(n.) Alt. of Choree

(n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

(n.) The Angelus bell.

(pl. ) of Affix

(adv.) In the night time; at night.

(a.) Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.

(n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

(n.) A ring; a ringlike part or space.

(n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.

(n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.

(n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.

(n. pl.) A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

(n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.

(pl. ) of Arroyo

(a.) Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

(a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.

(a.) Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.

(n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

(n. pl.) Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

(n.) A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum.

(a.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

(a.) Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

(a.) Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.

(a.) Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.

(a.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual.

(a.) cryptogamous.

(a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

(adv.) Anywise; at all.

(n. pl.) A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

(pl. ) of Apery

(v. i.) To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

(v. t.) To set upon; to attack.

(n.) Aggression.

(n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.

(n. pl.) See Aphis.

(pl. ) of Aphis

(adv.) In pieces or to pieces.

(pl. ) of Agnus

(pl. ) of Agony

(pl. ) of Purple

(a.) Apodal; apod.

(a.) Without female organs; male.

(adv.) Alt. of Ablins

(a.) Helpless; without aid.

(a.) Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life.

(pl. ) of Aporia

(a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

(pl. ) of Albino

(pl. ) of Pygmy

(n.) The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

(n.) A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.

(pl. ) of Pyrite

(n.) A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color.

(n.) The science of digestion.

(pl. ) of Coolie

(a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.

(pl. ) of Chromo

(pl. ) of Corby

(n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.

(n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.

(n. pl.) Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.

(n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.

(n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground.

(n.) A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

(pl. ) of Cornea

(a.) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to chyme.

(pl. ) of Cicada

(pl. ) of Cimex

(n.) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

(n.) An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.

(n.) An inclosed space; an area; extent.

(n.) Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.

(n.) Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.

(n.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.

(n.) An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.

(n.) A pair of compasses.

(n.) A circle; a continent.

(v. t.) To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.

(v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.

(v. t.) To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.

(v. t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.

(v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.

(pl. ) of Corona

(n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.

(n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.

(n.) Same as Cirrus.

(a.) Cirrose.

(a.) Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.

(n.) A female seer; a prophetess.

(n. pl.) Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.

(pl. ) of Narrow

(pl. ) of Nappy

(n.) See Aegilops.

(pl. ) of Frenum

(pl. ) of Fresco

(pl. ) of Fresh

(a.) Same as Acerose.

(a.) Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.

(a.) Without antennae, as some insects.

(pl. ) of Friz

(pl. ) of Elegy

(a.) Pappose.

(pl. ) of Focus

(a.) Without fog; clear.

(a.) Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

(n.) A female heir.

(a.) Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.

(a.) Foliose.

(pl. ) of Folium

(pl. ) of Helix

(pl. ) of Helix

(pl. ) of Folly

(pl. ) of Fomes

(n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.

(n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.

(pl. ) of Paddy

(a.) Pertaining to or containing, ozone. P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.

(pl. ) of Burman

(n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

(n.) A combination cloak and hood worn by women.

(pl. ) of Busby

(n.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

(n.) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

(n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.

(n.) The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.

(n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.

(n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

(a.) Belonging to the box tree.

(n. pl. ) The leading British funded government security.

(n.) See Kermes.

(pl. ) of Cherub

(n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.

(pl. ) of Codex

(n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

(n.) A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.

(v. t.) To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.

(v. i.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.

(n.) A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.

(pl. ) of Ovary

(n.) A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

(n.) Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.

(n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

(n.) The quality or state of being sly.

(n.) The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.

(n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.

(pl. ) of Dowdy

(n.) A woman entitled to dower.

(pl. ) of Dowry

(n. pl.) Sugar-coated medicines.

(pl. ) of Drongo

(a.) Being without a son.

(n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.

(a.) Red; ruddy.

(n.) The quality or state of being red; red color.

(a.) Consisting of rays, as light.

(a.) Radiating; radiant.

(pl. ) of Radix

(pl. ) of Radix

(n.) A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

(pl. ) of Ancon

(n.) The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.

() A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

(pl. ) of Bilbo

(pl. ) of Asylum

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bile.

(a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.

(a.) Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.

(a.) Atheistic; impious.

(a.) Without God, neither accepting nor denying him.

