.

(n.) A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

(n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."

(a.) Made of bread.

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

(n.) One of the Sauria.

(n.) A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Catalonia.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia.

(n.) A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.

(n.) A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.

(n.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

(n.) A glucoside obtained from the Aesculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions.

(n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.

(v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.

(n.) A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.

(n.) A peculiar fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.

(n.) A body found in fecal matter and thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile; -- called also stercorin, and stercolin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Servia.

(a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.

(n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.

(n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.

(n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

(n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.

(n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.

(a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.

(n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

(a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.

(v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

(b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.

(n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

(n.) An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

(n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

(n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.

(n.) A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.

(a.) Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.

(v. t.) To make crooked.

(n.) Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.

(n.) The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; haemoglobin.

(n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

(v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

(v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.

(v. t.) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.

(a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

(n.) A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.

(n.) The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.

(n.) Cloth made waterproof by oil.

(n.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

(pl. ) of Dustman

(p.) One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse.

(n.) A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.

(n.) A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners.

(n.) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.

(n.) Excuse; exemption.

(a.) Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

(n.) A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.

() imp. of Forerun.

(n.) A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol.

(n.) Same as Habitant, 2.

(pl. ) of Hackman

(n.) The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.

(a.) Born of a hag or witch.

(n.) A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

(a. & n.) See Haytian.

(n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

(n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.

(pl. ) of Topsman

(n.) The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.

(n.) The uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman.

(n.) The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.

(n.) The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.

(n.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.

(n.) A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.

(n.) The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.

(n.) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.

(n.) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon.

(n.) The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.

(n.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.

(n.) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line.

(v. i. & t.) To grow or make tough, or tougher.

(n.) A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

(n.) A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.

(a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.

(a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.

(n.) Alt. of Maudeline

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.

(n.) The middle part of the main or sea.

(n.) A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.

(n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

(n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.

(n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.

(n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.

(n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).

(n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.

(n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.

(n.) See Aristotle's lantern.

(v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.

(n.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)

(n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.

(n.) An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.

(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.

(v. t.) Preparation; protection; provision; supply.

(v. t.) Reward; requital; guerdon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the larch.

(n.) A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.

(n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.

(a.) Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.

(n.) Vectitation.

(n.) The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.

(n.) Beasts of the chase.

(n.) Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.

(n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.

(v. t.) To render other than seven; to make to be no longer seven.

(v. t.) To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex.

(a.) Made of twigs; wicker.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Italy.

(n.) The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.

(n.) One of the Iulidae, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus.

(n.) A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodidae.

(n.) A drunken, dissolute fellow.

(pl. ) of Jackman

(n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n.

(n.) A cream cheese.

(n.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.

(n.) One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.

(n.) A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.

(a.) Same as Jacobinic.

(n.) The borele.

(n.) A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative.

(v. t.) To train up; to educate.

(a.) Alt. of Uralic

(a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.

(n.) A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game.

(v. t.) To pierce with a javelin.

(v. t.) To impregnate; to make fruitful.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.

(n.) An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.

(n.) A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.

(n.) An individual of the Acrita.

(n.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.

(n.) A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.

(n.) An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

(n.) A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.

(v. i. & t.) To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.

(n.) The European swift.

(n.) The larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl.

(n.) A loin of beef, or a part of a loin.

(n. pl.) Sisters.

(a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.

(n.) A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroodextrin, and Erythrodextrin.

(n.) See Skid, n., 1.

(a.) Pertaining to a diary; daily.

(a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

(a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

(a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.

(a.) To abate; to become less violent.

(a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.

(a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.

(a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

(v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.

(v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.

(v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.

(v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.

(v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.

(n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

(n.) The skin of the doe.

(n.) A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.

(n.) A very small coin; a doit.

(a.) Sleek; smooth.

() p. p. of Slide.

(p. p.) of Slide

(n.) Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.

(n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

(n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.

(n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

(n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

(n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.

(n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.

