(n.) Alt. of Arnotto

(n.) A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Assinego

(n.) A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

(a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

(n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.

(n.) A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.

(n.) See Calumba.

(n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.

(n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

(n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

(adv.) Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.

(a.) See Baroque.

(a.) Brisk, lively.

(n.) An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

(n.) A ruff for the neck.

(n.) A lover; a man enamored.

(adv.) In a soft, tender, amatory style.

(n.) See Annotto.

(n.) Same as Annotto.

(n.) The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

(n.) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.

(n.) A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.

(n.) A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

(n.) A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/ Brachyurus) melanocephala).

(a.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

(n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.

(n.) A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

(n.) Babe Ruth.

(n.) A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

(n.) Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

(n.) A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves.

(v. i.) To hold ridottos.

(n.) Same as Relief, n., 5.

(n.) See Rotunda.

(n.) See Escalade.

(n.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) An old name for the harpsichord.

(n.) A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.

(n.) A scorpion.

(n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs.

(n.) A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.

(n.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

(n.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

(n.) Any species of wild ox.

(n.) The bison of North America.

(n.) A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

(n.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

(n.) Alt. of Bugbear

(n.) A glass used in subliming camphor.

(n.) A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

(n.) An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking.

(n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size.

(n.) The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.

(n.) A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.

(n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.

(n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.

(n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.

(n.) A duty levied on all importations.

(n.) Same as Grenade.

(n.) A South American mammal (Auchenia huanaco), allied to the llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state.

(n.) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.

(n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.

(n.) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.

(n.) See Relief, n., 5.

(a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.

(n.) A kind of pottage.

(n.) A reed stop in an organ.

(n.) Alt. of Samshu

(n.) A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.

(n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.

(n.) See Calumba.

(n.) A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

(n.) A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.

(n.) A Turkish musical instrument.

(n.) An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents.

(n.) A coin. See Crusado.

(n.) Alt. of Curacoa

(n.) A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.

(a. & adv.) Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.

(n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.

(n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.

(n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.

(n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.

(n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.

(n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.

(n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.

(n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.

(v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.

(n.) Same as Turacou.

(n.) A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit.

(n.) A lemur; -- applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.

(n.) One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman.

(n.) The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.

(n.) See Wapatoo.

(n.) The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.

(n. & interj.) Words imitative of the notes of the owl.

(n.) An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.

(n.) Alt. of Dulcino

(n.) A virtuoso.

(a.) Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

(v. t.) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.

(v. t.) To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.

(n.) The act of shampooing.

(n.) The second part in a concerted piece.

(n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.

(n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

(v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

(a. & adv.) With great force or vigor; vehemently.

(n.) An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

(n.) The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

(n.) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.

(n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.

(n.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.

(a.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof.

(n.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall.

(v. i.) To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo.

(v. t.) To do less thoroughly than is requisite; specifically, to cook insufficiently; as, to underdo the meat; -- opposed to overdo.

(v. t.) To go or move below or under.

(v. t.) To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion.

(v. t.) To be the bearer of; to possess.

(v. t.) To undertake; to engage in; to hazard.

(v. t.) To be subject or amenable to; to underlie.

(n.) A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.

(interj. & n.) The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.

(interj. & n.) A tallyho coach.

(n.) A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.

(n.) A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.

(n.) The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.

(n.) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.

(n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.

(n.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.

(n.) A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.

(n.) See Tympano.

(n.) A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.

(n.) A gypsy.

(n.) An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen.

(n.) Same as Socle.

(n.) A game at cards, now unknown.

(n.) Any one of several species of marine fishes of the genus Trachynotus, of which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- called also palometa.

(n.) A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as a food fish.

(a. & adv.) Grand and dignified; in grand style.

(n.) A pianette, or small piano.

(n.) A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant.

(n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.

(n.) A small upright piano.

(n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.

(n.) Alt. of Piffara

(n.) Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.

(n.) The friar bird.

(n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.

(n.) See Guanaco.

(n.) A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

(n.) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.

(n.) See Grenade.

(n.) Tobacco.

(n.) Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.

(n.) A genus of butterflies.

(n.) See Mosquito.

(n.) A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet.

(n.) A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.

() In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo.

(n.) An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.

(n.) Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

(a.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.

(n.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

(n.) See Mestizo.

(n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.

(n.) See Manilla, 1.

(n.) Mischief.

(n.) A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.

(n.) The chaparral cock.

(n.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.

(n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes.

(adv.) To that or this.

(adv.) Besides; moreover.

(n.) An electrotype.

(adv.) Wheresoever.

(adv.) To which; -- used relatively.

(adv.) To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.

(n.) A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

(n.) A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.

(n.) A volcano.

(n.) One of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America.

(n.) An alligator.

(n.) A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

(a. & n.) Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.

(a.) Moresque.

(n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.

(n.) A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.

(n.) A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, N. speciosa.

(n.) The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.

(n.) A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.

(n.) Alt. of Peshitto

(v. i.) A pass or thrust.

(v. i.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.

(n.) Alt. of Justicoat

(n.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.

(n.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.

(n.) A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.