(pl. ) of Atlas

(a.) Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

(pl. ) of Birch

(n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

(a.) Not having a bit or bridle.

(n. pl.) A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

(a.) Having, or leading, two ways.

(n.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused.

(pl. ) of Aurora

(n.) Alt. of Batata

(pl. ) of Papule

(adv.) Onward.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds.

(a.) Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.

(n.) See Water brash, under Brash.

(n.) An ensign; a standard bearer.

(adv.) Always; wholly; everywhere.

(adv.) By any or means; at all events.

(adv.) Notwithstanding; yet.

(pl. ) of Alias

(pl. ) of Alkali

(n. pl.) See Apsis.

(pl. ) of Apsis

(n.) Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.

(n.) Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example.

(n.) Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

(n.) Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.

(a.) Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.

(a.) Made from, or by means of, water.

(n.) Totality; completeness.

(n.) Alt. of Arbute

(n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.

(pl. ) of Quarto

(a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

(a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

(n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

(n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

(n.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.

(pl. ) of Query

(n.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

(n. pl.) A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

(n.) The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

(n.) A canvassing for votes.

(pl. ) of Ambry

(n.) A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril.

(pl. ) of Amity

(a.) Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.

(pl. ) of Amoeba

(a.) Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

(a.) Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on.

(a.) Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

(a.) Without any arm or branch.

(a.) Destitute of arms or weapons.

(pl. ) of Rabbi

(pl. ) of Rally

(a.) Fierce.

(a.) Ramal.

(pl. ) of Pansy

(v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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

(v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.

(v. t.) To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.

(n.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

(pl. ) of Bliss

(pl. ) of Beach

(n.) A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.

(a.) See Awless.

(a.) Without awns or beard.

(a.) Nitrous; as, azotous acid.

(a.) Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

(a.) Unleavened; unfermented. B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

(pl. ) of Beech

(n.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

(n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

(pl. ) of Belly

(n.) The state of being bad.

(n.) A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.

(pl. ) of Bench

(pl. ) of Bolus

(n.) Alt. of Bonassus

(pl. ) of Berry

(n.) A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

(pl. ) of Caddy

(n.) An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

(n.) A wind from the northeast.

(a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.

(a.) Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

(a.) Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.

(pl. ) of Rummy

(n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

(n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.

(n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

(n. pl.) The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.

(a.) Hardened; indurated.

(a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.

(pl. ) of Calyx

(pl. ) of Calyx

(n.) Heaviness; firmness.

(n.) Seriousness; gravity; discretion.

(n.) Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.

(pl. ) of Cannon

(n.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.

(n.) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition

(n.) A woman's club; an association of women.

(n.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.

(a.) Disklike; discoid.

(v. t.) To break to pieces; to shatter.

(v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.

(v. t.) To shake; to put away; to finish.

(v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.

(v. t.) To deal with, in eating or drinking.

(v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

(adv.) Alt. of Beside

(prep.) Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside.

(pl. ) of Bandy

(pl. ) of Bonus

(pl. ) of Booby

(pl. ) of Booly

(n.) A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

(pl. ) of Peony

(adv.) In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.

(adv.) In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with.

(pl. ) of Botch

(pl. ) of Brass

(n.) The spine.

(n.) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.

(n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.

(n.) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis.

(n.) The central cord in the stem of a crinoid.

(n.) The median part of the radula of a mollusk.

(n.) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

(pl. ) of Bravo

(n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

(n.) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.

(pl. ) of Rancho

(n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

(n.) The power or liberty of passing back.

(v. i.) To go back; to return to a former place or state.

(n.) Same as Rhomb, 1.

(n.) A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.

(n.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.

(n.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.

(n. pl.) Same as Accipitres.

(a.) Having no ribs.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi.

(n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.

(v. t.) An order of birds; the Gallinae.

(v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.

(v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

(v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.

(v. t.) To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.

(v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

(v. t.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

(a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

(pl. ) of Panful

(n.) The quality or state of being shy.

(n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.

(pl. ) of Ditch

(pl. ) of Ditty

(n.) A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia.

(pl. ) of Simile

(pl. ) of Saury

(pl. ) of Savant

(n.) The itch.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

(a.) Fit to be felled.

(n. pl.) Breeches.

(n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

(n.) Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.

(pl. ) of Scarf

(n.) Skepticism; skeptical philosophy.