(n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.

(n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.

(n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.

(n.) A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.

(v. t.) To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.

(n.) One of the Dimera.

(n.) An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium.

(n.) A gate keeper; a gate tender.

(n.) One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.

(v. i.) To become steep or steeper.

(n.) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

(n.) A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.

(v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.

(v. t.) To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

(v. i.) To become separated; to part.

(n.) A pan used for stewing.

(v. t.) To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.

(v. t.) To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.

(v. t.) To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.

(v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

(v. t.) To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.

(v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

(v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

(v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.

(v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

(v. t.) To ripen.

(n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

(a.) Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.

(v. t.) To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

(v. t.) To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.

(v. i.) To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station.

(n.) A stanza of six lines; a sestine.

(n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

(n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

(n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

(n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.

(v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

(n.) Same as Curtana.

(n.) A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.

(n.) Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use

(n.) a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf

(n.) a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston

(n.) the elastic edge of a billiard table.

(n.) A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.

(v. t.) To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

(v. t.) To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.

(v. t.) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

(n.) An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.

(a.) Having an azure color.

(a.) Belonging to Cyprus.

(a.) Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.

(n.) A lewd woman; a harlot.

(a.) To make sharp.

(a.) To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.

(a.) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.

(a.) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.

(a.) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.

(a.) To make biting, sarcastic, or severe.

(a.) To render more shrill or piercing.

(a.) To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.

(a.) To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.

(v. i.) To grow or become sharp.

(n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.

(a.) Alt. of Delphine

(n.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

(n.) A half man.

(n.) A dweller; an inhabitant.

(n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

(n.) One admitted to residence in a foreign country.

(v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.

(v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

(pl. ) of Shipman

(n.) A seaman, or sailor.

(n.) A stable; a cowhouse.

(n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

(n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

(v. t.) To efface, as a picture.

(n.) A cowhouse; a shippen.

(v. t.) To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

(adv.) About; around.

(v. t.) To widen.

(v. t.) To endow with the qualities of a woman.

(n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

(n.) The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

(n.) Alt. of Gelatine

(n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.

(n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

(n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.

(v. t.) To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

(v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.

(v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

(v. t.) To forge or counterfeit.

(p. p.) of Tread

(n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

(n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Geneva.

(n.) A supported of Genevanism.

(n.) Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

(a.) See Germane.

(n.) Same as Frontal, 2.

(n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

(a.) Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.

(n.) See Chitin.

(n.) Alt. of Elytrum

(a.) Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego.

(n.) A native of Terra del Fuego.

(a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

(a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

(v. i.) To give an explanation.

(v. t.) To harden.

(v. t.) To give a brown color to; to imbrown.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals.

(n.) One of the Fungidae.

(n. & a.) See Embryo.

(n.) A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

(n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

(n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.

(a.) Made of fustian.

(a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

(a.) Alt. of Achaian

(a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.

(n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek.

(n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.

(n.) The act of buying.

(n.) One who uses a gad or goad in driving.

(n.) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.

(n.) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

(n.) Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

(v. t.) To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

(v. t.) To hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.

(v. t.) To link together; to connect.

(n.) A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.

(n.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.

(n.) One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.

(n.) A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.

(n.) Tumult; discord; dissension.

(a.) Gallic; French.

(n.) A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

(n.) A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Monera.

(n.) One of the Monera.

(n.) One of the Monera.

(p. p.) of Strive

() p. p. of Strive.

(n.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

(n.) See Sea gherkin.

(n.) A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill.

(n.) A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor.

(n.) A walrus.

(pl. ) of Landman

(n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.

(n.) An occupier of land.

(pl. ) of Newsman

(v. t.) To make damp; to wet in a small degree.

(v. t.) To soften by making moist; to make tender.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series.

(n.) The Wealden group or strata.

(pl. ) of Leadman

(n.) One who leads a dance.

(n.) A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.

(n.) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.

(n.) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.

