(v. t.) To bring together in a group; to group.

(v. t.) To corrupt. See Corrupt.

(n.) Alt. of Seedlop

(n.) A trap for catching flies.

(n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.

(n.) One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.

(n.) A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking.

(v. t.) To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)

(v. t.) To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.

(v. i.) To chirp.

(n.) The act of chirping; a chirp.

(v. t.) To exceed in weeping.

(v. t.) To drive from a camp.

(v. t.) To tear in pieces; to rend.

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

(n.) The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.

(n.) The male of the European bullfinch.

(n.) Alt. of Caltrap

(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

(n.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.

(v. t.) To beat or thump soundly.

(v. t.) To dismiss from service on board ship.

(n.) The bluepoll.

(n.) The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.

(n.) A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.

(n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

(n.) One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.

(v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.

(n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

(v. t.) To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.

(v. t.) To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress.

(v. t.) To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.

(n. & v.) See Scallop.

(n.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

(n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.

() The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

(n.) A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.

(n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop.

(n.) The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

(n.) A bearing or a charge consisting of an escalop shell.

(n.) A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.

(n.) In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold.

(n.) A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

(n.) Alt. of Cantrip

(n.) A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief.

(v. i.) To clasp or unite again.

(n.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.

(n.) Alt. of Catsup

(n.) A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.

(n.) A species of primrose. See Auricula.

(n.) The state or title of a hag.

(n.) See Hooded seal, under Hooded.

(v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

(v. t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

(v. t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

(v. t.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

(v. t.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

(v. i.) To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

(v. i.) To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

(n.) A drop of dew.

(n.) The character, or individuality, of a dog.

(n.) The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.

(v. t.) To grasp; to grip.

(v. t.) To stamp; to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply.

(v. t.) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.

(v. i.) A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.

(v. i.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.

(v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.

(n.) The state of being a cur; one who is currish.

(n.) A boat.

(v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.

(n.) That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.

(n.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.

(n.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

(n.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.

(n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.

(n.) The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceae. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.

(n.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

(n.) A tear.

(n.) A blinder on a horse's bridle.

(v. t.) To clasp. See Inclasp.

(n.) The condition of being a layman.

(n.) A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).

(n.) The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

(n.) That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.

(n.) The platform at the head of the foremast.

(v. i.) To weep much.

(v. t.) To wrap up; to conceal.

(n.) Foxiness; craftiness.

(n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

(n.) The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.

(n.) The cuckoobud.

(v. t.) To exceed in stepping.

(n.) The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.

(n.) A coop or cage for hens.

(v. t.) To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle.

(n.) Same as Tip-up.

(n.) A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.

(n.) A blusterer; a bully.

(a.) Blustering; swaggering.

(n.) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

(v. t.) See Enstamp.

(v. t.) To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.

(v. t.) To steep or soak; to drench.

(v. t.) To loose the clasp of; to open, as something that is fastened, or as with, a clasp; as, to unclasp a book; to unclasp one's heart.

(n.) A sauce. See Catchup.

(n.) A wrong step; an error of conduct.

(v. i.) To take a wrong step; to go astray.

(n.) A shop where toys are sold.

(n.) A trap for catching trespassers.

(n.) A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall.

(v. t.) To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass.

(v. t. & i.) To lap over; to lap.

(n.) The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.

(n.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.

(n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.

(n.) The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut.

(n.) The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

(n.) The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.

(n.) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.

(n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.

(v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.

(v. t.) To surpass in leaping.

(n.) A sally.

(n.) The common buttercup.

(n.) The kneepan.

(n.) A cap or protection for the knee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship.

(n.) A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.

(a.) Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.

(a.) Honor; respect; civil deference.

(a.) Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.

(a.) The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.

(a.) Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.

(a.) An object of worship.

(v. t.) To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.

(v. t.) To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.

(v. t.) To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

(v. i.) To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.

(n.) The European bar-tailed godwit; -- called also yardkeep, and yarwhelp. See Godwit.

(v. t.) To keep wrongly.

(n.) A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent.

(n.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.

(n.) Family relationship.

(n.) The top of a hill.

(n.) The upper lip.