(pl. ) of Schema

(n.) General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.

(n.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.

(n.) A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.

(n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

(a.) Waxen; like wax.

(a.) Foggy; misty.

(n.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

(pl. ) of Buggy

(n.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.

(n.) Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

(n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America.

(pl. ) of Bully

(n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

(n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California.

(n.) A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.

(n.) A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

(n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.

(n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.

(n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.

(n.) A magistrate of a borough.

(n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.

(n.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.

(n. pl.) See Single, n., 2.

(pl. ) of Bureau

(a.) Free from sin.

(n.) A red pigment made from sinopite.

(a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

(n.) A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

(v. t.) To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment.

(a.) Opaque.

(pl. ) of Onager

(n.) The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity.

(a.) Burdensome; oppressive.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the region near Oneida Lake in the State of New York, and forming part of the Five Nations. Remnants of the tribe now live in New York, Canada, and Wisconsin.

(pl. ) of Tiptoe

(pl. ) of Toady

(pl. ) of Index

(pl. ) of Index

(v. t.) See Appressed.

(n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters.

(pl. ) of Index

(n. pl.) See Index.

(n.) Natural disposition; natural quality or abilities.

(adv.) Within the house; -- usually separated, in doors.

(n.) The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

(n.) Hence, any system or method of procedure.

(n. pl.) Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps.

(n. pl.) The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

(a.) Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.

(n.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

(pl. ) of Tally

(pl. ) of Dictum

(n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

(n.) Alt. of Erminois

(pl. ) of Studio

(pl. ) of Tammy

(a.) Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood.

(a.) See Grumose.

(n.) A genus of insects including the common crickets.

(pl. ) of Tapeti

(n.) A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.

(pl. ) of Targum

(n.) A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.

(pl. ) of Gully

(a.) Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a gumma.

(pl. ) of Tattoo

(pl. ) of Strait

(n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.

(a.) Having spite; spiteful.

(n. pl.) The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.

(n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

(n.) The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine.

(pl. ) of Erinys

(pl. ) of Dryas

(n.) The state of being dry. See Dry.

(a.) Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.

(a.) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.

(a.) Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

(n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.

(pl. ) of Duchy

(n.) Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.

(pl. ) of Duenna

(a.) Alt. of Spumy

(pl. ) of Dummy

(n.) A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.

(v. t.) To shake or agitate.

(v. t.) To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce.

(v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.

(v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

(v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.

(v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

(v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.

(v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

(v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

(n.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

(n.) A gallon, or four quarts.

(pl. ) of Cowry

(n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

(pl. ) of Acacia

(n.) A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.

(n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub.

(n.) The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.

(n.) To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote.

(n.) To examine by discussion; to debate.

(n.) To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions.

(v. i.) To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for.

(n.) Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes.

(n.) Examination in the way of discussion or debate.

(n.) Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc.

(n. pl.) The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder.

(a.) Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.

(a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.

(n.) The quality or state of being raw.

(a.) Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.

(n. pl.) The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.

(pl. ) of Rebus

(n.) A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

(pl. ) of Reply

(v. t.) To cross a second time.

(pl. ) of Rowdy

(n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.

(n.) The back of a fireplace.

(n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.

(n.) Rescue; deliverance.

(n.) See Rescue, 2.

(n. pl.) The entrails of a deer; the umbles.

(n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.

(n.) A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts.

(pl. ) of Noddy

(pl. ) of Classis

(n.) A class or order; sort; kind.

(n.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.

(n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.

(pl. ) of Sally

(pl. ) of Salmon

(n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.

(n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.

(n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.

(n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.

(n.) A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus.

(n.) An anthem composed for these words.

(n.) An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

(a.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer.

(a.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer.

(pl. ) of Cargo

(a.) Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.

(a.) Destitute of sap; not juicy.

(a.) Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.

(n.) See Cleavers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy.

(a.) Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc.

(n.) An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.

(pl. ) of Carry

(pl. ) of Cloth

(n. pl.) Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.

(n. pl.) The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

(a.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.

(n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate.

(n.) A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.

(n.) See Abscissa.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.

(n. pl.) Dried dung of cattle used as fuel.

(pl. ) of Casino

(n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.

(n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

(n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.