(n.) A translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the Common, or Authorized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament.

(n.) An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair.

() Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.

(a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.

(a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.

(a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.

(n.) An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.

(n.) Alt. of Eudaemon

() of Forlese

(v. t.) Deserted; abandoned; lost.

(v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.

(n.) A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

(n.) A forlorn hope; a vanguard.

(n.) See Ecteron.

(n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.

(n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.

(v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.

(v. i.) To take position in echelon.

(a.) Much worn.

(n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

(n.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.

(n.) An ammunition wagon.

(n.) A French baggage wagon.

(n.) A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

(n.) The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.

(n.) A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Verbena.

(a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.

(n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had.

(n.) See Lecturn.

(n.) A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service.

(n.) A reading; a variation in the text.

(n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.]

(pl. ) of Leetman

(n.) One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.

(a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.

(a.) Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.

(n.) An instrument like a guitar.

(v. i.) To play on gittern.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.

(n.) The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.

(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.

(v. i.) To be or become glad; to rejoice.

(n.) A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.

(a.) Glassy; glazed.

(n.) An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.

(n.) A material found in the cell walls of cork. It is a modification of lignin.

(v. t.) To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.

(pl. ) of Gleeman

(n.) A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

(n.) Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.

() p. p. of Glide.

(v. i.) To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

(n.) Alt. of Glonoine

(v. t. & i.) To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished.

(v. t.) To sign beneath; to subscribe.

(n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.

(n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself.

(n.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

(a.) Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

(v. t. & i.) To glut; to eat voraciously.

() p. p. of Tread.

(v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

(a.) Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

(n.) An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

(n.) The act of pushing or thrusting.

(n.) Rubble masonry.

(n.) A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.

(n.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Iberia.

(a.) Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.

(n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia.

(n.) An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.

(a.) Not human; inhuman.

(n.) A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.

(n.) A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.

(n.) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.

(n.) The larva of a unicorn moth.

(n.) The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird.

(n.) A howitzer.

(v. t.) The act of uniting, or the state of being united; junction.

(a.) Not known; not apprehended.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Iran.

(n.) A native of Iran; also, the Iranian or Persian language, a division of the Aryan family of languages.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow.

(v. t.) To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure.

(v. t.) To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of.

(v. t.) To fail to learn.

(v. t.) To make unlike; to dissimilate.

(adv.) Not often.

(v. t.) To divest of the rank or authority of queen.

(n.) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.

(n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition.

(n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence.

(n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.

(n.) Alt. of Yeldrine

(a.) Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.

(n.) A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.

(pl. ) of Footman

(n.) A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.

(n.) A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.

(n.) Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.

(n.) A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.

(n.) A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors.

(n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

(n.) A prophet; a diviner.

(v. t.) To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).

(v. t.) To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.

(a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

(a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.

(a.) Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.

(a.) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.

(pl. ) of Foreman

(n.) The first or chief man

(n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.

(n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

(n.) Alt. of Herdsman

(a.) Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Hesse.

(n.) A mercenary or venal person.

(n.) See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a.

(a.) Alt. of Hesternal

(a.) Blown in or into.

(n.) A plane figure of six angles.

(n.) Act of gaping.

(n.) The sweetbread of a deer.

(v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.

(v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival.

(v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass.

(v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison.

(v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.

(n.) A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.

(a.) Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy.

(n.) A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.

(n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

(v. t.) To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

(n.) A tendril.

(n.) An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.

(a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

(a.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.

(a.) The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.

(a.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.

(a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

(a.) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.

(a.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.

(n.) A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.

(n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

(n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.

(n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

(n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

(n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

(a.) Consisting of fields.

(a.) Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

(n.) The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.

(pl. ) of Hangman

(n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.

(n.) See Hoonoomaun.

(a.) The number three; three things together; a ternary.

(a.) Precise in trifles; idly busy.

(n.) See Turren.

(a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

(n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

(n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

(n.) An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents.