(pl. ) of Colure

(pl. ) of Eskimo

(pl. ) of Seraph

(n.) An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.

(a.) Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

(a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.

(a.) Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.

(a.) Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.

(n.) A constellation represented as a serpent held by Serpentarius.

(pl. ) of Dandy

(n. pl.) Manacles; handcuffs.

(n.) A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.

(pl. ) of Cress

(n.) The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.

(pl. ) of Azalea

(pl. ) of Bandit

(a.) Destitute of a bow.

(n.) A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Croesus.

(pl. ) of Recipe

(pl. ) of Crony

(n.) The redshank.

(n.) The turnstone.

(v. t.) To dress again.

(v. t.) To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

(v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

(v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

(n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

(n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.

(n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

(pl. ) of Bypath

(pl. ) of Camera

(n.) A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.

(n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle

(n.) The breastplate taken by itself.

(n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

(pl. ) of Cully

(n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.

(n.) One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.

(pl. ) of Cupful

(pl. ) of Cupola

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.

(n.) The state or quality of being old; old age.

(a.) Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.

(a.) Subservient; obsequious.

(n. pl.) The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like.

(n.) A female or hen eagle.

(n.) See Eddish.

(a.) Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.

(v.) To aim; to direct.

(v.) To prepare or make ready.

(v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.

(v.) To clothe or array; to dress.

(v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).

(v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost.

(v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.

(v.) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

(v.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.

(v. i.) To prepare one's self.

(v. i.) To direct speech.

(v. t.) Act of preparing one's self.

(v. t.) Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.

(v. t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.

(v. t.) Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.

(v. t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.

(v. t.) Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.

(v. t.) Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.

(pl. ) of Gypsy

(n.) Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

(a.) Free from taxation.

(pl. ) of Fellah

(pl. ) of Felly

(a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

(n.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

(n.) A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.

(a.) Hurtful; noxious.

(a.) Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled.

(n.) A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.

(a.) Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim.

(prep.) In the direction of; to.

(prep.) With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.

(prep.) Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.

(prep.) Near; about; approaching to.

(adv.) Near; at hand; in state of preparation.

(prep. & adv.) See Toward.

(n.) A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.

(n.) A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.

(n.) A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.

(n.) The quality or state of being hot.

(n.) Heat or excitement of mind or manner; violence; vehemence; impetuousity; ardor; fury.

(pl. ) of Jimmy

(pl. ) of Jingo

(pl. ) of Jockey

(pl. ) of Middy

(n. pl.) Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.

(n.) Leprosy; also, a leper.

(n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola.

(n.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.

(n.) A disease of trees.

(n.) The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.

(n.) The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

(n.) A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.

(pl. ) of Lapful

(n. pl.) See Varix.

(a.) Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.

(a.) Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable.

(a.) Variegated; diversified; not monotonous.

(pl. ) of Lapis

(pl. ) of Varix

(a.) Alt. of Largesse

(pl. ) of Vatful

(n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.

(n. sing. & pl.) A modern name of the Waldenses.

(a.) Marked with veins; veined; veiny.

(n.) One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.

(n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.

(a.) Having no road or path; pathless.

(v. t.) To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress.

(n.) Alt. of Untrusser

(adv.) Unawares; unexpectedly; -- sometimes preceded by at.

(n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

(n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.

(n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.

(a.) Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.

(n.) Tutoress.

(n.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.

(pl. ) of Italic

(pl. ) of Ivory

(n.) The common marmoset (Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name was also applied to other species of the same genus.

(n.) The male ass; a donkey.

(n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.

(n.) An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

(adv.) In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.

(adv.) In the upper parts; above.

(adv.) Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

(n.) A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.

(a.) Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful.

(a.) Apprehensive; anxious; suspiciously watchful.

(a.) Exacting exclusive devotion; intolerant of rivalry.

(a.) Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities; having the character or odor of urine; similar to urine.

(pl. ) of Urnful

(a.) Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.

(v. t.) To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

(v. t.) To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

(v. t.) Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

(n.) To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.

(v. i.) To be impressed; to rest.

(n.) The act of impressing or making.

(n.) A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.

(n.) Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

(n.) A device. See Impresa.

(n.) The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

(pl. ) of Jelly

(a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.

(pl. ) of Vacuum

(a.) Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks.

(n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper.

(pl. ) of Jenny

(pl. ) of Fairy

(n.) The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

(pl. ) of Enemy

(n.pl.) Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.

(a.) In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.

(a.) Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.

(n.pl.) Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.

(n.pl.) Packing of hemp.

(n.pl.) A horse's thighs.

(pl. ) of Sinus

(pl. ) of Cooky

(a.) Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.

(a.) Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.

(adv. & conj.) Since. See Sith, and Sithen.

(n.) See Sibbens.

(pl. ) of Sixty

(a.) Having no dew.

(n.) [Ã159.] Skittles.

(pl. ) of Diary

(n. / interj.) The devil.

(pl. ) of Dolly

(pl. ) of Domino

(n.) Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.

(pl. ) of Donkey

(pl. ) of Dooly

(v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

(v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

(n.) Digression.

(a.) Without nap; threadbare.

(n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

(n. pl.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.

(n. pl.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.

(a.) Excessive; extravagant; inordinate.

(pl. ) of Fancy

(pl. ) of Gaucho

(pl. ) of Gaudy

(v. t.) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

(v. t.) To amass.

(v. t.) To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.

(v. t.) To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.

(v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.

(pl. ) of Enigma

(pl. ) of Stigma

(n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

(n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.

(n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

(n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

(n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

(n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.

(n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

(n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

(n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

(n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

(n.) Same as Entasia.

(pl. ) of Stirps

(a.) See Spicose.

(pl. ) of Entry

(a.) Having no sex.

(n.) A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as.

(n.) A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant.

(a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

(a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

(a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.

(a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

(n.) A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.

(n.) Alt. of Shamoy

(n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.

(n. sing. & pl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.

(n. sing. & pl.) A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.

(pl. ) of Deity

(n.) A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.

(n.) A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

(pl. ) of Sheaf

(pl. ) of Dahlia

(pl. ) of Daily

(pl. ) of Daimio

(pl. ) of Dairy

(pl. ) of Daisy

(n. pl) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux.

(pl. ) of Shelf

(imp. & p. p.) of Damage

(n.) Sherry.

(v. t.) To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

(v. t.) To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

(v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

(n.) Dismission.

(pl. ) of Ninny

(pl. ) of Story

(a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

(a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.

(a.) Inspiring envy.

(a.) Excessively careful; cautious.

(a.) Spinose; thorny.

(a.) Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike.

(n.) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.

(pl. ) of Monkey

(a.) The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.

(n.) Gayety; finery.

(pl. ) of Gecko

(a.) Across; athwart.

(n.) The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.

(n.) Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.

(n.) That which makes fat or fertile.

(a.) Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.

(a.) Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.

(n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.

(n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

(n.) Same as Generation.

(pl. ) of Gentoo

(pl. ) of German

(a.) Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.

(n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

(n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

(a.) Exactly representing; exact.

(a.) Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement.

(a.) Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially.

(n.) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.

(n.) A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.

(n.) An express office.

(n.) That which is sent by an express messenger or message.

(a.) To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit.

(a.) To make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble.

(a.) To give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell.

(a.) To make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively.

(a.) To denote; to designate.

(a.) To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.

(a.) Of the nature of fungi; spongy.

(a.) Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.

(pl. ) of Funny

(n. pl.) Alt. of Emeroids

(a.) Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

(a.) Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

(a.) Brown or grayish black; darkish.

(a.) Having a sour taste; sour; acid.

(a.) Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation.

(a.) Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands.

(a.) Without eyes; blind.

(pl. ) of Empty

(a.) Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.

(a.) Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.

(pl. ) of Galago

(pl. ) of Gallows

(n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.

(n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.

(n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.

(n. sing.) A pair of suspenders or braces.

(a.) Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

(a.) Infinite; excessive; unlimited.

(a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.

(a.) Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.

(n.) A genus of South American monkeys, including the howlers. See Howler, 2, and Illust.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Mongolians

(n.) A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.

(pl. ) of Germen

(a.) Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.

(a.) Hunched; hump-backed.

(n. pl.) The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.

(n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.

(n.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

(pl. ) of Vallum

(a.) Having or wearing no wig.

(n.) The quality or state of being new; as, the newness of a system; the newness of a scene; newness of life.

(a.) Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.

(a.) Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.