(pl. ) of Fireman

(n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.

(n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.

(n.) A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.

(v. t.) To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.

(n.) One ready in quoting texts.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy; comic.

(n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.

(n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.

(n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.

(a.) Haughty; proud.

(a.) High; -- said of the voice or flight of birds.

(pl. ) of Flagman

(v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.

(v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

(n.) A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.

(v. t.) To make hoarse.

(n.) Same as Hoazin.

(pl. ) of Tineman

(n.) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.

(n.) See Quercitin.

(n.) A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

(n.) See Cittern.

(a.) Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.

(n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.

(pl. ) of Mootman

(n.) One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.

(n.) A little or young wolf.

(n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

(n.) The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction.

(n.) A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles.

(n.) A plant of the order Polygynia.

(v. t. & i.) To warn beforehand; to forewarn.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday.

(n.) See Pumpion.

(n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

(n.) A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.

(n.) The act of making atonement; expiation.

(n.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.

(n.) A tub; a brewer's vessel.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.

(n.) The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

(pl. ) of Pikeman

(n.) A soldier armed with a pike.

(n.) A miner who works with a pick.

(n.) A keeper of a turnpike gate.

(n.) A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.

(n.) A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride.

(n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

(n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.

(n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.

(n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.

(n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.

(v. t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.

(v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

(n.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Canis Minor, or the Little Dog.

(n.) A genus of mammals including the raccoon.

(a.) Dyed with grain, or kermes.

(a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.

(n.) An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.

(v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes.

(v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.

(v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.

(a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

(a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

(n.) Initiation; beginning.

(n.) A small bottle of horn or other material formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case for writing materials.

(a.) Learned; pedantic; affected.

(v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.

(n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.

(n.) A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

(n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.

(n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.

(n.) See Typhoon.

(n.) A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically.

(n.) A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.

(n.) Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.

(n.) Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.

(n.) The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.

(a.) Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).

(a.) Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.

(a.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea.

(n.) One of the Gordiacea.

(n.) A boy; a servant.

(n.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.

(n.) A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

(pl. ) of Turfman

(n.) A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course.

(a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

(a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.

(a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.

(a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.

(a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.

(a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.

(a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.

(a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

(v. i.) To become sweet.

() of Swell

(n.) One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.

(n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.

(p. p.) of Swink

() p. p. of Swell.

(a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

(v. t.) To override; to exhaust by riding.

(v. t.) To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand.

(v. i.) To become large; to dilate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek.

(n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.

(n.) A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.

(n.) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.

(a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.

(a.) Eternal; everlasting.

(a.) Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation.

(a.) Not yet begun; also, existing without a beginning.

(v. t.) To free from chains or slavery; to let loose.

(a.) Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

(a.) Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.

(a.) Morally impure.

(n.) An hypogynous plant.

(v. t.) To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone.

(n.) The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction.

(n.) That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; hence, anything soothing or lenitive.

(n.) Divine or sanctifying grace.

(n.) That quality in language, address, or the like, which excites emotion; especially, strong devotion; religious fervor and tenderness; sometimes, a simulated, factitious, or unnatural fervor.

(n.) An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.

(n.) Same as Kamsin.

(n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.

(n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.

(a.) Back; being behind; private.

(n.) One who makes signals with a flag.

(pl. ) of Postman

(n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.

(n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.

(n.) See Mouflon.

(n.) An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.

(n.) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.

(n.) Any plant louse, or aphis.

(a.) Of or pertaining to potters.

(n.) A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.

(n.) See Poteen.

(n.) See Poteen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.

(a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.

(v. t.) To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.

(v. t. & i.) To exceed in burning.

(v. t. & i.) To burn entirely; to be consumed.

(n.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

(a.) Wearied by traveling.

(n.) See Maslin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lynx.

(n.) A dormer window. See Dormer.

(n.) A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.

(n.) A bitter principle extracted from hops.

(n.) The fine yellow resinous powder found upon the strobiles or fruit of hops, and containing this bitter principle.