(a.) Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.

(n.) The state of being lax; laxity.

(n.) The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.

(a.) Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.

(n.) A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.

(pl. ) of Ebony

(a.) Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.

(pl. ) of Etymon

(n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

(pl. ) of Ecdysis

(n.) The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

(n.) A hedgehog.

(n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.

(n.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.

(n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column

(n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

(n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.

(v. t. & i.) To pass by or along; to pass over.

(n. pl.) See Forty.

(pl. ) of Forty

(n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

(n.) One of the little hours of the Breviary.

(n.) The evening song or service.

(n.) A kind of worsted; also, a worsted cloth.

(n. pl.) More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.

(pl. ) of Vibrio

(a.) Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

(a.) Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.

(a.) Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.

(a.) Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.

(a.) Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

(a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant.

(a.) Having no wem, or blemish; spotless.

(pl. ) of Stucco

(pl. ) of Study

(n.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.

(n.) The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.

(pl. ) of Glans

(n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

(a.) Alt. of Gleby

(a.) Submissive; humble; obsequious.

(a.) Gentle; soft; calm; as, submiss voices.

(a.) Spherical.

(n.) Trituration.

(n.) Shampoo.

(n.) The lockjaw.

(n.) The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.

(n.) Same as Glut/us.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.

(n.) A large, handsome American butterfly (Euph/ades, / Papilio, troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings.

(a.) Without action or spirit.

(n.) A female actor or doer.

(n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

(n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.

(n.) A sting.

(n.) Act of succeeding; succession.

(n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.

(n.) The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.

(n.) That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.

(n.) A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.

(n.) A woman of superior charms or excellence.

(a.) Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.

(n.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.

(pl. ) of Sulky

(pl. ) of Sully

(a.) Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable.

(v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.

(v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.

(v.) A demand to surrender.

(v. t.) To summon.

(n.) A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter.

(pl. ) of Medley

(n.) In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words /, /, / /, /, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior.

(n.) Same as Ichthus.

(n.) The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.

(v. t.) To divest of clothes; to strip.

(v. t.) To divest of ornaments to disrobe.

(v. t.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

(n.) A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

(n.) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.

(a.) The jaundice.

(a.) Idolatrous.

(a.) Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.

(a.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks.

(n.) The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.

(n.) Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.

(n.) Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.

(pl. ) of Unity

(a.) Untrodden.

(a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

(a.) Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward.

(adv.) See Inward.

(n.) Hippocras.

(n.) That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology.

(pl. ) of Imago

(a.) Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.

(a.) The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

(a.) Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.

(n.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.

(n.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.

(n.) A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.

(n.) Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.

(n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

(n.) The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.

(a.) Abounding with herbs.

(n.) A shepherdess; a female herder.

(pl. ) of Galley

(pl. ) of Hernia

(n.) A heroine.

(n.) A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.

(pl. ) of Hetman

(n.) A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.

(n.) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

(a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.

(a.) Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise.

(a.) Hateful; shocking.

(n.) Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

(n.) The female of the tiger.

(pl. ) of Telson

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.

(a.) Same as Adenose.

(pl. ) of Ferry

(a.) Fatty; adipose.

(n. pl.) Impure ore; dirty ore.

(pl. ) of Fetter

(a.) Thin; slender; small; minute.

(a.) Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.

(a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

(n.) A hook, or hooklike process.

(n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.

(pl. ) of Fetus

(n.) The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.

(n.) Brevity; conciseness.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.

(pl. ) of Teredo

(pl. ) of Fifty

(pl. ) of Filly

(a.) Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.

(a.) destitute of fins.

(n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.

(n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.

(n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.

(v. t.) To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.

(v. t.) Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.

(v. t.) To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.

(n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.

(n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.

(pl. ) of Harpy

(pl. ) of Teuton

(pl. ) of Firman

(n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

(pl. ) of Fitch

(n.) The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

(a.) Having no hat.

(n.) A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.

(n.) The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.

(n.) A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.

(pl. ) of Hindu

(pl. ) of Hinny

(a.) Timely; seasonable.

(n.) A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night.

(n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare.

(n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.

(pl. ) of Hobby

(n.) Hippocras.

(n.) A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

(n.) A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.

(n.) An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.

(a.) Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object.

(a.) Filled with religious zeal.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic; as, zincous salts.

(a.) Hence, formerly, basic, basylous, as opposed to chlorous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.

(prep.) The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.

(n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.

(pl. ) of Withy

(a.) Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.

(v. i.) Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

(v. i.) That which furnishes evidence or proof.

(v. i.) One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness.

(v. i.) One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts.

(v. i.) One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like.

(v. t.) To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of.

(v. t.) To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest.

(v. t.) To see the execution of, as an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed.

(v. i.) To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.

(n.) Apollo; the sun god.

(n.) The sun.

(n.) See Phonetics.

(n.) The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.

(n.) Same as Polyp.

(n.) A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy of some portion of the mucous membrane.

(n.) The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy.

(a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

(a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.

(pl. ) of Poncho

(pl. ) of Phyton

(pl. ) of Piazza

(pl. ) of Kelpy

(a.) Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

(a.) Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.

(pl. ) of Poppy

(pl. ) of Privy

(pl. ) of Porgy

(n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

(n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

(n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.

(n.) A statement of events; a narrative.

(n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

(n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

(pl. ) of Pinax

(n. pl.) See Pinchers.

(n.) A breviary; a prayer book.

(n.) Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvae of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.

(n.) The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.

(n.) Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.

(n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

(v. i.) To go in; to enter.

(v. t.) See Engross.

(a.) Destitute of color.

(n. pl.) Entrails of a deer.

(a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

(pl. ) of Tubful

(pl. ) of Goody

(pl. ) of Goody

(n.) A great quantity or heap.

(n.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.

(n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.

(pl. ) of Tunny

(n. & a.) Turquoise.

(v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

(n.) That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

(n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.

(a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.

(n. pl.) A division of calcareous sponges.

(n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

(n.) A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

(n.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.

(n.) A kind of tongs used in a bloomery.

(n.) A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.

(n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.

(pl. ) of Tabby

(pl. ) of Gravy

(v. t.) To press again.

(v. t.) To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.

(v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.

(n.) The act of repressing.

(n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.

(n.) The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb.

(n.) The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.

(n.pl.) The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc.

(n.) A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.

(a.) Colored like bronze.

(n.) An extinct genus of sharks having conical, compressed teeth.

(n.) See Eaglestone.

(a.) Containing water; watery.

(a.) Containing water of hydration or crystallization.

(n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.

(v. t.) To deprive of blessings; to make wretched.

(n.) One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.

(v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

(v. t.) To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.

(v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.

(v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.

(v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.

(pl. ) of Kersey

(v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

(v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

(v. t.) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

(v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

(v. i.) To declare friendship.

(a.) Containing pulp; pulpy.

(pl. ) of Proxy

(a.) Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.

(n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.

(n.) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak.

(n.) A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.

(pl. ) of Jersey

(n.) The porch or vestibule of a temple.

(pl. ) of Medium

(pl. ) of Kidney

(pl. ) of Valley

(pl. ) of Mammal

(pl. ) of Lyceum

(n.) A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

(a.) Yellowish; more or less like buff.

(n.) A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.

(n.) The state or quality of being low.

(n.) The Messiah.

(a.) Destitute of men.

(a.) Unmanly; inhuman.

(pl. ) of Lorry

(v. impers.) It seems to me.

(pl. ) of Mango

(pl. ) of Merino

(pl. ) of Mercy

(pl. ) of Mammy

(pl. ) of Looby

(n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.

(n.) Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

(n.) A city of Southern France.

(n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

(n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.

(n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

(n.) A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.

(a.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

(pl. ) of Jetty

(a.) Ligneous.

(pl. ) of Ligula

(n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.

(n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.

(n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.

(n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.

(pl. ) of Flash

(pl. ) of Thief

(a.) Yellow.

(pl. ) of Heddle

(n.) See Wanderoo.

(interj.) God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body).

(pl. ) of Stamen

(pl. ) of Stanza

(pl. ) of Embryo

(adv.) Alt. of Endwise

(pl. ) of Turkey

(a.) Turkish.

(n.) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

(n.) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

(n.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

(a.) Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.

(a.) Guilty; criminal.

(n.) A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.

(n.) The body or the head of a comet.

(n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.

(n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.

(n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.

(n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.

(n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.

(n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.