(n.) A marksman.

(n.) A macaw.

(a.) Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.

(a.) Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Mantua.

(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.

(n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.

(v. i.) To dwell; to reside.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mantua.

(n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.

(n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

(n.) A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.

(n.) A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

(n.) Immersion.

(n.) Leaper; ropedancer.

(n.) A little lord.

(n.) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.

(n.) A dwarf. See Manikin.

(n.) A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

(v. t.) To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.

(n.) Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A. giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A. scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.

(n.) A man whose occupation is to make malt.

(n.) A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.

(n.) A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange and lemon seeds.

(n.) Malediction; curse; execration.

(n.) See Syringin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.

(n.) The Malay language.

(n.) A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170¡ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps.

(v. i.) To descend; to light.

(v. i.) To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.

(v. i.) To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

(v. t.) To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.

(v. t.) To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.

(v. t.) To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.

(v. t.) To free from trouble and fill with joy.

(v. t.) To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

(v. t.) To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.

(v. t.) To cheer; to exhilarate.

(n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.

(n.) See Pelican.

(n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

(n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

(pl. ) of Headman

(v. i.) To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.

(v. i.) To inquire; to seek information.

(v. t.) To hear by listening.

(v. t.) To give heed to; to hear attentively.

(adv.) In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect.

(adv.) On that or this.

(v. t.) To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.

(v. t.) To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.

(pl. ) of Heathen

(n.) An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

(n.) An irreligious person.

(a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.

(a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.

(a.) Irreligious; scoffing.

(v. t.) To make thick (in any sense of the word).

(v. t.) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.

(v. t.) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.

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

(v. t.) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.

(v. i.) To become thick.

(a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

(a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

(a.) To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.

(a.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.

(v. i.) To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

(n.) See Henbane.

(n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

(n.) Fleeted or skimmed milk.

(n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

(n.) A bending; a part bent; a fold.

(n.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.

(n.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.

(n.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.

() of Thrive

() p. p. of Thrive.

(n.) Alt. of Flukan

(n.) The hard substratum. Same as Hard pan, under Hard, a.

(n.) A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

(n.) A border worked with flowers.

(n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.

(v. t.) Skimmed.

(n.) See Orison.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.

(n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.

(v. i.) To deliver an oration.

(n.) A constituent of the nuclei of all cells. It is a colorless amorphous substance, readily soluble in alkaline fluids and especially characterized by its comparatively large content of phosphorus. It also contains nitrogen and sulphur.

(n.) A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

(n.) Alt. of Organum

(n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.

(pl. ) of Oarsman

(n.) One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains.

(n.) The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins.

(n.) A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.

(a.) Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.

(n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.

(n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.

(n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.

(a.) Villainous.

(v. t.) To debase; to degrade.

(n.) See Villain, 1.

(n.) Same as Legume.

(n.) An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.

(adv.) In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively.

(adv.) In what; -- used interrogatively.

(adv.) On which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live.

(adv.) On what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereon do we stand?

(n.) Contraction for Vingt et un.

(n.) A shallow drinking bowl.

(a.) See Whitsun.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals.

(n.) One of a family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

(n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.

(n.) See Lecturn.

(pl. ) of Lineman

(n.) One who carries the line in surveying, etc.

(n.) A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.

(n.) A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Linnaeus, the celebrated Swedish botanist.

(n.) A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.

(n.) A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose.

(n.) A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

(n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

(n.) A kingbolt.

(n.) A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

(n.) A public executioner.

(n.) A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.

(n.) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola oenanthe).

(n.) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora.

(n.) One of several species of East Indian birds of the genera Ortygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe. See Turnix.

(n.) The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.

(n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

(n.) A patten.

(n.) One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.

(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.

(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.

(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.

(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.

(v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

(v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.

(n.) Alt. of Paulianist

(n.) A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.

(n.) Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.

(n.) A Turk.