(n.) pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.

(pl. ) of Nuncio

(n.) A messenger.

(n.) The information communicated.

(n.) See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

(n.) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.

(n.) A variety of the plum. See under Plum.

(a.) Without oars.

(n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

(pl. ) of Neddy

(a.) Villainous.

(pl. ) of Wharf

(a.) Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.

(a.) Furnished or clothed with villi.

(a.) Not having a leg.

(adv.) At which place; where.

(conj.) Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow.

(conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent.

(n. pl.) Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.

(a.) Violent.

(a.) Viscid; viscous; tenacious.

(a.) Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice.

(a.) Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.

(a.) Leprose.

(a.) White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.

(n.) A female lion.

(a.) Having no lips.

(pl. ) of Volley

(n.) A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city.

(a.) Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.

(n.) A votaress.

(n.) An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

(n.) A part of the Royal Exchange, in London, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's Rooms.

(pl. ) of Lobby

(n. pl.) Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.

(pl. ) of Pasty

(a.) Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride.

(n.) Osmose.

(a.) Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.

(a.) Opposing; fronting.

(a.) Exposed; subject; open; liable.

(a.) Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.

(n.) See Osteitis.

(n.) Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.

(n.) Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.

(pl. ) of Patty

(n.) The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.

(n.) A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

(n.) An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.

(pl. ) of Otary

(pl. ) of Octavo

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

(n.) A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,

(n.) The state of being odd, or not even.

(n.) Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event.

(pl. ) of Outgo

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.

(n.) The state of being out or beyond; separateness.

(n.) The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity.

(v. t.) To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.

(pl. ) of Pulley

(pl. ) of Umbo

(a.) Fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful.

(n.) One of the pads on the under surface of the toes of birds.

(pl. ) of Tylosis

(n.) An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells.

(a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.

(n. pl.) Same as Base, n., 19.

(pl. ) of Lamina

(n.) See Lampas.

(n.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.

(pl. ) of Lacuna

(pl. ) of Ladino

(pl. ) of Lackey

(pl. ) of Labrum

(n.) An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.

(n.) Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras.

(pl. ) of Paramo

(n.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

(pl. ) of Pleura

(n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.

(pl. ) of Parley

(a.) Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.

(a.) Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.

(adv.) See Wondrous.

(n.) Same as Conjugation.

(n.) A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

(n.) A zymotic disease.

(n.) Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.

(pl. ) of Moslem

(n.) A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.

(n.) Imitation; mimicry.

(pl. ) of Worry

(pl. ) of Motto

(n.) A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

(n.) A being of the smallest size.

(n.) The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.

(a.) Of the color of red or vermilion.

(pl. ) of Wreath

(n.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.

(a.) Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous.

(n.) The quality or state of being wry, or distorted.

(n.) A genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.

(n.) The constellation Dorado.

(n.) A comet shaped like a sword

(n.) A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw.

(n.) A black woman; a female negro.

(pl. ) of Negro

(pl. ) of Nematocalyx

(n.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.

(pl. ) of Nereid

(pl. ) of Mummy

(a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

(a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.

(a.) Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.

(a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.

(n.) The sun god of the Persians.

(n.) See Mongoose.

(n.) See Karyokinesis.

(pl. ) of Murex

(n. pl.) The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

(n. pl.) Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

(n. pl.) Reef points.

(pl. ) of Palsy

(pl. ) of Penny

(n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.

(n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

(n.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.

(pl. ) of Parry

(a.) Having feathers or plumes.

(a.) Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.

(n.) A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded.

(n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

(pl. ) of Party

(n.) The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.

(a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone.

(a.) Same as Petrosal.

(n.) A female poet.

(n.) The principles and rules of the art of poetry.

(n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.

(n.) Same as Calends.

(n.) Premise.

(n.) A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).

(pl. ) of Karreo

(n.) The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.

(n.) The penis or clitoris, or the embryonic or primitive organ from which either may be derived.

(n.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.

(n.) The polestar. See North star, under North.

(adv.) By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.

(a.) Pious; devout.

(a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.

(a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.

(a.) Paltry; mean; pitiful.

(n.) Same as Palus.

(n.) Alt. of Klipdachs

(n.) A knavish woman.

(n.) In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined.

(pl. ) of Puppy