(n.) A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.

(a.) Foreign; not native.

(v. t.) To exceed in fawning.

(imp.) of Overrun

(p. p.) of Overrun

(v. t.) To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.

(v. t.) To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.

(v. t.) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.

(v. t.) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

(v. t.) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.

(v. t.) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.

(v. i.) To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.

(v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

(n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.

(a.) Having, or afflicted with, murrain.

(a.) Infected with or killed by murrain.

(n.) A morion. See Morion.

(n.) In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.

(n.) A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.

(n.) A small lamb.

(n.) The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis).

(n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.

(v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.

(n.) See Lamprey.

(n.) One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant.

(n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.

(a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk.

(a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle.

(pl. ) of Laceman

(n.) A man who deals in lace.

(n.) The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.

(n.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.

(n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

(n.) Now, in the United States service, half of a company.

(a.) To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass.

(a.) Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.

(n.) The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.

(n.) One of the sides of an animal.

(n.) One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect.

(n.) One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.

(n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment.

(pl. ) of Woodman

(n.) A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.

(n.) A sportsman; a hunter.

(n.) One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.

(n.) One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.

(pl. ) of Woolman

(n.) One who deals in wool.

(n.) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology.

(n.) A louse.

(pl. ) of Milkman

(n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.

(pl. ) of Workman

(n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.

(n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.

(n.) The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred.

(n.) A very great number; an indefinitely large number.

(n.) The mass of common people; -- with the article the.

(a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.

(n.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon.

(a.) Having molted.

(n.) A little darling; a favorite; a minion.

(n.) A little pin.

(a.) Small; diminutive.

(n.) One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.

(p. p.) of Write

() of Writhe

(a.) Having a twisted distorted from.

() p. p. of Write, v.

(n.) A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates).

(n.) A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.

(n.) One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.

(n.) Nascent wood; wood cells in a forming state.

(n.) Lignin.

(v. i.) To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.

(n.) A yellowish white, amorphous, nitrogenous substance found in wheat, rye, etc., and resembling gluten; -- formerly called also mucin.

(n.) A substance which is formed in mucous epithelial cells, and gives rise to mucin.

(n.) Mucin.

(a.) Born to misfortune.

(v. t.) To join unfitly or improperly.

(n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus.

(n.) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.

(n.) An upright member of a framing. See Stile.

(v. t.) To furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions.

(n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

(n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

(n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

(n.) An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.

(n.) An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.

(n.) A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.

(n.) Dismission; discharge from service.

(v. t.) To send on a mission.

(n.) Mixture.

(v. t.) To turn amiss; to pervert.

(v. i.) To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken.

(n.) See Mullion.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.

(n.) Mixture.

(n.) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

(n.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.

(n.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges.

(n.) Alt. of Ploughman

(a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia.

(n.) The language spoken in Persia.

(n.) A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.

(n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a.

(v. i.) To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.

(v. i.) To have relation or reference to something.

(n.) The crocodile bird.

(n.) A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.

(v. t.) To lampoon; to satiraze.

(n.) Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to to rock.

(n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.

(n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.

(n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

(n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.

(n.) Disorder of the mind; madness.

(n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below.

(v. t.) To give a passionate character to.

(v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.

(n.) See Phaethon.

(n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.

(pl. ) of Juryman

(n.) One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.

(n.) One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.

(n.) A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant.

(n.) A follower of Kant; a Kantist.

(n.) See Keeler, 1.

(n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship.

(a.) Of or relating to the god Pan.

(n.) A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.

(n.) A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

(v. t.) To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.

(pl. ) of Kinsman

(n.) A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.

(n.) Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.

(pl. ) of Kirkman

(n.) A clergyman or officer in a kirk.

(n.) A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from a member of another communion.

(a.) Recently born.

(n.) One who brings news.

(n.) A man who distributes or sells newspapers.

(n.) Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.

(n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.

(n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.

(n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

(v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.